Ben Tossell

MacBook Pro - The new MacBook Pro with TouchBar and more

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Stanley Idesis
Not buying until they remove the headphone jack. What do they think this is, August 2016?
André J
@sisedi At least they removed the glowing apple logo on the back
Stanley Idesis
@eonpilot yeah but when you interact with the new touch bar, it gently tattoos the apple logo onto each fingertip
André J
@sisedi Seriously though you know this touch bar is going to be 👌 for XCode/snippets/clipboards etc etc. Productivity here we come!
Stanley Idesis
@eonpilot yeah I'm pretty stoked but won't be getting one anytime soon
Dwayne Charrington
@sisedi I guess they're still working up the courage to remove the headphone jack on the MacBook.
Ben Tossell
Dont care what anyone thinks... I think the TouchBar looks Cool AF I hate my keyboard now. 'Microsoft has a touchscreen though....' - yeah but its Microsoft... EDIT: seems my 'yeah but its MS' has touched a nerve with some of you.... its my personal opinion ✌️
Matt Burns
@bentossell why did i just buy a macbook pro last mth... fml
Ben Mildren
@bentossell yeah but it's Microsoft seems like the such an awful statement to base purchases on. MS is killing it right now and Apple is stagnating IMO.
Nelson
@mildrenben killing it with outdated I/O: no USB-C on a $3k computer, outdated graphics cards, etc. The concept is nice, but I don't need it, I can't draw anyway.
Jack Smith
@mburns87 if you bought it less than 30 days ago, you should be able to return it. Apple has a very liberal return policy, so you can return even used items
Andreas Mitschke
@bentossell Looks to me like amongst the most dysfunctional things ever seen. It's a gimmick I would expect from a gaming keyboard. I'm faster with my shortcuts and mouse than I would ever be with that battery absorbing gimmick bar.
Jack Dweck
Take my money
Ben Tossell
@jackdweck emojibar FTW
cj little
@jackdweck I wanted to resist. I tried to resist. But yes, please just take my money. And more of my money for ever accessory I currently own but in USB-C form...
Adam Sturrock
@bentossell @jackdweck The emoj-iBar 😎 (sorry couldn't help myself)
cj little
@jackdweck 15" loaded = $4,299. They make you pay for the 2TB, that's for sure. I'm going to wait for a 32GB refresh for now, so in a bizarre reversal "Keep my money". :-D
Micha Mazaheri
@ibcj @jackdweck I agree 16GB max is a little disappointing…
Ryan Hoover
I don't think most people really care about a "faster processor" but emojis support... 😍💰
Naseem Raad
@rrhoover did you see the interview with Craig, they why they spent 1/3 of WWDC talking about iMessage instead of other things. He said, when we do better performance bugs and whatnot no one cares, but the second we add 2 emojis the whole world goes crazy! 😂
Cameron Roe
@rrhoover It's all about the DJ now... scratch support? check ✅
Steven Rueter
Now I just need to quit programming and become a DJ
Kwame Som-Pimpong
TouchBar is meh. I really think Apple needs to figure out how it's going to tear down its current suite of hardware and build something new from the ground up.
Yann Bertrand
That price though
Nelson
@_yannbertrand it's cheaper than the SurfaceBook, what do you mean?
YS Chung
@759nelson for equivalent specs the Surface Book is cheaper...
Ketan Anjaria
So now on a Pro machine I gotta get more dongles for my SD card and dongles for my drives (that I just bought) and more dongles for HDMI? That's BS. I can understand the logic on a consumer machine but not when Apple is supposedly great for photographers/creators and the like.
Nick Simard
@kidbombay But they kept the headphone jack, so that makes up for losing USB, HDMI, MagSafe and card slot, right? Except based on their new iPhones, they see headphone jacks as obsolete. Oh, Apple.
Matt Galligan
@kidbombay Think about it this way though: every port is every port. There may be a dongle, sure. But this thing is way more forward thinking this way.
Ketan Anjaria
@mg this is backwards. Now I have to carry more stuff which doesn't help. I actually have to buy a SD card reader which I haven't had to purchase for 5 years.
cj little
Eagerly awaiting the build to order specs! I know a 2TB SSD is an option (hooray!), but what about the 32GB of RAM that I know I need?!
cj little
@eonpilot Man, I see that now. What a drag. I'll hold on for the 32GB refresh I guess. :-/
Eric Nunlee
@ibcj I have been waiting on 32gb for the past 3 years. It's ridiculous to run todays "RAM heavy" professional software and browsers on 16gb of RAM. Huge mistake!
cj little
Interesting response from Phil Schiller posted by MacRumors: *Question from David:* The lack of a 32GB BTO option for the new MBPs raised some eyebrows and caused some concerns (me included). Does ~3GBps bandwidth to the SSD make this a moot issue? I.e. memory paging on a 16GB system is so fast that 32GB is not a significant improvement? *Schiller's answer:* Thank you for the email. It is a good question. To put more than 16GB of fast RAM into a notebook design at this time would require a memory system that consumes much more power and wouldn't be efficient enough for a notebook. I hope you check out this new generation MacBook Pro, it really is an incredible system. http://www.macrumors.com/2016/10...
