Macbook Pro (2016) Disappointment Pushes Some Apple Loyalis

Ditto, the p50 may be a little hefty, but you get top notch everything, plus you can play around with CUDA *plus* running i3 on it can net you a good 10 hrs of battery (although I code in terminal through ssh which is pretty lightweight)

This, I've used one with 4k, xeon and 64gb ram. This is better than some of the old servers running in the colo. I may try the p70 as 4k on a 15" I have to adjust the dpi which still gives me tons of screen real estate but I'm hoping I can see 4k on a 17" at 1 to 1.5 feet away

I've got one, but it's 1920x1080. I love it but I wasn't aware it came in HiDPI.

Also Chink government spyware installed in the hardware firmware.

The Performance Base model uses a 965m.

The Surface Book allows removing the screen from the keyboard so that the screen can be used as a tablet. It also has a touch sensitive screen. I don't like the fact that I can't upgrade the RAM or hard drive on a Surface Book, but I'm okay with the justification MS gives for that fact. The Surface Book is an insanely powerful laptop that is also a bad ass tablet with mediocre battery life. The new MacBook Pro line is full of laptops that are needlessly thin while sacrificing upgrade ability and they don't have a touch sensitive screen.I'll probably keep reading books on my iPad, but I won't buy another Mac product again.

The Surface Book was released over a year ago and the Surface Book is a laptop/tablet hybrid so not a very good comparison there. And with it being over a year old already, I'd still buy it before I'd purchase the MBP purely on functionality and productivity.

I think I've used the SD card slot twice. And it has four USB ports.

I'm not going to lie. I'd kill for that battery life on my laptop. I get a measly 5hrs. But hey, getting work done faster is worth charging my laptop a bit more frequently. :p

Wait do we have battery numbers yet? I thought there aren't any 15"s out yet

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.

People still use SD cards? Aren't those slots rather slow?

> You're hyped about a $4,000 laptop with 16GB of RAM, barely 9 hours of battery life, and no USB ports or SD card slot?
Really?Well, my FireWire 800 SD reader was way faster than the built-in SD slot soooo... I'm excited for an Apple laptop with no proprietary ports, but disappointed about the RAM and keyboard.

Jesus Christ $4000 for such a laptop?

And which year was this? If you tell me after 2005, i'm just going to continue laughing.

Linux Mint main distro uses it, its an offshoot of ubuntu.

The major distros, (Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, Fedora, Debian). Fedora, OpenSUSE and Ubuntu offer preinstalled desktops if you want it pre-built instead of a manual download through the software centre.

MATE here too. It's not as pretty as elementary, but it's super stable.

Fedora says "Yes, my job sucks, but the NASDAQ pays developers really well..."

> MATEHuh. That looks pretty nice.

> Want dual or triple screens? Plug in the screens and arrange what order you want them in.I could understand your comment, if you were using one of the more bare-bones desktop environments, but you were using KDE. It works exactly like that on KDE.

There are some programs for installing programs automatically.Is .rpms/.debs like installing .exes? When I did that (on Ubuntu, which uses .deb instead of .rpm) a prompt said,"Would you like to install this?" and installed everything required, no mess no fuss. The prompt was from a program called "gdebi-gtk", otherwise known as the "GDebi Package/software Installer"Fedora Linux has the "Yum Extender" (`yumex`) which works like the Gdebi Software installer. Downloads what's required when you install something.I don't know about OpenSUSE's Yet Another Setup Tool which is used for managing software. But last time I used it could only install software specifically made for it (.ymp, no .rpm)NOTE: I think there should be a way to install things through the desktop in OpenSUSE, as Fedora and Ubuntu can do it. But I lack the skills to even start it...

There's been big improvements for HiDPI in the latest version, 1.16.

I have run linux on some macbook airs and it has been a bit mixed. The older the device the better it works. I have a 2015 mba and the only problem with the hardware is I have to compile a custom driver for the backlight to work properly which is a pain

I had a migraine getting my mac to triple boot. Once that was done, it was pretty painless to get the rest to work in all three OSes. Backlight in Ubuntu took a bit of effort.

Nope, but if looks matter more then specs you can still use a macbook with Linux.The title is kinda weird. Its like saying the latest ford car is shit so ford owners are turning to cars.

Why did you make that deduction? I don't have autism.

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If an imac is enough for the creatives, a surface studio will be better

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