{"id":11278,"date":"2015-05-20T20:22:23","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T00:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=11278"},"modified":"2015-06-23T10:08:38","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T14:08:38","slug":"mistake-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/20\/mistake-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Mistake One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marco.org\/2015\/05\/19\/mistake-one\">Marco Arment<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marcoarment\/status\/600867901894225920\">tweet<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.marco.org\/2015\/05\/19\/mistake-one\">\n<p>I hate typing on it, I hate the trackpad, it&rsquo;s slower than I expected, the screen is noticeably blurry from non-native scaling to get reasonable screen space, and I don&rsquo;t even find it very comfortable to use in my lap because it&rsquo;s <em>too<\/em> small.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The 11-inch MacBook Air shows that the MacBook&rsquo;s compromises have nothing to do with going Retina &mdash; the One has roughly the same GPU, less horsepower, less space, less weight, and a smaller battery, yet still drives a Retina screen perfectly well. Apple could have made a Retina MacBook Air instead of (or in addition to) this new MacBook, but chose not to.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>This concerns me more than you probably think it should. Not only does it represent compromised standards in areas I believe are important, but it suggests that they don&rsquo;t have many better ideas to advance the products beyond making them thinner, and they&rsquo;re willing to sacrifice anything to keep that going.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He hates the new trackpad so much that he just bought a discontinued MacBook Pro with the old one. I think everyone else I&rsquo;ve read has liked it, though. I remain happy with my <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/09\/the-12-inch-macbook\/\">new Air<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Update (2015-06-23): <a href=\"http:\/\/mattgemmell.com\/a-laptop-for-writers\/\">Matt Gemmell<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/mattgemmell.com\/a-laptop-for-writers\/\"><p>It did take a day to adjust, and maybe two days to learn to trust myself again without glancing over.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise, I was fluent and back up to speed with the new keyboard within an hour of switching over. It&rsquo;s just not as different <em>in use<\/em> as it at first seems.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marco Arment (tweet): I hate typing on it, I hate the trackpad, it&rsquo;s slower than I expected, the screen is noticeably blurry from non-native scaling to get reasonable screen space, and I don&rsquo;t even find it very comfortable to use in my lap because it&rsquo;s too small. [&#8230;] The 11-inch MacBook Air shows that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[423,30,1155,1173,83,1150],"class_list":["post-11278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-keyboard","tag-mac","tag-macbook","tag-macbook-air","tag-retina","tag-trackpad"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11278"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11561,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11278\/revisions\/11561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}