So far I've had 1 app that prompted me It was going to use Rosetta 2 for emulation, and I can't tell. it "just works" so to speak. I think Apple is being ruthless in forcing developers to make their applications compatible
Agreed, the touchpads is what moved me over to Apple. I used to hate them, and then I tried to buy a laptop with a good touchpad, and it didn't exist.
The XPS13 has endless issues, its the XPS13 9300 with the 10th Gen i7 and QHD screen, 32GB RAM and 1TB NVMe SSD
- The battery life is a complete joke unless you let it throttle itself to death and turn the screen brightness to the lowest possible. Real world usage I'm lucky to see 3 hours, same usage on the MPB is around 20 hours
[*]The touchpad has these Windows drivers which makes things better, but you cant cant configure three fingler click to do a middle click and have it pass through to RDP. Since I work in IT, a ton of my job is in RDP, and this is a real pain
- The audio driver adds this weird echo sound to the speakers AND bluetooth for some kind of weird feature, which you can't disable! The only solution is to back down to a super old driver, which then reverts back every time you do updates. Why Dell, why????
- The screen has firmware built in that can't be changed that reduces the contrast to save power when on battery. So it ends up looking like trash every time you pull the power cord out
- The right hand side USB-C has issues, so when I use a dock on the right port, it fails to connect properly around 80% of the time. there is a super long forum thread about this on the Dell site, and the answer is that the trace on the board is too long, and there is no fix
- The thermals suck, I can be sitting there doing literally nothing and the fans will be spun up. For the CPU it has in, the thermal solution is 100% not okay
- The wireless driver forces power savings when on battery which you can't change, and you end up with more latency somehow, I have no idea how they managed it, but they did. So sometimes I'll be over RDP and the whole thing just sucks
God damn I'm angry just thinking about using it! On paper its great, but in reality, it sucks.