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Apple introduces 8-core MacBook Pro

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Re: Apple introduces 8-core MacBook Pro

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Post by achenatx »

When the touchbar macbooks were announced,I immediately went out and bought a used 2015 macbook. The great thing about them is that they are good for quite a long time because macs dont tend to get bogged down over time

I love the unix lineage on Mac OS with a consumer ready GUI.

By far the #1 thing that keeps me from using windows as my main machine is the registry.

I do have an old windows desktop that I upgraded with SSD and maxed out the ram and it runs great with windows 10.

I also run windows 10 in parallels on my Mac (for the office suite and a few windows only programs. Time machine backup works incredibly well and I can 100% rely on it. I can be up and running in minutes even if my windows 10 image gets completely destroyed.

I had a mac stolen, went to the store, bought a new one, restored from time machine almost immediately.

The only thing Ive been disappointed in is that the stability of the last two versions hasnt been great. I used to go months without a reboot, now I crash about once every two weeks.

Re: Apple introduces 8-core MacBook Pro

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Post by tunesmith »

robbyking wrote: post #415
popularrecluse wrote: post #135

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Yes, a developer's edition. I'll take a heavier, larger device with more and varied ports and extended battery life please. An all-hardware keyboard with a useful arrow-key configuration that doesn't make me press the wrong key all the time. An actual 'esc' key so I have my caps lock key back.

This is a bit of a side note, but I remapped my caps lock key to escape and it makes things a lot easier.

I've done that too. It's an improvement, but it's made things a little more difficult in other ways - like for some reason it's very easy for me to confuse Tab and Escape/capslock now. In some typing scenarios, I just can't seem to keep them straight.

Re: Apple introduces 8-core MacBook Pro

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Post by treis »

DoofusOfDeath wrote: post #409
mixmastamyk wrote: post #140

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Small claims court?

This is a completely appropriate use of small-claims court. It's the one place where a regular citizen can afford a fair trial against Apple in the U.S.

Unfortunately you generally have to sue where the corporate HQ is. That makes it impractical for most people.

Re: Apple introduces 8-core MacBook Pro

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Post by gowld »

cletus wrote: post #125

What a clusterF is modern Mac hardware: - Keyboards with much worse action that are more prone to failure (from dust no less) and require replacing the motherboard to fix... all for a Touchbar no one wants and 0.5mm cut in thickness. - Loss (over the years) of the ability to upgrade the CPU, SSD or memory; - Display failures due to broken ribbon cables; - The USB-C clusterF; and - Loss of MagSafe (this one still hurt…

Apple has always made aggressively experimental design changes that were a mix of steps forward and backward. Hockey puck mice, mass logic board failures, soldered flash drives and batteries, ports and dongles, etc.

People always forget the flaws of the past.

Re: Apple introduces 8-core MacBook Pro

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Post by 9935c101ab17a66 »

hartator wrote: post #387
X-Istence wrote: post #243

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> - Keyboards with much worse action that are more prone to failure (from dust no less) and require replacing the motherboard to fix... all for a Touchbar no one wants and 0.5mm cut in thickness. The keyboard replacement replaces the top-case, your motherboard and everything else is transplanted over to the new top-case.

The motherboard is not replaced. “Only” the battery, top case, touch-bar, and keyboard.

That's exactly what them person you're replying to said.

Re: Apple introduces 8-core MacBook Pro

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Post by diebeforei485 »

alt_f4 wrote: post #136
toasterlovin wrote: post #106

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FWIW, this update includes an updated keyboard. Whether or not that's a fix remains to be seen.

Given it is the 3rd attempt at fixing a fundamentally broken mechanism design, I think it's fairly likely it doesn't actually fix anything. Edit: lol, they actually have already included this new laptop in the keyboard replacement program: https://www.apple.com/support/keyboard-service-program-for-m...

On balance, this is to increase consumer confidence in the product - knowing that they can get a free replacement makes them more likely to buy.

Re: Apple introduces 8-core MacBook Pro

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Post by chasedehan »

I continue to be amazed by releases on Macs about how "powerful" they are.

I use a Dell XPS running Ubuntu with 12 cores and 32GB of ram with a 1050 in a 15 inch. It is a really amazing platform, doesn't have these keyboard or screen issues, and cost less than a MacBook Pro.

Re: Apple introduces 8-core MacBook Pro

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Post by techrich »

ericabiz wrote: post #51

We repair these as part of our business, and to be clear, both the keyboards and the screens are failing on these at an alarming rate. iFixit detailed the issues with the screens, which (in Apple's unending quest for "thinness") use a thinner flex cable to connect the display to the rest of the laptop. This thinner cable is prone to breakage, and we are already seeing 2016-2017 MacBook Pros in our shop regularly for…

i am sticking to my 2017 macbook air. This is from a time when apple knew what they where doing, and it has a proper usb port. And the handy magnetic connector that saved my laptop more times than i care to mention. My next laptop prob wont be a mac.

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Post by criddell »

jteppinette wrote: post #168
HeWhoLurksLate wrote: post #64

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It's probably time to start banging the ThinkPad drum again, but first they need to put their RAM back in sockets.

Disclaimer: work for Apple but about 1000 miles away from hardware The MacBook touch pads are leagues above all the competition. It’s the number one thing that keeps me away from my think pads.

Maybe you don't want to comment, but are people inside Apple that use a MacBook all day generally happy with the keyboards? I know there's going to be a mix of opinions, but here and on sites like Reddit, it feels like there's a majority opinion that the new keyboards are worse.
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