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Introducing the next generation of Mac
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#432I'll be sticking with my 2015 Macbook Pro Retina 13". Great machine, not too thin, heavy enough, no stupid touch screen, usb ports, great keyboard. Everything apple has done since hasn't compared.
The only bad thing about the current 16" is the Touch Bar. There is a lot to like about the rest though.
Is the keyboard less awful now compared to say 2018-19 15" MBPs?
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#433This is galling. I bought a new top spec Air earlier in the year to replace the one I'd owned since 2013. I hate it. The fan comes on about every 30 seconds (doing things on the new machine that were fine on the 2013 one). Literally no at Apple seems to care and I'm not the only one complaining.
It's taken then less than 6 months to refresh the entire line? What an absolute kick in the teeth - especially on the back of a machine I really dislike. Super shitty move from Apple.
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#434Straw poll: I need a new development machine, price is not an object but it has to be a Mac. Should I buy this new M1 or go with the Intel 16 inch MBP? My gut says there’s going to be a year or two of cross-compilation nightmares. I do a lot of Docker-based development. Wondering what everyone else thinks?
To be honest. You should wait a few weeks for all the expected reviews which will not only perform performance comparisons but highlight what software works that which does not
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> I don't know about the desktops, but Macbooks from 2016 are not well supported hardware-wise in Linux Which is unfortunate, because the 2015 models make great Linux machines. The introduction of the T2 chip made proper Linux support much harder to achieve.
Until 2019 Apple sold 13 inch MBPs without the touchbar, and these models did not have a T2 chip. They are still miserable computers to run Linux on, although I think the original 2016 touchbar-less MBP performs better than all the rest, albeit (IIRC) no working audio, very poor suspend/resume functionality, and until pretty recently no keyboard/trackpad functionality. Oh, and Apple's NVMe interface is non-compliant.…
Even in Bootcamp Apple did not bother to expose all hardware to Windows . The touchpad is reported as a mouse with a scroll wheel, no option to enable hardware encryption or to use Touch ID to unlock.
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Re: Introducing the next generation of Mac
#437This is galling. I bought a new top spec Air earlier in the year to replace the one I'd owned since 2013. I hate it. The fan comes on about every 30 seconds (doing things on the new machine that were fine on the 2013 one). Literally no at Apple seems to care and I'm not the only one complaining. It's taken then less than 6 months to refresh the entire line? What an absolute kick in the teeth - especially on the back…
I'm sorry you got a lemon but what does that have to do with how often Apple releases new machines? How often is Apple allowed to refresh their laptop lines for it not to be 'galling'?
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#438I wonder, is the 8GB vs. 16GB "unified memory" the kind of thing where all of the hardware actually has 16GB, but they disable half of it to sell the lower price version? Like Tesla's Model S 40 kwh?
Curious about the same thing, re: the 7-core GPU vs. the 8-core GPU on the Air. Seems like a pretty arbitrary upgrade (and only a $50 difference).
As with Pavlov's comment about the memory this could be a yield thing. It may be that there are enough dies where one of the cores fails that it's worth turning them into a lower spec model as happened with the 486 SX all those years ago. More than one core failing might not happen often enough to warrant making them a product line.
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#439Earlier quoted context omitted.
The only bad thing about the current 16" is the Touch Bar. There is a lot to like about the rest though.
I use the 2020 macbook air personally and 16in professionally and the keyboard drives me insane, to the point I bought a magic keyboard to be able to function without screaming at my computer for accidentally turning my video camera on yet again during a meeting. I really wish they would have a no touch bar option, because I could use more power but still be able to touch type. Touch bar is the worst technological "i…
Did you know that you can change what buttons are on the Touch Bar? You can make it almost behave the same as other keyboard by having it always show F-keys.
https://support.apple.com/en-qa/guide/mac-help/mchl5a63b060/...
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#440Earlier quoted context omitted.
I sometimes wonder what the overhead of Docker costs on a Mac. The fact that you have to run a whole linux VM, with guest OS, then send data back and forth over that, especially with volume mapping. I'm sure it can be quantified over running linux directly on the same hardware. My machine (MacBook Pro 13-inch, 2018, 2.7 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7, 16 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3) often runs screaming hot (with screaming fans…
Yeah, it’s pretty crazy especially when you’ve got a bunch of bind mounts. My current machine is a 2013 MBA and after cumulative 100+ hours of fighting with docker over the years, I finally gave up and started using remote development in VSCode on a Linux server. That was a great decision.
Glad to hear this has gone well. My current plan is to stick a Linux workstation under my desk and then use my MacBook for remote vscode.