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The best laptop ever made

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Re: The best laptop ever made

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Post by cgore »

That's what I'm using at work, and what I've got for my personal laptop too. Are the new ones that much worse? They don't seem like there at all worse to me, I've been thinking about getting one.

Re: The best laptop ever made

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Post by tolger »

cgore wrote: post #2

That's what I'm using at work, and what I've got for my personal laptop too. Are the new ones that much worse? They don't seem like there at all worse to me, I've been thinking about getting one.

I think the lack of standard ports, mag-safe, hdmi and sd card slots are big regressions in functionality.

Not to mention that the touchbar is not very useful, and as an emacs user, a big pain to not have a physical key.

Re: The best laptop ever made

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Post by zchrykng »

cgore wrote: post #2

That's what I'm using at work, and what I've got for my personal laptop too. Are the new ones that much worse? They don't seem like there at all worse to me, I've been thinking about getting one.

In my opinion you would need to try one to know. My wife has one and the keyboard is such a far step back I can't even describe it properly. If nothing changes, I will be sticking to my 2014 or switching to Lenovo.

Re: The best laptop ever made

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Post by BlackjackCF »

tolger wrote: post #3
cgore wrote: post #2

That's what I'm using at work, and what I've got for my personal laptop too. Are the new ones that much worse? They don't seem like there at all worse to me, I've been thinking about getting one.

I think the lack of standard ports, mag-safe, hdmi and sd card slots are big regressions in functionality. Not to mention that the touchbar is not very useful, and as an emacs user, a big pain to not have a physical key.

Vim user. Mapped to capslock. But yeah, the touchbar drives me insane because I accidentally just press buttons on it all the time.

Re: The best laptop ever made

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Post by hactually »

I'm using the 2017/latest Macbook Pro for work and have the late 2015 at home and I totally agree with this post.

The trackpad isn't improved, the touchbar is crappy and it runs for less time and runs hotter.

If any HW startup wants to do a Macbook Pro 2015 redux (maybe using an ARM core) i'd throw money at them.

Re: The best laptop ever made

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Post by chakalakasp »

As someone who just inherited one of these at work and who had never played with a MacBook before, my first thought when seeing the headline was “If it’s not a MacBook Pro 2015, I don’t know what it is”.

This thing is pure functional art. The first time my screen just magically unlocked itself because I happened to be wearing a particular watch was the moment nerd-like turned into nerd-love.

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