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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 pcwalton »

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 love it, personally. I installed it and VcXsrv and put a link to 'bash.exe -c "DISPLAY=:0 xfce4-terminal"' on the panel. gVim on Linux works great for code editing.

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

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Post by peller »

flukus wrote: post #19
elchief wrote: post #14

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?

I don't know if this is a thing on OSX, but tmpfs can be pretty sweet for speeding up various storage-IO-heavy tasks. (In essence, it's a filesystem partition mounted in RAM)

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

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Post by Inconel »

I wish they would have kept MagSafe in addition to adding charging via USB-C. I doubt MagSafe adds much cost to the BOM or that it would have presented much of an engineering challenge to keep both. It seems like that solution would have pleased most people while also keeping a unique selling point for MacBooks.

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

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Post by supergreg »

usaphp wrote: post #38
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...

Touch typing. Unless they added some haptic feedback it's not gonna be enough.

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

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Post by rayiner »

matthewaveryusa wrote: post #68
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…

Going linux on decent hardware isn't biting the bullet one bit. Thinkpads are seriously nice and the days where you couldn't get your audio and wifi working on linux have been over for ~5 years. Give it a shot, and you just might like it.

> Thinkpads are seriously nice

I use a T450s for work. My wife took one look at the FHD screen (she uses a 15" rMBP) and said "can't the firm spring for something less shitty?" The backlight bleeds, the keyboard is warped near the touchpad, and the touchpad isn't that precise. I bought my own for personal use and then sold it because it was so underwhelming.

The one redeeming quality of the machine is sick battery life with the extended battery. But on the T460 series, you can either have the high-resolution screen or the giant battery, but not both. Doh!

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

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Post by anuragsoni »

plandis wrote: post #85
matthewaveryusa wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Going linux on decent hardware isn't biting the bullet one bit. Thinkpads are seriously nice and the days where you couldn't get your audio and wifi working on linux have been over for ~5 years. Give it a shot, and you just might like it.

How's the build quality though? I was under the impression that Thinkpads are mostly plastic. Honestly, one of the best perks of a MacBook is the machined aluminum body. Does Lenovo have anything like that?

Thinkpads are built pretty well. I can't comment on the latest series but i've had good experience with the T series of thinkpads. I still have my T430s around. The hinges and latches are solid, the keyboard is still a joy to type on.

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

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Post by erwinkle »

bane wrote: post #48
erwinkle wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have been developing using the bash shell on Windows. It's got a couple quirks (like a couple second startup time on first startup, or docker issues) but it has performed exceptionally otherwise. I've primarily been doing nodejs development and installing random unix packages I need.

Out of curiosity have you thought about just running a linux server in a VM and sshing into it from the shell? It seems bizarre I know, but you get a "real" linux then, while still keeping a major OS for software compatibility with user apps.

I've had 0 need to do that as a web developer, and I much prefer developing on windows 10 than Ubuntu. The bash shell does everything I need it to. The small things that don't work in the bash shell, I can just run the windows version. It basically just boils down to the tools and environment you need, but I have everything I want and need on windows 10 now.

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

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Post by chimeracoder »

quantumhobbit wrote: post #26

So who is making good laptops that run Linux well these days?

Dell. The Dell XPS 13 is the best line of laptops I've owned. They come with Linux preinstalled, and all the drivers that they write to support the hardware are pushed upstream to the kernel, so you can run whatever distro you want.
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