apple have broken basic typing
I got a MacBook Air because a friend said it had good battery life, and something about "silicon", whatever that is. I also have this idea that laptops should go to sleep and wake up properly, which no pc laptops have ever done. The battery does indeed last a week unplugged, with some use every day, which is nice. On the other hand, my TV remote battery used to last 8 years. The difference is that the TV remote worked. Almost everything I have tried typing into the macbook has been erroneously changed, or "corrected". This included a specific piece of information, something like a username, that I kept entering correctly, and EVERY TIME, the apple computer would change it, to the same incorrect string. I couldn't work out how to make it stop. Sometimes I just gave up and accepted the wrongified text. There is something profoundly disappointing about typing on a computer not working. It's a bit like a boat that doesn't float. Back in the days of ...