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Afganblues said:

It’s a dock. With charging capabilities and easy hook up to monitor. For $400????? No SD cards for expanding memory, no hard drive, no nothing else, it’s just a dock? Quite expensive in my humble opinion, but like wow it’s a dock I don’t get it. And I won’t get it, maybe if it was $129 I get it, but it’s a dock, what am I missing?Maybe I’m not seeing something. Help me out on this one, I don’t see the attraction unless you got money to burn, which is OK, but it’s just a dock.

It has an SD card slot. It has a nice list of ports but I doubt that makes the price any more reasonable. You can get a similar USB-C dock for a MacBook for less than $100. 

bobcat62 said:

jdb8167 said:

bobcat62 said:

I hope they fixed the constant XNU Kernel panics that some have referred to as the MacBook Sigh of Death.

Do you know under what conditions the KPs occurred? I haven't seen any on my M1 MacBook Air since 11.0.1. I've been running 11.2 since the first RC and haven't seen any kernel panics.

Remember, some of us are still on Intel.  

Here's a link to Brett Simmons on the "sneeze:"

https://inessential.com/2020/12/09/the_big_sur_sneeze

I also have a 2013 Mac Pro on 11.2 and it has been on Big Sur since 11.1. No kernel panics there either. Thanks for the link. 

equality72521 said:

Variable calendar reminders snooze times???

Nothing obvious. Just a single Snooze button.

bobcat62 said:

I hope they fixed the constant XNU Kernel panics that some have referred to as the MacBook Sigh of Death.

Do you know under what conditions the KPs occurred? I haven't seen any on my M1 MacBook Air since 11.0.1. I've been running 11.2 since the first RC and haven't seen any kernel panics.

Rayz2016 said:

Rayz2016 claimed in July 2018 that by hating the Butterfly keyboard and asking for Apple to go back to a keyboard with more tactile feedback that I was essentially asking for, in his words:
"...a case as large as a tank and a keyboard with travel that goes to the centre of the earth."

Ah, the good old days …

Yup, the butterfly keyboard is still the fastest keyboard I’ve ever used. Great spacing, and a feather light action. Never had a problem with it, but I suspect that’s because I can touch type and wash my hands a lot.

Was it as unreliable as folk said it was? Not according to AI. The failure rates were pretty much the same as previous Apple keyboards. I suspect the problem was that a few high profile bloggers hated it, a few more people jumped on the bandwagon, and it kind of spread from there. 

Sorry to see it go, but at the same time, I don’t think it’s wise for Apple to always fight battles in the press when the social media war has already been lost, certainly not for a keyboard. 

“A keyboard with travel that goes to the centre of the earth”

Heh. Talk about overcooking …

I had the butterfly keyboard on a 2018 13" MacBook Pro and I thought it was quite good. I was worried about the reported failures but I didn't experience any problems myself. I could type very fast on it with pretty good accuracy. Now I have the M1 MacBook Air (traded in the 2018 for it) and I think it is slightly better. It has the same stability of the keys and a slightly better key travel. I don't really notice any real difference in typing speed but it is slightly more comfortable I think. So I don't think keeping the butterfly keyboard to save a fraction of a mm is worth it but I do think the butterfly keyboard hate was overstated. I don't blame Apple for abandoning it though; it is easier to create a new keyboard that is practically the same and solves a PR problem.