15 flaws of the Macbook pro (and MacOS)

For clarity sake this article refers to the MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2019) with MacOs Mojave (10.14.6), without further ado lets start:

❌Overheating: The part over the touchbar gets hot… extremely hot, as in I can’t put my finger there for more than 10 seconds when it gets really hot and sometimes it even smells like burning, specially when charging but for 9-to-5 work I need it plugged in at all times; one time in particular it got so hot mouse and keyboard stopped working so I had to turn off the laptop; sometimes the keyboard itself gets really hot, I wonder who told Apple keys are supposed to be heat condensers.

❌Sometimes the cursor freezes every 4 seconds when a turned-off external screen is connected… no, I’m not joking: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/290528/352569



❌On finder “Edit > Copy” allows the user to copy files but “Edit > Cut“ is always grayed-out for files, turns out the later one is only referring to text-selection cuts and not any other form of “cut”, but there is not clue about such behavior, I only discovered this fact after googling why “Edit > Cut“ is always grayed-out and found this answer: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/12392/352569, I know you can Opt+Cmd+V but thats not the point, which is extremely poor UI/UX.

❌When searching files Finder does not have a column for the location of the files, meaning you only see their names and hope you are guessing right where they might be, that also means you cannot order by file location because a column that doesn’t exist can’t be clicked, superb engineering if you ask me: https://superuser.com/a/335118/95971

❌Lack of normal USB ports and ethernet port; due this all the 100+ MacBooks at my company have at all times an USB-C-to-normal-USB adapters in order to user regular keyboards, mouses, fans and ethernet connections.



❌Fn key is on the bottom corner of the laptop, one of the less-used keys is taking space from a bunch of keys that are used like 99% more than that one such as “control” , “option” and “command”; it is without doubt poor engineering; maybe it should be to the right of the esc key on the touch bar instead.



❌Lack of window-preview when using command+tab, you just see the icons like is 1999

❌Command+tab goes through apps not windows, for Windows you have to use a different command, command+º, but that one doesn’t show icons like command+tab does so you have to go through all of your open Windows of the current app to find the one you want; for this matter I use a third-party software called witch but unfortunately is full of unsolvable bugs (apple is to blame according to its author).



❌External non-Apple mouses can have unexpected scrolling behavior because it wrongly assumes is a touch-based mouse, fortunately someone created a fix for it https://github.com/emreyolcu/discrete-scroll



❌It cannot be changed where notifications appear on the screen, they always appear in the top right which pretty inconveniently hide my Chrome tabs I’m using in the corner of the screen.

❌Keyboard sucks in all possible ways, e.g. the keys are too small, about this issue has already been written extensively including the famous Taike Waititi rant at Oscars



❌The price, for less than the $2.200 USD it costs right now you can get a much better alternative (1, 2, 3, et al)



❌The lack of physical FN keys and having a “touchbar” instead, it’s so useless, only newbies look at their keyboard when typing.

❌The toolbar of an app is only shown when that app is focused, meaning that if you are working on two windows at the same time you can only access the toolbar of the unfocused windows by first focusing it, requiring one more click than the same interaction on any other OS.



❌On activity monitor you can select multiple processes with shift or cmd but the “Exit process” button becomes disabled, meaning you can’t force quit more than one program at once.



If you are wondering why I use a Macbook Pro is because I’m forced to by my workplace, still I didn’t expected it to be so mediocre on nearly all aspects, in its defense the retina screen does look very pretty.

