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Re: The new MacBook

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Post by gcr »

girvo wrote: post #677
mslot wrote: post #452

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I just had one of my first exposures to OS X, helping a friend get rid of particularly nasty adware called Downlite. It was nastier than anything I've ever seen since Windows 98, and obviously I've never seen anything like it on Linux. Stunning, really. I'm still considering getting my first Macbook though after this announcement, so I do hope they'll build a better security model.

For it to be nasty and hard to get rid of, your friend must have given it admin access when he installed it? No security model that I'm aware of can stop that; OS X out of the box stops you from being able to run unsigned code, which would've stopped that entirely.

Windows also prevents untrusted code from running as an admin user by default. As you say, the user clicked "Allow"; there's nothing that could prevent that except changing the mindset of the general end user.

Re: The new MacBook

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Post by dignati »

npalli wrote: post #649
dignati wrote: post #498

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> Resolution of 2304x1440 which means at Retina this is 1152x720!. This is worse than the 11 inch air, much less the 13 inch 1440x900. I don't think people realize how cramped this will seem if you start doing work on this laptop You can still scale the screen resolution and get a higher resolution than the Air's 1440x900.

yeah, i know you can scale it. Will it look good though? In addition, it has a pretty weak processor, so we will have to see how the performance works out if you scale it. Especially if you drive a monitor.

Yes, I'm concerned about performance too but. Scaling on my 15" rMBP from 2012 definitely looks good, I usually keep it at one step lower (more screen space) than reccomended. If your eyes can take it, you won't loose quality.

Re: The new MacBook

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Post by WatchDog »

mdeslaur wrote: post #11

Seriously? Couldn't they have put _two_ ports in it so you can plug something in while it's being charged without lugging around a usb hub?

Apple are obviously very concerned about aesthetics and having as little ports breaking the smooth lines of the design hinder that. However personally I would of thought having an additional type c connector on the opposite side would actually improve the ascetic design by providing more symmetry. If they added another and let you charge the device from either side, it would also improve usability, I know I get annoyed when my wall charger is on one side and I have to stretch the cable around to the other side of the laptop.

Re: The new MacBook

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Post by jfroma »

eric_h wrote: post #587
727374 wrote: post #577

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Nobody is claiming a gold standard. With that said, I prefer windows explorer because you can simply type a path into the address bar (with tab completion if you need it) and navigate to a place on the filesystem. That's all. If finder added this one feature I'd be overjoyed. Instead, I find myself opening up menus to get to so many locations on the machine. For example, if you want to simply go to your home director…

Shift+Command+G doesn't seem particularly strenuous. Admittedly, you need to work to learn the shortcut, but like all shortcuts, once you've got it it costs nothing. [edit] it's Shift+Command+H for the home directory, which you were targeting specifically, Shift+Command+G lets you type in the path to any directory (with tab completion)

Yes, I use that a lot but something I miss from Windows Explorer is that i can actually copy the path. The widespread suggestion is that you can drag and drop the icon in the title but I prefer the other thing.

Re: The new MacBook

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Post by beedogs »

Wow, so a $1300 laptop with no USB ports?

Why does Apple keep making their new products worse -- less features but subjectively more "beautiful" -- than the ones before? Somewhere in the attic at One Infinite Loop, is there a painting of Steve Jobs that slowly gets younger as time passes?

Re: The new MacBook

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Post by jmilloy »

nickysielicki wrote: post #423
Finbarr wrote: post #308

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Seems like there are some new $79 adapters to split out the USB-C port into power, usb and av[1]/vga[2]. [1] http://store.apple.com/us/product/MJ1K2AM/A/usb-c-digital-av... [2] http://store.apple.com/us/product/MJ1L2AM/A/usb-c-vga-multip...

I'm sorry but when you ship a machine with ONE PORT for the purposes of charging and peripherals, this absolutely needs to be in the box. Nickel and $80'ering me on a $1400 computer is ridiculous. I'll stick with my thinkpad.

So they should increase the price of the laptop by $80 for everyone so that you don't feel nickel and dimed? Why do you care if your receipt has that $80 listed a separate item or not?

Re: The new MacBook

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Post by moe »

tjl wrote: post #395
chacham15 wrote: post #237

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> Realistically, they can't support 2 USB-C ports as it's unlikely it could support a full power draw on both ports (100W each). Its not uncommon for machines to have only one usb controller with multiple ports (i.e. a usb controller + hub which connects externally)

But, with one controller you could run into problems if you had two high speed devices on both ports.

You could make one port a USB 3.0 port.

Re: The new MacBook

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Post by Xixi »

geophile wrote: post #579
nsxwolf wrote: post #561

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Curious - what do Finder complainers consider the gold standard of file browsers that Finder should aspire to be? I do most of my file management at the command line so I don't experience the pain of Finder very often, and I've generally been able to get Finder to do what I want without much fuss. Windows Explorer is, to me, a painful experience (but its 1980s DOS command line is so much worse) I've found the various…

How about showing the actual filesystem? Instead of some restricted fictional view? For example, how the hell do you get to /tmp from the Finder? What's with the stupid column per directory level? This is an extremely bad use of display space. Haven't used Windows in a long time, and the equivalent in Linux is useless. (Or, more precisely, I don't use it.) But there are a number of irritations that have been there fo…

I usually just use the Terminal, but when I need to open the current directory in the Finder I just type `open .`, one of the most useful (and unknown) shortcut of OSX.

Re: The new MacBook

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Post by largote »

dignati wrote: post #498
npalli wrote: post #468

Looks like apple has finally introduced a netbook or iPad with a keyboard. Frankly, I'm disappointed with this macbook as I was expecting a full scale retina macbook air. After seeing the Dell XPS 13, I was hoping apple will take the retinafy the regular air. Ah well, the wait continues. Let's see -- 1. Resolution of 2304x1440 which means at Retina this is 1152x720!. This is worse than the 11 inch air, much less the…

> Resolution of 2304x1440 which means at Retina this is 1152x720!. This is worse than the 11 inch air, much less the 13 inch 1440x900. I don't think people realize how cramped this will seem if you start doing work on this laptop You can still scale the screen resolution and get a higher resolution than the Air's 1440x900.

Yeah, it'll look good. I scale my 15" MBP to 1920x1200 and it looks good.

Re: The new MacBook

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Post by falcolas »

mmgutz wrote: post #688
nkoren wrote: post #261

This is a beautiful machine. Once again, Apple excels at hardware. But what the living hell is going wrong with Apple's desktop software? OS X and Apple's applications suite have been getting steadily worse with every release. Look at the App store: the latest releases of OS X, iPhoto, iMovie, Pages, and Numbers are (in stark contrast to earlier versins) all rated at 2.5/5 stars, with the plurality being 1-star revie…

Such beautiful machines to run iTerm2 and Vim. I almost feel guilty for having the latest 15 MBP Retina and 80% of my time is spent in a terminal coding.

Spin up some local vagrant boxes, then you won't feel as bad.
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