I bought a MacBook Air last week, and I’m very happy with it. But for a long time I hesitated, because I couldn’t get past the keyboard. How was I supposed to type on this thing? And then I realized that typing with any accuracy and ease on my MacBook Pro is just as difficult if I’m reaching down to the keyboard from a standing position.
My tip, for anyone thinking about a MacBook: ask if you can try the machine of your choice while sitting. (It might be easier to manage that in a college bookstore than in an Apple Store.) After I sat down to type, I needed only a minute or two to decide that I could be happy with the new keyboard.
My MacBook Pro (2011) is far from shabby, but the screen and speed of the new Air are far superior. And I can type on the keyboard! Look: see?
Thursday, January 17, 2019
A thinking-about-a-MacBook tip
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Except for brief periods or for watching movies, I prop my MacBook on a tabletop stand , plug in a keyboard and mouse, and pretend it's an iMac. That way when I get crumbs or liquids all over something it's only a keyboard I can replace for a few bucks. But of course that kind of defeats the point of its being "a laptop."
I’ve seen that kind of setup. Whatever works! The third-generation butterfly keys are supposed to have fixed the problem with specks of dust disabling keys. I hope.
Perhaps I'm missing something. I have MacBook Air with lot of storage, since I use it for (a lot of) pictures, but it has a keyboard, and is in fact a laptop.
I don’t mean to speak for Chris, but as he might not see this: he’s describing using a MacBook with an external keyboard. I’ve seen people do that, with the laptop up high like a monitor and the external keyboard below.
Exactly.
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