When does a 14" mbp come out?
16-inch MacBook Pro
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Re: 16-inch MacBook Pro
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When it comes to function keys, you either use them lots or rarely and for the former, yes - a physical key is prefered by far. However I see the advantages in other situations with the touchbar, however it would be great if the users had a choice. How hard would it be to have the touchbar in a modular design form that was user changeable and they could fit a row of keys instead? However, there is always the option o…
About the touchbar, I don't like it, for me it's not what the mediocre features it brought somewhat irrelevant most time, probably it can be a useful feature if it was designed better. By nature, touchbar is a partial display and partial input device, blend it in with keyboard(a purely input) on the same flat surface angle, doesn't feel right. Currently, the only time I look at touchbar is when I need to click on tou…
I feel like putting a screen in a place that's prone to get quite warm may not be a good idea.
Re: 16-inch MacBook Pro
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> I'm astonished and pleased to see they walked back the two worst things about the original Touch Bar MBPs Apple still hasn't walked back on mandatory notarization on Catalina. In January 2020, they're removing the option to run software that isn't locally compiled or notarized[1]. [1] https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=09032019a
I believe that is not correct, you can still run unsigned apps, you just have to enable them in System Preferences >> Security and Privacy. https://www.howtogeek.com/443611/how-macos-catalinas-new-sec... (middle of page)
Or secondary click on them and open them from the menu that pops up.
Re: 16-inch MacBook Pro
#954It'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…
I wanted to give a shout out for this USB C hub. Not associated with the manufacturer, I'm am just a happy customer. https://satechi.net/collections/usb-type-c/products/type-c-m...
It only has a single USB C port (like every other USB C "hub" out there right now).
Re: 16-inch MacBook Pro
#955It'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…
I looked for the marketing image with the dongles but can't find it. Where did you see it?
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#956While it's nice to see an opinionated company like Apple admit fault and revert to what people want, I wonder if this move is too late for many of those that decided to move away from Apple? Years ago, I switched to a Surface Book, and while I'm tempted to go back for this MBP I reckon that a Surface Book update would be enough to kill any desire for the Mac range. While Apple stagnated, many of the high-end manufact…
Doubt it. For devs there still isn't a great alternative. No one has the build quality of Apple and the XPS has been disappointing. Can't speak much for other pros but I'd imagine that they held off on an upgrade rather than switch to a new manufacturer. Apple's branding helps here.
Apple did have impressive build quality, but those days are long gone. I can run happily on a MBP from a few years ago, whereas the newer ones have had numerous issues.
In terms of overall quality, I'd say that MBP is now behind some of the other high-end devices. The Surface Book knocks the latest MBP versions out of the water in every department, except for the track pad. It's not difficult to argue that the keyboard, screen, durability, or even the OS is superior to Apple's (current) offering.
Re: 16-inch MacBook Pro
#957It'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…
If you buy a good usb-c docking station like the dell D6000 for your setup at home some pain will be alleviated
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#958Wow, there's only one kind of sleeve: Made of leather (non-vegan) and quite expensive. Bummer!
Re: 16-inch MacBook Pro
#959Earlier quoted context omitted.
It turns out that people who buy laptops -- a mobile-ish form factor differentiated from a tablet by its keyboard -- might really really care about keyboards as the main interface between user and device. I'd concluded that Apple didn't really think much of laptops anymore, and had simply moved on to caring more about other form factors: it seemed a logical conclusion if one assumed that people at Apple were in fact…
>It increases risk of data loss. I realize that this is idealistic of me but data loss should never be an issue . This is 2019 and backups have been drilled into everyone's heads for years and years and years. You can still access the drives in these via Target Disk mode (and I've had to do a few recoveries through that so I know it works) and it's likely that the pros outweigh the cons.
Yet Apple still has no option to Time Machine backup to iCloud. I believe there are some third party ways to Time Machine backup to some cloud provider, but I don't see why Apple doesn't provide this as a feature out the box.
Re: 16-inch MacBook Pro
#960It'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…
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.
> 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.
But why do I have to be the hostage here? I don't want to wait for "the rest of the market catches up", I want to get my work done, and my work requires plugging in lots of USB-A peripherals. The move to USB-C only was premature and trying to force the market using users as hostages shows incredible hubris.