Perhaps they could release a usb c charging cable with a magnetic disconnect in the cable itself (sort of like a cable with a smaller-magsafe-to-usb-c dongle built into it). No reason to suspect they will do this but it should be technically feasible and would allow a migration to USB C without losing all of the benefits of magnetic disconnection.
Apple’s expected Mac event on October 27 is official
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... to other products which also lack magsafe?
I'm voting with my wallet, as they say. If enough people do the same, perhaps they'll come around after an iteration or two.
I'm voting with my wallet by not buying the headphone-jack-less iPhone 7, but I don't think enough people will care about the lack of MagSafe. It doesn't prevent you from doing anything, and with everything going SSD (i.e. no data loss if dropped) it's probably easier for Apple to just offer an AppleCare replacement policy if the products do get damaged by being yanked to the floor.
Re: Apple’s expected Mac event on October 27 is official
#43I just hope we get 32G of RAM on the MBP. It's desperately needed.
I doubt it. Very few people have a legitimate need for 32 GB of RAM in any device, let alone a laptop.
Apple doesn't really build their hardware so that it's "developer-oriented", so it's unlikely you'll see 32 GB of RAM anytime soon. Perhaps 8, 12 or 16 GB.
Re: Apple’s expected Mac event on October 27 is official
#44I just hope we get 32G of RAM on the MBP. It's desperately needed.
Is it?
Re: Apple’s expected Mac event on October 27 is official
#45If an OLED panel replaces the function keys, that ruins it for me. I mostly run Windows on my late-2013 15" MBPR, and I use the function keys all the time. Especially for debugging. F5, F9, F10, F11 are burned into my brain.
I used to be a huge ThinkPad fan, but their wilderness years of bad displays and constant keyboard rearrangement turned me off, so I thought I'd try using my MBPR for Windows work instead. Turns out to be a very nice Windows machine, with the bonus of being able to boot into macOS too. (I can also run Windows under Parallels in macOS and that works pretty well, but running Windows native in a Boot Camp partition is more responsive.)
The only serious function key issue is the lack of the little gaps between F4-F5 and F8-F9. If you don't use the function keys much, you'd be surprised how important those gaps are for a touch typist. Lenovo even ditched the gaps for a while (and they had their own misguided experiment with a touch panel in the second gen X1 Carbon), but now the gaps are back - and they finally have good displays again.
ThinkPads also have the Home/End/PgUp/PgDn keys instead of the crazy contorted Fn+arrow combinations you have to use on a Mac keyboard.
I've gotten pretty used to these Mac keyboard issues by now, but losing the function keys? That's a bit much. Looks like my next Windows machine will be another ThinkPad.
Re: Apple’s expected Mac event on October 27 is official
#46I just hope we get 32G of RAM on the MBP. It's desperately needed.
A 1.5TB or 2TB drive would be nice too. My 1TB is full.
Re: Apple’s expected Mac event on October 27 is official
#47I just hope we get 32G of RAM on the MBP. It's desperately needed.
I doubt it. Very few people have a legitimate need for 32 GB of RAM in any device, let alone a laptop. Apple doesn't really build their hardware so that it's "developer-oriented", so it's unlikely you'll see 32 GB of RAM anytime soon. Perhaps 8, 12 or 16 GB.
Even for developer 16GB works fine.
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Taking away MagSafe will be very unfortunate. MagSafe is one of the best things about Macs.
I've bought 4 of 5 of these goddamned Magsafe1 to Magsafe2 adapters, and they ALL fail over (a very short amount of) time. Sorta non-sequiter, but god it's terrible.
With what you've spent in adapters by now, you could have bought an actual M2 brick. Just sayin' ;)
(In 4 years I had to buy two bricks. Those thin cables are shocking. Still, Magsafe is such a nice connector, I wish they were all like that... instead of these large phallic daggers that will inevitably break their precariously-soldered ports.)
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Taking away MagSafe will be very unfortunate. MagSafe is one of the best things about Macs.
Personally I'm glad to see MagSafe go away if that means I can use charging ports on either sides of the laptop. Sitting on the right side of the bed with the charger connected is a huge hassle when you only have a charging port on the left side. The cables of Apple's MagSafe charger are also quite crappy, they tend to fray after 2-3 years of use. I hope that gets better with USB-C and if not at least you'll have bet…
> Personally I'm glad to see MagSafe go away if that means I can
Re: Apple’s expected Mac event on October 27 is official
#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
I doubt it. Very few people have a legitimate need for 32 GB of RAM in any device, let alone a laptop. Apple doesn't really build their hardware so that it's "developer-oriented", so it's unlikely you'll see 32 GB of RAM anytime soon. Perhaps 8, 12 or 16 GB.
Even for developer 16GB works fine.
Depends if you're running multiple VM's concurrently, but yes, most of the time, 16 GB is more than enough.