| > - only one speaker works so volume is low Never had this issue. > - finger print scanner doesn’t work Can't speak for this as I don't have a device with an FP reader > - battery life is poor compared to Windows on same machine I get ~6hrs on my laptop running Ubuntu + XFCE. I haven't ran windows on it but Amazon reviews claim ~5-5.5 hrs battery life for the same machine so seems to be inline for me. > - suspend and hibernate doesn’t work Works for me > - random freezes I can think of only 1 freeze I've had in the last year and that was due to me dropping the laptop > - charging indicator unreliable Pretty reliable for me except when it comes to the last 5%... my work macbook pro seems to have the same issue though when predicting how long that last 5% will last. > - boot failures after OS updates Never had this problem, on the other hand our work macbook pro has nothing but problems when upgrading os major versions. Atleast 1-2 people on our team always end up losing an afternoon whenever we are forced to upgrade it. > I have now switched to a Mac with Apple Silicon. > I really tried with Linux for philosophical reasons, but honestly what professional developer has time for all this? What professional developers have the time or patience to deal with a Mac with: * It's proprietary hardware without any ability to upgrade components * Garbage oversized trackpad which registers false positives all the time * Terrible built in keyboard * All the nonsense with "we have a physical escape key, now we don't, now we do" actively making it unusable if you use Vim/Vim key bindings * Whatever nonsense they have done replacing physical function keys with that touchbar thingy * Actively user hostile decisions like putting the headphone jack on the right side of the laptop * A complete inability to connect peripherals unless you buy a (often expensive) dock. * Docker being a complete hog on these machines, yes that is not the fault of the mac but still something developers have to deal with every day I am forced to use a macbook for work and the only reason I can even bear working with it is connecting it to external keyboard/mouse and using it in clamshell mode. |