- 6th gen processors - gimmigck touch bar - no USB-A ports - no SD card reader - no magsafe - super expensive for what you get
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Re: MacBook Pro
#192Apple has replaced the MacBook Pro with a faster MacBook Air labeled "Pro". I have no idea how they could think that professionals would use a MacBook Air (no ports, shallow keyboard, no expansion, no innovative features, marginally lighter). A tiny ribbon display is completely useless to me. They removed the escape key. Twenty years of using Macs and I'm not sure what my next laptop is going to be.
Four standard (non-proprietary) multi-use ports is a complaint? No innovative features? What do you call a ribbon display that no one has ever done before? No expansion - nothing new to the MBP line.
> No innovative features? What do you call a ribbon display that no one has ever done before?
A gimmick.
Re: MacBook Pro
#193I'm very sad that the MagSafe connectors will be gone. It's one of my favorite parts of the Mac ecosystem, and a huge advantage.
Why? Why? Why?
Are they actively trying to piss people off by removing key features?
What is the advantage of this?
Re: MacBook Pro
#194Apple has replaced the MacBook Pro with a faster MacBook Air labeled "Pro". I have no idea how they could think that professionals would use a MacBook Air (no ports, shallow keyboard, no expansion, no innovative features, marginally lighter). A tiny ribbon display is completely useless to me. They removed the escape key. Twenty years of using Macs and I'm not sure what my next laptop is going to be.
It may not be the ports you want but 4x Thunderbolt/USB-C connectors is not exactly "no ports".
No HDMI. No miniDP. No ethernet. No SDHC reader. No USB port that 100 out of 100 keyboards and mice will plug into. No audio input port.
There are no^H^H only useless ports.
Re: MacBook Pro
#195Apple has replaced the MacBook Pro with a faster MacBook Air labeled "Pro". I have no idea how they could think that professionals would use a MacBook Air (no ports, shallow keyboard, no expansion, no innovative features, marginally lighter). A tiny ribbon display is completely useless to me. They removed the escape key. Twenty years of using Macs and I'm not sure what my next laptop is going to be.
Four standard (non-proprietary) multi-use ports is a complaint? No innovative features? What do you call a ribbon display that no one has ever done before? No expansion - nothing new to the MBP line.
I had an HP with a ribbon display for multimedia keys 6 years ago. How is that "never done before"?
Re: MacBook Pro
#196Four Thunderbolt 3 ports that support USB-C. Any one of the four ports can be a charging port. /win Hopefully, this will disrupt the rest of the industry. The XPS 13 is a brilliant machine (IMHO better than the Mac) but why did they not use the USB-C for charging is beyond me.
For me it would've been a win if they'd also included some other ports for backwards compatibility.
Having only USB-C ports means that pretty much every user will have to have a set of dongles for things like USB2/3, HDMI, Display port etc, which doesn't seem like it's an ideal approach.
Re: MacBook Pro
#197How many apps will really support this for the one or two generations that actually have it?
Re: MacBook Pro
#198The new touch bar looks pretty useless and unconfortable to use, a missed oportunity if you ask me.
Re: MacBook Pro
#199I think I am a bit disappointed by the Touch Bar.
I can see it being more annoying than useful. They could have set themselves apart by doing something grandiose like having small oled screens for each key that are changing dynamically according to apps and keyboards. But, I guess this time of true risks are gone.
Re: MacBook Pro
#200Apple has replaced the MacBook Pro with a faster MacBook Air labeled "Pro". I have no idea how they could think that professionals would use a MacBook Air (no ports, shallow keyboard, no expansion, no innovative features, marginally lighter). A tiny ribbon display is completely useless to me. They removed the escape key. Twenty years of using Macs and I'm not sure what my next laptop is going to be.
Four standard (non-proprietary) multi-use ports is a complaint? No innovative features? What do you call a ribbon display that no one has ever done before? No expansion - nothing new to the MBP line.
>> Four standard (non-proprietary) multi-use ports is a complaint?
I think it's a fair complaint if it requires using dongles for all of your legacy devices, especially USB keys.