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14-inch MacBook Pro review: A Mac Pro in your backpack

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Post by Eric_WVGG »

derekp7 wrote: post #207
Eric_WVGG wrote: post #198

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I don't get the dongle people. You can just buy USB-C to USB-B cords. They cost about the same as dongles. I replaced the cords on all my devices years ago and never looked back. https://www.amazon.com/Cable-Matters-Micro-Braided-Jacket/dp... https://www.amazon.com/JSAUX-Charger-Braided-Compatible-Exte... https://www.amazon.com/Cable-Matters-Printer-USB-C-Black/dp/...

It would be really nice if that was the case. However when you pick up a USB C cable, you can't tell if it is suitable for a particular purpose because there are so many optional features in the spec. Data transfer speed, PD, Display Port, HDMI, Thunderbolt 3/4, and probably others that I'm not remembering. I can understand not requiring a heavy gauge wire for a cable that is just transferring data and a bit of power…

I agree that the cases of power and displays were very badly handled, but how often does this happen in practice? Your laptop came with a power cord, and if you pick up the wrong one, most retailers are really good about returns. And who needs a collection of display cords?

For 90% of use cases any old cord will work. The edge cases sting for sure but overall the design of the plug is a huge win.

Re: 14-inch MacBook Pro review: A Mac Pro in your backpack

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Post by greentissue »

derekp7 wrote: post #207
Eric_WVGG wrote: post #198

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't get the dongle people. You can just buy USB-C to USB-B cords. They cost about the same as dongles. I replaced the cords on all my devices years ago and never looked back. https://www.amazon.com/Cable-Matters-Micro-Braided-Jacket/dp... https://www.amazon.com/JSAUX-Charger-Braided-Compatible-Exte... https://www.amazon.com/Cable-Matters-Printer-USB-C-Black/dp/...

It would be really nice if that was the case. However when you pick up a USB C cable, you can't tell if it is suitable for a particular purpose because there are so many optional features in the spec. Data transfer speed, PD, Display Port, HDMI, Thunderbolt 3/4, and probably others that I'm not remembering. I can understand not requiring a heavy gauge wire for a cable that is just transferring data and a bit of power…

this has been true of USB basically since its 1.0 release. I have micro and mini usb cables, some can charge phones and some cannot. Some can charge my ps3 controllers and some cannot. I bought a usb-a male to usb-a male at some point. Never got it working with anything.

Sounds like you have a problem with USB and are just noticing it now with usb-c.

Re: 14-inch MacBook Pro review: A Mac Pro in your backpack

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Post by tannhaeuser »

BoxOfRain wrote: post #213
Eric_WVGG wrote: post #162

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USB-C adoption mostly went fine, though. Or as fine as could be expected. I think the past five years can be more easily explained with — ironically — a Steve Jobs quote: > When we were an agrarian nation, all cars were trucks, because that's what you needed on the farm. But as vehicles started to be used in the urban centers, cars got more popular … PCs are going to be like trucks. They're still going to be around,…

>(do they still make Mazda Miatas?) They're called MX-5s here in the UK and I see them everywhere, unsurprisingly because it's in the spirit of an old British two seater but unlike the Triumph Spitfire or MG Midget it doesn't break down all the time and isn't essentially hygroscopic.

Original model was a Brit design by Lotus even, I believe.

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Post by schaefer »

tasogare wrote: post #220
schaefer wrote: post #95

If it was above board to download and run MacOS in VMWare as a guest under my linux host (slowdowns because of arc differences forgiven), I'd be way more willing dip a toe into the ecosystem and see how I like it...

If you were really curious you would use MacOS bare metal as shipped out of the box, with Linux running in a VM instead of wishing for premises you know won't happen.

Yes, I really am curious. And NO, your assumptions about what I would do if I really was curious aren't correct.

I had a mac book pro around 2011 (OS X snow leopard). half a dozen happy years with it until it was stolen. But these days since Apple is forbidding running MaxOS under virtualization, that's a deal breaker for me.

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Post by teh_klev »

tannhaeuser wrote: post #224
BoxOfRain wrote: post #213

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>(do they still make Mazda Miatas?) They're called MX-5s here in the UK and I see them everywhere, unsurprisingly because it's in the spirit of an old British two seater but unlike the Triumph Spitfire or MG Midget it doesn't break down all the time and isn't essentially hygroscopic.

Original model was a Brit design by Lotus even, I believe.

Not quite. Mazda were inspired by the design of the Lotus Elan, but the MX-5 was never designed in any part by Lotus.

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Post by prepend »

neonscribe wrote: post #124
prepend wrote: post #115

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I disagree. I don’t purposefully keep A and C devices. I’m switching everything over to C and have dongles to do that. Supporting both wastes the space for when I’ve moved to C. I’m more likely to have an A->C dongle than an SD card reader.

We may live in the future, but many of us still work with people who live in the past. I know Apple always tries hard to be forward-thinking, but USB-A is one of those ubiquitous standards that won't disappear for quite some time.

I’ve been migrating to usb-c since my MacBook four years ago. I don’t have any A devices and just keep adapter dongles for people who have thumb drives or something.

I don’t care that much because it’s the size of a quarter and goes in my bad with hdmi and other adapters.

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Post by acid__ »

marcellus23 wrote: post #194
gomox wrote: post #191

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How did you change volume or brightness?

You can set the touch bar to always show the "control strip" instead of keeping it minimized on the right side of the touch bar.

This is a game changer, thank you!

For anyone else looking to configure this:

 > "System Preferences" > "Keyboard" > "Touch Bar shows" => "Expanded Control Strip"

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Post by fomine3 »

_xnmw wrote: post #159

The most striking benchmark for me as a developer is the disk read/write speed. Wonder why Apple didn't highlight that. Nearly 2x as fast as last year's M1 Air or Intel macs - that sounds amazing to me. As a simple web dev, I thought I would never use any of the extra power available in an M1 Pro/Max, as I never do anything GPU-intensive. However, disk speed is a noticeable factor in day-to-day workloads, even when I…

> However, disk speed is a noticeable factor in day-to-day workloads, even when I'm running an IDE like IntelliJ and indexing a large repo.

You may want to check IOPS benchmark rather than throughput.

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Post by fomine3 »

nitins_jakta wrote: post #146
zepto wrote: post #140

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Can you identify a system that doesn’t cause these issues for you?

Older systems like a ThinkPad from 2013 work. Something changed around then for the display tech.

I thought CCFL vs LED but maybe CCFL was dead in 2013
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