This is possibly the worst article on the Mac’s 40th.
See Wired for a better one: https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext-apple-secret-40-year-old-mac-still-rules/
This is possibly the worst article on the Mac’s 40th.
See Wired for a better one: https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext-apple-secret-40-year-old-mac-still-rules/
Could also be the sensor, smack bang in between the batteries and where you’d want the port… they should’ve just redesigned it, but they probably thought everybody should go trackpad so why bother
The design hasn’t changed since it was AA batteries; it was not designed with the rechargeable battery pack in mind.
The worst you can say really is that it was a lazy upgrade, which is totally valid.
My guess is they didn’t want to redesign the top surface for aesthetics or charitably, perhaps technical reasons to do with the combo touch / click area at the front, and the front is the only place you’d want a port.
Mostly cross-platform suggestions:
Apples to chuck:
Apples to keep:
That’s all I can think of rn! Personally I go for rational functionality over philosophy as I think that’s a trap! They’re just computers, don’t not use stuff based on principle if it works the best, but also don’t get sucked in by the hype, they make it as easy as possible to eat all your money!
And not in the user’s last X passwords! And doesn’t contain their name, address etc! And changes every X days!
Literally writing code to do this rn, even tho I pushed back with modern theories… IT security “experts” set policy using just enough knowledge to be dangerous
One of the banned words hardcoded previously was “monkey”, needless to say I am proud to carry on this tradition
It was quite interesting until they outed themselves in the last section
Peek, another powertoys util, attempts to fill this gap using ^+space https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/peek
Great model, just tips, so I tip when I notice an update