Noticed my faulty touchbar on my 2021 (2020 model year) MBP M1 was working… for more than 24 hours - so decided to try and use it as a portable device - soon as I undocked it - touchbar stopped working (it’s in place of physical F1-F12 keys) - the battery life on a MBP kills nearly everything out there (even today!)…
But NO! Murphy decides to disable my touchbar - and - then I remembered how utterly awful MacOS finder is compared to Nautilus on mainstream distros (like Pop!_OS)… I just wanted to find a photo - but no - we’re going to make finding stuff in “Finder” WAAAAAAAAAAAAAY harder than it needs to be!
So - I’m using my Thinkpad E495 purchased off e-bay for about 25-33% of the price of my new MBP… seriously - #$%& Apple! I love a native UNIX on a RISC processor - but this is taking the mickey…
Just wish I’d saved myself $400 AUD and got an MB Air M1 - instead of the Pro… it’s all false economy - the MBP M1 comes with 8 CPU cores and 8 GPU cores - the MBP Air came with 7 CPU cores (how do they even do that? It’s the same chip - are they ones that didn’t past muster?) and I don’t know how many GPU cores… But what you get with the “Air” is a keyboard with physical F1-F12…
Strangely - the work supplied MBP I use - almost identical to my personal one, but with double the RAM and storage - doesn’t have the touchbar issue… But I won’t use that one for “stuff” because they block me using external storage (strangely - they don’t block my personal cloud solution - Resilio Sync - or my NAS over NFS or SMB)…
MacBook Pro only makes sense for me if it has Apple Silicon (i.e. arm64, like M1, M2, M3 and now M4) - not bothered about Intel based Macs… Apple Silicon leaves Intel and AMD in the dust in the power usage department… By that I mean - if I want UNIX on Intel - I’ve got plenty of Intel / AMD laptops already…