My single biggest fear was that they would end the MagSafe and that has come to pass. 3 kids, 3 cats, 2 dogs, the MagSafe has saved my existing MacBook Pro so many times.
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#292Apple is being run more and more by marketers, rather than by techies.
As a developer, I don't want to see "emojis" on my keyboard, but I do want to be able to plug in any device I need in that exact moment, without looking for a right dongle.
Apple needs to stop sacrificing usability for "looks".
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#293Wow. I hate to say it, but I thought the products in Microsoft's event yesterday were way more exciting than anything from Apple lately. This plus macOS Sierra seems like a whole lot of "meh". This coming from a guy whose first computer was an Apple IIe, who owned a Mac Cube, and whose daily driver is a trashcan MacPro.
Sadly I have to agree. I wonder if Jobs really was that much of a visionary that the company is lost for ways to innovate without him.
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#294no physical escape key.. I suspect this will negatively impact vi/vim experience.
I guess we know where Apple comes down in the vi vs. emacs war.
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#295TouchBar. Dead on arrival. This is a cute feature, but kind of embarrassing from an innovation perspective. And given the announcement of the Surface Book update and the new Surface Studio, Apple is inconceivably playing second fiddle to Microsoft on the innovation front. The leap ahead on ports is premature at best. I'm sure Apple will hold most of their fan base, but there are going to be quite a few defections me…
Agreed. To me all the demos of the touch bar looked awkward and could've been replaced with far better functionality using a touchscreen.
Hopefully it's more appealing when actually using it.
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#296I know USB-C is the future, but it's going to be a long, long, long time before all our devices are using it - particularly external displays. My current Macbook Pro has an HDMI port. I use it every day. I do not want to carry a converter dongle with me everywhere (I did that with my old Air that only had a DisplayPort). To echo other complaints: this is supposed to be a professional machine. I don't care about it be…
And the wild thing is, the ports introduced today aren't even USB-C; they're Thunderbolt 3 ports.
Thunderbolt 3 and USB-C are not the same, right?
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#297Anybody know what software is used for the design renders/exploded views? Keyshot, Maya, Blender, something else?
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#298With W10 having usable Ubuntu built in I can hardly see a use case for having a mac.
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#299I find the back to back introduction of the Surface Dial and the Touch Bar to be interesting. These two input devices are going to rely on developer commitments for any real level of success, but why should developers spend time on them when they will only be available on a relatively small percentage of devices? If these were web browsers we would all be complaining about standards, but there seems to be little blow back because they are OS level devices. Meanwhile this would seem to be a big headache for developers of cross platform software.
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#300Apple 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.
You must have missed the fact that you can type emojis on the touch bar
This is the proper response.