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Re: MacBook Pro

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Post by 6stringmerc »

pc2g4d wrote: post #572

I really dig how laptop input devices are in flux right now. There's this trackbar thing, and then there are RGB keyboards like on the Razer Blade Pro. Here would be my ideal input configuration: * Touchbar with haptic feedback to make the buttons feel more concrete * Physical escape key * RGB keyboard with good travel * Regular-size clickpad Of course, this configuration doesn't exist anywhere. The new MacBook Pro i…

Agreed on all the choices. Getting kind of crazy.

How about my "Wristband Carpal Tunnel Keyboard" concept for all your devices?

https://medium.com/@6StringMerc/why-i-keep-secrets-as-a-wann...

Re: MacBook Pro

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Post by shrewduser »

computmaxer wrote: post #169
ynniv wrote: post #143

Apple 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?

http://www.lenovo.com/images/gallery/1060x596/lenovo-laptop-...

Re: MacBook Pro

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Post by satysin »

rayiner wrote: post #259
npgatech wrote: post #165

This event was by far the most disappointing Mac event in the history. A lot of the time was wasted in: - Mildly funny jokes and comparison with 90's technology. - 90% of the talk was about the touch bar. - Awful demos of Photoshop & some cringy DJ. I was hoping we would see: - A new MacBook with all day battery life and touch bar, even thinner design. Ok, I understand that they are trying to consolidate their produc…

> 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…

> Microsoft introduced a $3,000 desktop PC in an era when nobody uses desktops anymore.

Loads of people still use desktops. If you were to say not many people/companies need that kind of machine then you would be right.

Re: MacBook Pro

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Post by Matachines »

Lio wrote: post #243
Matachines wrote: post #168

I was either happy/neutral about everything but the price... not sure what to do now. I'm just too used to macOS and don't feel like making the switch to Windows or Linux.

I'm in the same boat. For the moment I think a thunderbolt 2 eGPU on my existing 2103 13" MacBook Pro might be enough for what I need. When it gets a bit older, I'm not sure what I'll do.

I think I'll bite the bullet and get the non-Touch Pro and a USB Hub.

Re: MacBook Pro

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Post by arihant »

This does not seem like a major announcement to me. They added a bar and touch ID. But they added force touch with taptic engine last year and it took 3 minutes to introduce.

Between this and Surface with Bash built in, it's the first time since Windows 98 that I can see myself using a Windows computer.

This machine is not pro, as in not for professionals. No self-respecting Musician, Artist, Writer, Programmer, Photographer, Sportsman, etc. can make their living on this. This is what you take to a coffee shop to check e-mail. Anything else requires a dongle. It doesn't "just work" if you need to plug in a series of cables first. That's how Windows laptops were handled. They needed drivers for anything meaningful, this needs dongles.

I need a laptop to create. I don't need a laptop that competes with a notepad on thickness and usefulness. It was all Steve Jobs. All of it.

When is 4mm thicker laptop less elegant than thinner laptop with 5 dongles? Only on paper.

Re: MacBook Pro

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Post by ropiku »

wkirby wrote: post #427

What I wanted: - 7th generation Intel chips. Skylake (6th generation) is from August 2015. - A move to Nvidia GPUs - Retain the magsafe power adapter - At least one dedicated display-out port, preferably HDMI - 32GB RAM for the 15 inch base model - Support for the airpods using their new W1 chip What I'm mad they included: - Price increase for low value - Touch Bar does away with physical keys I use daily (most impor…

> - Support for the airpods using their new W1 chip

AirPods work over Bluetooth 4.0 so of course they work. The iCloud pairing is software, included in Sierra.

Re: MacBook Pro

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Post by jerf »

dguaraglia wrote: post #410

As a heavy Vim user, this might be my last Apple development machine. I can always remap Caps Lock to Esc, but years of muscle memory > a flashy feature I have little use for. There's nothing I'd pay extra for in this new machine: touchbar is a meh, biometric authentication has been around since ~2005, the hardware specs are finally catching up with what everyone else has been shipping for a couple years, the new key…

"I can always remap Caps Lock to Esc, but years of muscle memory > a flashy feature I have little use for."

For what it's worth, as a perennial keyboard layout fiddler, in my experience you should expect it take about 5 minutes to adjust the first day, then about 3 the next, then about 1 the next, then you'll have an equally hard (or easy, if you prefer) time going back if you need to.

Moving one key is very easy, as long as you make sure that the original key doesn't work somehow. "The original key physically doesn't exist anymore" definitely meets that criterion.

(I theorize one could learn a new layout without having to drop one's productivity to the floor by switching all at once by switching one key at a time, about one per day, until you've entirely switched. I've never tried to learn it as I'm happy with my layout and nobody else has wanted to try it yet.)

Also, mixed DPI on Linux is at least getting better. I ended up with a 4K 15" screen, and I'm using XMonad with a whatever-I-feel-like mix of Gnome and KDE apps, which is probably just about the worst case you can get, and it was not anywhere near as bad as I had feared. It is certainly not perfect, don't get me wrong, but it's not disastrous.

Re: MacBook Pro

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Post by rudolf0 »

lostgame wrote: post #47

Unbelievably unimpressive compared to Microsoft's announcement yesterday, and 45 minutes into the keynote I still have no idea what the specs are. I don't need some stupid touch strip on my Mac, I need a touch screen. I haven't been this let down by product announcements ever as I have been this year with everything Apple's done. Now we get all our standard USB ports removed, very little by way of actual hardware imp…

Especially considering what they're charging for it.

I bought and still heavily use the most recent MBP model. I don't think I'll be upgrading for a long time. Retina + Force Touch + pretty good specs is more than enough for me.

Re: MacBook Pro

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Post by jjawssd »

ynniv wrote: post #143

Apple 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.

I'm looking at Dell Precision 7510 series for my next update away from Macbook Pro 15 (2015)
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