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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 ajeet_dhaliwal »

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…

I bought the version without Touch Bar because I hated it so much (after trying one at the store) and desperately need a new Macbook Pro to replace my old 8 year old one. So I agree even though I won't be buying another computer for a few years. I do like the new keyboard though. Shame about it having worse specs but it's more than enough for my dev needs.

Apple's continuing with the bizarre / bad design decisions, the latest iPhone X has an ugly notch in the screen, unfortunately there's no way to avoid that if you want the latest iPhone.

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

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Post by ajeet_dhaliwal »

_of wrote: post #17
johns wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed. But please keep the Touch ID button.

Remove the touch bar and reintroduce the magnetic power connector - it was such a great thing. And then please make the arrow up and down keys larger - I find myself hitting the wrong key several times every day.

Yes - this is my only gripe with the keyboard, the up and down keys are terrible. It's a shame when things are fine and just get made worse in the new version.

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

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Post by mstaoru »

I have top of the line late-2013 model, i7 with 1T SSD and 16G RAM. There was no reason to upgrade whatsoever so far, and current MacBooks are not appealing to me at all. Mostly I would like them to return good things back and introduce new things they implemented in other products.

Absolutely NO WAY to the Touch Bar. As long as it's there, I'm not even looking further. It can have 512GB RAM or all-gold unibody or whatever, Touch Bar = no buy.

One thing I use extensively is the Toslink digital out, I love music and being able to connect portable DACs over Toslink is (was) beautiful.

I'm sure the sound system could be improved. It's nice to watch a movie in bed sometimes, but the sound is bad on 2013 model and somehow even worse (very synthetic?) on 2017.

It would be nice to have a screen that doesn't have all your keyboard imprinted all over it in a year or so.

A way to disable Apple logo glowing.

32G RAM goes without saying. I'm a developer and even without 1-2 VMs I sometimes run out of memory.

To conclude, we need faster horses, Mr Ford.

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

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Post by lj3 »

With all of this kvetching over the keyboard, what I'd like to see in the next version of the Macbook Pro is no keyboard at all. Go the way of Microsoft Surface Pro and make it a tablet with a full OS, great screen, battery life and let everybody use the keyboard of their choice.

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

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Post by kevinherron »

- A slight increase in resolution so that the defaults are once again pixel-doubled.

- FaceID

- 32gb ram, I guess. I'd buy it if available, but if not... meh.

I like the new keyboard. I don't care one way or the other about the touch bar.

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

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Post by dagw »

Decent Nvidia GPU (GTX 10xx or equiv.). I want/need to be able to write CUDA code on my main work machine. I'm also not buying a machine with less than 64 GB of RAM as my main work machine any more.

Without that I cannot justify the price of a MBP, since I'll have to buy a second machine to complement it.

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

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Post by apple4ever »

Bud wrote: post #36
DanHulton wrote: post #26

I 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.

It is not, and was never Apple's choice to limit the MB Pro to 16 GB. Educate yourself: https://macdaddy.io/macbook-pro-limited-16gb-ram/

Yes it was. They could have chosen a different CPU, with less battery life. That should have been an option.

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

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Post by apple4ever »

jacknews wrote: post #46
quantumhobbit wrote: post #21

Headphone jack. Escape key. MagSafe charger.

The proprietary chargers were expensive and disintegrate within a couple of years. Also scavenging the office for someone with the right version, and wattage of charger when you left yours at home. No thanks. USB-C should become a standard, so they'll be ubiquitous, cheap, etc. If you need a safe cable you can get magnetically-connected USB-C cables.

No they didn't. I have MagSafe chargers nearly a decade old, and they work fine still.

Magnetically connected USB-C cables are a poor solution. A dedicated port for power is still the best option.

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