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Re: MacBook Pro

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Post by FireBeyond »

J0-nas wrote: post #504
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…

Couldn't have said it any better. Though I read somewhere that there apparently is a good reason to go for Skylake now and do a bump next summer. Here is to hoping the last gen will experience a price drop by non-apple retailers. Keeping the same price is just shameless. I feel like they could decrease the price without any problem but also know that many people prefer the old version and want to milk their money.

This is a company that still charges you $1200 to upgrade your Mac Pro from 16 to 64GB of RAM...

Re: MacBook Pro

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Post by SCdF »

poorman wrote: post #542

16GB of RAM? Are they serious? I've got 64GB in my MacPro and I can tell you these electron apps (like Slack) are consistently using 20GB of RAM. https://twitter.com/NickPoorman/status/791715570718769153 Not to mention I use my esc key all day to switch Vim modes in Atom. Disappointed.

Uhm, surely that's a bug? I can't fathom what Slack would be doing with 20GB of RAM…

Re: MacBook Pro

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Post by headmelted »

Spectacular.

What people don't understand is that the reason Apple stays so far ahead of the rest of the industry year after year is their ability to integrate software and hardware, which as Jony Ive says in the video, is unique to Apple.

Bravo.

Re: MacBook Pro

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Post by joenathan »

andrepd wrote: post #633
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…

>A new MacBook with all day battery life and even thinner design. And I want a 700hp car that does 80mpg. Pick one.

You can actually have both, Tesla Model S P100D http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/Find.do?action=sbs&id=38172

Re: MacBook Pro

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Post by dmitriid »

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…

Professionals use desktops.

You cannot seriously expect anyone edit a 4k video on a laptop with 16 GB or RAM, no matter how hard Apple is pushing their ridiculous onstage demos.

You cannot seriously expect serious developers run multiple VMs, for example, on 16 GB RAM on a laptop.

The list goes on and on.

Re: MacBook Pro

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Post by ryanSrich »

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.

Apple's got me locked in until their OS runs on something else.

Re: MacBook Pro

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Post by partiallypro »

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.

What do you call a ribbon display that no one has ever done before?

Oh you mean like Windows VISTA's (yes, that one) "SideShow?"

https://www.google.com/search?q=windows+vista+sideshow&biw=2...

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=windows+vista+sideshow&...

They have had big partners do this, like Logitech, on keyboards like the G15 and G19. It was also on laptops positions above the keyboard.

Re: MacBook Pro

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Post by ledgerdev »

vegasje wrote: post #346

Seems like my next laptop won't be a MacBook Pro. Can anyone recommend a good Linux laptop that will offer up to 32gb of RAM and have decent battery life?

Here would be my 2 top options and I'd probably get the dell because it has a linux option which I'd like to support, as well as a better screen.

1. Dell precision 15 +IGZO screen, preloaded with ubuntu

2. Thinkpad T460p

Re: MacBook Pro

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Post by nyxtom »

hartator wrote: post #327

I think it's also interesting to note that for the first time Apple is lagging behind in term of CPU generation when introducing redesigned MacBooks. The new MacBook Pro are said to be using 6th generation of Intel CPU (Skylake) when you have already on the market the 7th generation on Intel CPU (Kaby Lake). You are even competitive laptops using them already: http://www.gsmarena.com/new_dell_xps_13_laptop_comes_in_r…

Bash for Windows needs to hurry up and fix/implement the networking stack already so I can actually make a decent switch. That being said, once they fix all that crap then it will be an easy switch.
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