R.L. Dane 
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Oh man, the #MacbookNeo is giving me pre-unibody 2008 #Macbook vibes. RESIIIIISST!!! — #microblogging #MicroToot: 84 characters
Vladimir@rl_dane actually indeed, if only OSX still looked like the Lion-era OSX. Also bring the plastic Macbooks back pretty please, gosh, who was the genius who decided that aluminum is a good case material.
Actually, Lion is where we got the crappy iOS-style scrollbars. Gimme Snow Leopard, PLOX. XD
Also, while aluminum can bend and fatigue, the white plastics became very brittle over time, were porous, and retained smells.
If you ever had a sweaty friend use your macbook, it would smell like them until the end of time. :(
The unibody plastic machines avoided some of those flaws, but weren't as cool-looking IMO. ;)
I was very fond of my 2014 13.3" MBA, but it suffered a tea-baptism in 2019, which was the impetus for me getting back into Linux/Unix full-time, so I guess it all works out. ;)
@rl_dane I got that touch-bar MBP then, the worst computer I've ever had, struggled with that shitty glass slab and faulty keyboard. Apple magic was over, half a year later I sold it thinking "hey, I have a Linux workstation at work anyway".
Yeah, I get it. With the touchbar, at least they were trying to innovate a little. 😂
I love how this week Apple finally produces a halfway affordable laptop for the first time in their bloody existence, and all the tech youtubers are falling over themselves saying, "ONLY APPLE COULD HAVE DONE THIS!!!" XD
I do wish someone made a white linux/unix laptop, though. Thinkpads are nice, but they're all black. I'd love some variation, and not just various shades of alumini?um. XD
> a white linux/unix laptop
My work laptop is XPS 13. It's white, it's very pretty, probably it has excellent Linux support (that I can't test), it's pricey, it's a crap that was shipped to service several times in just few years.
Yeah, I haven't been particularly enamored by Dell in the last couple decades. ;)