Macbook Pro (2016) Disappointment Pushes Some Apple Loyalis

It's just a stupid oversight for a "Pro" computer to not have an SD card slot. Carrying a USB-C to SD card adapter is just one more fucking thing you have to keep up with in your kit. Busy professionals shouldn't have to worry about that kind of shit. SD card slots have been standard on MBPs since at least the aluminum unibody model. The same is true for the lack of a single USB 3 slot. Sure, USB-C is most likely the future, but it's going to be years before everyone is finished converting. Starting with the Retina MBP, the laptops have been thinner than anyone needs out of a high performance laptop. They sacrificed user-replaceable hard drives and RAM, features that actually matter to professionals, for the sake of being thinner. I've carried a Mac laptop since the PowerBook G4 and I don't see myself ever buying another Mac.

I crossed over into Apple territory when Vista happened. I have lots of macs and have also been buying the surface pros since they started coming out too. Don't get me wrong. The surfaces are fine devices and have gotten better with each iteration. But I'm not ready to switch back to windows for three reasons: 1. windows is just worse than OSX. Cosmetically and behaviourally. I know the second part here might be more opinion than fact but I've had a lot less problems with OSX than I have with W10 2. OSX is unix baked and I write a lot of software (including iOS in fact) so I'm pretty much tethered to OSX only at this point 3. build quality. High quality windows machines are rare. I would class the SP4 as being a high quality windows machine but still not on par with the quality you know you're getting with an apple product The Macbook fiasco has really ticked me off at Apple. I'll probably end up staying within their ecosystem but I'll just be using my 2014 rMBP and rImac until 2020 or something before I consider upgrading. I can afford to upgrade as often as I'd like, but just the principle of dropping 5k on a macbook every other year, as opposed to 2k leaves a very bad taste in my mouth.

You're missing his point badly. The kinds of people who buy $3000 MBP notebooks are the type of people who use Photoshop, or Pro Tools, or Premiere, or some other software that doesn't have a good Linux counterpart. Those users might be a tiny majority of all users, but they're a majority of the people who buy expensive "professional" notebooks. Those people aren't moving to Linux anytime soon because the software isn't there. Also, widespread Linux is already here. It's on a majority of smart phones. Most people don't care or know any more than they know they've got a Samsung or something like that.

I keep hearing the SD card excuse for hating the Macbook Pro. Dude...hook up your $3000 camera with the damn USB cable (your camera probably came with one) directly to your MacBook. Yeah, you gotta buy a new USB-C to micro-B cable for $10 on Amazon, but what's the big deal. You bought a $3000 camera, so what's $10 for a cable that's objectively better. I understand taking your cards out of the camera in the field when they're full, but when you're at your desk, uploading photos, just hook your camera up to the computer. It's not like you're actively using your camera and while your photos are transferring, the USB port can charge the battery too.

> You're missing his point badly. On the contrary, I think you are. I was addressing to him the same old tired excuses I've heard for years used by the proprietary usage fanboys. Maybe he should have used a more rational argument like yours instead of resorting to that tired old nonsense. >The kinds of people who buy $3000 MBP notebooks are the type of people who use Photoshop, or Pro Tools, or Premiere, or some other software that doesn't have a good Linux counterpart. The article doesn't mention any of that. For people into doing those sorts of things, they would stick with an Apple machine anyway, and I doubt any of those people will jump into buying a System76 machine without checking out what it's capabilities are, beforehand. I assume they're smart enough to do so. Hmm? No, the article seems to focus more on users that would be one step below that, those in the $2,000 - $2,400 price range and below. And if you bothered to read it, it also said: >*"Obviously we aren't comparing apples to apples (pun intended). If you absolutely need macOS for certain software or licenses, an Ubuntu machine will not meet your needs. Also, the System76 machine does not have Apple's revolutionary Touch Bar."* ~ >Also, widespread Linux is already here. It's on a majority of smart phones. And this article has nothing to do with phones so once again, it is **you** who've absolutely missed the point badly. Come back when you've read the article.

I like the forward thinking. IIRC it's rated for 10, but I usually am plugged in somewhere. There are 4 USB ports, and I already have a few USB Type C devices ready to use em, and a nice breakout adapter to dock into that gives me every port I need -- I'll be going from FIVE plugs to one via my 5k LG. I do branding, UI, UX, photo editing and post, and light web development. My current machine has 16 and quite frankly I doubt I use much more than 8 unless I'm really punishing my machine with 24MP RAW files, even then, I rarely use more than 10GB. By the time I need 32GB I'm sure they'll be a configuration out that either has fast enough of an SSD that RAM is near meaningless or I'll just go buy the 32GB model and sell the late 2016.

Different strokes for different folks. My 70D connects via Wifi, and the docking station I'll have in my studio has all the ports and SD slots I need -- with one connection that is also powering my laptop. My current workflow requires FIVE plugs that a single breakout box with a single cable will now take care of. YMMV as always

I like Apple myself. I stick to iPhones and have a MacBook Air as my personal device. Granted, I have the $1,000 model, and I went Mac because after long days of fucking with computers, I don't want to come home and fuck with a computer (sorry, Linux). But I find their price tags really hard to swallow sometimes.