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Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the Mac

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Re: Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the Mac

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Post by Ensorceled »

colomon wrote: post #369
m12k wrote: post #316

It's actually kind of amazing to see the discourse shift against Apple and the new MacBook Pro to the point where it seems almost self-reinforcing. Like someone turned the reality distortion field on backwards or something. I've been wanting a mac laptop the size and weight of a MacBook Air 13" but with a retina display for years, and the ability to connect usb, power and external display with just a single cable is…

It feels to me like you are putting this backwards. I've been using the MBP as my main software development platform for eight years now. My current machine is a maxed out mid 2014 15" MBPr. What does the new MBP offer me over that? 1) Very slightly faster. (2.9 vs 2.8) 2) 2 TB SSD instead of 1 TB. 3) Ability to charge and drive monitor over single cable. But what is the price? 1) $4,199 -- nearly $1000 more expensiv…

I plan to map caps lock to ESC (currently it's mapped to the command key)

Re: Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the Mac

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Post by eumoria »

my123 wrote: post #338
mcintyre1994 wrote: post #259

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This is inevitable when everyone else is on a 6 weekly release schedule (not sure about Edge, but Chrome/Firefox are) and they insist on aligning browser releases with OS releases for marketing reasons. It does look like they've got a great release coming some time, but it's clear they care more about marketing it eventually than pushing the web forward by putting the latest and greatest in user's hands.

Edge is under a 4-8 months release schedule.

the dozen or so people who use it will be disappointed

Re: Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the Mac

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Post by kaosjester »

jest3r1 wrote: post #322
m12k wrote: post #316

It's actually kind of amazing to see the discourse shift against Apple and the new MacBook Pro to the point where it seems almost self-reinforcing. Like someone turned the reality distortion field on backwards or something. I've been wanting a mac laptop the size and weight of a MacBook Air 13" but with a retina display for years, and the ability to connect usb, power and external display with just a single cable is…

It's easy to explain. Price. I've been wanting a mac laptop the size and weight of a MacBook Air 13" ... how about the size and weight and price?? They removed a bunch of ports, reduced battery life and upped the price. USD $1799 to $2799 (with touch bar). Pricing is out of reach. Especially if you live outside of the USA where exchange rate kills it completely. I love the 13" Macbook Air, just wish they would add re…

I completely agree. The battery life difference -- even those few hours -- are enough to drive me away. Combine that with an absurd price point jump, and I'm out. The macbook air 13" was the perfect developer laptop, and now I guess I'll buy a Lenovo Carbon X1 when this laptop dies. For my work, I don't need a big processor or high-speed RAM or high-resolution display. I need a light, usable laptop that will run all day surfing the internet in an airport. And the new MBP doesn't fit that use case.

And while the new 13" MBP is technically less volume, it's thick the whole length of it. There was something oddly nice about the MBA's shape when holding it in one hand.

Re: Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the Mac

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Post by lethargic_meat »

toyg wrote: post #242
JoachimS wrote: post #222

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No. Apple decided between adding more, but more power hungry memories and battery life. 16 GByte memory was deemed ok for most of all users and battery life became more important. Design within the limitations and handling market requirements in short.

No, they chose between performance and thinness. Battery life would have been fine with a battery the size they used before.

Please, read this before commenting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_DDR

XPS 15 uses DDR4, is even thinner if possible than the MBP and has less than 4 hours of battery.

IMO MBP should be performance focused, being battery life a secondary concern, while keeping MBA as an ultrabook.

Re: Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the Mac

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Post by vinw »

dagw wrote: post #295
somecallitblues wrote: post #290

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I remember that ctrl+c and ctrl+v didn't work across applications. I think Terminal was one of them. Couldn't copy and paste into it. Out of the box anyway.

Yea that is a 'feature'. The problem is that ctrl+c already means something else in the terminal. Many (most?) terminals map copy and paste to ctrl+shift+c and ctrl+shift+v to get around this. Of course most *nix user use the middle mouse button for copy-paste in the terminal as standard and never really notice this.

shift-insert pastes anywhere, including into the terminal.

Re: Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the Mac

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Post by hiram112 »

yoz-y wrote: post #366
my123 wrote: post #334

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The older Windows 10 releases still get monthly security updates... You can force an upgrade via the Media Creation Tool.

What is so special about the anniversary update that I would have to do that though? Colleagues with the exact same hardware did get the update, is it some sinister A/B testing?

It comes with the Linux subsystem.

Honestly, I haven't had much luck with it as it is still lacking serious features. It has improved in beta versions, but I think it is going to be a while 'till it is stable enough to use instead of a Linux VM, at least on standard builds of Windows 10.

Re: Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the Mac

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Post by Ar-Curunir »

SkyMarshal wrote: post #225
Ar-Curunir wrote: post #220

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Take a look at reddit.com/r/unixporn

C'mon now, don't be lazy, add that http:// to the front to create a link: http://reddit.com/r/unixporn/

I didn't know that was a feature. Oops!

Re: Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the Mac

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Post by endemic »

izacus wrote: post #293
Fnoord wrote: post #261

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Been considering getting one. They come with option of Ubuntu. But I read too many complaints on things like coil whine, HiDPI, and low uptime on battery.

Hmm? Doesn't the Kaby Lake have like 20+ hours of battery life with the fullHD screen? 14 or so with the hiDPI?

In Windows. Driver issues in Linux drop battery life to more "normal" levels, IIRC.

Re: Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the Mac

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Post by kaosjester »

yakult wrote: post #79
bane wrote: post #61

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Turns out these are kind of available today https://aws.amazon.com/workspaces/ https://liquidsky.tv/ http://www.nvidia.com/object/cloud-gaming.html etc.

It's all niche ptoducts with no reach, though. I'd like something mass-consumer-oriented and ubiquous, so I can actually get (roughly) the same experience everywhere from bus stops and coffee shops to my office. The current situation is like pre-ipod mp3 players: the tech is all there, the ux and marketing effort is not.

You want the Nintendo Switch of computing?

Re: Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the Mac

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Post by philsnow »

crottypeter wrote: post #327
dagw wrote: post #295

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Yea that is a 'feature'. The problem is that ctrl+c already means something else in the terminal. Many (most?) terminals map copy and paste to ctrl+shift+c and ctrl+shift+v to get around this. Of course most *nix user use the middle mouse button for copy-paste in the terminal as standard and never really notice this.

Yes. I miss the middle-click-paste in macOS. Also the maximise behaviour in macOS is really annoying.

> Also the maximise behaviour in macOS is really annoying.

I use hammerspoon to paper over a lot of the annoying parts of macos (after using linux on desktop+laptop for over a decade). Here's a minimal excerpt from my config to get a more-reasonable "maximize" behavior: https://gist.github.com/philsnow/c19506dec17597ab9e4bf02f8d2...

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