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Re: 16-inch MacBook Pro

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Post by beatgammit »

rco8786 wrote: post #146
Ambroos wrote: post #77

For others who might be wondering, this replaces the 15-inch MacBook Pro. There's a small increase in size (15 vs 16): - Thickness: 1.55cm to 1.62cm (+0.7mm, +4.5%) - Width: 34.93cm to 35.79cm (+0.86cm, +2.5%) - Depth: 24.07cm to 24.59cm (+0.52cm, +2.2%) - Weight: 1.83kg to 2.0kg (+170gr, +9.3%) The display alone is ~1.3cm wider (and ~0.7cm higher), so there was a small reduction in bezel sizes, allowing the screen t…

Dang. My 15” is already a hit too big for airplane work and this won’t help. 13 is too small as a daily driver. Can a guy get a 14”??

Yup, this is pretty much the reason I go with Lenovo Thinkpads. 14" fits nicely in all my bags and is big enough to see two things side by side.

So yeah, Apple is not even on my radar if they don't offer a 14" form factor. I also don't use other Apple products, so there's little reason for me to compromise.

Re: 16-inch MacBook Pro

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Post by meed »

As much as I appreciate Apple's U turn on the idiotic design of the butterfly keyboard switches, I still:

- cannot even begin to understand why these things lack an important usability feature like MegSafe: there is really absolutely no reason why it cannot coexist with the ThunderBolt I/O (4 TB ports, one MegSafe: charge it however the heck you want).

- find the presence of the castrated TouchBar an offense to users. It seems they just want to shove it down our throats whether we want it or not. Just make it optional: I'm sure that there are certain users out there that love it but every single peer of mine [1] hates the sole idea of something like that.

[1] I'm a software guy in the Valley

Re: 16-inch MacBook Pro

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Post by slics »

“ The new Magic Keyboard also features a physical Escape key” - really? It was there as a physical escape key, Apple removed it, put it back in and called it, wait for it ... a physical Escape Key.

Re: 16-inch MacBook Pro

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Post by baroffoos »

hinkley wrote: post #845
fermenflo wrote: post #808

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, USB-C is a step in the right direction. It's superior in every way imaginable to USB. It can handle almost every type of transfer (data/power), its orientation-agnostic, it's slim, etc. I could list the pros for days. Having to deal with dongles for a couple years while the rest of the market catches up isn't a reason to push against the best port standard in decades.

USB-C is not superior in every imaginable way. And at least as embodied as a Thunderbolt 3 carrier, there are at least two. There is no such thing as a USB-C hub. The protocol doesn't support it. That's one really concrete way that USB-C is inferior. I think I heard rumors that the proposed replacement fixes that, but Thunderbolt 3+USB-C is inferior that way. It's also easier to snap off. That's two. Yes, it's better…

USB A was very easy to ruin as well. It might look strong but usually its just held on with a couple of solder joints which I found very prone to bend enough to break the device if it ever got an up/down force on it.

Re: 16-inch MacBook Pro

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Post by andrei_says_ »

meed wrote: post #902

As much as I appreciate Apple's U turn on the idiotic design of the butterfly keyboard switches, I still: - cannot even begin to understand why these things lack an important usability feature like MegSafe: there is really absolutely no reason why it cannot coexist with the ThunderBolt I/O (4 TB ports, one MegSafe: charge it however the heck you want). - find the presence of the castrated TouchBar an offense to users…

This would be amazing.

Re: 16-inch MacBook Pro

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Post by iamaelephant »

blhack wrote: post #373

It's hilarious to me that their own marketing image has two dongles plugged into the laptop so that the user can still use USB. Apple please for the love of usability: please give me back USB. I AM the pro that you want to feature in every one of your marketing videos. I have a music studio in my house, I build interactive lighting installations for the biggest music festivals in the world, I build custom hardware co…

Imagine if there were other computer manufacturers.

Re: 16-inch MacBook Pro

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Post by godelski »

stingrae wrote: post #853
godelski wrote: post #848

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> the lack of a physical Escape key C-[ is the same thing in Unix. I haven't tried it on a Mac though. But if you're using vim (mostly where I hear this complaint) use C-[ (actually just use it in vim anyways because who wants to lift their hand up to do such a common movement?)

I just map caps lock to escape, then i need even less finger movement.

I don't understand this binding (it is a common one). I don't want a 50/50 shot of having caps lock on (or my light indicator). I'm also a fan of keeping things as vanilla as possible (I do use plenty of plugins and stuff, but almost every problem you have vim solves natively)

Re: 16-inch MacBook Pro

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Post by envoked »

robbyking wrote: post #780
blhack wrote: post #373

It's hilarious to me that their own marketing image has two dongles plugged into the laptop so that the user can still use USB. Apple please for the love of usability: please give me back USB. I AM the pro that you want to feature in every one of your marketing videos. I have a music studio in my house, I build interactive lighting installations for the biggest music festivals in the world, I build custom hardware co…

> It's hilarious to me that their own marketing image has two dongles plugged into the laptop so that the user can still use USB. Where do you see that?

28s in the promo video.

Re: 16-inch MacBook Pro

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Post by corywright »

dublin wrote: post #753
systemtest wrote: post #82

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They also brought back the 100 watt-hour battery

Who cares about Watt-hours? What matters is how long it runs - I'd be perfectly happy with a laptop that runs a month on a 1.5 Watt-hour AAA battery. Kinda like Amps for vacuum cleaners, this can actually be a measure of IN efficiency.

The TSA cares.

Re: 16-inch MacBook Pro

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Post by cstrat »

robbyking wrote: post #780
blhack wrote: post #373

It's hilarious to me that their own marketing image has two dongles plugged into the laptop so that the user can still use USB. Apple please for the love of usability: please give me back USB. I AM the pro that you want to feature in every one of your marketing videos. I have a music studio in my house, I build interactive lighting installations for the biggest music festivals in the world, I build custom hardware co…

> It's hilarious to me that their own marketing image has two dongles plugged into the laptop so that the user can still use USB. Where do you see that?

I went searching for it too, couldn't find this anywhere either.
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