The problem with the touchbar is that you cannot build muscle memory with it. You have to look down to do anything with it. That goes against the entire UX of a keyboard. How Apple hasn’t understood that basic fact yet is beyond me. This new MacBook is nothing special. A Ryzen 4000HS surface is more attractive now. The cheaper CPU Ryzen has 8 cores and is faster than the current 16” 6 core i7. Time to get rid of Intel and it’s over heating 14nm CPU’s.
I’m definitely looking for premium support when something goes wrong. I think Apple no longer offers this service in real terms.
Ubuntu is ok. I’ve used it before. OSX is usually very good. Just Catalina is dreadful. I’ve picked a surface because it’s as close to the Mac as I can find.
Apple could have easily replaced the screen on the 8 body with one of the XR with Face ID. It’s an admission that Face ID is another failure, along side the dreadful touchbar. None of the macs have Face ID and now a brand new phone without Face ID. Apple has iOS one day someone will replace it and Apple will be buggered.
As a user of Facebook. They shouldn’t be most upset about the privacy problems. A developer at Facebook should be ashamed of helping to build the absolute garbage that is the Facebook advertising suite. It’s a maze of bugs.