It isn’t that I * can’t* use laptops it’s that using them has always felt like an uphill battle I can’t win. The fact of the matter is that laptops are harder for me to use because I can’t get as close to the screen as I need to work effectively. I try to compensate for this by adjusting the position of the screen and using software tricks like increasing the size of the mouse pointer, but its benefits are nominal. It’s not only ergonomically terrible but I look pretty silly doing it. I have to lean in to see, almost the point where my nose is touching the display. In my experience, I’ve found the laptop’s form factor to work against me in terms of accessibility.Īs I wrote last year, the problem is that a laptop’s screen has always felt “far away.” Being visually impaired, I need to get as close as possible in order to see comfortably, and a laptop’s screen makes that difficult. Though the MacBook chugs along, it’s not all roses. ![]() ![]() Its longevity speaks to Apple’s hardware prowess-design-wise, today’s MacBook Pros are direct descendants-and the Mac’s value proposition. My MacBook may be slow and technically obsolete, but it still *works*.
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