Headphone jack. Escape key. MagSafe charger.
Ask HN: What do you want to see most in the next iteration of the Macbook Pro?
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Re: Ask HN: What do you want to see most in the next iteration of the Macbook Pro?
#22Quadcore with HT 13inch. With Intel 8th generation CPUs, i5 and i7 will become quadcore. Now the question is will Apple use i3 or older generation CPUs for the 13inch or give the 13inch quadcore+ht like the current 15inch.
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Touch Bar isn't that bad in and of itself. What is annoying is that there is no way to get rid of the Siri icon. Unless they're giving them away for free, you shouldn't have to constantly see advertising for their shitty search engine.
You can remove Siri in preferences.
Oh nice, I'm assuming that's new, everything I read when it first came out said there was no way to get rid of it.
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#24These are all obvious fixes.
1. 32+gb ram, don't be stupid
2. 2+ usb-c, plus at least one legacy usb-a
3. hdmi
4. either drop touch bar or make it easily support normal top row buttons
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#2517 inch >4k retina display (>300PPI) with GTX1070m or better.
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#26I know you say "apart from the obvious 32 GB ram", but I'm gonna say it anyway. On the off chance anyone from Apple reads this, I want to signal boost that as much as I can. It gets in the way daily, and as more places adopt docker (and Mac not having a native docker layer worth using), the RAM limit is stifling.
A keyboard nobody complains about again.
Better battery life.
A return to Magsafe.
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#27Touch screen? I don't have any complaints.
actually, easier way of switching between screen resolutions. I find night time with my contact on, the highest resolution on my 15" is very hard to navigate and read; I'd like instant resolution switch-ups or downs
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#28After some research for my next anticipated laptop, a lot of people in the Mac community seem to want a 14" MacBook Pro that combines the portability of the 13" with the power of the 15". Personally, I would like Apple to match the amount of ports in the lower spec MacBooks as there are in higher spec ones; seriously, why do the non-touch bar 13" MacBooks have only two thunderbolt ports while the touch bar model has four!?
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#29This will sound trite, but I'm completely serious. The number one thing I want to see in the next MacBook Pro is the abandonment of the Touch Bar. Make it a row on the keyboard again. I didn't think that the Touch Bar was useful when I first saw it, and now, six months later, I haven't found one more reason that I'd want ever want it. I don't want haptic feedback or any other kind of improvement. Apple made a mistake…
I can see the value in having programmable buttons...but why they put that bar there instead of little OLED screens on all the Function keys amazes me.
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#30The 2013 MBP was perfect, regret selling it when thinking the new 16 model would be reasonably priced.