[1]'MacBook Pro? No.' ↦:
Conclusion
If Apple wants to make a MacBook Pro, they should quit with the
design fundamentalism on a machine costing £2800 (£2800 is a ton of
money for an ordinary laptop, which apart from the display, this is)
and quit with what seem like cost-cutting measures in the name of
power efficiency. This machine is no doubt powerful. It never
struggles with software, everything runs at a decent clip (when the
power is plugged in) and it's stable, but it's not a Pro machine -
just about any decent PC laptop at not much more than half the price
of my MacBook Pro will give me "Pro" functionality.
I say make it faster, make the battery bigger, make the laptop
slightly thicker, make the keyboard decent (heck just make it like
the Magic Keyboard), get rid of the Touch Bar, make the display a
16" 4K HDR OLED, bring back some kind of MagSafe, bring the lit
Apple logo back, bring back the SD card slot, add three USB 3 slots,
make the trackpad smaller, beef up the GPU so that it can handle VR
and games, and make it £4000. I'll buy it. In the meantime, drop the
price on this experiment and stop calling it a Pro. It doesn't feel
any more Pro than the standard MacBook.
(Via [2]Six Colors)
This write-up nails every issue I have with the MacBook Pros since the
2016 models were released (and to a lesser extent the MacBook). I'll
wait and see what Apple comes out with later this year before I pull
the trigger on a decked out used 2015.
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My original entry is here: [3]'MacBook Pro? No.' ↦. It posted Thu, 11
Jan 2018 02:33:17 +0000.
Filed under: tech,
References
1.
http://shahidkamal.com/macbook-pro-no/
2.
https://feedpress.me/sixcolors?type=xml
3.
https://www.prjorgensen.com/?p=808
