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New MacBook Pro models to feature magsafe, no touch bar and more ports: analyst

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Re: New MacBook Pro models to feature magsafe, no touch bar and more ports: analyst

#11

Reading this, it feels like the MacBook Pro of 2015 is finally getting an upgrade. Took them 5 years to go back and restore the old school. Great to hear a couple iterations ago they restored the keyboard. Now with dropping the touch bar and bringing back mag safe. My 2015 daily driver might see retirement.

not to mention the butterfly keyboard has also been retired!

Re: New MacBook Pro models to feature magsafe, no touch bar and more ports: analyst

#12

Reading this, it feels like the MacBook Pro of 2015 is finally getting an upgrade. Took them 5 years to go back and restore the old school. Great to hear a couple iterations ago they restored the keyboard. Now with dropping the touch bar and bringing back mag safe. My 2015 daily driver might see retirement.

Exactly what I was thinking. I have been seriously dreading the day my 2015 Pro finally gives up on me. This news couldn't have come at a better time, I just hope it's true!

Re: New MacBook Pro models to feature magsafe, no touch bar and more ports: analyst

#14
post #5

It'll be interesting to see how this will work with USB-C unless they're being very courageous.

Well, there are those magnetic breakaway USB-C cables. Maybe they'll just bundle one of those with the computer.

Cheap joke incoming: yet another dongle.

For maximum trolling they should charge $29.99 for this feature..

Re: New MacBook Pro models to feature magsafe, no touch bar and more ports: analyst

#15

Reading this, it feels like the MacBook Pro of 2015 is finally getting an upgrade. Took them 5 years to go back and restore the old school. Great to hear a couple iterations ago they restored the keyboard. Now with dropping the touch bar and bringing back mag safe. My 2015 daily driver might see retirement.

>Great to hear a couple iterations ago they restored the keyboard.

Magic Keyboard was only introduced in mid 2020. And they are still not as good as MBP 2015 in terms of typing experience.

Magic Keyboard Key Travel - 1mm

MacBook 2015 Key Travel - 1.3mm

Key Spacing as well. They are tiny in Magic Keyboard Layout and it is harder to "sense" the keys apart.

>Took them 5 years to go back and restore the old school.

TrackPad, being too large in Post 2015 models causing much higher false positives ( touching the trackpad and moving the cursor )

On the Good side at least they are listening.

Re: New MacBook Pro models to feature magsafe, no touch bar and more ports: analyst

#17

It'll be interesting to see how this will work with USB-C unless they're being very courageous.

I imagine they could support charging via USB-C, _and_ either their old mag-safe connector or a new more variant with no problems.

Re: New MacBook Pro models to feature magsafe, no touch bar and more ports: analyst

#19
post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, there are those magnetic breakaway USB-C cables. Maybe they'll just bundle one of those with the computer.

Cheap joke incoming: yet another dongle. For maximum trolling they should charge $29.99 for this feature..

I mean, if they change the current USB-C to USB-C charging cable to a magnetic breakaway one, I imagine they'll increase the price of the cable if bought separately.

And if they move to the iPhone MagSafe charging puck design, I imagine they'll sell those separately.

Re: New MacBook Pro models to feature magsafe, no touch bar and more ports: analyst

#20

Reading this, it feels like the MacBook Pro of 2015 is finally getting an upgrade. Took them 5 years to go back and restore the old school. Great to hear a couple iterations ago they restored the keyboard. Now with dropping the touch bar and bringing back mag safe. My 2015 daily driver might see retirement.

I've been waiting for this and I hope you're right. Typing from a late 2015 model MacBook Pro
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