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Yes, it's called the MacBook Pro. It runs Windows, natively, just fine. In fact, PC World once ranked it as the best Windows laptop.
That's probably going to change with the new touch bar.
I'm genuinely amazed every time there's an Apple keynote and people act this surprised. With every major new release Apple has been taking away legacy and pushing forward, often compromising compatibility.
forward to what ? design over usability ? surely you understand why a lot of people are pissed off. The touch bar is a gimmick, the lack of inputs make the MBP only PRO in name, this isn't a "PRO" machine. This is just a Macbook air rebranded as Pro. But to understand that you need to be able to read through Apple's bullshit, which is hard for Apple fans that see the brand as part of their own identity.
What a whiney, content-free blog post. The author complains about removing the function keys, MagSafe, HDMI, SD Card and the escape key but doesn't give any examples of how they used those in the past or how those features' absence will cripple their workflow. Here are my thoughts: Removing the function keys and replacing them with the touch bar is a step up. The function keys have been annoyingly inconsistent on mac…
> The addition of the fingerprint scanner alone is a win Interesting. Every other laptop has one these days, but I haven't really seen people using it much. It seems more like a gimmick. Fingerprint scanner on a phone makes more sense, because it lets you to unlock it almost as quickly as if you didn't have any lockscreen security, which is a big convenience.
TouchID (at least on my iPhone) is 100% more usable and I would love to have it on my laptop as well.
What a whiney, content-free blog post. The author complains about removing the function keys, MagSafe, HDMI, SD Card and the escape key but doesn't give any examples of how they used those in the past or how those features' absence will cripple their workflow. Here are my thoughts: Removing the function keys and replacing them with the touch bar is a step up. The function keys have been annoyingly inconsistent on mac…
I work in an office of about 100 people and 8 meeting rooms. In each room is a tv or projector. Every room has a hdmi > DisplayPort adaptor. We have tried about 15 different adaptors. Every single one will break down within half a year to a year. Or sooner. I've never had a single problem plugging in HDMI directly.
Such is the disposable culture.
FFS, they didn't remove the F-keys, you can still have F-keys if you want...and they made all the ports do everything. They removed the card reader. Whiny posts by people who didn't even pay attention are more annoying than Apple.
But you can't FEEL them. So you can't use them without looking down at your keyboard. Which is a pretty horrible proposition for touch typists.
For those who need it, Esc will be readily-mappable to a hardware key combo.
Also, it's simply false that you can't use a Touch Bar key without looking down. It's just a simple motor skill like anything else. Very very slightly harder than having a hardware Esc key. Trivial.
As a professional software dev/system architect using MacBook Pro's, I am excited about the new MacBook Pro. I'll miss the SD card for my amateur photography, but I'll live. It's still got the 3.5mm for my headphones, with USB-C hopefully daisy chaining non Apple displays will finally become a reality, and thankfully my work has upgraded to using wireless technology for displaying screens in conference rooms (which w…
> I have been using Caps lock for escape for years I didn't knew people were doing that :O, whats the benefit?, and how do you turn on caps?
I follow this setup[1], where caps lock can both function as ctrl and esc depending on how long you press/hold.
[1]: http://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/10/a-modern-space-cadet/#cont...
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For €5000 you can't connect your state-of-the-art iPhone to your state-of-the-art Mac out of the box. You have to pay extra, and you have to carry around an awkward dongle adapter and hope you don't forget it! Fucking lol.
> you have to carry around an awkward dongle adapter Huh? It's not a dongle, it's just a cable. You do need a cable to connect your phone to your laptop.
So many times around me poor iPhone owners couldn't charge their phones at parties because nobody had their kind of cable around, while for microUSB you've got plenty of helpful charger and powerbank owners.
To be honest, lately owners of phones with USB-C were having the same problem, but I guess it's gonna change faster than with Lightning cables.
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It is just another cable\dongle\adapter\hub we must buy again and again. These products should "just work" together.
Ok, great. Then let's all go back to 2001 and use 10Mbps first-generation USB for everything. Oops! It won't supply enough power, it's now FOUR THOUSAND times slower than modern interfaces, it can't drive monitors, etc. Maybe your idea isn't so great.
If you say (in effect) "The latest macbooks would mess with details of my high-end pro workflow...so I'm thinking of switching to Linux" you either live in the terminal or you're not really thinking this through.