I'm okay with the ports but 16 GB max RAM is a f-in joke. My mom's computer has 16 GB of RAM
What exactly are you and you're mum doing that necessitates more than 16GB?
Apple’s new MacBook Pro kills off most of the ports you probably need
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#52So 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
That's more than the down-payment on my pickup truck.
That's more than we paid for the last two blade servers at work, that have a combined 96 cores and, I think, 288 GB of RAM.
That's just a little less than the seven laptops I have owned in my entire life.
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#53All around, the laptop is OK but not great. That experience really contrasts the very positive one I had five years ago. What went wrong? How can basic manufacturing quality tank this hard in such a small timeframe? Did they fire the wrong guy?
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#54It'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 really don't understand why everybody seems to think the Escape key is so important. I almost never hit mine, and since the Touch Bar has a virtual escape key, I don't really see the problem. The best I can figure is everybody complaining is a Vim user, but if you're a Vim user I don't know why you haven't already replaced the cumbersome Escape key with something easier, like binding `jk`, or binding Caps Lock to C…
Re: Apple’s new MacBook Pro kills off most of the ports you probably need
#55It'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
#56It'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…
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
Re: Apple’s new MacBook Pro kills off most of the ports you probably need
#58It'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…
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#59Throughly enjoyed the Apple ecosystem for the past 13 years. Multiple AirPorts, Watch, iPhones, iPads, Macs. Never have I ever been so extremely disappointed with Apple. Actually, I'm not sure that I've ever before been rather disappointed Apple. I wasn't a fan of the Sierra release because I don't like using Siri but ultimately it didn't ruin then OS, it was just a new feature that I wouldn't use. But now? The prici…
Re: Apple’s new MacBook Pro kills off most of the ports you probably need
#60It'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…
Sadly enough, I think the lack of really great options is what may have pushed some engineers to macs in the first place. :)
Admittedly, last I looked was several years ago -- I'm interested to know too! Keep hearing good things about the XPS series, but last I had one it ran hot enough that I couldn't comfortably keep it on my lap.