Keyboard backlight and logo on laptop cover!?
I kind of have the same impression. For me, I was a Windows user, support technician, and application developer, then switched to Linux but didn't like the overall experience, then started running macOS on my PC (what some people call Hackintosh), and was very impressed with the overall experience working with macOS but once I could afford a MacBook Air, like about 10 years ago, I bought one and it has been the best computer I've ever had. So you might say I'm kind of a pragmatists.
About the keyboard backlight, I guess I can get used to find the keys in the dark or work with the room lights turned on while wearing sunglasses, I've already had to do that sometimes when using computers that don't have backlight for extended periods of time.
I commented about the Pine logo (I like your suggestion about the logo being customizable, BTW) because that brings brand recognition, and it's relatively easy to make in production units. Although I haven't experienced what you said about seeing through the display, perhaps it could be some design flaw in some particular models.
Nowadays however, all the gimmicky stuff that Apple has added, like the Touch Bar and Neural chips, have worried me about getting a new MacBook Air with ARM chip. I'll rather wait a couple of years to se what happens, but in the meanwhile I might want to try out a Linux ARM laptop with the same form factor than a MacBook Air, which I like a lot.
About the keyboard backlight, I guess I can get used to find the keys in the dark or work with the room lights turned on while wearing sunglasses, I've already had to do that sometimes when using computers that don't have backlight for extended periods of time.
I commented about the Pine logo (I like your suggestion about the logo being customizable, BTW) because that brings brand recognition, and it's relatively easy to make in production units. Although I haven't experienced what you said about seeing through the display, perhaps it could be some design flaw in some particular models.
Nowadays however, all the gimmicky stuff that Apple has added, like the Touch Bar and Neural chips, have worried me about getting a new MacBook Air with ARM chip. I'll rather wait a couple of years to se what happens, but in the meanwhile I might want to try out a Linux ARM laptop with the same form factor than a MacBook Air, which I like a lot.
