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Re: New MacBook Air

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Post by simion314 »

ryanlol wrote: post #58
baybal2 wrote: post #7

I like it how they have to almost shout "no butterfly switch keyboard there" now Thank you Louis Rossmann!

What does the weird conspiracy theorist dude have to do with this decision by Apple?

I am not familiar with such conspiracies, from what I seen he is accusing Apple of incompetence a lot and the keyboard case confirms that Apple can do sometimes stupid designs and he is accusing Apple of anti-repair shit and this is also true see the right of repair laws that are debated in US states and EU.

We do not have any emails or other internal Apple materials to know for sure why Apple kept hidden the fact they crippled your iPhone CPU (again for the fanboys the issue was the HIDDEN part) but for now presuming Apple is hidden things for your own good is let's say naive.

Re: New MacBook Air

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Post by lonelappde »

wyclif wrote: post #88
highace wrote: post #81

- Quad core processor - Scissor keys - No touch bar MacBook Air, the new MacBook for Pros.

Exactly what I was thinking when I read the spec sheet: 'I wonder how many developers will go for the maxed out version.'

I don't love coding on a tiny screen when I'm not using my laptop keyboard to awkwardly type with an external monitor.

Re: New MacBook Air

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Post by fastball »

wyclif wrote: post #88
highace wrote: post #81

- Quad core processor - Scissor keys - No touch bar MacBook Air, the new MacBook for Pros.

Exactly what I was thinking when I read the spec sheet: 'I wonder how many developers will go for the maxed out version.'

I probably would except for the lack of ports and weak CPU.

Still just waiting on a new 14" MBP.

Re: New MacBook Air

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Post by mkagenius »

hoorayimhelping wrote: post #96
cytzol wrote: post #19

The refined scissor mechanism with 1 mm of travel delivers a responsive, comfortable, and quiet typing experience. The inverted-T arrow keys help you fly through lines of code, spreadsheets, or game environments. This isn't progress. This is the baseline. Apple have gone from bad to OK, and they're celebrating as though they've achieved something amazing.

Ok. How should they communicate this? "We've gone back to where we were three years ago after a mistake, sorry." I don't understand what the issue is with Apple trying to sell their products. It sounds like people here are upset that marketing and sales exists, and that they use language to try to make their products seem impressive, and that consumers aren't rational when it comes to buying things.

Coz, it's a lie, half truths are lie essentially, I agree its a sales tactic but nonetheless it's a lie.

Re: New MacBook Air

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Post by geodel »

cytzol wrote: post #19

The refined scissor mechanism with 1 mm of travel delivers a responsive, comfortable, and quiet typing experience. The inverted-T arrow keys help you fly through lines of code, spreadsheets, or game environments. This isn't progress. This is the baseline. Apple have gone from bad to OK, and they're celebrating as though they've achieved something amazing.

Whole world seems to be celebrating that Javascript desktop turds runs 10 times slower and consumes 10 times more resources than 20 year old native applications. So I guess everything is worth celebrating.

Re: New MacBook Air

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Post by hobofan »

ehutch79 wrote: post #93
technotarek wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's correct. Not building/re-building the containers constantly. However, the initial build takes forever and some containers tend to crash (e.g., Prisma). Plus, in our case where we're using Angular, the recompiling of the app on change sends the fan into overdrive and I get noticeable lag on application switching. Again, this is on a 2013 MBA, which is almost ridiculous, but I'm that type of person. Still proudl…

This is a dumb question, but you're talking about using docker, right? Doesn't docker spin up an entire vm for containers? That does seem pretty heavy for a MBA of any generation?

> Doesn't docker spin up an entire vm for containers?

(It generally does not. Instead it uses more lightweight isolation primtives. That has always been one of its main selling points.)

EDIT: see reply

> That does seem pretty heavy for a MBA of any generation?

It very much depends on what you are running inside the containers. I regularly have a dev environment with ~8 relatively lightweight containers running on my Early 2014 MBA without any problems.

Re: New MacBook Air

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Post by zarmin »

geerlingguy wrote: post #82
D13Fd wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apple recently converted all laptops to an annoying non-inverted-T arrow key layout that users generally didn't like. They are advertising the switch back to the old style that people actually liked.

I still mis-hit one of the arrow keys about 20% of the time with the annoying 'full size left and right' arrow key arrangement. Going back to inverted-T makes perfect sense. It was an experiment that failed.

It was an awful experiment that should have never left the lab. What could possibly have been the thinking for the entire butterfly/touchbar line, "People should be looking at the keyboard more when they type. Also, there's not nearly enough wrist pain going around. I wonder what important part of the Macbook we can ruin to address both of these problems."

Re: New MacBook Air

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Post by fastball »

leetrout wrote: post #45
rvanmil wrote: post #3

Anyone here who has experience working with JS/TS development tools (vscode, yarn, webpack, Node.js etc.) on a recent MacBook Air? I wonder if the performance is noticeably worse than a 13” MacBook Pro for this type of work.

Yes. It’s miserable with any substantial JS project. Those extra cores should help with the new model.

I thought NodeJS was single-threaded?
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