John Siracusa

I think we've talked about one or two of them, but there was a new one done by the Framework company, the founder, Nirav Patel.

He and a coworker did a MacBook Neo teardown, and they compared the MacBook Neo to their own Framework Laptop 12.

Nirav came up with a bunch of tidbits.

I also came up with one.

Let me start with mine.

The framework laptop does not do inverted T arrow keys, which is gross.

It's the ones that Apple was using for a while where the up and down are the same height as the left and right, like the combination of up and down are the same height as left and right.

I hated that.

I don't like it.

Oh, the ones where they were all in a line?

All right.

And then for his, uh, notes, complaints, et cetera, uh, he complained and I agree by the way about the maximum hinge angle of the Neo.

This drove me nuts.

When I first originally got my poly book that the compared to almost any PC that I'd ever used Dell IBM, it didn't matter a laptop specifically.

You can usually make those displays go 180 degrees, you know, so life flat, you know, parallel with the keyboard or even with the keyboard.

Um,

Whereas most Apple laptops can only go, I don't know, like 120 degrees or something like that.

And it doesn't really bother me near as much anymore.

It does sometimes, but gosh, it drove me absolutely batty when I first went to the Mac.

So Nirav was complaining about that.