I'm a multi-decade Mac user, but don't consider myself a Mac snob, but by gawd, I know I'm going to sound like one! I've had to use WIndows over the years, too. Was formerly an Intel engineer and manager. I figured that after all this time, Microsoft would have caught up with MacOS. Holy [Cotent removed] ! Well, out of the box for my new Acer Swift 3 had the Acer logo resplashing itself multiple times—no big deal. Then the initial input screens for the basic settings popped up. Well, the lower-right area of the touchpad was already set to “right-click." Did I know that? No man, I didn't. Tried clicking on buttons and scroll bars and wouldn't work with my hand and fingers in the natural position. The touchpad heavy click is something like 4X as hard and 4X the travel as on my MacBook Pro. Ok—guess I'm using the light touch and avoiding the full click. Microsoft then barages me with all kinds of [Cotent removed] asking me to hand over all my info and my first born. [content removed] The whole experience was just clunky and not at all nice. I wonder if anyone has thought of just “let's see, let's put our new laptop side by side with a Mac and compare the first start up experience. How is it? How does it compare?” Well, friends, it don't compare! With just a couple of browser tabs open (one to Bing and a few to Acer support) the fans are whining like they're little coyotes under a full moon. I know I'm griping and I hope this all irons out and gets better. Not very impressed with out of the box experience. Microsoft has had, ahem, a few years to catch up to a good user experience. I guess, still, no one is paying attention.
Oh, also, Acer tech support said I shouldn't keep the laptop plugged in; it might overcharge the battery, to which I responded that it must not have good battery management. He said it wasn't the case, but heck, over here on my Mac, the batter icon switches admirably between charging and pause cycles and lets me know what it's up to with the battery conditioning. Back to Acer Swift 3: Unplug the laptop when I'm done using it. Check.
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