New MacBook Pro Is Not a Laptop for Developers Anymore

Post by cpr » Fri, Oct 28, 2016, 3:58 PM UTC

pilif wrote: post #222

chimeracoder wrote: post #165

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> Considering that Apple revises their hardware builds about every four years, it makes sense to move to strictly USB-C now This would make a lot more sense if Apple had switched the iPhone to USB-C as well. That way, you really could just use one cable for everything . Instead, you need three separate charger for your iPhone, Macbook Pro, and Apple Watch. Oh, and the iPhone comes with lightning-USB- A cables, which…

>This would make a lot more sense if Apple had switched the iPhone to USB-C as well yes. it would have. And this is the actual problem there. Lightning is just another way of controlling their walled-garden around iOS and I really hate it for that reason. But that's beside the point of the port choice of the new Macs: The phones always have a lightning port, so the cable connecting to them will always have a lighting…

Post by asimpletune » Fri, Oct 28, 2016, 3:59 PM UTC

Post by aikah » Fri, Oct 28, 2016, 3:59 PM UTC

jws wrote: post #8

Bah, these entitled kids. I guess being old enough to remember keyboards before they had escape keys helps, but ␛ is just keyboard syntactic sugar for control left square bracket . Read your ASCII table! C-[ is even a quicker type avoiding RSIs from all those long pinky reaches. (More seriously, as much as it bothers me to retrain my pinky, most uses of the escape key would be many times better if the lefthand side o…

Post by dep_b » Fri, Oct 28, 2016, 4:00 PM UTC

mschip wrote: post #64

I'm no Apple fanboy nor apologist, but this sentiment is everywhere and overtly dramatic. They continue to provide a 13" model with function keys as an alternative. If that machine isn't fast enough you probably aren't a "developer" anyways. Also, I rarely use the keyboard on my mac because I use it on a stand with an additional monitor. If you want to complain about the new Mac, complain about price or the fact that…

Post by BooneJS » Fri, Oct 28, 2016, 4:00 PM UTC

BlackjackCF wrote: post #223

chairmanwow wrote: post #102

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Many common applications that developers use have many keybindings that heavily rely upon the Escape key (Vim for sure).

I'm a big Vim user and I honestly wouldn't mind too much if I were to just remap the Esc key to capslock.