MacBook Pro 13" Touch Bar Teardown • Hacker News Board

Re: MacBook Pro 13" Touch Bar Teardown

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Post by SyneRyder » Thu, Nov 17, 2016, 3:55 AM UTC

seanp2k2 wrote: post #86

SyneRyder wrote: post #72

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I bought a Mid-2012 in late 2015 partly for this reason. If the hard drive dies, I should be able to swap it out myself. Apple's maximum storage was 1TB when I bought it, but I'll be able to upgrade this machine to a 2TB SSD if I want. I still miss the 2006 MacBook design though. That made replacing the hard drive, RAM & battery extremely easy to do yourself.

Or just get a Thinkpad or Inspiron where the hdd, DVD drive, wifi card, battery, and ram all just snap into place. Apple has never been good at that, but in return you get a bit more solid (physically) piece of kit.

That's probably the direction I'm going in future. At the moment I need macOS because it's a platform I develop for, but if the Mac market tanks enough that I can drop my Mac lineup, then I'll move back to a Windows / Linux laptop. A large part of my Mac use is in Windows VMs anyway.

Re: MacBook Pro 13" Touch Bar Teardown

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Post by lanna » Thu, Nov 17, 2016, 4:50 PM UTC

marvindanig wrote: post #49

kalleboo wrote: post #28

I love the fake speaker grilles that don't even go all the way through the machine... Form follows function, minimal design indeed.

I hate to admit this but I'll bite. Apple is being steered by fifty shades of Steve Ballmer now. Colored and extra-large iPhones, death to magSafe, stupid mini-iPads that have no reason to exist other than being a marketing offer. Decisions for the sake of making decisions.

i sold my 9.7" ipad to get a 7.9" one

Re: MacBook Pro 13" Touch Bar Teardown

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Post by m3rc » Fri, Nov 18, 2016, 9:49 PM UTC

trymas wrote: post #74

marvindanig wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hate to admit this but I'll bite. Apple is being steered by fifty shades of Steve Ballmer now. Colored and extra-large iPhones, death to magSafe, stupid mini-iPads that have no reason to exist other than being a marketing offer. Decisions for the sake of making decisions.

> Colored and extra-large iPhones, being a marketing offer. I do not understand how they are stepping on the same thing like 20+ years ago - they have too many versions for the same type of device. They have different names for it: Pro, SE, S, Plus, Air, mini. And it's inconsistent, e.g. ipad Air is not the smallest ipad, where does SE stack in current Apple naming? They add colors to mix all this (not to mention gaz…

The not moving iPhone to USB-C is the real killer. It makes NO sense from a technical standpoint, and makes every self-indulgent speech about moving technology forward just drip with marketing bullshit.

It even makes other decisions, like USB-C on the new macbook line look stupid because now you can't defend that by saying they're just trying to move everything to one standard because Apple themselves are fragmenting the standards.