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MacBook Pro with faster performance and new features for pros

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

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Post by mullikine »

The touch bar is an ergonomic nightmare.

Apple's soul truly died back in 2011 with the loss of Steve Jobs.

Their computers are now appropriate funeral attire. Lifeless, fragile and gaunt. The operating system, a pale reflection of the past, reminds me of disney movies and EA games these days -- forumlaic, unimaginative, designed to take your money. iTunes sucks the soul right out of you. It's Apple's laboratory and you're the experiment. Welcome to an homogenous, sterile prison of an operating system. You're no longer unique, nor empowered with an Apple computer. When the shallow keyboards make your fingers sore, when you need to replace the $600 display of your 12" macbook because you pinched the screen for the first time, you'll lose your love for Apple. Something like this will happen to you

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

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Post by vinceguidry »

igrekel wrote: post #183
vinceguidry wrote: post #79

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I ended up buying a used mid-2012 model, hopefully the 16GB RAM upgrade I got makes it nice and snappy. Kicking myself for giving away my 2014 Air.

I was using a late 2011 that I had outfitted with 16GB of ram and a larger SSD, save for the screen, it performs comparatively to the latest models. Now, its graphics just went bad and Apple now considers it "vintage" and won't fix it. I assume the 2012 models will suffer form that fate soon as well.

Send it to Louis. Could just be the backlight.

https://www.rossmanngroup.com/

One of the things I think and hope is going to start happening is an aftermarket parts economy springing up around these particular Macs.

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Post by arnarbi »

jasonlotito wrote: post #322
barrowclift wrote: post #182

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I highly encourage mapping the Escape key to the Caps Lock key for a couple days and seeing how it feels. I gave it a spin last year out of curiosity and have since fallen in love with it. My poor pinky no longer has to frequently stretch out to the farthest upper left reaches of the keyboard! If you're on macOS, you can do this in System Preferences > Keyboard > Modifier Keys... and selecting the "Escape" in the Cap…

I've been using Caps Lock for CTRL for years now. Instead of Caps Lock for Escape, in Vim, I use jj and that has served me well. I mention this because there are others out there that have already remapped Caps Lock, and mapping to escape might not work well for them.

I tried all the above suggestions for extended periods of time. Ultimately the most productive thing for me was caps lock as control, and Ctrl-[ for escape since it works everywhere in the system.

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

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Post by djaychela »

dingo_bat wrote: post #328
linguae wrote: post #87

I’m glad to see that Apple has finally updated its MacBook Pro line, but it’s a little too late for me. After using Macs for nearly 12 years, I bought a Dell XPS 15 9570 a week after WWDC 2018 (I couldn’t put off a new computer purchase any longer), and I couldn’t be happier. It turns out that Windows 10 really shines on a computer with six processor cores, a 4K display, and a NVMe SSD, a dramatic improvement from th…

> Windows 10 really shines on a computer with six processor cores, a 4K display, and a NVMe SSD I have anecdotally found that just replacing a spinning disk with a nice SSD is enough for win10 to shine.

Me too. I have an old ThinkPad that I use for car diagnostics. Cheap Gumtree buy, with Win10 and a standard HD. Put a spare 120GB SSD in it, and it's now really usable - previously it was like thick treacle. Win10 seems to be very heavy on drive use?

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Post by fhood »

non-nil wrote: post #392

The machines released today were obviously in the pipeline long before the most recent wave of Mac backlash, so it's probably a mistake to call them a response in any way. Still, when Apple spec out their base configs like this, at these prices? I find it hard not to get the message. The entire line is under-specced by about 50%, or $500 too expensive. Fix that, and I'd still mutter about the Touch Bar, but I'd do it…

I agree with your first statement, but apple products have always been too expensive. Eventually you just learn to live with it.

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Post by moron4hire »

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…

I'm a developer and I love the touch bar.

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

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Post by enjeyw »

atonse wrote: post #370
bryanlarsen wrote: post #139

"... 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...

Oh crap, this is the only thing I cared about. Ok so it's a no-go from day one. I don't care if Apple has a 4 year warranty program for the keyboard. The fact is, I can't give up my main laptop for 2-5 days every 6 months to have them fix it for free.

I take advantage of Apple's no questions asked return policy for stuff like this:

Take my laptop in to be repaired, buy a brand new MBP at the same time. Load everything onto the new laptop using a time machine backup (takes about 2 hours), and use that while they're repairing my laptop.

When my laptop is fixed, I pick it up and return the one I bought at the same time for a full refund.

It's a bit of fuss making sure I keep the 'free-hire' laptop completely pristine, but it's fun to use a brand new machine every so often.

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Post by seniorsassycat »

thanatropism wrote: post #132
gwbas1c wrote: post #103

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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 libr…

Dell XPS 13

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

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Post by arnarbi »

fernandotakai wrote: post #266
mantas wrote: post #96

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I'm yet to see a serious VIM user who didn't remap ESC to caps lock yet. Regardless of keyboard configuration.

been using vim for almost 10 years now, never remapped esc to caps, because remapping caps to control is a lot more comfortable for me. i could do the tap -> esc, hold -> control, but every solution i tried has some delay that makes it super uncomfortable.

Try getting in the habit of typing escape with Ctrl-[
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