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Apple’s expected Mac event on October 27 is official

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Re: Apple’s expected Mac event on October 27 is official

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Post by jshevek »

toyg wrote: post #69
Stratoscope wrote: post #45

If an OLED panel replaces the function keys, that ruins it for me. I mostly run Windows on my late-2013 15" MBPR, and I use the function keys all the time . Especially for debugging. F5, F9, F10, F11 are burned into my brain. I used to be a huge ThinkPad fan, but their wilderness years of bad displays and constant keyboard rearrangement turned me off, so I thought I'd try using my MBPR for Windows work instead. Turns…

> I mostly run Windows on my late-2013 15" MBPR It's safe to say you're not really Apple's target market :) Personally, I won't believe this OLED thingie until I actually see it with my own eyes, but with the right support in the OS APIs, might turn out to be a shot in the arm for the laptop concept. Imagine replacing the whole keyboard with an ipad-like touchscreen? Sure, abhorrent for a programmer, but quite exciti…

You might find this interesting:

https://www.cnet.com/products/lenovo-yoga-book/review/

Re: Apple’s expected Mac event on October 27 is official

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Post by dingaling »

cardiffspaceman wrote: post #84
laurentdc wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

USB-C to USB-A dongle, then USB-A to Ethernet dongle. Or like the fanboys on the Apple subreddit have pointed out, "who the hell uses wires in 2016". Not sure if certain people are complete apologists or simply out of touch with the real world.

Eight or nine years ago, I conceived a plan that I was going to have CAT-5 run through my house someday, once I found someone to do it. Here it is 2016, I have trade workers throughout my house doing a renovation and I won't bother. I'm not sure why I'm going to the trouble of bringing indoors the twisted pairs of the phone jacks so I can use POTS from every room. Everything I have, as a 57-yo fuddy-duddy, is wireles…

Conversely, we're planning on rewiring a 1950s house and shielded Cat6 is definitely in the requirements.

Once a family start using wireless devices, even on two channels ( one each on 2.5 and 5 GHz ) the throughput drops dramatically. On more than one occasion I've been found sitting on the stairs near the router with a cable plugged into my laptop...

Re: Apple’s expected Mac event on October 27 is official

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Post by toyg »

Nullabillity wrote: post #76
Randgalt wrote: post #36

I just hope we get 32G of RAM on the MBP. It's desperately needed.

You could consider getting a laptop that doesn't solder in the DIMM sticks...

With the current generation of laptops, the problem is the controller chipset. If you're not extremely careful, you will likely buy a machine that can only take up to 16 GB, no matter how many sticks you can attach - only the very few top-spec big-ass "portable workstation" models can run up to 32 GB, and if you're dropping money on those, you're likely to go full-spec straight on anyway. That's been the situation for several years now.

So no, sticks vs soldered DIMM doesn't really make any difference in today's market for people who want more than 16 GB of memory.

(On the other hand, soldered battery is stupid and I tolerate it only because they're really good batteries.)

Re: Apple’s expected Mac event on October 27 is official

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Post by mamcx »

tgb wrote: post #55
Stratoscope wrote: post #45

If an OLED panel replaces the function keys, that ruins it for me. I mostly run Windows on my late-2013 15" MBPR, and I use the function keys all the time . Especially for debugging. F5, F9, F10, F11 are burned into my brain. I used to be a huge ThinkPad fan, but their wilderness years of bad displays and constant keyboard rearrangement turned me off, so I thought I'd try using my MBPR for Windows work instead. Turns…

I just bought a new keyboard. There is literally none on the market that has the keys I want in the right places. This makes some sense since there are too many possibilities, but damn is it annoying to have to make tradeoffs. Please someone make a customized keyboard business. I ended up giving up on have a small (in width) keyboard with F keys, separate media keys, and pg up/dwn. Now good luck finding a laptop with…

As I tell in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12679849 exist a whole sub-culture of build your own mechanical keyboard.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/

https://geekhack.org/

https://www.massdrop.com/mechanical-keyboards

So yes, exist people that build customized keyboards or (maybe) better, give info in how build your own.

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