Does Apple sell a 2016 laptop without a dedicated GPU?
Newest MacBook Pro is the first MacBook not recommended by Consumer Reports
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Re: Newest MacBook Pro is the first MacBook not recommended by Consumer Reports
#52Good thing they removed the battery time remaining indicator. People will never notice. /s
In macOS 10.12 sierra you can option-click on the battery indicator and click on "show percentage". Now the fact that they are trying to obfuscate how low you are on juice is really damning
Show percentage is insufficient. If something in my behavior will cause the battery to drop from 50% to 0% in one hour instead of six, I want to know that.
Re: Newest MacBook Pro is the first MacBook not recommended by Consumer Reports
#53Does Apple sell a 2016 laptop without a dedicated GPU?
Nope, 15" one has Radeon graphics.
Re: Newest MacBook Pro is the first MacBook not recommended by Consumer Reports
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
FYI BetterTouchTools supposedly lets you customize the touch bar for arbitrary apps. Haven't tried it on a touch bar myself but it's an amazing utility regardless. https://www.boastr.net/bettertouchtool-pre-alpha-with-touch-... (I believe stable has this feature now as well.)
Hmm, doesn't this still require you to cmd-tab to the tool, since TouchBar only allows the currently focused app to display things?
Never used it myself, but can you not set a global hotkey to bring it to front?
Re: Newest MacBook Pro is the first MacBook not recommended by Consumer Reports
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
FYI BetterTouchTools supposedly lets you customize the touch bar for arbitrary apps. Haven't tried it on a touch bar myself but it's an amazing utility regardless. https://www.boastr.net/bettertouchtool-pre-alpha-with-touch-... (I believe stable has this feature now as well.)
Hmm, doesn't this still require you to cmd-tab to the tool, since TouchBar only allows the currently focused app to display things?
This is a limit of the public API. The private APIs apparently make more things possible and AFAIK (I don't have a TB mac) better touch tool allows to change the control strip part of the touchbar
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#56Re: Newest MacBook Pro is the first MacBook not recommended by Consumer Reports
#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
In macOS 10.12 sierra you can option-click on the battery indicator and click on "show percentage". Now the fact that they are trying to obfuscate how low you are on juice is really damning
Show percentage is insufficient. If something in my behavior will cause the battery to drop from 50% to 0% in one hour instead of six, I want to know that.
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Re: Newest MacBook Pro is the first MacBook not recommended by Consumer Reports
#58Good thing they removed the battery time remaining indicator. People will never notice. /s
In macOS 10.12 sierra you can option-click on the battery indicator and click on "show percentage". Now the fact that they are trying to obfuscate how low you are on juice is really damning
Oddly the underlying calls in the power api are all still there (so you can just write a quick app to query it) so I have absolutely no idea why in the world they have removed it, other than to completely irritate you.
It's infuriating.
Re: Newest MacBook Pro is the first MacBook not recommended by Consumer Reports
#59Good thing they removed the battery time remaining indicator. People will never notice. /s
In macOS 10.12 sierra you can option-click on the battery indicator and click on "show percentage". Now the fact that they are trying to obfuscate how low you are on juice is really damning
It's not the percentage they removed but the 'time remaining' indicator.
Re: Newest MacBook Pro is the first MacBook not recommended by Consumer Reports
#60I'm not really a fan of Mac's, but I don't think too much weight should be put on this. Everything that Apple delivers is greeted with negative reports, and yet it turns out to be successful. Also... i've never even heard of "Consumer Reports" before.. but the name is pretty subjective.
Most large product companies are going to be met with some people not liking the choices, or some backlash. You make it sound like all their products receive 2/10 across the board or something, when that's simply not true. One can't please everybody, but most of the phones have been well received. I think the worst issue was the iPhone 4 models having some cell reception problems ("You're holding it wrong"). Most of the products they put out are generally liked by reviewers, with usually fair criticism as well.
That said, I think the recent years of there just being more earlier on bugs is worrying. I hope apple ups their quality control in the coming year.