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New MacBook Pro models to feature magsafe, no touch bar and more ports: analyst
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Re: New MacBook Pro models to feature magsafe, no touch bar and more ports: analyst
#52I quite like the Touch Bar, with things like pock it means I can have full screen, hide the dock entire and still have notifications And the ability to set custom apps inside it with iterm, and not have to loose a key on the board itself I spend most of my time in vi when in terminal, and never had a “I’m missing an escape” ever
Anyone who spends significant time in vim has already remapped ESC to something else anyway, be it caps-lock or a key combo.
Re: New MacBook Pro models to feature magsafe, no touch bar and more ports: analyst
#53Re: New MacBook Pro models to feature magsafe, no touch bar and more ports: analyst
#54Reading this, it feels like the MacBook Pro of 2015 is finally getting an upgrade. Took them 5 years to go back and restore the old school. Great to hear a couple iterations ago they restored the keyboard. Now with dropping the touch bar and bringing back mag safe. My 2015 daily driver might see retirement.
>Great to hear a couple iterations ago they restored the keyboard. Magic Keyboard was only introduced in mid 2020. And they are still not as good as MBP 2015 in terms of typing experience. Magic Keyboard Key Travel - 1mm MacBook 2015 Key Travel - 1.3mm Key Spacing as well. They are tiny in Magic Keyboard Layout and it is harder to "sense" the keys apart. >Took them 5 years to go back and restore the old school. Track…
Had 2015, have 2020 (sold a 2019) thought you can’t beat a 2015 but I like the 2020 better actually! 2015 feels spongey in comparison.
Re: New MacBook Pro models to feature magsafe, no touch bar and more ports: analyst
#55I know it's from Kuo, but these leaks don't pass the smell test for me. It makes no sense for them to add the touchbar to the base model 13" MBPs only to remove them from the higher end versions. It makes even less sense to add more ports which aren't USB-C, as the bits about MagSafe and no dongles imply. Further, I don't understand what is meant by "iPhone 12 like" non-curvy design - I have a 2018 MBP 15", and the s…
Who is this guy Kuo anyhow. He always make predictions one year before they almost always become real. Where does he work?
Kuo usually uses sources from the asian supply chain.
https://www.macrumors.com/guide/ming-chi-kuo/
He has a pretty good track record.
Re: New MacBook Pro models to feature magsafe, no touch bar and more ports: analyst
#56This is the laptop I want to buy, but I find it really hard to believe. They just released a new ARM Macbook Pro with a touch bar at the bottom end of the Pro lineup, which didn't used to come with a touch bar (I have ~2017 pro without). If they wanted to drop the touch bar they could have done it without much fanfare on that model and I'm not sure why they wouldn't do so.
Maybe they've concluded the touch bar is more of a consumer feature than a pro one.
Re: New MacBook Pro models to feature magsafe, no touch bar and more ports: analyst
#57Reading this, it feels like the MacBook Pro of 2015 is finally getting an upgrade. Took them 5 years to go back and restore the old school. Great to hear a couple iterations ago they restored the keyboard. Now with dropping the touch bar and bringing back mag safe. My 2015 daily driver might see retirement.
not to mention the butterfly keyboard has also been retired!
While i do like the typing feel very much, the mechanism is unreliable. Every few weeks i get some random key stuck where i will need to press it really hard to engage. So far all stuck keys loosen up after 1-2 days, but it is very annoying.
Re: New MacBook Pro models to feature magsafe, no touch bar and more ports: analyst
#58I quite like the Touch Bar, with things like pock it means I can have full screen, hide the dock entire and still have notifications And the ability to set custom apps inside it with iterm, and not have to loose a key on the board itself I spend most of my time in vi when in terminal, and never had a “I’m missing an escape” ever
Anyone who spends significant time in vim has already remapped ESC to something else anyway, be it caps-lock or a key combo.
The 2019 MPB does have an 'esc' key.
Re: New MacBook Pro models to feature magsafe, no touch bar and more ports: analyst
#59I know it's from Kuo, but these leaks don't pass the smell test for me. It makes no sense for them to add the touchbar to the base model 13" MBPs only to remove them from the higher end versions. It makes even less sense to add more ports which aren't USB-C, as the bits about MagSafe and no dongles imply. Further, I don't understand what is meant by "iPhone 12 like" non-curvy design - I have a 2018 MBP 15", and the s…
It will probably be physical keys with screens in them. As seen in this patent. https://www.macrumors.com/2020/12/29/apple-researching-keybo...
Mag safe is going to be on the charging cable and not the computer. Like on old game consoles with wired controllers.
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#60If they do this I won't be able to resist buying one. I want to resist though and be one of those people who uses a laptop with libreboot and OpenBSD. ... We are Apple. Lower your principles and surrender your dollars. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.
I will happily resist - between price and performance, the combo MBP 2016/iphone XS was one of the worst investments of my life. Next laptop will be be a Thinkpad or some other Linux-friendly device, I might have to mess with it a bit more but at least I won't feel like a cow being milked.