New MacBook Pro Is Not a Laptop for Developers Anymore

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Post by alexeysemeney » Fri, Oct 28, 2016, 2:54 PM UTC

New MacBook Pro Is Not a Laptop for Developers Anymore
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Post by the_mitsuhiko » Fri, Oct 28, 2016, 3:06 PM UTC

Honestly, the only thing I will miss is the escape button but that was misplaced on the keyboard anyways. 10.12.1 added support for making caps lock into an escape key and that's if anything an improvement over where escape was before.

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Post by bitwize » Fri, Oct 28, 2016, 3:07 PM UTC

So use an editor that supports a modern UI, like Sublime Text or Atom, and not something originally designed for an ADM-3A terminal.

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Post by jkrems » Fri, Oct 28, 2016, 3:07 PM UTC

Since the article doesn't even mention that the escape functionality is still there (although it's no longer a physical key but a touch button), I'm going to assume that its only source is jokes on twitter.

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Post by shenanigoat » Fri, Oct 28, 2016, 3:07 PM UTC

Dramatic click bait IMO. You could really hack that touchbar to do some great productivity enhancements.

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Post by dorianm » Fri, Oct 28, 2016, 3:07 PM UTC

There is a MacBook with escape and functions keys still available. So the choice is still there.

Personally I think the touch bar could be great for programmers so I'm gonna take that.

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Post by rayiner » Fri, Oct 28, 2016, 3:07 PM UTC

Honest question: what's the alternative? I've got a 2013 rMBP 15 inch. What's my next machine? I'm not willing to regress on display (220 ppi or better), screen size, or battery life (8-9 hours real use). I might regress on quad core to dual core if everything else is perfect.

EDIT: The XPS 15 gets more like 5-6 hours with the high res display by my understanding. The Surface Book has the right combination of resolution and battery life, but 15.4" to 13.5" is a big step down if you're used to working with side by side windows. Is there anything out there I've overlooked?

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Post by jws » Fri, Oct 28, 2016, 3:08 PM UTC

Bah, these entitled kids. I guess being old enough to remember keyboards before they had escape keys helps, but ␛ is just keyboard syntactic sugar for control left square bracket. Read your ASCII table! C-[ is even a quicker type avoiding RSIs from all those long pinky reaches.

(More seriously, as much as it bothers me to retrain my pinky, most uses of the escape key would be many times better if the lefthand side of the touch bar had a word for the function, like stop being full screen, cancel, leave menu, or whatever. The function would then be discoverable instead of secret lore.)

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Post by vbezhenar » Fri, Oct 28, 2016, 3:08 PM UTC

the_mitsuhiko wrote: post #2

Honestly, the only thing I will miss is the escape button but that was misplaced on the keyboard anyways. 10.12.1 added support for making caps lock into an escape key and that's if anything an improvement over where escape was before.

I use caps lock as control.

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Post by ameesdotme » Fri, Oct 28, 2016, 3:08 PM UTC

> The MacBook Pro had options with 2.4 gigahertz dual-core processors back in 2010. Anything new in 2016? Not really, well… nope.

I find it very hard to believe that these processors perform on the same level as the ones in 2010. Equal cores / GHz does not mean equal performance.