41–50 of 71 posts
Does anyone think the TouchBar should be relocated to where the "MacBook Pro" logo resides? That way it'd be in front of your eyes and fingertips.
Surprised she did not mention MagSafe. This is, IMO, the single biggest unforced error Apple has made in a decade filled with them.
This sucks.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
MagSafe had two flaws: the magnetic connector could become unreliable, and the cable around the connector was weak. USB-C is rated for a much higher number of inserts and being able to insert on either side is covering a lot of my old vulnerable cable situations. I don’t know enough about EE to say why they don’t want a magnet between the USB-C connector and the rest of the cable.
I'm still using a laptop with a MagSafe charger and have never seen the connector becoming unreliable (nor do I know anyone has had this issue).
I've been toying with the idea of upgrading for more RAM, so I can do my minimal Windows and Linux work in VMs and get rid of my other dedicated, rarely used laptops. When I found out that all macbook pros have touchbars now, I scoured the internet for a new 13" mbp with function keys. I got the last one from BH Photo, with 16G ram and 1TB ssd. I was very happy to find it. I hope I get a few years out of it, and I hope I don't have keyboard issues with it.
> 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…
I zomg when I use my 2008 MacBook Pro. That solid keyboard! All those ports!! User replaceable everything!!
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I've come up with a modern version of Gate's saying of "640K ought to be enough for everyone". he never said that. i personally really don't like the guy, but putting words in his mouth is never fair. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/09/08/640k-enough/
He did say something very close to that: > When we set the upper limit of PC-DOS at 640K, we thought nobody would ever need that much memory. The parent is not even using the quote for it’s original effect, I find it amusing that you’d take the time to comment on that.
the 8088 had a one megabyte address space, more or less. when the original architects were deciding how to allocate that space to ram, rom, peripherals, etc, it made sense to talk about where to put the dividing line, to say how much of it goes to ram. that's a small-scale technical-decision-type quote, whereas the one that gets repeated over and over and over and over again, erroneously, seems designed to show that gates was dangerously short-sighted about the future of computing.
gates has a lot of faults, but that's not one of them.
I sure wish my 2011 17-inch MacBook Pro would come back from the dead! With its two giant removable batter bays! swoon
Two removable batteries? The 2011 unibody didn't have any removable battery. Were you using a case?
The thing I loved about the 540c was being able to swap in either a disk drive, a cdrom, or another battery into either of the two bays. And there was even a PowerPC upgrade for the 68k ones, that made them useful for several more years!