Marco Arment really hates the new Macbook

[MH01]

One of my reservations about the value of the Arment opinion piece is that he owned the rMB for a day. That's better than most people who fulminate about its alleged shortcomings, who either haven't even seen the thing or at best have only poked at it for two or three minutes in the store. In most cases, you need at least a couple of days to give a new machine a reasonable audition, and a couple of weeks (the return period) is better.

Completely agree. One day is not enough. Have to say your feedback on it has been very helpful and balanced, though at the end I have decided to get one and use it during the 14 day period before I judge it. It's just a matter of them having stock in the local Apple Store.

 

[newellj]

Completely agree. One day is not enough. Have to say your feedback on it has been very helpful and balanced, though at the end I have decided to get one and use it during the 14 day period before I judge it. It's just a matter of them having stock in the local Apple Store.

If you have the funds and the inclination, it's really the best way. Apple basically dares you to buy, try and return if you don't like it, and if you do, it's quick and pleasant. There's enough that's new or different about the rMB that a personal hands-on is best.

 

[rekhyt]

Ha, read it too and thought what an idiot, he just wants something else and luckily for him (except for his whining about the trackpad) he can buy a MacBook Pro.

A friend of mine was here yesterday and he didn't get what the difference was with the trackpad, because it just clicked like the old MBA's and MBP's. He couldn't tell the difference at all. The only thing where I can tell the difference is because it sounds slightly different.

Sure, it's slower than a MacBook Air and a MacBook Pro, but everything I need to do works perfect and I absolutely don't have the feeling I'm working on a slow computer.

Same. Couldn't tell the difference either when I was testing a MacBook Pro 13" in the Apple Store.

 

[petvas]

The trackpad is fine. Force Touch though is not that big of a deal as some fanboys in other websites want us to believe (iMore, etc).

 

[hans1972]

So it seems that even Apple is not putting this new machine in the "limited use for people who only do light duty stuff" category. They intend it to be compared to other "full-size" laptops. The only way that you can argue differently is if, when Apple set out to "engineer a full-size experience," they failed. But at that point you would have to admit it is a flawed product (one that failed to meet the goals laid out for it by its creator).

To me full-sized only applies to physical properties. The size of the keyboard. The size of the trackpad, the size of the screen. It has nothing to do with performance or price.

And to me the Macbook is full-sized when compared to the MBA 11" and 13".

 

[newellj]

The trackpad is fine. Force Touch though is not that big of a deal as some fanboys in other websites want us to believe (iMore, etc).

I absolutely love the trackpad. I personally haven't found a use for the Force Touch yet, though.

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Same. Couldn't tell the difference either when I was testing a MacBook Pro 13" in the Apple Store.

The most noticeable difference (to me) is when you try clicking on the upper half of the pad. The old diving board pads take quite a bit of force. The new trackpad is the same regardless of where you click.

 

[Rogifan]

The trackpad is fine. Force Touch though is not that big of a deal as some fanboys in other websites want us to believe (iMore, etc).

So the guys/gals running iMore are "fanboys"?

 

[petvas]

So the guys/gals running iMore are "fanboys"?

I believe them to be. I have never ever seen them really criticizing anything that Apple has done...