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Re: MacBook Pro

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Post by tedmiston »

rwhitman wrote: post #511
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.

I get the sense that there is a movement inside Apple right now to abandon the professional market. Everything they've released lately for pros has been half-hearted at best. I'm getting increasingly concerned that one day soon they will drop Mac OS products altogether and just leave us to the wolves

I hope not. I know more professional developers in startups using Apple laptops over anything else on the market. They have to recognize the size of that market.

Edit: Added "in startups"

Re: MacBook Pro

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Post by jimbokun »

crooked-v wrote: post #328
npgatech wrote: post #165

This event was by far the most disappointing Mac event in the history. A lot of the time was wasted in: - Mildly funny jokes and comparison with 90's technology. - 90% of the talk was about the touch bar. - Awful demos of Photoshop & some cringy DJ. I was hoping we would see: - A new MacBook with all day battery life and touch bar, even thinner design. Ok, I understand that they are trying to consolidate their produc…

The overlap between the Macbook, Macbook Air, and old and new Macbook Pro lines now is painfully weird. https://gist.github.com/icopp/29f225279a39ba9e3ea0d1f596e97c... I'm getting serious shades of "IBM clone vendor throwing darts at a board to try to appeal to every possible price point" instead of coherent product lines here.

You could just as well have said:

"Apple throwing darts at a board to try to appeal to every possible price point just before Steve Jobs returned"

Re: MacBook Pro

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Post by thetinman »

100% agree with this. I'm still using the mid 2012 MBP 15 b/c I've waited for a major upgrade and now this... is probably going to wait 6 months and by the last MBP at close out prices then use that until the next version of the MBP because this one fucks up my work too much.

Re: MacBook Pro

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Post by jandrewrogers »

The most interesting new feature (to me) is that a Secure Enclave processor is built into the laptop. Depending on the details of the implementation, that may have interesting implications for the overall security of the laptop.

I do agree that the rest of the updates are pretty underwhelming.

Re: MacBook Pro

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Post by bronson »

lostgame wrote: post #193
huac wrote: post #134

I'm very sad that the MagSafe connectors will be gone. It's one of my favorite parts of the Mac ecosystem, and a huge advantage.

Why? Why? Why? Are they actively trying to piss people off by removing key features? What is the advantage of this?

Why Every New Macbook Needs A Different Goddamn Charger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyTA33HQZLA

Re: MacBook Pro

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Post by eof »

freshyill wrote: post #509
swang wrote: post #341

I have the early 2013 MacBook Pro. It is still pretty fast. Nothing I saw today makes me happy to upgrade as a developer. Sure it's lighter and thinner and HUUGE trackpad that's a nice to have when I'm traveling. But the TouchBar requires me to look down at my keyboard which slows me down. And they can't even leave the keyboard itself alone with the terrible butterfly implementation coming over from the 12" MacBook.…

I have no idea with the idea of MagSafe, but on my Retina MacBook Pro (also early 2013), it's become extremely finicky. About 20% of the time, it just doesn't charge. I just have to connect and disconnect it a few times and eventually it works.

I have had to clean out the port a bit with a qtip.. little tiny bits of metal (or something) has gotten in there.
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