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MacBook Pro 16" 2019 Teardown

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Re: MacBook Pro 16" 2019 Teardown

#171

Seriously, fuck off, Apple. Gluing and rivets - does this actually accomplish any kind of real measurable cost-saving or just introduce bullshit vendor lock-in? Same deal for soldered RAM. Pro-tip for everyone wanting to LEAVE Tim Cook's sinking hardware ship: Buy a Dell XPS 15, install Linux and enjoy being able to: 1. Upgrade your own RAM 2. Install a second 2.5" SSD 3. Being able to easily remove components from t…

> Buy a Dell XPS 15

No. Windows sucks ass and Linux isn't as good as macOS, even with all the later's bugs recently.

And Mac trackpads are awesome.

Re: MacBook Pro 16" 2019 Teardown

#172

Seriously, fuck off, Apple. Gluing and rivets - does this actually accomplish any kind of real measurable cost-saving or just introduce bullshit vendor lock-in? Same deal for soldered RAM. Pro-tip for everyone wanting to LEAVE Tim Cook's sinking hardware ship: Buy a Dell XPS 15, install Linux and enjoy being able to: 1. Upgrade your own RAM 2. Install a second 2.5" SSD 3. Being able to easily remove components from t…

> Buy a Dell XPS 15 No. Windows sucks ass and Linux isn't as good as macOS, even with all the later's bugs recently. And Mac trackpads are awesome.

Read comment. Install Linux. XPS has Linux hardware support. 0/10.

Re: MacBook Pro 16" 2019 Teardown

#173

I went with my gf to take a look at these last night at the Apple store. Her command key has completely stopped working on her 2018 MacBook that otherwise works perfectly fine. It feels clumsily large, especially since we’re coming from MacBook 13s. She kept asking me if I’d heard any rumors about when new 13s would come out. She went in pretty determined to get a new machine but decided to wait. The struggle continu…

I'm a power user and I'm really surprised you looked at this release as "just" fixing the keyboard. I'm more excited about this release than any other macbook release in the past 3 years. Increased base hd size, new graphics card with performance that stomps the previous model, more available RAM, the largest battery legally possible on a laptop, and a larger screen in the same form factor as the previous 15 inch mod…

There are actually no downsides to this laptop except the touch bar .

FTFY. No Gen 1 Apple product has been without it's flaws. Some just take time to make themselves known.

Re: MacBook Pro 16" 2019 Teardown

#174

I went with my gf to take a look at these last night at the Apple store. Her command key has completely stopped working on her 2018 MacBook that otherwise works perfectly fine. It feels clumsily large, especially since we’re coming from MacBook 13s. She kept asking me if I’d heard any rumors about when new 13s would come out. She went in pretty determined to get a new machine but decided to wait. The struggle continu…

How the hell does she justify buying another multi-thousand dollar Apple laptop when she already has a broken 2018? Is this a business write off of some sort? If not, are you at least rich?

Re: MacBook Pro 16" 2019 Teardown

#175

I just bought one and have been using it for a couple of days. So far so good. I still hate the TouchBar because it's completely useless, but the Esc key and directional keys was enough for me. I also have a 2018 MBP from work and the keyboard is shit. Within 3 weeks it was doubletyping and putting random .'s everywhere. I was days away from buying the top end Vaio and then I heard the news about the new MBP and deci…

For those who can't upgrade yet, there is an open source utility, Unshaky (https://unshaky.nestederror.com/), that can help with double presses. It's sad and gross that it is necessary but it works well on my aging MBP.

Re: MacBook Pro 16" 2019 Teardown

#176

So no upgradable RAM, no upgradable storage. If either stops functioning, you have to change the entire logic board (including the CPU and GPU? I'm not sure). Wow this is a crappy design. But expected, since this is Apple that we're talking about.

Physical connectors are a main cause of those things no longer functioning. Their absence improves reliability significantly.

You mean like all Macbook keyboards from 2016-2019 Q2?

Re: MacBook Pro 16" 2019 Teardown

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I went with my gf to take a look at these last night at the Apple store. Her command key has completely stopped working on her 2018 MacBook that otherwise works perfectly fine. It feels clumsily large, especially since we’re coming from MacBook 13s. She kept asking me if I’d heard any rumors about when new 13s would come out. She went in pretty determined to get a new machine but decided to wait. The struggle continu…

I'm a power user and I'm really surprised you looked at this release as "just" fixing the keyboard. I'm more excited about this release than any other macbook release in the past 3 years. Increased base hd size, new graphics card with performance that stomps the previous model, more available RAM, the largest battery legally possible on a laptop, and a larger screen in the same form factor as the previous 15 inch mod…

The keyboard is the “only” thing that matters for someone that bought a computer about a year ago, so yeah.

64GB of RAM and 8TB of SSD are great, that’s why I have a desktop computer with those specs for half the price. I love big screens too, which is why I have an actual big monitor on my desktop, not “big considering the form factor it’s in”. Getting those specs on the MacBook Pro puts you into the $6K territory, so I don’t think for most people that’s actually a difference. The absolute upper bound has increased, but what I get for the price I just paid about a year ago isn’t that much different.

Meanwhile, my laptop is for mobility and not where I boil the ocean. Sure, I’ve wanted 32GB on my 13 inch for years, still waiting though.

Look, I get that there exists a market for super high end laptops, but there is arguably a much larger market for, like, mobile laptops that can type correctly. It’s annoying that I have to get pushed into the ultra niche high end laptop market, with specs that I specifically don’t even care that much about (I have no use for a better graphics card, especially an AMD graphics card that ensures I can’t use it for ML), just to get a keyboard that puts one e on the screen when I hit the e key once.

Re: MacBook Pro 16" 2019 Teardown

#179
Apple, what the hell is so hard to understand about the need to makes these fucking things more repairable? They cost thousands of dollars for for fuck's sake! I have a work issued one that if anything goes wrong with I will get a new work-issued one. If I had to do this on my own I would be SOL if the thing breaks and I don't have your expensive AppleCare plan which is just a screw job on the little guy. If that's not reasonable, it's time to think about landfills and computer scrap piles and do the right thing here. The 1/10 repair score tells the whole story--it's not repairable, on purpose, you corporate shitbirds.

The fucking dongles were another ass raping of the consumer, let's get that straightened back out.

At my company we have meetings where we show up and then someone has to run and get a dongle to use the projector. We never had to worry about this crap in the past, we would got to meetings and be PRODUCTIVE. I velcroed a dongle to my screen but everyone borrows it and then I forget it half the time because it's in a conference room somewhere. I suggested my company buy buckets of the stupid things so they would be everywhere, but they cost like $50 apiece. More landfill mess eventually, too.

Re: MacBook Pro 16" 2019 Teardown

#180
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Earlier quoted context omitted.

While you make a solid point about likely behavior, I'm sure there are those that said Microsoft will never cooperate with Linux. "Never" is a bold word, and it's worth highlighting things like a hard-to-replace/repair keyboard to keep on that tiny bit of pressure to change (how often have you been in a meeting where "customers aren't asking for this" came up as a justification to not make a change?). Also, just to l…

That's fair, but it would take a massive change in both consumer behavior and Apple's target audience to make something like this come about. But hey, ya never know.

Or perhaps a change in leadership at Apple. Never is a long time compared to the tenure of any exec.
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