Bruno Lemos
@ibcj what do you use the 32gb for? (my current macbook has 4gb :()
cj little
@brunolemos I still fancy myself a software engineer, and certainly am still quite a nerd. So my largest consumption of memory typically comes from running multiple virtual machines. And I'd love nothing more than to be able to run two VM's with 8ish GB each (leaving 16GB for my native OS). And come to think of it, even running native in 16GB with another 16GB to a primary VM would be lovely. Another (not so primary use case) would be to be able to run analytics on largeish data sets in memory. Loading a couple GB dataset into memory for analytics and processing on my local machine just makes me smile.
Mawunami Akoto
But let's be honest. Between a 2TB HD option and a 32GB RAM option, which would you have preferred?
Eric Nunlee
@mawunamiakoto 32 GB not even close. I need speed and power. I would never store that much on a laptop anyways - Capacity is what the cloud is for.
James Requa
@ericnunlee totally agree. Seems a silly move with most storage now moving to cloud for them to focus on increasing that while sacrificing on RAM.
Adam Bowie
Zzzzzzzz. Weak update. Apple is adding gimmicky features like this OLED bar rather than focusing on improving the specs. Same thing they did with iOS10 and the iMessage features we all used for one week only. The 2015 Pro model is plenty thin. They should have kept same thinness and instead bumped up the battery life, the processor speed, and ramped the RAM to 32GB. The specs on this are no better than the ones on my early 2015 Macbook Pro.
James O'Sullivan
Ergonomic nightmare. I would expect this type of gimmick to be on a samsung, not apple. Everything has gone downhill since we lost Jobs.
Mawunami Akoto
Generally, I was expecting to be really wowed by the new MacBook Pro like I was wowed by the Surface Studio yesterday. After waiting for so long I was really expecting more. More RAM, 7th Gen Kaby Lake and a totally new design. The new MacBook Pro feels a bit like a refresh.
Hameto
Anyone else think TouchBar is positioned weirdly? Why not between the trackpad and keyboard where ppl hands are 100% of the time.
Desmond
@hameto_ I was thinking the same thing. Our hands spend most of the time on the trackpad, seems counterintuitive to not place the touch bar near it.
Pete ☕️
@desmonddantzler @hameto_ They did show how customizing the bar was really fluid as the two screens were close to each other. I do agree ergonomically it seems awkward at first, but I think when you start to use it it might be better placed. Also, it's where the function keys were, its extending their use.
Drew Goodwin
@hameto_ if it was placed near the trackpad, your hands/arm would cover it while typing. It's basically a small screen. Since the content is dynamic, hindering visibility would be a mistake.
Scott Miller
Will this be the fastest product to get 1000 likes ever?
Francis Perron
Its a slick laptop until you have to plug 4 dongles in order to make it work.
JP Boily
@francisperron now waiting to see a great dock to have only one thing to plug in this little beast at home. I'm actually super excited! Can't wait to get mine. Did you order for all the team @ GitMarket? ;)
Francis Perron
@jipiboily Its just sad we need to buy dongles or dock at the price they are selling it :( No we're good, I have a early 2015 13", I'll stick with that for now and let the industry adapt to usb-c/thunderbolt3.
Giacomo Lawrance
Looks good. However is it true that Apple killed the Air? Loving that emoji bar, finally a nice update to an Apple product! ;) Might recover the poor sales on the iPad Pro and the iPhone 7. As a certain Twitter user said: Microsoft announces a 28-inch, beautiful computer with a touchscreen display. Apple adds a tiny sliver of an iPad to the MacBook Pro.
Matt Bradford-Aunger
Still no 4k?
Eric Wilson
It can power two external 5k dispays and the internal display is retina DPI. 4k in a 15" monitor would be pointless unless you're wearing binoculars and sitting 1 ft away.
Daniel Shneyder
What's the point if you can't go beyond 16GB of RAM?
David Atías
@nxc I got the previous version of the Macbook Pro Retina and I can't add extra ram because it comes attached to the mother board. This will be the same?
Deekshith Allamaneni
This is still stuck with 16GB Ram 😒