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Wifi problems on a MBP again? For fuck's sake... I'll probably make do with what I have for a bit longer or find a 2015 refurb. Or go all bohemian and spin up linux on a chromebook.
They actually reverted back to 2x2 MIMO for the wifi cards. The previous generation 13" had 3x3 MIMO (antennas), now the new one has 2x2 MIMO. So less theoretical maximum speed.
Here are my caveats: 1. The keyboard. Not the Touch Bar; the rest of the keyboard. There isn't much travel and I'm afraid it will aggravate my RSI. I've tried pressing the keys more gently, but sometimes I'm too gentle and miss keystrokes. Pressing the right side of the caps lock key is unreliable even when I press it fairly firmly. And the right shift key has gotten stuck once already. I'll give it some more time to…
Nothing to do with Apple per se, but if you have RSI issues, then you might want to start looking into external keyboards, at least for the heavy sessions. (I'm typing this on a Dvorak Kinesis Avantage).
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I remapped my ESC key to `jj`. Set the timeout to 1 sec and it's been working flawlessly for me.
Where did you remap?
Just clone it into your root directory and ensure it's named ".vimrc". It won't work otherwise. Then just restart your terminal. I'd google some things in there if you don't fully understand what they do.
The problems with the new macbook "pro" seem to keep on growing. I am really surprised that Apple did not find the connecting to external display issue in internal testing.
I suspect we will see the share desktop experience extend to other devices. In an post release interview Jony Ive implied that the touch bar was the first step in a new paradigm. Imagine the Photoshop toolbar being available on your iPad's touch screen, while you're editing a photo on your Mac. Or playing a video game while using your iPhone for controls.
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You normally use Windows on your 2013 MBPR? All hardware working nicely?
Yes, with Apple's Boot Camp drivers it actually makes a very nice Windows machine. I used to run Windows in a Parallels VM under OSX, and that worked well for a while, but at some point my OSX installation started getting very slow, and Parallels even slower. So I started using Boot Camp more and found it to be very snappy. Also I was doing some VR work on Windows, and that only works on physical hardware. (The MBPR…
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Yes, with Apple's Boot Camp drivers it actually makes a very nice Windows machine. I used to run Windows in a Parallels VM under OSX, and that worked well for a while, but at some point my OSX installation started getting very slow, and Parallels even slower. So I started using Boot Camp more and found it to be very snappy. Also I was doing some VR work on Windows, and that only works on physical hardware. (The MBPR…
Serious question as two people now have mentioned Bootcamp "drivers", and I've only ever gone the other way (Hackintosh) - why do you need Apple drivers to install Windows on what seems to be a perfectly normal x86 machine?
It's basically the same reason you'd need custom Windows drivers for any hardware. It's just that in this case, it's Apple hardware.