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Post by dkarl »

cactus2093 wrote: post #336
alexggordon wrote: post #125

I was curious how the 13 inch was priced so I compared it to a new Dell XPS 13. Dell has a better processor (maybe, [2]) , but I couldn't find the option to upgrade the Dell to 4TB internal SSD, so I compared both with the 2 TB option. Ram is the same at 32GB. Dell came out to $2399[0] USD and Apple came out to $2999[1] USD. Dell Pros: * Row of function buttons (I've used BTT to customize my touch-bar to the point wh…

Genuinely curious, have you had your MacBook Pro knocked over from the power cord since switching away from MagSafe? Lots of people complain about missing MagSafe but I’ve never seen or heard of this actually happening. I’m sure it has happened but it just doesn’t seem like a big problem. For me, just in the past month I’ve had the usb charger yanked out by the cord multiple times by people and pets tripping over it…

I can see that it's not a necessity for many people, but I still have a 2015 13" Macbook Pro with MagSafe in addition to a newer 15" Macbook Pro, and my experience using both every day is that I positively mourn the difference.

I'm shocked that Apple has not taken it upon themselves to ensure that there's a usable magnetic adapter for the USB-C port, under their brand or through a partner. I've tried a couple of third-party adapters that were utter failures. I hope somebody succeeds someday, preferably Apple or with Apple's blessing, because I would be very slow to try another third-party adapter otherwise.

Re: New 13-inch MacBook Pro

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Post by saagarjha »

deepGem wrote: post #346
tw04 wrote: post #197

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After several years I can unequivocally say I still hate the touch bar. I love touch ID, but the bar needs to go. USB-C was all about standardizing. I'm still not sure how I feel about it, I did love magsafe, but I also love that in theory someday I'll have one cable to rule them all. And I'll be able to charge my headphones/laptop/phone/random device with a usb-c cable instead of needing 8 of them.

My gripe with the touch bar is that for every IDE you have to customise it to see the function keys by default. It's so damn annoying. Why can't the default layout be just the Fn keys ?

FWIW, I really hate IDEs (usually ported over from other platforms with little thought) that use function key shortcuts for commonly-used actions. I instantly remap "run" in every IDE to ⌘R.

Re: New 13-inch MacBook Pro

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Post by cma »

dewey wrote: post #422
deepGem wrote: post #346

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My gripe with the touch bar is that for every IDE you have to customise it to see the function keys by default. It's so damn annoying. Why can't the default layout be just the Fn keys ?

Because 95% of the people don't use them and for them having an emoji picker, a volume, brightness control is more useful. The small group of people who actively use the Fn keys can just enable this checkbox at the settings.

And lose touch typing

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Post by anorphirith »

so the new -macbook air has very poor cooling and throttles the cpu well below max capacity. -macbook 13" now costs 1800 solely for an up to date processor, a whopping 400$ to add 16gb of ram, no speaker upgrade, no 14" screen, no mini-led -macbook 16" seems like a good option but I returned it because it's just too heavy more unbearably so than the previous 15" I spent 3 years with. It is also already deprecated since the 10th gen upgrade and mini-led are around the corner

Re: New 13-inch MacBook Pro

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Post by thethethethe »

neuronic wrote: post #506
thethethethe wrote: post #427

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Have you ever been to a FAANG campus? There are thousands of engineers walking around with MacBooks. I’m pretty sure those engineers would be considered to be professional

Where it doesn't matter that the maxed out specs at which point you can call the machine "Pro" cost something like €3000? I'm sorry, but 8GB LPDDR3 and 256GB SSD with 2 USB-C ports and jet engine fans aren't really that "Pro".

You are moving the goalposts. So the high end version of the laptop is “pro” but the cheaper one isn’t? Doesn’t this follow for other similar ultra books?

Why does a computer have to be cheap-ish to be “pro”?

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Post by saagarjha »

johnc1231 wrote: post #521
dralley wrote: post #274

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There are unfortunately some devices that are nominally USB C but don't actually support the spec properly, like the Nintendo Switch. So some caution is required still.

In what was does the Nintendo Switch break the standard?

https://old.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/87vmud/the_... (the Google+ links won't work anymore, of course).

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Post by pb7 »

sturza wrote: post #541
pb7 wrote: post #512

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I bet I make at least twice the money with half the RAM. ;) Weird thing to belittle someone over there man.

you basically did the same thing with your comment

I'm just speaking his language to deflate his ego a little bit by showing him that his point that RAM = money has no basis in reality.

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Post by kratom_sandwich »

RedneckBob wrote: post #338
cHaOs667 wrote: post #309

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I HATE the touch bar. I simply H A T E it. I hate it so much that I started to carry an TKL keyboard all the time with me just to avoid using this piece of sh*t touch bar and internal keyboard (MBP 2017). As a developer it is crucial that I can use my keyboard without any looks but as there is no way to tell which function key you press on the touch bar the bar itself is completely useless for me. Beside the butterfl…

I just purged Apple from my life largely because the touchbar continues to live on. Love my new Lenovo, btw. As a workaround for the touchbar that worked pretty well, I bought a silicon keyboard protector for the Apple Magic Keyboard, cut out the area for the function keys, and used hot glue to glue it over the touch bar. Prevented the touchbar from activating at the slightest touch and did return some of the feel of…

You wouldn't have any pictures of that silicon keyboard fix, would you? Or even a short tutorial?

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Post by extr »

ksec wrote: post #560
extr wrote: post #305

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I have the latest Dell model (XPS 13 9300), and I'm left with a bit of chagrin as I probably would have looked into this new 13" MBP instead had it been available a few months ago, but overall I've been happy with my purchase. I'm not really "in" the Apple ecosystem so I'm probably a bit biased though. A few other Dell Pros: * 16:10 aspect ratio. The 4K touchscreen in general is fantastic, nearly borderless and reall…

> 16:10 aspect ratio..... MacBook ( Pro, Air or just MacBook ) has always been using 16:10 ratio. 16:10 on Dell is something new in the PC space that everyone is making a big fuss about it. Although I hope this change will finally run across the industry so we are back to 16:10 instead of stupid video consumption orientated 16:9 Ratio.

Interesting, I did not realize this. I also did not realize that Retina is not 4k, though I doubt this makes a huge amount of difference on the tiny screen sizes.
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