New MacBook Pro Is Not a Laptop for Developers Anymore

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Oct 28, 2016, 3:22 PM UTC

Swizec wrote: post #107

ericjang wrote: post #37

I dislike this post intensely. The opinion comes across as uncharitable, as the author probably has not used this Macbook Pro yet. How can you (alexeysemeney) be so sure? I consider myself a developer, and I almost never use the Fn and ESC keys on my Mac. Everybody uses the computer differently, but I'm pretty sure this is not a deal-breaker for most. One could also argue that the touch bar might lead to innovative d…

I smash the esc key violently every time I climb myself into a corner with Emacs shortcuts and don't know how to get out. But it's on a proper mechanical keyboard because prolonged use of builtin keyboards hurts my hands.

Post by ObjectiveSub » Fri, Oct 28, 2016, 3:22 PM UTC

Post by kejaed » Fri, Oct 28, 2016, 3:22 PM UTC

blowski wrote: post #36

I was waiting for the new Macbook Pros as I need to buy a new laptop, and was going to give my old Macbook Pro (2014 model) to my wife. But given that they have nothing of value (I don't care about gimmicks like the new touch bar), I've decided to abandon Mac and go back to Linux. I'm just a typical web developer, running a bunch of virtual machines, and an IDE. Any recommendations? I saw the Dell XPS 15 for around £…

Post by mrweasel » Fri, Oct 28, 2016, 3:22 PM UTC

cypres wrote: post #62

jws wrote: post #8

Bah, these entitled kids. I guess being old enough to remember keyboards before they had escape keys helps, but ␛ is just keyboard syntactic sugar for control left square bracket . Read your ASCII table! C-[ is even a quicker type avoiding RSIs from all those long pinky reaches. (More seriously, as much as it bothers me to retrain my pinky, most uses of the escape key would be many times better if the lefthand side o…

I had no idea you could use C-[ as ESC

Post by morcheeba » Fri, Oct 28, 2016, 3:22 PM UTC

masklinn wrote: post #57

slg wrote: post #23

This doesn't even get into the dongle problem. The simplest example is that if you want to hook up Apple's flagship phone up to their flagship laptop for development, you need a dongle. And if you want to share one of their flagship wired headphones between the two devices, you need another dongle. Therefore if you want to connect three of Apple's flagship devices together on a daily basis, you can't go anywhere with…

> The simplest example is that if you want to hook up Apple's flagship phone up to their flagship laptop for development, you need a dongle. Why would you bother with a dongle when you can get a Type C — Lightning cable for the same price?