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For odd some reason, I find myself most annoyed by the headphone situation, aka, lack of Lightning jack. Why not just make the iPhone 7 USB-C instead?
So who is making good laptops that run Linux well these days?
The Lenovo T460s is pretty great all around. I suggest Debian Testing and Gnome 3.
So disappointed. I had my wallet ready to order but this is no different than my current MBP. A half baked touch screen!!! Not worth the $3500 I was going to drop on a new MBP. I can't imagine going back to windows because I enjoy the terminal and vim but seriously considering it specially that now I can run bash on windows
I find it annoying that people switch OS's and compare them based on feel and "features"... If anything at least say OSX is architecturally better than windows... or get a Chromebook and Croton. This way you can use the terminal and vim, and still get amazing features thru ChromeOS
For odd some reason, I find myself most annoyed by the headphone situation, aka, lack of Lightning jack. Why not just make the iPhone 7 USB-C instead?
>Why not just make the iPhone 7 USB-C instead? It's too thick going forward. It's already too thick for the Pencil.
I genuinely don't understand the drive to make all these sacrifices just to make the computer a couple millimeters thinner. Are there people who look at the previous generation of MBP and said "that's too thick"? If so, why?
It's pretty bad. We use YubiKeys a lot, and there are no ports for them. So sad. Also: Magsafe is great (it's saved my bacon a few times). Gone. ESC key, gone. Don't know about the keyboard yet, but everything I've read doesn't point to it being decent. Probably not buying this generation of MacBooks. Might just bite the bullet and finally go to Linux on some decent hardware. So, what's a decent laptop for running Li…
XPS 13, XPS 15, Precision 5100 (same as XPS 15 but configurable in every way)
I genuinely don't understand the drive to make all these sacrifices just to make the computer a couple millimeters thinner. Are there people who look at the previous generation of MBP and said "that's too thick"? If so, why?
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I really don't understand why everybody seems to think the Escape key is so important. I almost never hit mine, and since the Touch Bar has a virtual escape key, I don't really see the problem. The best I can figure is everybody complaining is a Vim user, but if you're a Vim user I don't know why you haven't already replaced the cumbersome Escape key with something easier, like binding `jk`, or binding Caps Lock to C…
Your argument consists of "people who don't work like I do are wrong" and you imply they should pay the price... for using a key that's been ubiquitous since the beginning of computing time.
As for ubiquity, that doesn't mean anything. Just because we've had something for a long time doesn't mean we need to keep having it. For example, my current physical keyboard has no Insert key, but that's a key that keyboards had for a long time (my keyboard replaced that with the Eject key). And yet I didn't even notice its lack until I looked at my keyboard just now.
No Magsafe? it was one of the coolest feature on macbooks. No HDMI? No USB ports? No SD card? No Escape key.. negatively impact vi/vim experience. Basically they want you to buy adapters for everything (maybe next version will also drop the audio jack). and they call it a step forward? Surface book looks a lot better to me despite lacking in graphics specs.