It’s amazing! They take away the 2011 17” and com back with the worlds best 16”.
Apple marketing may be responsible for a dumber consumer
Signed, Me (the guy who runs out and buys every amazing apple product)
16-inch MacBook Pro
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#32216 matches for the word “ever” in that page. I love the Esc key is back though and hopefully it doesn’t throttle as much as my current 2017 MBP.
10 for "world's" which includes "world's best" "world's most". A very cringey read if you ask me yet people eat this stuff up.
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#323Don't forget that the Touch Bar costs an additional $400 for consumers. The 2015 model was the best MacBook Pro. Perhaps the best laptop yet.
Same with iPhone 6s. Not sure why can't admit that reached the peak with a product and just keep producing it that way, maybe with minor modifications only. I would totally keep buying 2015 MPBs and iPhone6s till the end of times.
the 8 is basically a 6s, right?
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#324It’s amazing! They take away the 2011 17” and com back with the worlds best 16”.
Apple marketing may be responsible for a dumber consumer.
What am I going to do with my 2019 15” i9? Signed, Me (the guy who runs out and buys every amazing apple product)
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#325The photos in the article do show the physical escape key but do not show the sides of the laptop where the ports would be. I hope that it has a MagSafe charge adapter and an HDMI port.
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#326Around the world thousands of vim users rejoice over the physical esc key.
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#327"I'm so glad this model has a touchbar" "I would buy a dell xps but only if it had a touchbar" things no one ever said.
I initially found the touchbar to mostly be a gimmick, new for the sake of being new and not really bringing anything useful to the table. A couple of years later and I'm a convert. If I had to buy a new MBP today I would definitely make sure it has a touchbar. It turns out app makers have found some nifty uses for it, like the ability to quickly mute/unmute when in conference calls, quickly changing volume/brightnes…
i remap capslock to escape regardless of the make/model of laptop i use, so the lack of a physical escape key didn’t really effect me.
i never type with capslock on, and find using it for escape helps my vim workflow
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#328"I'm so glad this model has a touchbar" "I would buy a dell xps but only if it had a touchbar" things no one ever said.
I may be in the minorty and like the touch bar. Intellij, Outlook and Apple's own programs integrate it very well. Phyisical keys are great but 12 buttons labelled F1 to F12 with different functions depending on the program also isn't he pinnacle of UX.
They used to make cardboard guides that could sit on top of the older ibm keyboards when most of the world used one... I don’t know that you can replace the feel but some haptic taps or something might improve the touch bar. I generally like it bur on it and my older MBPs I pretty much used escape and volume and screen brightness settings and otherwise never used that row. Since laptops, the f-keys simply aren’t what they used to be, it’s not unusual for them to be overloaded or even require a shift like key to be pressed for f-key behavior.
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#329Is it just me, or does the touch bar remind anyone else of the MS Word Ribbon?
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#330Can someone explain to me how Apple can justify only including a 720p FaceTime HD camera into the "the world’s best pro notebook"? The last iPhone that had this FaceTime camera was the 6S, released in 2015. Since the iPhone 7 (2016) the phones have had at least a 1080p FaceTime camera. Given that FaceTime / Skype calls are such a common use case and rarely anyones uses external webcams anymore, why doesn't Apple use…
A phone camera is used to capture moments you want to preserve for posterity. A laptop camera is used for conference calls and no one needs to see all my facial flaws in 4K detail. So, no, I don’t consider this in any way to be a dealbreaker.
When doing user research (and I for one reason or another don't have other/better equipment around), I've used the MacBook as camera, mic, and screen recorder, when applicable (attaching a non-Apple mouse, of course, because those things are bonkers).
In these situations, a higher resolution camera wouldn't hurt. A better mic is higher priority though, so I'm happy to see that in the specs.