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Re: MacBook Pro

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Post by masklinn »

javajosh wrote: post #281
untog wrote: post #179

I know USB-C is the future, but it's going to be a long, long, long time before all our devices are using it - particularly external displays. My current Macbook Pro has an HDMI port. I use it every day. I do not want to carry a converter dongle with me everywhere (I did that with my old Air that only had a DisplayPort). To echo other complaints: this is supposed to be a professional machine. I don't care about it be…

Yes, I've never once thought about my MPBr "This beast, it's just too thick!" Honestly the only improvements I would like are the following: 1. Stop making new power connector standards. 2. Stop making power adapters that fray after a year. 3. Increase battery life. 4. *Add* at least one standard USB port. 5. Decrease display bezel. 6. Increase RAM and HDD to 32G and 10TB.

> 6. Increase HDD to 10TB.

Are you high? Samsung just announced the 2TB 960 Pro for >$1200, their 4TB SSD the year before was like $4000. 10TB is enterprise-class 2.5" $10000 a pop land (or cheaper in bulk, Seagate announced a 60TB SSD for $40000 in 3.5" format)

Re: MacBook Pro

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Post by htp »

guessmyname wrote: post #285

Is the Touch ID sensor the new power button? When I buy it, how am I supposed to power it up? I feel stupid and old just for asking this question :-(

  Is the Touch ID sensor the new power button?
Yep.

Re: MacBook Pro

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Post by overcast »

justanton wrote: post #439
overcast wrote: post #326

Ugh. I don't know what to do here. I've been waiting for Mac updates for ages, and this is what we get. My 2008 Mac Pro is maxed out on upgrades, and has been on the fritz lately. I can't go forever on an 8+ year old machine. Especially one that is no longer "officially supported" by Apple, and now requires 3rd party patches to install Sierra and its updates. Microsoft's Surface presentation yesterday was VERY tempti…

Huge respect for you for keeping your MacBook for so long. I personally tired of stuff that "breaks" or becomes "obsolete" in a year or so. Our environment is doomed if we continue to have lifestyles like this: buying new shit in a year.

2008 Mac Pro tower! Only reason I'm considering MacBOOK Pro, is because the Mac Pro desktop has been just forgotten.

Re: MacBook Pro

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Post by lostgame »

inputcoffee wrote: post #335

Everyone seems disappointed but I think the reason is this: There isn't that much to innovate on the laptop. If you want real innovation, you need new form factors: voice recognition, VR, intelligent devices and so on. The laptop is excellent at what it does and the only thing you can really do is make it faster and lighter.

Everyone's disappointed because we don't WANT innovation.

We WANT better battery life, not a slightly thinner laptop.

We WANT our USB ports and MagSafe.

We WANT a touchscreen MacBook.

We WANT significantly upgraded specs, and expandability.

We WANT to have the same physical keyboard layout we've had forever.

We WANT Apple to stop f•••ing us around by increasing the price while actively removing features.

THIS laptop is not 'excellent at what it does' if I can't:

• use any of my existing peripherals with it without paying an exorbitant $35 PER ADAPTER to get it to do so.

• provide me with a significant performance increase to a laptop I bought 4 years ago.

• provide me with the same features the previous laptop had (built-in HDMI, built-in SD card slot)

This is head-shakingly, miserably sad and would've been a punch in the balls already for any serious pro user if it wasn't an additional punch in the balls for Apple considering Microsoft showed yesterday it's actually willing to innovate.

Re: MacBook Pro

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Post by tnecniv »

steejk wrote: post #295
ChicagoDave wrote: post #242

TouchBar. Dead on arrival. This is a cute feature, but kind of embarrassing from an innovation perspective. And given the announcement of the Surface Book update and the new Surface Studio, Apple is inconceivably playing second fiddle to Microsoft on the innovation front. The leap ahead on ports is premature at best. I'm sure Apple will hold most of their fan base, but there are going to be quite a few defections me…

Agreed. To me all the demos of the touch bar looked awkward and could've been replaced with far better functionality using a touchscreen. Hopefully it's more appealing when actually using it.

Or just built the functionality into the program UI in the context specific cases.

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Post by mastax »

FireBeyond wrote: post #271
sccxy wrote: post #150

Pro device with emojis. Did you hear about emojis? I guess they mentioned it five times in the keynote.

Well, you -know- the Surface Studio doesn't have an emoji keyboard.

Well, actually: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/tb6fWHelumA/maxresdefault.jpg

it's probably not bad on a touchscreen.

Re: MacBook Pro

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Post by LeicaLatte »

Microsoft’s dominance over desktops has never changed. Be it servers, PCs or game consoles. And it is Apple who have forged their own path into mobile computing these last 15 years.

Re: MacBook Pro

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Post by dudurocha »

revicon wrote: post #138
brian-armstrong wrote: post #20

Replacing hardware keys with a touchscreen on a laptop made for power users is a sign that Apple has lost touch with what made the MacBook Pro popular in the first place. I think they could have just upgraded to the newest CPU and put a new battery in and made everyone happy.

I think the thing that is being missed here is that Apple doesn't make much money off of "power users". They make money off people buying movies on itunes and subscribing to icloud for their photos. Everything Apple is building is aimed toward that market, emojis and all. If you feel that Apple isn't designing with you in mind it's probably because you've outgrown them. Time to look at alternatives.

You are missing the real statistics. Only 11% of all apple revenues come from services (app store, Icloud, itunes).

apple makes money from selling phones and computers. If you want to sell a $1,799 notebook (or even $2,399 for the 15 inch version), they need to think on power users.

Re: MacBook Pro

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Post by [deleted] »

dasmoth wrote: post #146

Does anyone else get the feeling that Apple are planning to kill desktops entirely? I went into this kind-of interested in the touch bar but thinking "how will they add it to external keyboards." Now, I don't think they ever will. The "pro workstation" sequence they showed during the live event is what they're aiming at: set your desk up so that the laptop us the keyboard and just add monitors (and perhaps external s…

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Re: MacBook Pro

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Post by asadlionpk »

dguaraglia wrote: post #410

As a heavy Vim user, this might be my last Apple development machine. I can always remap Caps Lock to Esc, but years of muscle memory > a flashy feature I have little use for. There's nothing I'd pay extra for in this new machine: touchbar is a meh, biometric authentication has been around since ~2005, the hardware specs are finally catching up with what everyone else has been shipping for a couple years, the new key…

The upcoming devs never used Linux in the first place. So I highly doubt that. The tools will have to adapt.
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