MacBook Pro

Post by masklinn » Thu, Oct 27, 2016, 7:26 PM UTC

karmelapple wrote: post #296

untog wrote: post #179

I 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?

Post by OJFord » Thu, Oct 27, 2016, 7:26 PM UTC

astrowilliam wrote: post #351

rayiner wrote: post #259

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Microsoft really hit it out of the park yesterday. Did we watch the same event? Microsoft introduced a $3,000 desktop PC in an era when nobody uses desktops anymore. It introduced a minor update to the Surface Book that starts at $2,300 with dual-core CPU, only 8GB of RAM, and last-gen graphics hardware. For the same price as the new Surface Book i7, I can get an MBP 15" with bigger screen, twice the RAM, and a qua…

I sit at an Apple desktop (macbook pro with 2 apple monitors) for most of my day so I can use my giant screen to design interfaces and I'm not cramped into a laptop's tiny 13 inch screen. The last office of about 5,000 devs and designers that I worked at had desktops with monitors. No one worked on laptops except a few people here and there. I would lose HOURS of productivity per week if I were not on a dual screen s…

    > I would lose HOURS of productivity per week if I were
    > not on a dual screen set up.

Post by wkirby » Thu, Oct 27, 2016, 7:26 PM UTC

HugoDaniel wrote: post #479

headphone jack ? what kind of treachery is this ? :D

Post by jmspring » Thu, Oct 27, 2016, 7:27 PM UTC

Post by claudiug » Thu, Oct 27, 2016, 7:28 PM UTC