Macbook Pro (2016) Disappointment Pushes Some Apple Loyalis

Does the Surface Book have that weird plastic/mesh keyboard thing?

so now you need to buy an additional dock for a "pro" laptop that starts from $1800.

So I can drag my dock to meetings? "Guys, I'mma need to whip out my dock" "Dave, you're fired!".

I like the future of USB Type C, but the future is when all devices have that same connector and no dongle is required. In the mean time, two C ports, two Type A ports, SD Card, and mini display port out is Pro. Let the 12 inch MacBook be the pioneer. Like how the Air eschewed the CD Drive. But keep the Pro a true Pro machine. It was only until 2 generations after the Air did the pro lose the CD drive. The Pro needs to work with whatever I need it to work it not the other way around.

>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.

As a dev, I've always loved Apple's build quality, but this isn't a pro machine. Designers might be able to make it work, but I use f* keys every 10 or so seconds. The MBP is a joke for programmers. If you're not bound to iOS/OS X/XCode you're not likely looking at these systems anymore.

It has a trackpad what are you talking about?

Full frame Canon dslr use SD card.

Photographers?

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

Not literally sold as in for money, but sold as in stability is touted as one of it's main strengths.

Not as in $, but as a solution.

> or 3D artists who may need more GPU power, but I don't think Studio is marketing itself towards that demographic.They literally demo'd 3D modelling on stage.

Open Source advocates are often railing about how Open Source software is just as powerful as Closed Source hardware. How the Open Source release has "the vast majority of features" from the proprietary equivalent.So maybe somebody comes along and points out it's shortcomings. Maybe you mention that it has no CMYK support, doesn't have any sort of non-destructive editing capability, a lot of filter operations cause loss of bit depth, the paintbrush is a scaled raster bitmap, using large brushes has incredibly poor performance, No particular control over brush modifiers, dealing with gradients is unintuitive nonsense, Filters only let you see a preview at 100% zoom, half-assed filters like a completely unusable Lens Flare, presumably added as joke, Filters apply to the image, and not to individual layers, Many filters lack any sort of customization (as with Lens Flare), "Lighting Effects" is unintuitive, and entirely unusable.And then all of a sudden it's something like "it's free, and doesn't have the funding, of course it isn't as good.".Well, Then people should *stop saying it*! it's that easy. Represent the capabilities of the product accurately and don't hold it up as a "Photoshop alternative" and get all annoyed when people compare it to Photoshop. At best, It's a Photoshop alternative for people who didn't need Photoshop to begin with.

Sigh, of course it won't have all the features, but nothing says open source software cannot be designed well for general use. GIMP has also been missing critical features that people have been screaming for for years now and nobody seems to care to implement it.I have praised other related software here that extolls exactly what I'm talking about.

People in this thread refuse to listen to reason - or think logically about it.Sad to see us getting downvoted for being a voice of reason - but "reddit"

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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.

>dysfunctional piece of shitSounds just like their windows app

People laugh and say that, but i always preferred the old version linux has than the newest windows versions. No ads, more compact usage of screen space and was immune to the http:// null parsing crash.

Yes.But now that web browsers bundle video calling functionality (WebRTC), Microsoft has decided to create a new version of Skype for Linux, which is pretty much just a web browser. This is currently still in Alpha, but seems to largely be usable.

It's always looked like shit too

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

in our entire INDUSTRY? jesus, many. i wouldn't know where to begin.We have 17 people at all have various MacBooks. We'll have more than a few 2016s in a few weeks but some of the assistants and managers don't need upgrades. We don't have any desktops.

aside from audio, it's gotten fairly fool-proof to osx86 on the desktop. Just get a usb audio card and you're set.

Weird, I was wondering if I was capable of servicing my MBA, and I have changed a water pump on a Chevy Celebrity before. Thanks for the encouragement!

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.

my opinions are *not* stuck half a decade in the past lol but you can tell yourself that if it makes you feel like your opinion is more superior I guess

Thanks for the feedback, always good to know since their architecture was really compatible with uncommon OS such as the *BSD family, (and i plan to reinstall one of them in a not to far future). Perhaps compatibility still prevails nowadays.