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Lol that main image showing the laptop with a USBC -> display dongle... at least they are being representative.
damn OP changing the link.. here's the original article linked, completed with the utter fail of marketing image https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/07/apples-new-2018-macb...
Why is Apple's approach on introducing new things so punishing? iPhone X - introduce Face ID AND remove Touch ID Macbook - introduce Touch Bar AND remove physical function keys I'm sure there are other examples but I don't follow Apple's hardware close enough to know. It doesn't have to be this way. In both cases above, both items could easily have been kept to maximize user choice AND maximize innovation at the same…
Having both the Touch Bar and a function key row makes even less sense. It's a replacement not an addition.
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The iMac Pro is absolutely nothing close to “a powerful laptop on a desk”. You’re fooling yourself with your narrative.
By laptop-on-a-desk I mean it's non-upgradeable with an integrated monitor. It's not a desktop machine.
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By laptop-on-a-desk I mean it's non-upgradeable with an integrated monitor. It's not a desktop machine.
It uses Xeon processors, AMD Vega GPUs, has incredibly fast PCIE NVMe SSD storage, and obviously contains a 27" 5k display...just because you can't take out the hard drive doesn't mean it's not a desktop machine. This is a weird statement to make. Companies using these machines are not interested in physically upgrading them...they use them as long as they can, then buy the newer, faster version.
Give me that hardware in a box that I could upgrade, and don't make me buy a monitor I don't want or need, and I'd probably buy that machine.
Why is Apple's approach on introducing new things so punishing? iPhone X - introduce Face ID AND remove Touch ID Macbook - introduce Touch Bar AND remove physical function keys I'm sure there are other examples but I don't follow Apple's hardware close enough to know. It doesn't have to be this way. In both cases above, both items could easily have been kept to maximize user choice AND maximize innovation at the same…
Having both Face ID and Touch ID at the same time doesn't make sense and would just be confusing. Having both the Touch Bar and a function key row makes even less sense. It's a replacement not an addition.
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I had to replace my 2015 MBP last week, because the kb started failing (it wasn't one of the ones eligible for a free repair, sadly, and I can't live without a machine for however long it takes them to fix it anyway). I was really torn, because although I could reluctantly live without the function keys, the escape key is a complete dealbreaker. After much debate I decided to take a chance on a surface book. I figure…
I opted for a Xiaomi laptop. Best purchase I ever made. Amazing build quality, out of the box compatibility with Linux, great hardware specs. I can't believe that near MBP clone only set me back 550€.
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Not my experience. I have to use windows at work. Got ubuntu running in a vm. Buggy as shit. - sharing screen in hangouts puts chrome on every virtual desktop so now you can't click on chrome to navigate to that desktop - slack crashes silently every 24 hours - virtual desktops is a mess, if one window overflows into another desktop, then when you click on that app ubuntu will take you to the desktop where you see th…
"Got ubuntu running in a vm. Buggy as shit." I have 3 different distros running on as many machines all work fine and one is based on ubuntu LTS. Probably what you should be running but whatever. "- keyboard support is terrible, in intellij i can't type `or ´ or ~ but I can type all those in gedit and then i have to copy paste them over" Do you really believe people have this issue? Do you think we all have emailed o…
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Not my experience. I have to use windows at work. Got ubuntu running in a vm. Buggy as shit. - sharing screen in hangouts puts chrome on every virtual desktop so now you can't click on chrome to navigate to that desktop - slack crashes silently every 24 hours - virtual desktops is a mess, if one window overflows into another desktop, then when you click on that app ubuntu will take you to the desktop where you see th…
> installing applications is always terrible on ubuntu. there are three main was of "installing applications on ubuntu": 1. main software repositories; this is essentially 1-click install (if you go through the software management application) 2. installing from a PPA (e.g. Sublime); this is 1-line copy/execute (add-apt-repository XYZ), then update (apt update) and 1-click install 3. rarely, you install binaries dire…
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Imagine not being able to mute your sound in public because your finger doesn't have enough capacitance for some reason.
The sound can also be muted by clicking the sound icon in the menu bar. There is a volume slider there.
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Surface Book is really great; I quite liked my SOs surface. I decided to go with an XPS 13 and have been incredibly happy.
I was considering the XPS series myself. Heard great things about it. Are you running windows or unix?