Macbook Pro (2016) Disappointment Pushes Some Apple Loyalis

Yeah but it's definitely a crappy tablet experience.

In my experience, Surfaces are indeed nice laptops, but definitely not bad-ass tablets.

Honestly if you're just buying it for the touchscreen, you're wasting your money. The stylus and it's capabilities in addition to the tablet mode is what sells it. Creators will pay a ton just to get their creative workflow more efficient and that portable digital drawing tablet is killer.

It's too under powered to be a laptop and too big/heavy to be a good tablet. Pass.

Ah, see I couldn't care less about the touch screen. Same for the touch bar on the new Mac.My biggest problem with the new Mac is the keyboard. I fucking hate low key travel, and I think the Surface Book has the same problem, just with worse specs.

4 USB ports but without separate port for charging, HDMI out, ethernet and SD slot.

No, it has 4 TB3 ports, which can also be used as USB ports.

You are way too quick to justify losing features that should be a given at the price point we are talking about. I fully understand you like the ecosystem, and as do I, but think logically about what you're saying.

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...

My new digital camera uses SD card. I don't know if there are cameras with any other options?

Galaxy s7 still uses sd cards. Lots of folks still use them and many are 256gb and bigger.

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...

I think that's our the configuration with the 2tB ssd

Once again you are proving you know literally nothing about the Apple lineup or the history of the hardware but for some reason still insist on acting like an expert.Literally all of the items I listed came out before 2005 (with the exception of the original uni-body MBP which I think came out in 07). If you had any idea what you were talking about, you woulda have known that.

It's upstream is Debian now.

Thanks for the tip. I have been using XFCE since I dislike where Gnome has gone (v3). I'll have to look into MATE. Thx.

Mate is sold as the more stable linux anyway, right?

> Is .rpms/.debs like installing .exes?Slightly to closer to .msi, only an rpm/deb will likely not include all the dependencies within the file but will contain a list of all required packages that should be installed along side it.The extreme of this are "metapackages" that have no "program" files in them at all - for example if you install a 3.6kb "kubuntu-desktop" .deb on a normal ubuntu system gdebi/synaptic/whatever will download the hundreds of megabytes of other packages needed to provide the full KDE desktop environment.

I wonder how useful a touchbar is gonna be if someone tries to run another OS on their new mbp

I didn't say it was less powerful than the iMac. I said it was underpowered. Considering the intended use and the high price.

In comparison to Photoshop, GIMP is worse in just about every way, it is a poorly designed program. There is the major issues like not supporting Lab and CMYK colour spaces. It is all the stupid little shit like the clunkiness of the type tool, how pasting a selection doesn't create a new layer, but rather a "pasted selection", how clicking inside the window will bring up the last used tool (no, I just finished with levels, why the fuck would I want it again?), etc.Yes it is nice that it is free and provides all these features, but it doesn't excuse it from being a terribly designed program. There is no excuse for not fixing it by now, there is other great Open Source graphics/editing software out there (Inkscape and Darktable come to mind), none of them quite match the professional equivalent, but they are decent. Unfortunately there is nothing that acceptably replaces Photoshop.

That's nice for things like games, where if something doesn't work you have recourse. With professional tasks, I can't just wait and hope for a patch.

"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."

See if tools are okay in current state -> have company hire a programmer or two for open source contributions to the toolchain you need -> profitEnough companies do that, tools will stop being a problem very quickly. They'll even be able to get patches really fast and have custom features added.

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.

"To install skype:Go to Skype's homepage and download Skype for ubuntu: Skype Download for Ubuntu.
When download is finished, go to the download folder where you downloaded Sype.
Right click on the Skype-package you downloaded and click on open with ubuntu software center.
After that this window should open:"So, so HARD...

As opposed to "hunting down" .exe's to install Skype on Windows?

> SkypeIf 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)