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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?

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Post by billconan »

kogir wrote: post #11
billconan wrote: post #4

External gpu support for Nvidia https://developer.apple.com/development-kit/external-graphic... Boot camp dual boot option for Linux Official command line package manager

You can already dual boot Linux. Just hold alt when turning on the computer and select the installation media, set it up to boot with EFI, and use the same alt trick to select your Linux partition on boot.

I have done this myself too. but it's kinda hacky.

For example, linux might not recognize 3 finger gestures. I also don't recall how it handled the apple/command keys. There might need to be some better driver support.

Re: Ask HN: What do you want to see most in the next iteration of the Macbook Pro?

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Post by grzm »

thijsvandien wrote: post #50

For the MBP as we know it, I'd love to get a 15" model without the Touch Bar / Touch ID. To me, it's a deal breaker. The 13" looks nice, but it's just too small. I'm not sure what to make of the gigant trackpad – not putting it under your palms is just so much more sensible than palm detection. (For the same reason I'm not fond of edge to edge phone displays.) Sad to see MagSafe go, as well as many other connectors.…

What are the last two laptops you've owned? When are you planning to replace your current laptop? What will the next one be if the next MBP includes Touch Bar and Touch ID? If not a Mac, what OS will you run?

Re: Ask HN: What do you want to see most in the next iteration of the Macbook Pro?

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Post by kylec »

johns wrote: post #7
clra wrote: post #5

This 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…

Agreed. But please keep the Touch ID button.

I would prefer Face ID, actually

Re: Ask HN: What do you want to see most in the next iteration of the Macbook Pro?

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Post by phoobahr »

Differentiation.

I don’t like the touch bar but I like that they tried. Now please take it a little further and clean up the line-up.

I want all the weird future bits to go in a ‘modern’ ultra portable. Take the 12” macbook and put an A11 or theoretical A12 in it. If there’s a non keyboard touch input in the macbook line try it there.

Take the macbook pro and stuff it full of ports. And shit on intel until they produce an appropriate chipset that’ll support more than 16gb. Or at least threaten them with the above mentioned ultraportable until they get off the pot and get it done. Ports, ram, a small concession on form factor & weight so a 13-14ish inch model can be useful for 8 hours on a train. Oh and more ports.

Everything else tht’s a little more mass market, a little more beige, that can go in the macbook air line. Set a reasonable price point and sell little-better-than-entry-level spec’ed machine with modern components to every Tom, Dick & Harry who gives them money for the current air but really shouldn’t.

Have courage Apple, take a little risk, leverage some branding to make a statement and let the pro moniker mean something.

Re: Ask HN: What do you want to see most in the next iteration of the Macbook Pro?

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Post by mamcx »

The one thing I want from any mac is ALL SSD. And >512GB.

This is the thing that make me consider using a hackintosh. I totally will not buy a mac without a decently sized SSD disk, hopefully starting at 1TB. I can live with the rest....

and for the keyboard? I have never like the modern mac keyboard (never used the old ALPS) so I use a external one.

However, how about put a mechanical at least for the iMac/MacPro?

Re: Ask HN: What do you want to see most in the next iteration of the Macbook Pro?

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Post by thijsvandien »

grzm wrote: post #52
thijsvandien wrote: post #50

For the MBP as we know it, I'd love to get a 15" model without the Touch Bar / Touch ID. To me, it's a deal breaker. The 13" looks nice, but it's just too small. I'm not sure what to make of the gigant trackpad – not putting it under your palms is just so much more sensible than palm detection. (For the same reason I'm not fond of edge to edge phone displays.) Sad to see MagSafe go, as well as many other connectors.…

What are the last two laptops you've owned? When are you planning to replace your current laptop? What will the next one be if the next MBP includes Touch Bar and Touch ID? If not a Mac, what OS will you run?

This MBPr 2012 made me move back from MBA + iMac to just a laptop. Before that, MBP. Right now I'm trying to find a lightly used MBP 2015 with R9 and ~2 years of AppleCare left, to buy myself some time to either migrate away from Apple or be positively surprised with a new product that convinces me to stick with them longer. Been a Mac user for well over 10 years now, so the final decision won't be taken lightly.

I keep a list of candidates to try, including the Dell Precision 5520 and some Lenovo models. Still I'm bitter about it. As far as I can tell, nothing else I can buy at this moment will match the build quality I've come accustomed to. The user experience of (now) macOS is steadily declining too, but not to the point yet that Linux looks like an improvement. I'd fancy BSD more, but that limits the hardware options even further.

Re: Ask HN: What do you want to see most in the next iteration of the Macbook Pro?

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Post by tenzero »

Discard the touchbar. Keep the fingerprint reader.

Give a better quality keyboard. Give back a proper escape key.

Quad Core cpu in the 13” model and ideally an actual GPU.

10-20% thicker body for more battery. It’s already thinner than actually adds value.

Sim slot/radios for LTE data like the iPad.

A mechanical switch/shutter to physically block & electrically disconnect the camera.

Re: Ask HN: What do you want to see most in the next iteration of the Macbook Pro?

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Post by thijsvandien »

johns wrote: post #7
clra wrote: post #5

This 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…

Agreed. But please keep the Touch ID button.

Not looking off as much as it does and not on the power button, though.
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