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MacBook Pro with faster performance and new features for pros

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Post by melling »

madeofpalk wrote: post #101
melling wrote: post #73

“Hey Siri” is available because a T2 chip is included. We’re slowly crawling towards Voice as a User Interface on the personal computer. Hope this happens in my lifetime. I’ve been waiting several decades.

"Hey Siri"'s increasing presence in Apple's lineup is very problematic, at least with it's current implementation, especially with the wildly varying capabilities between devices. The HomePod is very greedy with Hey Siri, even for things that it can't handle. I'll be in my living room and try to "Hey Siri" something to my phone, and my HomePod in the kitchen will somehow here me, take the request, and then fail becau…

Sounds like Apple could fix by allowing a more specific name:

“Hey Mac”

“Hey HomePod”

Re: MacBook Pro with faster performance and new features for pros

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Post by thanatropism »

gwbas1c wrote: post #103
no1youknowz wrote: post #20

> The new keyboard has the same dimensions and look as its two predecessors, but the keys feel just a little bit different. They're quieter, for one thing. They have a softer, less click-y feel that is a little closer to the pre-2016 models' chiclet keys. We found the new keyboard to be a little nicer to type on, but it's not a radical difference. It's unlikely to convert the detractors, but it's a welcome iteration…

Better yet, why don't they go back and grab the 2006 17" form factor? That was the best developer laptop I had. The missing 2" on the 15" just makes the IDE too narrow.

I keep wanting to buy a 17" and then walking back from it after seeing/handling 17" laptops in physical stores.

All the bezel-shrinking R&D being done for phones has to reach laptops at some point. I'm seriously losing half an inch of luggable-but-not-lookable space on each side of the screen, plus a good inch below. (I have like the most common 13" Dell in the world; just walking around in the study room of the library I see three more.)

Re: MacBook Pro with faster performance and new features for pros

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Post by J0-nas »

pornel wrote: post #47

It's not possible to buy it without the TouchBar any more :( I really wanted to like it, and the concept could perhaps eventually be good, but the current implementation is infuriatingly bad: • I need more than one tap to change the brightness, volume or skip to the next song. • The buttons are in different locations depending on context, so it's not possible to use it by muscle memory. • TouchBar automatically goes…

I wouldn't care about the touch bar if the esc+(sleep key) were still regular hardware keys. Those are the only ones that I actually use.

But an even bigger problem for me is the price increase. The base TB version costs 200€ more (or 400€ if you'd buy the nTB 128gb version). With ne nTB version not getting the update, the updated MBP is too expensive compared to non Apple machienes.

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Post by toasterlovin »

madeofpalk wrote: post #60
cshenton wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well if you're comparing it to Leopard / Snow Leopard no wonder. That's probably the most neat and polished a desktop operating system has ever been. edit: To clarify, I think current macOS is a better OS, its features are worth less neatness, but Snow Leopard did a smaller amount of things in a neater and more polished way.

Ahh yes, who can forget the extremely polished Snow Leopard bug that just flat out deleted people's user accounts https://gizmodo.com/5379817/reports-snow-leopard-bug-eats-us...

OS X was once great and now it is shit. Please stop ruining the narrative!

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Post by ddalex »

latch wrote: post #75
hobochili wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What hardware did you settle on?

The new XPS 13. It's fine. My disappointment is 98% software. The XPS has poor camera placement (but you know that going in), the buying experience is awful (here in Asia anyways). I see myself sticking with Linux, but no loyalty to hardware vendors. I'm hoping the MateBook or Chromebook become [relatively] cheap and powerful first class linux options.

Install Xubuntu on XPS, and set up i3 as your window manager - this is my current setup and I love it. Takes a bit to get used to a tiling window manager, but once you get it it's amazing - I never understood why people value overlapping windows anyway.

Re: MacBook Pro with faster performance and new features for pros

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Post by bryanlarsen »

"... so many reports that it can be rendered inoperable by a grain of sand and that is incredibly difficult and expensive to repair or replace. This new third-generation keyboard wasn’t designed to solve those issues, Apple says."

https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/12/17563640/apple-macbook-pr...

Re: MacBook Pro with faster performance and new features for pros

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Post by [deleted] »

buildbuildbuild wrote: post #68

I want a thicker laptop. Apple is oblivious that Pros want _more_ functionality, not less. Editions that would frustrate their supply line but be incredible: - MBP Engineer: 32GB+ RAM, 2+ NVMe SSD, 10gbe, dedicated real A12 ARM chip for simulating iOS - MBP Scientist: 32GB+ RAM, an FPGA with fun Apple SDK, dedicated GPU - MBP Video: 4 SDI ports (integrated BMD DeckLink Duo 2), timecode BNC, dedicated GPU, 10gbe - MBP…

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