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Ask HN: Would You Upgrade to the New MacBook Pro?

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Re: Ask HN: Would You Upgrade to the New MacBook Pro?

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Post by sakisv »

My home laptop is the last white Macbook (mid 2009 I think?) and I was really looking forward to this announcement, but unfortunately it was a huge disappointment. Higher price, made even higher because of the adapters you will need to buy to keep your stuff working with USB-C, lack of normal USB, lack of HDMI, lack of magsafe, lack of F-row plus the new Macbook keyboard which personally I hate.

So the way I see it, there are two options:

Go to an Apple store and get the previous model with all specs maxed out or find another decent alternative. Ideas?

Re: Ask HN: Would You Upgrade to the New MacBook Pro?

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Post by lj3 »

emeraldd wrote: post #50
msbarnett wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Besides, no one who uses Vim is gonna be happy to see the physical Esc key go away. What kind of self-respecting Vim user physically reaches up to the top corner of their keyboard constantly? Even if you have a physical esc key up there you should be hitting ctrl-[ or remaping it onto the capslock. It's wasted motion to constantly pull off home row to hit escape.

I do for one. I have capslock mapped to Ctrl. Of course, I started in EMACS and got sucked into vim and had already gotten used to the capslock as Ctrl.

Why choose? When I hold down caps lock, it acts like CTRL. When I hit it once, it acts like ESC.

Re: Ask HN: Would You Upgrade to the New MacBook Pro?

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Post by r00fus »

Yes. I am actually going to upgrade for my home machine (currently using a 2010), and possibly also for my work machine (if/when it's available).

If you have anything recent, it may not be worth it, but the TouchID is very nice - onwards to a password-as-backup-auth future.

Re: Ask HN: Would You Upgrade to the New MacBook Pro?

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Post by Szevth »

I have a 2012 15" MacBook Pro Retina. Upgrading to the new one doesn't feel like it would be much of an upgrade. My current notebook does everything I need (ST3, web, music).

I think when MacBook Pros have 4K screens, or better yet, OLED screens, I will upgrade. I'm thinking that will be 2018 or 2019.

Re: Ask HN: Would You Upgrade to the New MacBook Pro?

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Post by cwisecarver »

I'm really torn. If they had included an option for 32GB of ram I wouldn't have thought twice. If they had kept the MagSafe and the and the SD card reader I probably would have bought it. I have a late-2015 MacBook Pro fully loaded except I only have 512GB SSD. I'd like to get the new version and give my wife a hand-me-down but this isn't innovative. I don't care about the touch bar. It might be incredibly useful but I would use 32GB of ram or the SD reader or the MagSafe charger more often.

Re: Ask HN: Would You Upgrade to the New MacBook Pro?

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Post by jorgthuijls »

Nope.

I'm surprised I hear so little complaints from enterprise users. As a contractor for large companies - some of which are still on Windows 7 - the lack of standardised ports is an absolute deal breaker. USB drives, VGA / HDMI capable video conferencing etcetera means I have to buy and lug around countless accessories and adapters just so I can use my "thinner and lighter than ever" MacBook which completely defeats the purpose.

The other deal breaker is the 8G ram in the 13" model. Running various VM's just requires more - which I do to accomodate client environments that use Windows 7, for instance.

Besides that I also use the F keys extensively in my work, so the touch bar doesn't mean much for me. I don't want to keep looking down to see what's where.

My next laptop will probably be a Windows one, which actually breaks my heart. I've used Apple since the G5 iMac. I might get a base model for personal use but I'm not sure I see the point.

Re: Ask HN: Would You Upgrade to the New MacBook Pro?

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Post by sangupta »

mamcx wrote: post #71

Is weird because this was almost good. The price is too high, obviously, but even ignoring that: 1- The TouchBar seem useful. BUT, why remove the F-Keys? Consider that is not because space, is obvious exist plenty of it. 2- The touch pad is gigantic, but, Why not make instead the keyboard larger? Is already great, is the keyboard that need love. I even dream about a mechanical version, but not, Apple HATE functional…

I would not for reasons 3 and 4. Can't be carrying USB adapters always just to plug-in the pen-drive, or a printer or for that reason a wired mouse. And without HDMI I lost the ability to connect my monitor at work :(

Re: Ask HN: Would You Upgrade to the New MacBook Pro?

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Post by pritambaral »

snowwrestler wrote: post #56
timdiller wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I continue to dislike touch-screen interfaces and would love to have a hardware smartphone keyboard back. For me that has not changed since 2007.

There are actually a few out there, like the Blackberry Priv. Curious: Have you looked at them, and if so, what kept you from getting one?

I have looked for Androids with hardware keyboards. Only the Blackberry Priv. is recent enough. The Priv has other properties that make it a strict no-no, but the keyboard isn't exactly what I'd like either: it's too small.

Whatever happened to landscape slide-out keyboards...

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