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Re: Apple's MacBook revival plan: Bring back old features

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Post by behnamoh »

yarcob wrote: post #381

The nice thing about my 2015 Macbook Pro is that it's useful without any accessories. I can just throw it in a bag and walk out the door. It's got enough battery life that I usually don't need to bring a charger. It has all the ports that I ever need. I can hook it up to a projector with the built in HDMI port, I can put in the SD card from my camera, or I can quickly copy files from someones thumb drive. I don't nee…

Agreed. I wouldn’t touch any post-2015 MBP, but I wish I had bought one with dedicated graphics card. With each new version of macOS, things have gotten so much slower and laggy, even though I have disabled almost every unnecessary process and app in the OS.

The other day, I was working with a 2011 MBP with graphics crad and Chrome was much faster in that compared to my 2015 MBP. I think the graphics card does improve web surfing quite a bit.

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Post by aledalgrande »

shrimpx wrote: post #445
yarcob wrote: post #381

The nice thing about my 2015 Macbook Pro is that it's useful without any accessories. I can just throw it in a bag and walk out the door. It's got enough battery life that I usually don't need to bring a charger. It has all the ports that I ever need. I can hook it up to a projector with the built in HDMI port, I can put in the SD card from my camera, or I can quickly copy files from someones thumb drive. I don't nee…

My take is Jony Ive went extreme on form factor and totally lost his grip on users. He wanted an objectively perfect, extremely thin portless wireless machine. Now that he’s gone the design team is descending from the Ivery tower and undoing his work, meeting users halfway again.

Yeah totally sounds like with Steve gone, there was nobody anchoring him to the ground.

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Post by shrimpx »

Xcelerate wrote: post #265

It's kind of funny, because the last laptop I purchased (and the one I am still using) was Apple's first retina MacBook Pro as soon as it was released in 2012. I've refused to upgrade since then because I felt that all of the newer MacBook's were inferior in some way. Now I'm finally thinking of upgrading again once the 16" is released, and it's sounding like the new laptop will look exactly like mine from 10 years a…

That 2012 laptop is amazing! I put an ssd in it and moved the original HDD into the CD slot for extra storage. Total powerhouse.

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Post by manicpolymath »

jessriedel wrote: post #398
escapecharacter wrote: post #355

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hope this is Apple's eventual goal; "expensive and best of both worlds" sounds exactly like something Apple would do.

Me too, but I'm not holding my breath. The idea has been out there for a long time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimus_Maximus_keyboard

The Optimus Maximus keyboard showed why OLED was a bad choice for the keyboard. Chyrosran22 did a review of a used one that had severe burn in on all the keys.

It would be interesting if someone could make a screen key cap that was compatible with Cherry MX or Alps switches. The problem is with communication and power delivery, though. Could NFC power a tiny E-Ink display?

https://youtu.be/qj7GYU-wedo

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Post by qwerty456127 »

So cool. I probably am going to buy a MacBook if they bring everything back. Definitely buying something else if they don't. MacBooks look interesting but I'd rather buy something with an SD slot, physical F-keys, analog audio jack and at least 1 classic USB port to accompany Thunderbolt 4 Type-C ports.

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Post by qwerty456127 »

hatchnyc wrote: post #137

I use two MacBooks for programming for several hours each every single day, my personal machine has a touchbar, my work machine does not. I realize this is blasphemous to say and I did think I would hate the touchbar for all the reasons, but I actually ended up liking it. I had imagined myself tapping virtual function buttons and the whole thing seemed silly and useless and worse than having physical keys, but VS Cod…

I wouldn't mind having a touch bar if that didn't imply not-having the physical F-keys row. I actually want both. And an additional, programmable row of physical keys if only this was possible :-)

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Post by virtue3 »

qwerty456127 wrote: post #455

So cool. I probably am going to buy a MacBook if they bring everything back. Definitely buying something else if they don't. MacBooks look interesting but I'd rather buy something with an SD slot, physical F-keys, analog audio jack and at least 1 classic USB port to accompany Thunderbolt 4 Type-C ports.

I dont think there's a particular reason to have USB-A when you can just use a usb-c-to-a adapter. Sure, you have to carry a dongle around but USB-C is just so much better in all aspects ( reliability, usage, speed, unidirectional). Plus it would keep the machine smaller (the physical height is an issue with the cases).

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Post by jxdxbx »

The only ports I want to see on a modern laptop is just a bunch of fully capable USB C ports. An SD card slot would be fine, and if there's something like MagSafe, I'd want USB C charging to still be possible so I can just travel with a single kind of charger and cable.

Lots of random USB-charging gadgets have switched to USB C. I like the idea of making USB A, one of the worst port designs of all time, die a slow painful death. I am very happy with my thumb drive-shaped portable card read that has USB C on one side and A on the other.

Re: Apple's MacBook revival plan: Bring back old features

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Post by Synaesthesia »

shrimpx wrote: post #453
Xcelerate wrote: post #265

It's kind of funny, because the last laptop I purchased (and the one I am still using) was Apple's first retina MacBook Pro as soon as it was released in 2012. I've refused to upgrade since then because I felt that all of the newer MacBook's were inferior in some way. Now I'm finally thinking of upgrading again once the 16" is released, and it's sounding like the new laptop will look exactly like mine from 10 years a…

That 2012 laptop is amazing! I put an ssd in it and moved the original HDD into the CD slot for extra storage. Total powerhouse.

I have even installed Big Sur on mine and it runs fine. (Needs a patch though)
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