Thoughts on the Late 2016 MacBook Pro
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Thoughts on the Late 2016 MacBook Pro
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#2I accidentally dropped my MacBook Pro and after looking at the price of a Retina repair, I found myself in the market for a new MacBook. However, instead of the MBP, I downgraded to the Air.
I do not miss Retina and I would have missed USB. The Air was $800 all up since I got an exceptionally good Presidents' Day deal.
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#3I accidentally dropped my MacBook Pro and after looking at the price of a Retina repair, I found myself in the market for a new MacBook. However, instead of the MBP, I downgraded to the Air. I do not miss Retina and I would have missed USB. The Air was $800 all up since I got an exceptionally good Presidents' Day deal.
Do you use any OS X desktop programs (that wouldn't be trivially replaced on another OS) or is it just a UNIX with good battery life and correctly functioning sleep?
Re: Thoughts on the Late 2016 MacBook Pro
#4I accidentally dropped my MacBook Pro and after looking at the price of a Retina repair, I found myself in the market for a new MacBook. However, instead of the MBP, I downgraded to the Air. I do not miss Retina and I would have missed USB. The Air was $800 all up since I got an exceptionally good Presidents' Day deal.
I miss, dearly, being able to throw more RAM and bigger SSDs in my retina -- especially since the machines last so long that prices fall substantially over course of ownership.
My eyes would hate me for going back in DPI though -- I even had to switch my desktop monitors out, its just that much less eye strain for me.
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#5I don't know why I keep reading these reviews, but I do. This one seems decent, he covers everything from his real world experiences. I was kind of not surprised at his conclusion...
As it is, it feels like a little “fuck you, suckers” from Apple and I can’t help but feel a little disappointed.
That is due mostly to the price.
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#6£3,700 is just a monumental amount of money.
You'd be much better off buying a cheaper laptop (even a MacBook, or MBP without TouchBar) and a more powerful desktop (Hackintosh if you will)
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#7His conclusion doesn't match up at all with the rest of the article.
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#8He says dongles and cables are "a non-issue" and buys over 7 new dongles, 2 new custom cables, plus a new card reader?
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#9"It’s way too easy to accidentally activate something"
Despite author's belief in haptic feedback, it cannot actually fix this problem. Touch bar is always going to be like that, always slower to use than physical keys.
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#10I've been using mine since december. I love the way the keys feel but I have started developing some painful CTS in my left thumb due to hitting the cmd key a lot (coding, terminal stuff, etc). It pains me even now writing this.
So i started remapping everything to fn + control so my pinky can start doing the heavy lifting (like on windows) and vow to never use the cmd key again.