Falling Back to an Older MacBook Pro

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Post by ingve » Thu, Nov 07, 2019, 9:30 PM UTC

Falling Back to an Older MacBook Pro
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Re: Falling Back to an Older MacBook Pro

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Post by meerita » Thu, Nov 07, 2019, 9:47 PM UTC

I'm using my 2017 Macbook Pro and I hardly use the early 2019. I never liked the touchbar.

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Post by CinchWrench » Thu, Nov 07, 2019, 10:57 PM UTC

meerita wrote: post #2

I'm using my 2017 Macbook Pro and I hardly use the early 2019. I never liked the touchbar.

2012 mbp. Still mostly self serviceable, and I'm on my second display, third hard drive, and second set of RAM.

I'm gonna ride this heavy machine until the wheels fall off.

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Post by outoftheabyss » Thu, Nov 07, 2019, 10:57 PM UTC

meerita wrote: post #2

I'm using my 2017 Macbook Pro and I hardly use the early 2019. I never liked the touchbar.

The 2017 has a Touch Bar, unless it's the entry level version, in which case I don't understand why you would purchase a 2019 which is essentially the same device... but with a Touch Bar that you never liked

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Post by shujito » Thu, Nov 07, 2019, 11:00 PM UTC

My 2013 MPB still does the job, I had acquired an iPhone SE a year or so ago and I'm very happy with it, with both of 'em.

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Post by hyperbovine » Thu, Nov 07, 2019, 11:02 PM UTC

Surprised she did not mention MagSafe. This is, IMO, the single biggest unforced error Apple has made in a decade filled with them.

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Post by semiotagonal » Thu, Nov 07, 2019, 11:04 PM UTC

CinchWrench wrote: post #3

meerita wrote: post #2

I'm using my 2017 Macbook Pro and I hardly use the early 2019. I never liked the touchbar.

2012 mbp. Still mostly self serviceable, and I'm on my second display, third hard drive, and second set of RAM. I'm gonna ride this heavy machine until the wheels fall off.

After hearing about the MacBooks that had serious issues interfacing with audio hardware in 2018 (which would have been an incredibly bad problem for me), I'm too scared to upgrade from my 2013 MBP. It's too much money to spend on something that might have problems.

EDIT: Did Apple ever even fix that? I think it had something to do with the T2 processor.

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Post by hnzix » Thu, Nov 07, 2019, 11:07 PM UTC

meerita wrote: post #2

I'm using my 2017 Macbook Pro and I hardly use the early 2019. I never liked the touchbar.

Honestly my 2012 MBA with 8GB RAM is still perfectly fine as my daily dev machine. Macs are expensive but if you shell out for the top specced model they can last a loooong time.

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Post by gomox » Thu, Nov 07, 2019, 11:12 PM UTC

I got my 2015's screen replaced because of Staingate so I get to have a shiny new screen and a computer that's actually usable without 23 dongles. I hope it doesn't die until an actually desirable MBP comes around.

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Post by shantly » Thu, Nov 07, 2019, 11:16 PM UTC

> Unexpectedly, on returning to the 2015 MBP, I didn’t suddenly go “omgomg the keyboard is amazing again”. The older style was never amazing compared to any good mechanical keyboard. I adapted to the new keyboard just fine, even though my hands never really were big enough for it to be truly comfortable. Yes, the older keyboard’s keys really are less of a stretch but it wasn’t that much of a hardship either way.

New keyboard’s really, really loud, but otherwise (stuck keys aside) agree, previous was only marginally better. Bigger difference if you go back to the generation before that—even more key travel, quite a bit nicer.