MacBook Pro? No • Hacker News Board

Re: MacBook Pro? No

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Post by redbluething » Fri, Jan 12, 2018, 7:10 AM UTC

I agree with everything in this post. I rarely use my laptop as a laptop.

I stick it on my stand and plug in my Vortex Race3 and wait for Apple to make a laptop that doesn't suck.

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Post by noncoml » Fri, Jan 12, 2018, 7:10 AM UTC

My only complaint is the lack of Escape key, but maybe Apple didn’t have touch typists in mind.

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Post by plasma » Fri, Jan 12, 2018, 7:10 AM UTC

I've been considering buying a new MacBook Pro, but the advice I hear is to just wait for the next model (in a few months?) and hope that it doesn't have all its USB ports removed or broken keyboard.

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Post by cygned » Fri, Jan 12, 2018, 7:10 AM UTC

I really enjoy mine. In the beginning, I really loved the keyboard, but recently it caused me trouble; shift key hangs sometimes, my m key feels like it is stuck and my space bar works only on the left half. Maybe I’d hand it in for repair. It’s a bit annoying but I can handle it. What frustrates me, though, is that I cannot connect a second screen without rebooting. Hopefully a High Sierra and not a hardware issue.

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Post by a_c » Fri, Jan 12, 2018, 7:11 AM UTC

I'm on an early 2015 MBP. Probably my last MBP. What recommendations have we?

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Post by pteredactyl » Fri, Jan 12, 2018, 7:12 AM UTC

Touch bar has me seriously questioning my next purchase.

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Post by ms013 » Fri, Jan 12, 2018, 7:13 AM UTC

I have to agree - same gripes for me. This MacBook is my 8th Apple laptop going back to sometime in the late 90s (my first was a pre-PowerPC PowerBook), and it's the first one where I really and truly have regretted the purchase. I've usually had a second laptop during that time (ThinkPad usually, Surface lately), and I've rarely had more nice things to say about the non-Apple machine until now.

Also, the main selling point of Macs for me since 2001 when I made the big switch to an Apple-dominant hardware ecosystem was having a Unix-based system that had a reasonable desktop environment. Lately, the Windows Subsystem for Linux has been making me question if MacOS and the corresponding hardware is worth the headache.

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Post by rexf » Fri, Jan 12, 2018, 7:14 AM UTC

The points brought up are mostly valid complaints. Although Apple would never increase the device thickness to give the user more battery life.

I’m holding off on buying a MBP as the current keyboard has terrible travel distance and seems to be unusually susceptible to breaking from dust. If Apple had an updated MBP with a durable keyboard (maybe in a few years? hopefully), I’d buy it right away.

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Post by dovdovdov » Fri, Jan 12, 2018, 7:15 AM UTC

Apple clearly aimed the new macbook pros at creative professionals (and wannabe end-consumers), hence the touchbar and the enormous trackpad. They got rid of the glowing logo to make the screen thinner.

Anyways, Apple could afford to offer the dopest machine for software developers, without all the shenanigans, but with all the usability and performance.

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Post by usaphp » Fri, Jan 12, 2018, 7:15 AM UTC

While I agree on most of the topics. Especially on the touchbar(useless crap). But “make the display a 16” 4K HDR OLED” - why would you need a 4K in a 16”? It will just eat batter life