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Re: MacBook Pro

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Post by lrc »

nkw wrote: post #164

Wow. I hate to say it, but I thought the products in Microsoft's event yesterday were way more exciting than anything from Apple lately. This plus macOS Sierra seems like a whole lot of "meh". This coming from a guy whose first computer was an Apple IIe, who owned a Mac Cube, and whose daily driver is a trashcan MacPro.

+1. Writing this on a trashcan 'pro. I love it; I'm happy with it, 32G and a little La Cie RAID, but I know I paid too much for it.

Last year's MS rollout opened my eyes. I ordered a Surface Pro 4 the next day. Was skeptical about the keyboard, but it's good enough to code with. Install Git, Atom or VS Code, IntelliJ and I'm off. It's now my go to device when I want to do a little light coding on vacation. The kids love to draw with the pen. It's a lot of fun.

Re: MacBook Pro

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nkw wrote: post #164

Wow. I hate to say it, but I thought the products in Microsoft's event yesterday were way more exciting than anything from Apple lately. This plus macOS Sierra seems like a whole lot of "meh". This coming from a guy whose first computer was an Apple IIe, who owned a Mac Cube, and whose daily driver is a trashcan MacPro.

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Re: MacBook Pro

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Post by grennis »

hn_user2 wrote: post #780
brentm wrote: post #320

I hate to take away from the complaining in here but I actually think it looks pretty nice. I was pleasantly surprised with the interactions they demonstrated with the new ribbon display. I knew they were going to announce it and didn't think I'd care but I will walk away from the video with the feeling that I want one.

The use case I didn't think of was photoshop full screen and moving controls and menus to the touch bar. Nice idea.

Except that anyone I ever see using Photoshop uses an external display and keyboard

Re: MacBook Pro

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Post by lathiat »

massysett wrote: post #727
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.

Replacing an expensive proprietary connector (that had widely available knockoffs that would explode at will) with a standard connector that will have $5 cables on Monoprice is a HUGE win. Plus, I can recharge it with an Anker battery off Amazon. I did like the Magsafe breakaway feature but there are enormous advantages to USB C.

I'm personally looking forward to cheap $2 USB-C cables catching fire with 87W firing down them. Seems most likely it will be running at 20V and thus approx. 4.3A - so may not happen as much as I hope but I'm sure we'll fine some xD

Re: MacBook Pro

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Post by wkoszek »

grzm wrote: post #858
wkoszek wrote: post #850

Makes me wonder how people here feel about the USB-C and basically all gadgets requiring adapters. I like Apple and Mac, but this piece.. Isn't it ugly at the end, that if you want to use an SD card from your camera you must get an adapter, adapter for your iPhone 7 lighting headphones and adapter for your $1k 27" Retina display which isn't 5k, but still pretty freaking good. That's 3 ports, and 1 USB-C port left you…

"how people here feel about the USB-C" The idea of only needing one type of port is very appealing. No longer need to worry about ThunderBolt, DisplayPort, Mini DisplayPort, VGA, HDMI, USB, Firewire 400, Firewire 800, Ethernet. ("What? We don't have all of those any more!" I hear you say. Yup! Isn't it grand?) I'm ambivalent about losing MagSafe, but that's it. "if you want to use an SD card from your camera you must…

Hm. Didn't get that. It's not that you've had USB->VGA or Thunderbolt->VGA etc adapters and you were confused which to buy. There was always 1 VGA adapter for projectors, 1 HDMI adapter for TV etc. (exception confirms the rule: there's combo Thunderbolt->VGA/USB-C/Lightning port) This won't change. It's basically the same now: you need all those adapters. So I'm going to throw away >= $100 of adapters to buy new >= $100 of adapters or more.

I feel like I'd dislike Apple less if there was cable and adapter buyback program.

Re: MacBook Pro

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Post by jrcii »

The all-new MacBook Pro. 32 GB of RAM, Bootcamp for Linux and BSD, a release mechanism to clean your keyboard and trackpad, new powerful NVIDIA graphics, and we brought back the backlit Apple logo. Sike. But we did remove the escape key!

Re: MacBook Pro

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Post by cyphar »

Wait, why are they talking about "Thunderbolt 3"? Hadn't Apple finally decided to use a standardised protocol for its ports (USB C) rather than creating a new proprietary thing? Or was the Macbook 2015 just an interim design while they worked on some new bullshit proprietary connector? Goddammit.

Re: MacBook Pro

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Post by IMcD23 »

simonsarris wrote: post #229

Interestingly they removed the pricing from their landing page, this morning the Macbook pro prices (for the old gen) were pretty prominent at the top of the page, above the fold and above any images of the computer. The 13 inch now starts at $1,499 (but no touch bar at all unless you spend at least $1,799), up from $1,299. The 15 inch now starts at $2,399, up from $1,999. If you want to compare the copy, you can see…

FYI - The Google cache has been updated. Archive.org has a better archived copy: http://web.archive.org/web/20161027182455/http://www.apple.c...

Re: MacBook Pro

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Post by e40 »

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.

They removed the escape key.

Wait, what? Holy crap, that's amazingly stupid.

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