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- Quad core processor - Scissor keys - No touch bar MacBook Air, the new MacBook for Pros.
I honestly never understood the hate for the touchbar. It allows me to be much more granular with volume and brightness, and I never really used F-keys anyway.
Does that statement strike you as reasonable at all?
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Volume adjustment is actually a great example of why I hate the touchbar. - I can't adjust the volume without looking at it. Because the touchbar is flat with no haptic feedback when I land on a button, it's hard to remember the exact position of the volume 'button' without looking. Sounds trivial - but combined with point 2.... - The way the volume control expands - it actually moves the 'volume down' button AWAY fr…
An app called Pock replaces the touch bar with a custom one that I find a lot more useful - might work for you too
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Exactly. I'm deciding between 32GB or even 64Gb, just to be on the safe side. Because nowadays you're running Slack, Spotify, several messengers, Firefox, Chrome, IntelliJ, Docker and Kubernetes on your local machine.
I have 8GB on my work laptop with almost all of this (except Kubernetes, but I fail to understand why you would need a local Kubernetes) and it's fine, I usually have 2GB free memory. Don't exagerate your memory requirements, you would be more than fine with 16GB.
Fortunately, I have a Dell XPS 15 with 32 GBs of RAM, but the second I start up a single VM, one more messaging app, a small handful of Docker containers, or any IDE (of which I'm running none right now), I'm going over 16 GBs.
Realistically, most of us on HN probably need around 20-24 GBs, but laptops don't come in those increments.
After using the latest Macbook Pro 13" for over a year I have recently had my 2015 Macbook Pro 13" repaired. Both are max specs. It was a $600 bill, but it has been so worth it. The keyboard just works, it doesn't run hot and the fan doesn't blast under the slightest load, the performance is much better, the battery lasts longer and the external screen + keyboard and mouse are detected every single time without havin…
Fortunately so
Keep in mind that probably the most important spec when considering a new laptop is one that is often not directly stated: the processor series. I'm not talking about i3/i5/i7, but rather U/Y/H. This letter determines the TDP (thermal design power/point) them machine is designed to run at. The TDP will govern the setting for the base clock speed, and, just as importantly, the throttling behabior under load. Processor…
>You can get away with this machine if your workflow primary involves a text editor and remote servers, but otherwise I would still opt for the pro. I bought a 2018 15 inch MBP with 6 core i9, 32 GB of ram and vega GPU with the idea that it would be my one stop development machine. The system is terrible, especially considering the outrageous price - it does have sufficient compute power but the thermals are insanely…
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If you are running something computationally intensive isn't a desktop more suitable? 45W will get your laptop pretty warm and noisy and will drain your battery.
> 45W will get your laptop pretty warm and noisy and will drain your battery. So put it on a stand and plug it in? Problem solved.
- Quad core processor - Scissor keys - No touch bar MacBook Air, the new MacBook for Pros.
I honestly never understood the hate for the touchbar. It allows me to be much more granular with volume and brightness, and I never really used F-keys anyway.
This could not have happened without the touchbar. This is horrible UX and I will never trust that (work) computer again.
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Which part of those two sentences is a lie? "The refined scissor mechanism with 1 mm of travel delivers a responsive, comfortable, and quiet typing experience." Is any of that false? How do we know?
"Half truths are lies". The pp is saying they're lying because they didn't admit fault. What's wrong with a company trying to sell a product by outright honestly saying "yeah, we tried to balance usability and thinness, and we went too far, we heard your complaints, and we've gone back and refined our old designs". I mean, they can tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth in an even more markety way i…
They pretty clearly admitted fault when they offered free out of warranty repairs for keyboard issues.
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> 45W will get your laptop pretty warm and noisy and will drain your battery. So put it on a stand and plug it in? Problem solved.
> isn't a desktop more suitable
No it isn't any more suitable, because you can put your laptop on a stand and plug it in to achieve the same thing.