1. No OLED 2. No keyboard fix 3. No thin bezels 4. Still annoying touchbar. 5. $2799 for the 8-core with 16GB RAM and only 512GB SSD. Hahaha.. No, thanks.
And no ports, so you have to bring the freaking dongles wherever you go.
Apple introduces 8-core MacBook Pro
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Re: Apple introduces 8-core MacBook Pro
#92Wish there was an option to buy a 15 inch with no touch bar. I cannot find any suitable use for it on my current model, and I often hit items inadvertently due to the lack of tactile feedback
I've been using MacBook Pro's with the touch bar for a while now, but I just picked up a MacBook Air (in addition to my MacBook Pro). It has a mechanical top row, with just the Touch ID button at the end and it's fantastic. It's so nice to have those keys back! I would pay $100 extra for a MacBook Pro without the touch bar. Here's the keyboard in all its glory (if you're curious): https://www.apple.com/newsroom/image…
This is exactly I want. A function row with just touchid..
Re: Apple introduces 8-core MacBook Pro
#93Wish there was an option to buy a 15 inch with no touch bar. I cannot find any suitable use for it on my current model, and I often hit items inadvertently due to the lack of tactile feedback
Not only does Apple offer no option to buy a 15 inch with a full keyboard, they’ve also failed to upgrade the 13 inch model with this refresh. WTF, honestly.
Well, the 13" they offer with the full keyboard hasn't been updated since 2017 if that makes you feel any better. Or worse.
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#94Apple designers need a new mantra, the age-old adage: "Form follows function." As it is, they're choosing a form ahead of time and compromising on function.
The vast majority of users choose Macs because of the great OS and the hardware specs. The "thinness" or "sleekness" is only a nice-to-have, and only if it doesn't require compromise elsewhere.
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#95My 2018 Macbook Pro's screen failed. They replaced it for free, but damaged the webcam in the process.
They told me I'd need to pay over 500 dollars to get it fixed since I could not prove it was damaged while switching screens.
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#96The press release is downright misleading. For 8 cores, or even 6, you have to buy the 15" model. Neither are available in the 13" model. And the 15", while starting at $2399, is not the 8 core option, that is the old 6 core option. And of course the 8 core option, at $2799, only has 512GB of disk space and 16GB RAM. If you want a reasonable 32GB and 1TB disk space (which presumably you would if you have a use for 8…
> I thought that after the overpriced iphone release they would have changed their pricing on everything else, but I guess it's just same old apple.
Well, after they did that other phone manufacturers announced even more expensive phones, so I'm not sure they're stepping back from that so soon.
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#97This is pretty pointless considering the previous hex core i9 offering ran into a thermal wall regularly.
Without meaningfully overhauling the cooling system there is no reason to think that an 8 core on the same process is going to fare well.
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#98There is zero benefit to more powerful CPUs in MacBooks when the thermal profile of the CPU heatsink design leads to throttling very rapidly.
Re: Apple introduces 8-core MacBook Pro
#99https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/21/apple-announces-new-macboo... "Today, however, [Apple] told me that they’re taking three explicit steps to help with the keyboard situation. 1. The MacBook Pro keyboard mechanism has had a materials change in the mechanism. [...]"
This is the real announcement, to be honest. 8 cores is a convenient smokescreen, and they clearly don't want to talk about how borked their product is at WWDC so they are dropping the keyboard update with this news like it's a detail when it's actually the real story.
These shitty keyboards cast a shadow over the whole product line. If they didn't fix it the third time around, it's time to abandon the damn mechanism and accept that thicc computers can be beautiful, too.
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#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
This refresh was about the new high-end 8-core processors. Why would they update the "13 inch model" now?
It's not just this new high-end option that is missing, they haven't updated the 13 inch non-touchbar model _at all_. They completely skipped it in the refresh a few months ago and it is still using 7th gen processors (the touchbar model was updated, but only to an 8th gen processor. All 15 inch models were updated to 9th gen). I don't believe the non-touchbar model has received a single spec update since it was anno…
> 7th gen processors (the touchbar model was updated, but only to an 8th gen processor. All 15 inch models were updated to 9th gen).
Well it's all 14nm Skylake, so that really doesn't matter at all.