Macbook Pro (2016) Disappointment Pushes Some Apple Loyalis

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.

My issue with Apple is the screen - I don't know if I have a dud, but it has some weird color cast issues that make it unsuitable even for basic photo work without proper hardware calibration.I'm replacing it with a Thinkpad. The optional dock is $300, but it's still much cheaper, and doesn't require me to replace my used $200 30" ZR30W with a brand new Thunderbolt display.

You could do all of that on a machine that's $2,500 cheaper...

Modern SD is *fast*, and it's extremely common - a lot of 4K video is done to 300MB/s SD cards.

I'd say "use a USB3 reader," but you're gonna want an adapter...

"Hey network, we'll have to push back the airdate because I need to call support to get Avid MC running on Wine through Ubuntu."

Which is why im so in love with xserver+ubunutu for windows 10. No more dual booting or running a vm to run the must have programs.

That seems to be the consensus after some googling. For $1500 you cannot beat that. Hell I paid $2000 for the w530 3-4 years ago. 32gb ram though.

Mike Krahulik of Penny Arcade was actually asked to come in and test some prototype Surface stuff, and he says it's amazing - an alternative even to Wacom's best. I'm not sure who at Microsoft decided to re-trace Apple's rise to creative industry success step by step, but it seems to be working.

CF cards.Compact Flash, high speed low storage cards.

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.

As you guys have said, it's FREE. It doesn't have the funding that Photoshop has. Of course Photoshop is better.

> 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.

How many machines, thereabouts?A few hundred? A couple of thousand?

I'm sorely tempted to build a Hackintosh for my next desktop - I really do like the operating system.The @#$@! hardware, not so much.

Fair enough, but I would like to point out, based on the checklist above, your opinions are stuck half a decade in the past.BTW, I switch between OSX and Windows daily because of my line of work. The same work that has me constantly playing with new devices. I'm not bias, I like both, but your ideas of Windows machines are dated.

Edit a file and open it in Windows. Corrupts the files on my system

If you aren't picky about your display or add your own RAM, you can get a $1500 P50 with 64GB.The future is here, and it doesn't have a lot of hard disk paging.

Thinkpads kinda went downhill for a while, but some of the newer ones are back to the old standards - heavy metal frames under the plastic, big cooling systems, and removable batteries.Yeah, it has the weight of a 10-year-old laptop, but it has all the advantages, too...

This. If you draw on a screen, you don't likely need that much power; a Surface Book on a stand with a second display is going to let you draw stuff very effectively at home and abroad.Someone at MS decided that capturing the creative market was paramount to becoming cool. If this is how they're going about it, more power to 'em...

>this is the ethernet jack / superdrive / floppy disk removal of yesteryear.The floppy drive was already on its' way out, but they jumped the gun. CD burners eased the sting and USB storage killed it in a few years, but everyone had USB floppies for ages.The optical drive was already viable - loading things via network was incredibly common, and external optical drives on Apple laptops go back ages.Ethernet was honestly a bit stupid. Wifi at the time wasn't up to snuff, and losing hardware ports makes a lot of "pro" stuff - configuring networks, for example - a pain. Especially considering the USB adapter was crap. (I had one.)

A printer, actually. All my prints are weird.My Galaxy S5 was actually used for a last-minute hail-mary adjustment and was more accurate.

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.

Because most USB readers used with laptops just plug directly into the port.

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The crossover team makes sure to test the programs each release to make sure it all works.If you believe that, I have a clock in London to sell you.

A lot of that sounds like a shitty program, not quite Fedora's fault.

The Macbook Retinas are not so much fun to fix - I've swapped parts on older Macbooks, but I'd rather not touch my Retina 13".Also, holy shit those screens cost a lot.

A dirty piece of plexiglas is an alternative.Not a particulary *desirable* alternative...

Uh, I have this 5D Mk2, no SD card slot. Same with the 7D Mk1 too.But I assume newer models have SD card slots?

Exactly. As I mentioned in another comment, I use Photoshop as part of making a living for myself. There's no way I could go without it. There's not a chance I could do what I do with GIMP. Even if I could, there's no way it'll be as time efficient. In my eye's, GIMP is a upgrade to Windows Paint.