2018 MacBook Pro Review
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2018 MacBook Pro Review
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Re: 2018 MacBook Pro Review
#2A review where it's not being compared against other laptops but against older macs is only marginally useful.
Of course it's going to be faster. The problem with Mac is not that it's slow, it's the lack of innovation.
Re: 2018 MacBook Pro Review
#3A review where it's not being compared against other laptops but against older macs is only marginally useful. Of course it's going to be faster. The problem with Mac is not that it's slow, it's the lack of innovation.
> "is only marginally useful."
To you. A review can't (and arguably shouldn't) be everything to everyone. For example, for those who are flexible in the operating system they use, it would make more sense to compare with different manufacturer's products; for those who are interested in using macOS, it the review as written makes more sense. The first sentence of the piece is "I’ve been using Mac laptops for a long time, going back to the very first portable Apple ever made": it's unlikely they're writing to the former audience. You may not be the intended audience, and that's okay. There are likely reviews out there that address the questions that interest you. This just happens not to be one of them.
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#4So they’ve caught up to Windows laptops on specs but still have that abomination of a keyboard. After all the complaints.
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#5It’s shocking how expensive Macs have gotten. I paid around €2300 for my 2014 15” and today’s equivalent tier is over €3k. For this I get a faster thinner machine without MagSafe and a variety of ports.
It seems that the only viable upgrade path is to convince your employer to stump up the cash.
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#6It’s shocking how expensive Macs have gotten. I paid around €2300 for my 2014 15” and today’s equivalent tier is over €3k. For this I get a faster thinner machine without MagSafe and a variety of ports. It seems that the only viable upgrade path is to convince your employer to stump up the cash.
because the 'market' decided that style was valueable and io was meh.
a bit like cellphones with glued batteries, they removed 'user replaceable' for thinness.
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#7It’s shocking how expensive Macs have gotten. I paid around €2300 for my 2014 15” and today’s equivalent tier is over €3k. For this I get a faster thinner machine without MagSafe and a variety of ports. It seems that the only viable upgrade path is to convince your employer to stump up the cash.
because the 'market' decided that style was valueable and io was meh. a bit like cellphones with glued batteries, they removed 'user replaceable' for thinness.
...which happened just around the time batteries became good enough for both daily use, as well as a phone’s typical lifespan.
10 years or so ago, a three-year old cell phone battery would still be good for maybe three or four hours per charge. Today, I’m using a 5-year old iPhone that still gets through a typical day on a single charge.
There are also battery cases, or external battery banks, whose introduction has solved most people’s battery-related questions, except “why are people still complaining about non-removable batteries?”
Re: 2018 MacBook Pro Review
#8It’s shocking how expensive Macs have gotten. I paid around €2300 for my 2014 15” and today’s equivalent tier is over €3k. For this I get a faster thinner machine without MagSafe and a variety of ports. It seems that the only viable upgrade path is to convince your employer to stump up the cash.
because the 'market' decided that style was valueable and io was meh. a bit like cellphones with glued batteries, they removed 'user replaceable' for thinness.
> they removed 'user replaceable' for thinness
Also better water resistance.
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#9Is the MacBook Air dead, then? Light and powerful isn't a valid niche anymore?
Re: 2018 MacBook Pro Review
#10It’s shocking how expensive Macs have gotten. I paid around €2300 for my 2014 15” and today’s equivalent tier is over €3k. For this I get a faster thinner machine without MagSafe and a variety of ports. It seems that the only viable upgrade path is to convince your employer to stump up the cash.
because the 'market' decided that style was valueable and io was meh. a bit like cellphones with glued batteries, they removed 'user replaceable' for thinness.
Thinness does have some value for phones. For laptops, there's certainly a market for ultra portable machines but Apple seems to have forgotten that some of us use our computers for work and are willing to trade off thinness for practical usability.