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Posted by normanvalentine 1 day ago

Filing the corners off my MacBooks(kentwalters.com)
1327 points | 626 commentspage 10
xtiansimon 20 hours ago|
Nice. Maybe a touch of 600 and 1200 wet/dry sandpaper (with some dish soap lubricant)?
beloch 1 day ago||
There are plenty of laptops out there that have square edges on the user-facing edge. However, most are tapered and/or have hinge designs that tilt the laptop surface towards the user, dropping that square edge away from the user's wrists.

Most Apple laptops, such as the latest Pro's, are level, rather than tapered, and sit flat so that the user-facing edge cuts into your wrists. It's bad ergonomics, plain and simple. If you value function over form enough to modify your tools in this way, choose better tools.

pmontra 1 day ago|
Choosing tools is not easy. Last time I bought a laptop was 2014. My goal was running Linux. My other requirements were, in order of importance, without explanation:

3 physical buttons below the touchpad. That removed really many laptops. They would be nearly zero today, or really zero.

15 inches screen. Common.

Matte finish. Common.

User serviceable hardware. That removed many other laptops.

No number pad. I had to give up on that or I would have no laptop to buy.

I ended up with the first generation HP ZBook 15.

a-dub 16 hours ago||
maybe a better approach to start with computers that already have ergonomic chassis (they exist) and then spend energy for modifying tools on what happens inside of them?
culi 1 day ago||
I too find the sharp corners incredibly uncomfortable for my weak sensitive baby wrists but I chose to overcome this by wearing a wrist band. Two very different approaches
eaurouge 1 day ago|
Yeah, I wear a wrist band as well. I've used these (https://www.vivehealth.com/products/wrist-support) for some years now but they've since changed the material to something with less give.

Do you have a brand you'd recommend?

culi 11 hours ago||
Not really. My almost favorite solution was to get gloves with touchscreen finger tips but I couldn't find a good one that has the touchscreen material go all around the tips which makes certain touchpad gestures annoying to do.

Any wrist band has been "good enough" for me so far though

rmccue 1 day ago||
On one of my old MacBook Pros, I managed to do this naturally through friction from my wrist moving back and forth on the keyboard for years; good idea to get ahead of it.
asciimov 1 day ago||
Would be cool if somebody would make a round over or chamfer plane that would allow you to remove the corner with a higher finished look.
proee 1 day ago||
The Apple Watch Ultra also has an aggressively sharp screen edge. It's kept me from upgrading from my current watch (Model 8). But maybe I would get use to it?
gensym 1 day ago|
The side that faces your wrist is rounded - only the face is sharp. I haven't noticed any issues with the edge wearing the thing.

I was worried about scratches because I abuse the shit out of anything I wear, and sure enough, there are scratches in the titanium bezel, but they look good in a way that scratches on my (non-pro) steel Apple Watch did not.

PufPufPuf 1 day ago||
Too bad my Mac is company owned, maybe I'd use it in a "laptop mode" more if it didn't slit wrists.
mkagenius 1 day ago|
Not just sides, the vents are much sharper.

Few years back, I tried to look on reddit for complaints regarding this - barely anything.

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