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Re: MacBook Pro

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Post by beamatronic »

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…

I agree, in all of Microsoft and Apple's recent moves, the big winner is Ubuntu ( at least, for those in my immediate circle, who want an OS that Just Works )

Re: MacBook Pro

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Post by lifeformed »

JoshGlazebrook wrote: post #441
lifeformed wrote: post #359

How does Apple always have the worst websites? They _never_ work properly for me. Do they not test in Chrome Windows? The video links never work, the horizontal sliders are always broken. Aren't they supposed to be good at design or something?

What isn't working for you? I've never had any issues with Chrome on their website.

Every time I check out a new product page of theirs I get these problems. The video players never work or even open, and the horizontal sliders are always broken or sticky. I turned off all my plugins and nothing helps.

Re: MacBook Pro

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Post by thoth »

vladimir-y wrote: post #370

So now there will be no way to use new Macbooks with Linux/Windows installed due to that weird numeric touch keys row? I better consider recently updated HP Spectre x360 with newest Kaby Lake CPU and usual fn keys row, plus it's convertible if someone needs that.

Windows support for the touch bar gizmo will depend on Apple updating their bootcamp drivers.

As for Linux... I guess somebody will need to reverse engineer and write a driver for it.

Re: MacBook Pro

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Post by santaclaus »

binthere wrote: post #69

This trend of killing hardware buttons needs to stop. It's very inconvenient. The sense of touch is important for me. It's one of the annoying things I don't like about many Android devices and it seems that Apple is slowly transitioning to this as well.

Hardware buttons have no place in a post millennial world. Kids under 12 don't even know what physical buttons are.

Re: MacBook Pro

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Post by slantyyz »

Osmium wrote: post #336

Would be curious to know if they tested the Touch Bar below the keyboard instead of above it. I wonder if, as the concept further evolves, the bar might become larger or migrate locations. The comparisons they made to the original PowerBook were interesting, in that it really showed how constant incremental changes really add up in the long term. Edit: Another possibility is to integrate an OLED display into the trac…

>> The comparisons they made to the original PowerBook were interesting, in that it really showed how constant incremental changes really add up in the long term.

I spent a huge chunk of my savings to get a Powerbook 170 in the early 90s to get the active matrix grayscale screen. I still miss that trackball. It was --awesome--.

Re: MacBook Pro

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Post by pisarzp »

They could've at least put lightning port in it. Android and Mac users can now charge and listen to music using same cables, but it's not the case for iPhone

Re: MacBook Pro

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Post by masklinn »

AndrewKemendo wrote: post #238
ynniv wrote: post #143

Apple has replaced the MacBook Pro with a faster MacBook Air labeled "Pro". I have no idea how they could think that professionals would use a MacBook Air (no ports, shallow keyboard, no expansion, no innovative features, marginally lighter). A tiny ribbon display is completely useless to me. They removed the escape key. Twenty years of using Macs and I'm not sure what my next laptop is going to be.

Twenty years of using Macs and I'm not sure what my next laptop is going to be. I gotta say the Surface Book has been really great. Especially as it supports the new MSVR and Hololens out of the box for the DGPU version.

My beefs are the low-voltage CPUs and that it's even more expensive than the MBP if you want 16GB RAM ($2700, though you do get 512GB SSD for that which brings the MBP to $2600), let alone 1TB SSD (that's $3300 versus $3000 on the MBP).

And that's comparing to the 15" rMBP, the 13" is $2200 (16/512) / $2600 (16/1TB), though in that case the SB adds a dGPU. And battery life in both cases of course.

And the SB doesn't have a single type-C port let alone TB3.

Re: MacBook Pro

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Post by bluthru »

agentgt wrote: post #313

"We took that track pad that your palms occasional rub against and accidentally move your cursor.... yeah we took that and made it extra big so your wrists will now participate in cursor screw ups"... think different.

Obviously software ignores those touches.

Re: MacBook Pro

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Post by mieses »

drinchev wrote: post #170

What about upgradeability. I guess the fight is lost. I thought "Pro" stands for that. The reason that I will ( probably ) buy Apple MacBooks was narrowed to software compatibility. So sad.

Are SSD and RAM user-upgradeable or soldered on?

Re: MacBook Pro

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Post by beamatronic »

massysett wrote: post #449
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…

Linux is not bad. But nobody is making decent Linux hardware, and the instant you slap Linux onto a Windows machine, battery life plummets. My days buying Windows machines and struggling to get Linux on them are over. I'd rather buy a Mac and get a Unix I can use without having to install it. Is anyone actually selling a decent preinstalled Linux laptop? If I really wanted to use Linux I would rather buy a Windows la…

How about Ubuntu on an Asus Zenbook? Asus seems to make solid hardware year-over-year without a lot of "surprises"
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