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Re: The new MacBook

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Post by Shorel »

muro wrote: post #693
JBiserkov wrote: post #575

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I personally swear by Total Commander[0] (previously Windows Commander). [0] http://www.ghisler.com/

I use http://doublecmd.sourceforge.net/ on linux, which is pretty-much a clone of total commander. I still like total commander better. As for open source - this one is, but it's written in delphi (pascal?) which makes it hard to contribute. Then again, it works well, so not sure what to contribute anyway.

They are all clones of the DOS and later Windows software called Norton Commander.

Yes, I even have a copy of the Windows version of the original Norton Commander.

I used version 2.0 of NC in DOS 3 and version 3 in DOS 5.

I still miss the embedded viewing with Ctrl-Q that midnight commander is missing.

And I still prefer NC over TC, because it was so consistent.

Re: The new MacBook

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Post by qzcx »

mhomde wrote: post #523
baddox wrote: post #472

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Disregarding for the moment subjective issues like design and operating system, I would ask two important questions. How is the battery life, and how is the build quality? That's usually where Windows PCs quickly lose any desirability (to me) compared to Macs. Also, I notice that this XPS is 0.6-0.8 pounds heavier than the new MacBook, and as far as I can tell the XPS has a fan.

I have a maxxed out XPS 13 and its a love-hate relationship. The screen and build quality is great, the keyboard ok and the touchpad as well. There's very little to match it in that form factor right now It's noisy as hell though, I can't say that battery life is great and I have some weird problems with music stuttering when I compile, also Visual Studio ocassionally locks up on deploy for some reason. If I could ha…

This seems to be what I hear about getting the maxed out version of this laptop. Does anyone know if the fan is still really loud on the more moderate version (i5, touchscreen,256GB SSD)?

Re: The new MacBook

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Post by notphilip »

dismal2 wrote: post #480

I remember in collage (2000's) when everyone just started to get laptop and before magsafe macbooks the broken power ports were THE cause for people breaking their laptops. Sometimes repair shops could fix this but usually the motherboard was damaged and you just had to get a new machine. Sad to see it go, it was a brilliant idea.

OEMs (generally) eventually started making the power ports a replaceable part to make it a cheaply resolvable issue. Hopefully they will apply that wisdom to USB-3c ports on devices that use it exclusively for their power connection.

Re: The new MacBook

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Post by intopieces »

Throwaway90283 wrote: post #571
nkoren wrote: post #261

This is a beautiful machine. Once again, Apple excels at hardware. But what the living hell is going wrong with Apple's desktop software? OS X and Apple's applications suite have been getting steadily worse with every release. Look at the App store: the latest releases of OS X, iPhoto, iMovie, Pages, and Numbers are (in stark contrast to earlier versins) all rated at 2.5/5 stars, with the plurality being 1-star revie…

Random story from last week, and my experience with Apple software. I don't use Apple products too often, but I was downloading some apps for a family members ipod touch 4g (latest model being 5g). The 4g only supports up to iOS 6, and nearly every app I tried downloading on the device gave an error saying it required iOS 7 and it couldn't be installed. I thought that was strange, I used most of these apps before on…

What year did this happen? Mashable reported in 2013 Sept that Apple implemented "legacy app" downloads [0]. Did it lose that functionality? (Not an iOS user, so a genuine question)

[0]http://mashable.com/2013/09/17/ios-legacy-apps/

Re: The new MacBook

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Post by screamin_jesus »

nkoren wrote: post #261

This is a beautiful machine. Once again, Apple excels at hardware. But what the living hell is going wrong with Apple's desktop software? OS X and Apple's applications suite have been getting steadily worse with every release. Look at the App store: the latest releases of OS X, iPhoto, iMovie, Pages, and Numbers are (in stark contrast to earlier versins) all rated at 2.5/5 stars, with the plurality being 1-star revie…

The one area where apple really exels though, in both hardware and software is the touchpad. I cannot stand using the touchpad on any windows laptop I used, the touchpad is 99% the reason I still use a mac/osx.

Re: The new MacBook

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Post by serve_yay »

mrinterweb wrote: post #611

Macbook $1299 "Up to 1.3GHz dual-core Intel Core M processor" Macbook Air $899 "Up to 2.2GHz dual-core Intel Core i7 processor" Seems like a big step down in processing power at a higher price.

If all else were equal, sure. But it's not, starting with RAM and display and continuing on from there.

Re: The new MacBook

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Post by ArkyBeagle »

SiVal wrote: post #509
nkoren wrote: post #261

This is a beautiful machine. Once again, Apple excels at hardware. But what the living hell is going wrong with Apple's desktop software? OS X and Apple's applications suite have been getting steadily worse with every release. Look at the App store: the latest releases of OS X, iPhoto, iMovie, Pages, and Numbers are (in stark contrast to earlier versins) all rated at 2.5/5 stars, with the plurality being 1-star revie…

Because you can't really tell how well software is working when looking at the device edge-on, and that's apparently the way Apple looks at them most of the time. I mean this more metaphorically than literally, but I'm so tired of complaints about the ridiculously primitive Finder being met with, "the edge of the iMac now appears even thinner, now that we've repositioned formerly convenient connectors and such into a…

Ummmmmmm... anorexia? :)

Re: The new MacBook

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Post by thomasfoster96 »

I'm currently looking for a new laptop, which will probably be a Mac, given I'm not familiar with using Linux nor have I liked using Windows lately. Looking at the pricing for this, I can't see much of a reason for why I'd get this over a Macbook Air or Macbook Pro w/ Retina.

Using Australian prices -

This - $1799 11" Air - $1249 13" Air - $1399 13" Retina - $1799 (I've seen $1599 in authorised reseller stores) 13" Pro - $1549

Is a retina display and losing a third of a pound worth paying $400-$550 for? Nope. Paying the same price for less ports (if you're getting a Macbook Pro, ports are likely important) and and less speed? Nope.

I think Apple must be hoping this new Macbook is going to eat into 13' Macbook Pro sales (just as the 13" Pro ate into the old Macbook sales), because I can't see it eating into Macbook Air sales.

Re: The new MacBook

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Post by qzcx »

astrodust wrote: post #549
kbenson wrote: post #407

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's 0.94" wider, 0.14" deeper and 0.08" higher. Huge? For that you get another inch on your screen and 73% more pixels (3200x1800).

It's worth noting that the Quad-HD screen only comes on the more expensive models, starting at $1299. The lower priced ones come with a 1080p screen. That depth difference could feel pretty significant when the thing is razor thin. Comparison article: http://www.theverge.com/2015/3/9/8177065/apple-macbook-specs...

The new macbook starts at $1299 as well. If you are going to compare them, then at least compare the same price points.
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