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Yes. For a lower price than the 2018 model. Seems like manufactured outrage.
Oh no... Apple is providing better value. Let's be mad at them for good reasons like having a poor keyboard on a device designed around typing.
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My experience with traditional fingerprint scanners on laptops is that they're extremely picky and won't work if you are a bit sweaty or the air is dry or the day of the week starts with a T or something. Having it fail to read your finger several times on a login pushes me back to regular passwords. The enrollment process takes forever for each finger too. Also, it doesn't work in Linux.
That is in many ways not true. I'm a happy user of a fingerprint scanner on Linux (for login and sudo). It actually took about the same time to enroll as touch id. How the scanner deals with moisture depends on the model so it's not all the same. Lenovo x1 for example it's in my experience just as bad as touchid on that scale.
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What do you dislike about it? I haven't really noticed mine.
I just like the functionality and feel of actual buttons. It's like the difference between using the iPad software keyboard vs. an actual hardware keyboard to type on. The Touch Bar makes a row of my keyboard worse.
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It's perfectly reasonable and wouldn't be noticed by the overwhelming majority of users. There is a point of diminishing returns for most uses, and this is far beyond it. Further this sort of single-sample analysis of a vendor like Apple's products is always folly. Apply doesn't advertise specific SSD units, speeds, etc, and we know that they often vary them within a product, sometimes with multiple variants on the m…
> It's perfectly reasonable and wouldn't be noticed by the overwhelming majority of users. Apple used to launch new phones/macs with these kinds of changes, and people used to buy them for these kinds of changes -- just a little bit thinner, just a little bit more battery. And suddenly people won't notice this. I am sure if it were the other way around, Apple would have claimed to have invented a new device and would…
In this case, the internal store went from "extremely fast -- far above most competitors" to, at least in this sample, "slightly less extremely fast -- still far above most competitors".
It's a giant nothingburger topped with a clickbait condiment.
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I went for the 1.5TB, despite the storage upgrade being more than the computer itself. That storage point is my bare minimum to keep existing personal files (plus headroom); I was happy to pay it, it's a great machine. :D
Jesus why not put your files on an external hard drive or in the cloud?
I find that both iOS and the Mac handle large libraries badly. Mine is 110k approximately and it’s ugly. I had the library in a NAS and this was a great way of corrupting it.
It’s been real. After owning 6+ Mac laptops for the past 15 years I’m out.
You'll be back for the trackpad alone.
Furthermore at my desk I use a vertical mouse with 5 buttons which is far, far better than any touchpad.
I'm so glad to never have to use an Apple UI or rent one of their devices ever again! It's such a user-hostile ecosystem, but I don't really blame their users for having such a bad case of Stockholm syndrome.
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I have to agree Apple makes a great trackpad. Most other manufacturers' hardware seems to consistently detect a movement as a drag action. Constantly detecting the wrong movement and drawing a box instead of moving the mouse pointer. It could be Windows OS that's bad or macOS that's good or a mix of OS and hardware. The Apple OS is nice but too restrictive for me. Windows I find is kludgy and bloated. Linux is nice i…
How is macOS restrictive?
You can only install it on one brand of overpriced hardware. Does anyone really need to list another restriction to rightfully say that this OS is "too restricted"?
You can't tweak the system nearly as much as you can Linux or Windows. For instance, there is simply no access to certain APIs that Apple uses, such as changing NSScreen visibleFrame, which is why every replacement for the Dock fails with the same bug: Application windows show up behind the Dock replacement.
You can't even change the fucking mouse pointer color!!!!!!! from black to white or any other color that you desire...and there isn't even a third party tool that allows you to do this because of more hidden APIs.
Honestly, I could go on for days about all the restrictive qualities of macOS. I used to have a complete list somewhere, but I chose to simply stop using Macs (unless I have to compile something for iOS) instead of trying to convince others that it's a bad idea.
If you can bear to use it, great for you! Tons of people eat McDonald's too.
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Like I said, I'm not sure. The vast majority of people I know who have an Air or MBP have an older model without Touch ID. They might appreciate it if it is there, but they won't miss it in its absence. The only two people I know who've ever owned one that had it both returned it because they otherwise hated the device. For me personally, Touch ID makes sense on a phone, because I can do it with a single hand. For a…
I think Touch ID on a laptop / desktop would make a lot of sense. I don't actually know any of my passwords.
Perhaps ironically, I know my laptop/desktop passwords by touch. :)