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This person is really quite funny to be honest, at least to me and I find it quite entertaining and a change from some of the stuff I am reading in the press these days. Over elaborate I think, in the example in the link, but still funny.
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Or place a hot plastic cover over a leather sofa.This reminds me of someone who drives 4 miles out of their way to save a nickel on a candy bar.
This is why Mac desktop sales are in the toilet. People buy MacBooks even though they'll never leave the house.
Support the Mac mini/studio/iMac etc!
Support the Mac mini/studio/iMac etc!
I question one's ability to afford a $1000+ laptop if they're worried about this issue. Just use your computer and phone. They're tools. They're not investments.
Although this sounds like a good idea, all windows laptops I've used with numpad is a pain to actually use.
The keyboard gets offset and that mess up fingering massively and slows down typing a lot.
What next? Preserving the resale value of your shoes by making longer steps? Seriously, none of these 'I preserve the value of my stuff by avoiding using it' threads make any sense.
The OP is auditioning for The Onion, right?!
And, we all fell for it! 🙈
And, we all fell for it! 🙈
I will not bother to read all 3 pages of comments, but I will say that the OP idea is so non-rational as to be absurd.
Also as someone who daily uses an MBP in desktop replacement mode (perhaps about half the time with +2 external 4K displays) I use the high end dislplay, the keyboard and the top end trackpad that come as part of an MBP. Buying all that top end hardware and not using it makes zero sense.
I have three machines to use. I use all on an external monitor and keyboard. I have a surface pro and a mac laptop. I use an external Bluetooth keyboard on both largely because its convenient because I often sit at an angle form the machine (don't ask me why) and I use mice rather than trackpads because I hate trackpads. I use an external monitor 95% of the time except on the surface pro. When my kit is out though I use the kit and don't worry. When my kit is indoors i like using the 40" monitor.
From same person that has not removed the sides plastic cover of a TV and sells it 10 years later saying "it's almost new, still has the side covers"
Laptop number pads are terrible. I spend 20+ hours a week in Excel just punching in numbers and can't handle not having a number pad, so an external it is. MacBook is docked at home, with a BT keyboard/mouse and a monitor. I take it with me every day to work, where it lives as a laptop...but I also have a docked Dell laptop.
As for this thead.... 🤣🤣🤣
I do the same with my 2019 16" MacBook Pro, have done it since my 2012 MBP and it still is in great shape. if I want to take something mobile in use my iPad or my 2012 MacBook Pro. and yes I have an M4 Mac mini, but I day trade and run 3 monitors off single aftermarket keyboard mouse not using side car, unless I want. my iPad is normally involved also for my wallets
thats nuttier than me when I tried to never close the screen to prevent keyboard marks.. its harder work than you think lol
PSA: Don't store papers and cards inside your closed MacBook Air
If put anything in between your MacBook screen and keyboard — a screen protector, a hard crumb, a camera guard, anything — it's just a matter of time until you open it up to a shattered display. Here's why, and how much it will cost to repair.
Or you could buy a product to actually use it fully for a sensible proportion of it's lifetime and get whatever it's worth when you need a new one.
If you're trying to jump through hoops to save a minimal amount of money so you can always be buying the newest/best products, then can't actually use them properly because of how you're behaving oddly, you probably need counselling.
If you're trying to jump through hoops to save a minimal amount of money so you can always be buying the newest/best products, then can't actually use them properly because of how you're behaving oddly, you probably need counselling.