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Posted by retroplasma 1 day ago

"Fix" MacBook Neo Cursor Lag: Record 1 Pixel of the Screen Every 10 Seconds(gist.github.com)
225 points | 103 commentspage 3
adithyassekhar 1 day ago|
The duality of TheTon’s and anotherpaul’s comments.
ing33k 1 day ago||
is any one here using the neo for any coding work ? how is it ?
taude 1 day ago||
Not real work. It's an amazing couch laptop, though. I do have a full CLI tooling pipeline setup, though. I mostly read, research, and write on it. Chrome tabs galore open, Obsidian, etc...

It's pretty amazing at the price point. Thought last year the M4 Airs were on sale for $749 -- I'm doubtful we'll see that price again on those....

ActorNightly 16 hours ago|||
If all you need is a coding laptop, any $200 dollar laptop with upgradable ssd and ram with linux installed does just fine.
hirvi74 1 day ago||
I do, and I love mine. I program relatively low-resource software, so power is not an issue.
bryan_w 20 hours ago||
This feels like something Steve Jobs would have slapped someone for allowing to be shipped to production
taude 1 day ago||
I'm on a NEO right now, my Chrome has like 25 tabs open. Doom Emacs running in terminal, Obsidian open, Apple Music, Apple NOtes, etc. I have a lot open...

AND I'm not seeing this issue. What am I missing?

I'm on 26.4.

:shrugs:

EDIT: I guess I wait to update and install the latest version? Maybe the linked page could have stated there's a new regression in newer MacOS versions that introduced this?

alvaniss 1 day ago||
ah yes, the famous mac "Just works" OS
libria 1 day ago||
I think this ^ and the "Steve in his grave" comment should be a red flag for Apple execs.

Being flawless and polished at UX, hardware experience, and CX in general are the core of Apple's identity and revenue. Granted, the "hold it like this" thing was a huge gaff.

I also think the Neo is a culture miss that is diluting their brand. Their logo is synonymous with "expensive" and "quality" but the Neo is affordable and now it has cursor stutter.

eviks 18 hours ago|||
> Being flawless and polished at UX, hardware experience, and CX in general are the core of Apple's identity and revenue.

But since they never had all of that, it can't be at the core, so the execs can continue to wave the green $ flag

ActorNightly 16 hours ago|||
>Being flawless and polished at UX, hardware experience, and CX in general are the core of Apple's identity and revenue.

No, and no.

Apple is at the Ferrari stage of computer hardware.

Ferrari doesn't need to make good cars. They don't even need to make good looking cars (i.e the new Luce). They just need to make cars that are hard to get, with a Ferrari badge. Because the badge carries so much weight, the product is desirable.

Apple is the same way. They could release a terrible laptop, and people will still buy it. Don't believe me? Remember that they had an MBP, pre apple silicon, with comparatively shit specs for the money, and a touchbar with a virtual escape key and a terrible arrow key layout. Thing was actually terrible to use. But yet, because Apple, everyone was still praising it.

koiueo 1 day ago|||
What's the big deal?

It's just a simple one-liner

curl github.com/trustworthyguy/fix_everything | sh

And it all works. Not like recompiling entire kernel to play an mp3.

/s obviously

flyingshelf 1 day ago||
That was like 20 years ago. My computer insists on downloading gigabytes of videos at random (correction: specifically when I use the hotspot) because maybe I have a video screensaver enabled.

I had to set up a daemon to kill the downloader every 10 seconds.

nicman23 1 day ago||
host file nuke?
r2vcap 1 day ago||
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spectral_beel 1 day ago||
i hope they can fix it asap
zx8080 1 day ago|
Round rect corners are to blame?

The root cause for the issue is probably (I'm not an Apple developer) due to huge round rectangles on the window shape corners. Rendering the window with the corners would include rendering whatever other windows and widgets under the window. (Which will have a lag and some more operations with transparency, which the developers probably want to avoid - while I'm not sure about this part).

saagarjha 1 day ago|
No