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Macbook Pro (2016) Disappointment Pushes Some Apple Loyalis
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everyone knows that i3 is the best desktop environment. combine that with using vim for all editing and have everything inside a tmux session and remapping your CapsLock key to Ctrl (and vice versa) and making a short tap on your NEW Ctrl key be an escape as well............productivity through the roof and the best thing of all: nobody else can use your computer because they get so frustrated trying to figure out how it works that they leave you alone! Win win.
The new CEO who took over in 2014, Satya Nadella, after Ballmer left has been absolutely on point. He's the one to credit for most of Microsoft's directional pivots.
Arent the Pascal series inside of laptops already? They should be almost twice as efficient.
Also I believe given CPU goes inside the screen it will be severely watered down and under powered, given the heat constraints.
Same. I switched to Mac in 2007. First i tried to make the Mac more Windows-like and now its the other way around. :)
If the "Explorer" would be gone and more OpenSource apps available, i could be tempted. The Surface Studio also looks very sexy.
Though then again seeing those yellow folder icons and the giant toolbar just makes me sick when i try to work with it. I am missing a proper workspace. That they added 3 variants of "favorites" to the sidebar didn't make it any easier. And the new(-new) Start Menu basically buried all the apps in tiny scroll area and now suggest me to buy odd variants of mobile games. SMH...
It's the other way around. They are USB-C ports. It uses Thunderbolt by way of [USB-C Alternate Mode](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_Type-C#Alternate_Mode_partner_specifications).
I agree, the last good "pro" device by apple was the mac pro. But at 3000 entry level it was a tough buy
And I've tried them all. Day to day, OSX is just more comfortable to work in as an admin. Basically everything else I do, save for gaming, is done under linux but my workflow is simply easier under osx, my fingers feel more comfortable.
Also Chink government spyware installed in the hardware firmware.
And what used to be that core users want besides a low spec overpriced laptop?
`yaourt skype`
Look into Librem. Same idea, but they actually look like something from 2016
I used Fedora 17-24 full-time at work. I'll probably switch back to Fedora on a Dell XPS, but its not as easy as that sounds.
1. The Skype RPMs pull in a bunch of outdated 32-bit dependencies. I once literally couldn't remove it because it somehow tried to bring systemd along with it.
2. Screensharing is awful and very low quality, text is unreadable.
3. The DBUS support is wonky. Sometimes it would show notifications properly and let me control it through tools like the Gnome Shell Extension, for the most part it would simply crash at random intervals while keeping the tray icon, and I'd miss important messages.
4. During a distro/fedup upgrade I'd always end up with a broken Skype or a broken os, thanks to Skype. Package management on Linux is still awful, but hopefully Flatpak fixes these issues in the future.
Honestly the only way you can use Linux in a business environment is to keep a Windows VM running. There are too many stupid issues.
I would tell people to shy away from System76.
I fully spec'd mine out (Serval Pro) and it didn't last two years.
After lots of troubleshooting it came down to be the fans.
They wanted additional $ to replace them when at that cost a company should've goodwill'd them. Every time I use the computer I have to R&R the fans after cleaning, which lasts less than a week before I need to do it again and the machine will beep and turn off when it reaches temp.
For a comparison, one of my MBP recently had a failed graphics card.
I found the extended warranty program online (it was an Early 2011) and brought it in for repair. Not only did Apple replace the entire logic board, they completely refurbished the machine. Whole new clamshell case top & bottom (indicated that it showed signs of wear), new screen (distorted display), battery (failing, throttling machine to 1 core), and power supply (faulty). Basically an entirely new computer 5 years later.
That is customer service.
https://www.ifixit.com/Device/MacBook_Air
One note: you need to buy certain tools that you won't have laying around. I like the ifixit kits, but there are others out there as well. You could even just buy the exact pentalobes drivers that you need without a kit.
You mean lack of function keys. There are no longer function keys.
From his blog post on the Studio
>Tycho asked me to compare it to my Cintiq, and I told him that drawing on the Cintiq now felt like drawing on a piece of dirty plexiglass hovering over a CRT monitor from 1997.
https://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2016/10/26/the-surface-studio
If you use an IDE/Sublime you may or may not use function keys. I prefer Vim with plugins, terminal visor, as light weight as possible. (basically, I can be comfortable in any linux shell in a few minutes, but I could code from one without changing anything, if necessary.)
I do web and mobile development, so sometimes I have a lot of freedom, sometimes I'm stuck in an IDE. Android Studio is ok (I like the intellij version better than the old eclipse version,) XCode is a wretched monstrosity that should be murdered off immediately, though.
There are function keys, you just have to hit the fn key to get them. That is perfectly fine for me.
Yeah, I guess I should qualify that. I've taken apart MBAs and the old MBPs. I haven't had a retina MBP apart, so maybe they've made them worse.
I'm so, so sorry.
A lot of that sounds like a shitty program, not quite Fedora's fault.
wow calm down cranky boy, go do a nice calming Gentoo install
Why would I want an adapter when I can just use a USB cable?
I want a Pantheon spin of Fedora so badly...
> Skype
If you use Ubuntu Mate 16.04 LTS you can install it with a little as 3 clicks right from [the welcome menu.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhP3WGt5OMU)
As you guys have said, it's FREE. It doesn't have the funding that Photoshop has. Of course Photoshop is better.
Well it is and isn't Fedora's fault. I've run into a ton of proprietary apps that don't work well or are rarely updated. The issue is that people package RPMs that depend on system libraries that frequently change.
The solution is Flatpak or Snap, but its early days for both technologies and we have two competing standards.
Worked fine for me.
Unless there is a firmware default mode that simply sends the corresponding function keys it will be a while before someone reverse engineers the driver so that it works on Linux.
If you were with them through all that time and some of their terrible laptops and desktops, what makes you want to change now? After Kaby Lake is introduced, RAM will increase to probably 32-64GB with LPDDR4, Apple will drop the price if sales aren't good enough (like they did with MBA and iPhone), and USB Type-C will become industry standard fairly soon.
I'm not saying the MBPs are perfect, they're far from it. But this isn't the first time Apple has bungled a new product. What would be more suprising if they didn't fix it by the next year's refresh with new CPUs.