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2016 Retina MacBook Pro Caveats

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Re: 2016 Retina MacBook Pro Caveats

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Post by mikeash »

revelation wrote: post #4

He has a brand new display (which in displays, is Display DisplayPort-to-mDP2 TB 3 to 2 USB-C to TB 3 MacBook What is going on?

It would just be a single cable plus an adapter. The monitor cable has DP on one end and mini-DP on the other end. Thunderbolt 3 uses the USB-C connector and is what the ports on the MacBook are. So it's: Display -> DP to mini-DP cable -> TB2 to TB3 -> MacBook. Or, one extra step than the old MacBook needed, if only it actually worked.

Re: 2016 Retina MacBook Pro Caveats

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Post by benvds »

revelation wrote: post #4

He has a brand new display (which in displays, is Display DisplayPort-to-mDP2 TB 3 to 2 USB-C to TB 3 MacBook What is going on?

I've been a mac user for 12 years, have my current retina macbook for 4 years, consider myself a pro user and want to buy a new "mobile computer". I'm no longer considering buying an apple macbook. OS X is great but with these prices I can no longer validate it's value anymore and looking into buying an xps.

Re: 2016 Retina MacBook Pro Caveats

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Post by nilkn »

Tom1971 wrote: post #8

While, over time, a lot of today's annoyances with the new Macabook's will fade away, the lack of ESC key is a deal breaker for me. I tried it at the Apple Store and it's pretty much unusable. (It had the seen issue as the writer, apparently relying on the physical click to know whether or not I had pressed it. In addition, I also mistyped it a lot. Maybe hack to replace the whole touch bar as one single ESC key will…

Following the lead of Spacemacs I remapped Esc in vim to "fd". It works surprisingly well and is extremely easy and fast to type.

Re: 2016 Retina MacBook Pro Caveats

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Post by dom0 »

Bytes wrote: post #6

The problems with the new macbook "pro" seem to keep on growing. I am really surprised that Apple did not find the connecting to external display issue in internal testing.

I'm somewhat surprised by the whole touch bar thing, other manufacturers (e.g. Lenovo on the X1) tried it before and use acceptance was miserable.

Re: 2016 Retina MacBook Pro Caveats

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Post by lvh »

mikeash wrote: post #11
revelation wrote: post #4

He has a brand new display (which in displays, is Display DisplayPort-to-mDP2 TB 3 to 2 USB-C to TB 3 MacBook What is going on?

It would just be a single cable plus an adapter. The monitor cable has DP on one end and mini-DP on the other end. Thunderbolt 3 uses the USB-C connector and is what the ports on the MacBook are. So it's: Display -> DP to mini-DP cable -> TB2 to TB3 -> MacBook. Or, one extra step than the old MacBook needed, if only it actually worked.

Just wanted to confirm that you are correct :) The AppleCare support people suggested I had "too many dongles" -- cheekily, I agree; I would be very happy with zero!

Re: 2016 Retina MacBook Pro Caveats

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Post by rayiner »

The execution failures are just unacceptable for such an expensive product. The Surface Book was half baked at launch, but at least Microsoft has the excuse that Skylake was bleeding edge at that time. Apple is dealing with a mature stack here.
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