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Apple’s new MacBook Pro kills off most of the ports you probably need

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Re: Apple’s new MacBook Pro kills off most of the ports you probably need

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Post by ufmace »

Looks like apple is indeed going all-in on USB-C. What's interesting is:

> People won’t even be able to physically connect their iPhones to Apple’s flagship laptops without a $25 new cord.

I wonder if this means that Apple's going to switch the iPhone and iPad over to USB-C? It'd be a pain for everybody invested in Lightning ports, but Android phones seem to be slowly converging on it. It'd be pretty cool if USB-C became a real standard port for everything. And they have done it before, when they switched to Lightning in the first place.

Re: Apple’s new MacBook Pro kills off most of the ports you probably need

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Post by revelation »

diegorbaquero wrote: post #13

Really disappointed, seems like they are forcing 2020 connectors in 2016

USB-C isn't some new fancy connector technology that will fully mature in 2020, it's just USB3 + power + pass-through for a bunch of other connectors.

It's not a new connector, it's a connector transformer rather. Only that doesn't actually work in practice, you can't connect four HDMIUSB-C adapter to the four USB-C ports of the MBP and expect them all to work. Similarly, I can't imagine you can connect four power supplies simultaneously and have it charge through all of them. Add a bunch of other similar non-obvious restrictions.

Re: Apple’s new MacBook Pro kills off most of the ports you probably need

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Post by wasd »

omribahumi wrote: post #21
eibrahim wrote: post #3

So disappointed. I had my wallet ready to order but this is no different than my current MBP. A half baked touch screen!!! Not worth the $3500 I was going to drop on a new MBP. I can't imagine going back to windows because I enjoy the terminal and vim but seriously considering it specially that now I can run bash on windows

Anyone tried the Windows 10 Linux Subsystem?

I do. Support is definitely there for me but I mostly do Ruby/javascript. YMMV.

Re: Apple’s new MacBook Pro kills off most of the ports you probably need

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Post by curioussavage »

kabdib wrote: post #24

It's pretty bad. We use YubiKeys a lot, and there are no ports for them. So sad. Also: Magsafe is great (it's saved my bacon a few times). Gone. ESC key, gone. Don't know about the keyboard yet, but everything I've read doesn't point to it being decent. Probably not buying this generation of MacBooks. Might just bite the bullet and finally go to Linux on some decent hardware. So, what's a decent laptop for running Li…

Dell xps laptops look sweet. That's what I want next.

Re: Apple’s new MacBook Pro kills off most of the ports you probably need

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Post by anuragsoni »

kabdib wrote: post #24

It's pretty bad. We use YubiKeys a lot, and there are no ports for them. So sad. Also: Magsafe is great (it's saved my bacon a few times). Gone. ESC key, gone. Don't know about the keyboard yet, but everything I've read doesn't point to it being decent. Probably not buying this generation of MacBooks. Might just bite the bullet and finally go to Linux on some decent hardware. So, what's a decent laptop for running Li…

I'll add my reply from another thread(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12807826):

I have been using the Dell Developer Edition (Precision 5510) since April. There were a few hiccups because of some driver issues related to their USB-C dock (Correct me if i'm wrong, but I guess this problem was not limited to just their linux laptop?) Ever since upgrading to Ubuntu 16.04 things have been pretty smooth. I believe any distro with a 4.4 series kernel or higher will behave pretty well. Before this I had a Thinkpad T series (The best keyboard experience on a laptop that I have come across), and I never had any problem with running any distribution of Linux. In Summary: I think you cannot go wrong with either a Thinkpad or the Dell Developer edition. They are well made machines with good support for linux.

Re: Apple’s new MacBook Pro kills off most of the ports you probably need

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Post by bluejekyll »

kabdib wrote: post #24

It's pretty bad. We use YubiKeys a lot, and there are no ports for them. So sad. Also: Magsafe is great (it's saved my bacon a few times). Gone. ESC key, gone. Don't know about the keyboard yet, but everything I've read doesn't point to it being decent. Probably not buying this generation of MacBooks. Might just bite the bullet and finally go to Linux on some decent hardware. So, what's a decent laptop for running Li…

Oh crap! I didn't even think of my yubikeys! Thank you for posting this.

Edit: a link for ubikey usbc adapter. There's hopefully something cheaper. https://www.yubico.com/product/yubikey-4-nano-usbc-bundle/

Re: Apple’s new MacBook Pro kills off most of the ports you probably need

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Post by usaphp »

kabdib wrote: post #24

It's pretty bad. We use YubiKeys a lot, and there are no ports for them. So sad. Also: Magsafe is great (it's saved my bacon a few times). Gone. ESC key, gone. Don't know about the keyboard yet, but everything I've read doesn't point to it being decent. Probably not buying this generation of MacBooks. Might just bite the bullet and finally go to Linux on some decent hardware. So, what's a decent laptop for running Li…

Why is everyone keep saying that Esc key is gone, OS X allows you to customize that new touch bar, you can make the Esc button to always show on the same spot you had it before...

Re: Apple’s new MacBook Pro kills off most of the ports you probably need

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Post by jimmijazz »

Yodoshi wrote: post #16

Even worse is that there is no real option if you're developing for IOS. Imac is a no go due to not wanting desktop and other macbooks don't seem the right type for heavy multitasking, compiling etc. It's MBP or bust.

This is the most interesting point I've seen raised today. How can you lock developers into your OS with Xcode and then not give them a viable, portable option. If they could just beef up the '12 MBP I'd be soo happy.

Re: Apple’s new MacBook Pro kills off most of the ports you probably need

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Post by rayiner »

anuragsoni wrote: post #36
kabdib wrote: post #24

It's pretty bad. We use YubiKeys a lot, and there are no ports for them. So sad. Also: Magsafe is great (it's saved my bacon a few times). Gone. ESC key, gone. Don't know about the keyboard yet, but everything I've read doesn't point to it being decent. Probably not buying this generation of MacBooks. Might just bite the bullet and finally go to Linux on some decent hardware. So, what's a decent laptop for running Li…

I'll add my reply from another thread( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12807826 ): I have been using the Dell Developer Edition (Precision 5510) since April. There were a few hiccups because of some driver issues related to their USB-C dock (Correct me if i'm wrong, but I guess this problem was not limited to just their linux laptop?) Ever since upgrading to Ubuntu 16.04 things have been pretty smooth. I believe…

Battery life?
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