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Re: Apple, this time you made a mistake

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Post by chester1000 »

JoshMnem wrote: post #177
SysArchitect wrote: post #39

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…

Very strange. What are Vim users going to do without the ESC key? Ctrl-c and ctrl-[ don't work in some Vim emulation tools or for browser extensions that provide Vim keybindings. Function keys are important for some things. F1 (help), F5 (reload page), F11 (full screen), F12 (browser dev tools), shift-F2 (Firefox terminal), alt-F4 (close window), etc.. I almost bought a Macbook in August, but I decided to get a Think…

While I don't completely disagree, you might find this helpful :) :

F1 → ⌘?, F5 → ⌘R, F11 → ^⌘F, F12 → ⌘⌥J, ⌥+F4 → ⌘W (just window/tab) or ⌘Q (entire app).

Re: Apple, this time you made a mistake

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Post by sbalea »

zimpenfish wrote: post #186
sbalea wrote: post #160

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This adaptor is rated at 60W. The 15" MBP charges at 85W

The new MacBook is 61W for both 13" and 15" variants - https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs/

The 13" is 61W. The 15" is 87W. You're looking at the 13" specs, click on the 15: tab at the top of the page and scroll down.

Re: Apple, this time you made a mistake

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Post by fzzzy »

rabboRubble wrote: post #171
fzzzy wrote: post #146

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I remap caps lock to be the control key. I have never in my life used caps lock.

I have. All the time. Mostly when doing finances with stock trading tickers. Tickers are almost always presented and handled in upper case. So when I'm doing work in the trading space, caps lock goes on and stays on. S 1M IBM @MKT

Makes sense! I don't do anything with stocks.

Re: Apple, this time you made a mistake

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Post by JoshMnem »

progman wrote: post #190
JoshMnem wrote: post #177

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Very strange. What are Vim users going to do without the ESC key? Ctrl-c and ctrl-[ don't work in some Vim emulation tools or for browser extensions that provide Vim keybindings. Function keys are important for some things. F1 (help), F5 (reload page), F11 (full screen), F12 (browser dev tools), shift-F2 (Firefox terminal), alt-F4 (close window), etc.. I almost bought a Macbook in August, but I decided to get a Think…

> What are Vim users going to do without the ESC key? They have the pleasure to install an additional ESC server which simulates the ESC key with an ios device :-) https://github.com/brianmichel/ESCapey It's amazing that Apple considers the backquote/tilde key so much more important than the ESC key.

Looks like a reasonable solution. :)

They are all important. Backticks for things like markdown, reStructuredText, ES6, and shell scripting. Tildes for file paths and regex. ESC for Vim keybinding emulation in many programs.

The ESC key on the touchbar doesn't look like it's in the right position, but maybe people will be able to retrain themselves to feel for the left edge of the touchbar with the little finger and then tap with the ring finger.

It doesn't seem ideal, but I'll try it at a store before making a final opinion. I'm still relieved that I didn't switch from Linux to Mac though. :)

Re: Apple, this time you made a mistake

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Post by sakopov »

tmikaeld wrote: post #188
slgeorge wrote: post #183

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> I'm going to try Linux for the iftiest time. When you do that please, please buy something where it's preloaded onto the system (e.g. Dell XPS) so that you get the same sort of hardware/software experience that you get from the integrated apple. It will cut out so much fiddling and possibilities of a terrible experience!

Thanks for the advice, that's actually the exact modell i plan on getting. But I was unsure if it was a modern CPU, seemed dated? Or are the newer XPS also called XPS? The worst thing was that the linux version cost 2x more than the normal one here in Sweden...

I ended up purchasing Dell XPS 15 today. In terms of battery life, build quality and power there isn't much else besides it that compares to Macbook Pro (at least not until Surface Book 2 comes out but then it'll be horribly expensive too). I think what you're talking about is the Dell XPS developer edition. I'm not even sure if Dell sells them anymore. You might just get the Windows 10 Home Edition and throw a Linux distro on it. At least that's my plan.

Re: Apple, this time you made a mistake

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Post by masklinn »

amatheus wrote: post #187
masklinn wrote: post #133

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> I didn't knew people were doing that :O I rebind mine to control. > whats the benefit? Control is an actually useful key, in Emacs specifically but also in OSX in general as all OSX controls have emacs-ish chords support (e.g. C-a C-e for start and end of line). Having Control on a large well-placed key is more convenient than have it on a small key in the corner, and I've literally no use for capslock. > how do yo…

All the time I see people saying they never want caps lock. I develop in Java and it's convention to have constants be caps lock; other languages do something similar too. In that case what would be the solution without caps lock, typing each character holding shift? I think I'll try it to see how it goes but sounds weird to me.

> In that case what would be the solution without caps lock, typing each character holding shift?

Yes, what little you need to type before autocompletion kicks in anyway, and code is mostly not constants, writing constants is a much rarer case than chording Control in emacs, terminal or cocoa text control.

Re: Apple, this time you made a mistake

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Post by zimpenfish »

sbalea wrote: post #192
zimpenfish wrote: post #186

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The new MacBook is 61W for both 13" and 15" variants - https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs/

The 13" is 61W. The 15" is 87W. You're looking at the 13" specs, click on the 15: tab at the top of the page and scroll down.

Aha, what a confusing web page. Thanks for catching that.

Re: Apple, this time you made a mistake

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Post by tmikaeld »

sakopov wrote: post #196
tmikaeld wrote: post #188

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Thanks for the advice, that's actually the exact modell i plan on getting. But I was unsure if it was a modern CPU, seemed dated? Or are the newer XPS also called XPS? The worst thing was that the linux version cost 2x more than the normal one here in Sweden...

I ended up purchasing Dell XPS 15 today. In terms of battery life, build quality and power there isn't much else besides it that compares to Macbook Pro (at least not until Surface Book 2 comes out but then it'll be horribly expensive too). I think what you're talking about is the Dell XPS developer edition. I'm not even sure if Dell sells them anymore. You might just get the Windows 10 Home Edition and throw a Linux…

Would you please let me know if Linux works just as well on the Windows version as the Developer version.

Somehow i imagined they where different, but they probably aren't.

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