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Someone at Razer should be spearheading some development work to make a slightly thinner machine with a lower-power CPU and integrated graphics to snatch up all the MacBook Pro customers before they (or Apple) come to their senses.
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Google should stop loving around with the Chromebook pixel and get in on the laptop wars. they can't possibly make a weirder product than the pixel.
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Oct 31, 2016 13:48
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I touched one of the new ones today. I think I want one.Bob Morales posted:Someone at Razer should be spearheading some development work to make a slightly thinner machine with a lower-power CPU and integrated graphics to snatch up all the MacBook Pro customers before they (or Apple) come to their senses. Cyrano4747 posted:How are you so hung up on this of all things? A lot of people, especially in the fields Apple traditionally targets, split work between home and office and throwing your machine in a messenger bag is pretty convienent. If it isn't something that you literally carry all day but just stick in your car then carry to the office the weight isn't an issue at all. And I'm completely unconvinced by people who wish them to slide way up towards the power end again. If Apple had listened to that kind of talk, we'd still be lugging around 5 pound laptops, 10 pound laptops with 2 hours of battery. xgalaxy posted:Enjoy your "keyboard" on a sub-1cm laptop.
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edit: v fair enough, I'll just unbookmark this topic  .
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Oct 31, 2016 13:56
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eames posted:^ Is it possible to get people banned from SA for this type of trolling? We shouldn't, people have different opinions and that's fine. I don't like the new laptops, but if others do, that's fine. In general as SA membership and participation thins, bans are rare outside of the shitposting subforums. If I haven't gotten banned for all my poo poo-posting in Toronto LAN, no one can get banned. (USER HAS BEEN BANNED FOR THIS POST)
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Oct 31, 2016 14:20
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I love how Apple is getting absolutely savaged by every corner of the internet over this launch. I've never seen anything quite like it, it's really entertaining.
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Oct 31, 2016 15:07
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Pryor on Fire posted:I love how Apple is getting absolutely savaged by every corner of the internet over this launch. I've never seen anything quite like it, it's really entertaining.
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Oct 31, 2016 15:09
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Pryor on Fire posted:I love how Apple is getting absolutely savaged by every corner of the internet over this launch. I've never seen anything quite like it, it's really entertaining. Feels like it happens every time they launch anything, nowadays. And then it ends up being great.
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Oct 31, 2016 15:13
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I hate to admit it, but Apple is generally pretty good about saying 'gently caress you' to older technologies that people don't yet realize they shouldn't be using anymore. Lightning cables being poo poo for transmitting video is one. I think the AV out cables need a tiny hardware decoder in the cable connector to work. It sounds like a downgrade from the old 30pin, but Apple knew no one wanted to plug their iOS device into their TV. The few times I tried to do it on an old iPad it was miserable. Much easier to stream it to a device especially made to output that kind of media (available for $150 at the Apple Store). They still seem weirdly out of sync. The fact they whole-heartedly embraced USB-C for everything except mobile devices is really odd. I mean, I'm glad they didn't go full Sony and make everything a Lightning connector, but going half-in/half-out due to conflicting motivations is still very much a Sony thing. Like there's maybe an internal Apple division blocking USB-C on iPhones because then where would they make their 300% mark-ups on cable sales. Still doesn't explain the loving SD card slot. I hope whoever greenlighted that poo poo gets Jobs' cancer. and gets appropriate treatment in a timely manner so they don't die
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Oct 31, 2016 15:34
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Biodome posted:Feels like it happens every time they launch anything, nowadays. And then it ends up being great. The only time I remember them getting roasted this bad is when they came out with the iPad. Nobody was happy about the trashcan pro and it didn't sell for poo poo.
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Oct 31, 2016 15:39
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Krispy Kareem posted:The fact they whole-heartedly embraced USB-C for everything except mobile devices is really odd. USB-C is too fat.
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jawbroken posted:USB-C is too fat. Is it? Serious question. The connector looks like a similar size, but I don't know if the internals are any different. Bob Morales posted:The only time I remember them getting roasted this bad is when they came out with the iPad. But it was so overpriced that it probably still made a profit. Plus they got some government good will for assembling them in the States. The Internet hated the first iPod even more than the first iPad. The Internet is stupid.
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Oct 31, 2016 15:51
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Krispy Kareem posted:Is it? Serious question. The connector looks like a similar size, but I don't know if the internals are any different. lightning is 1.5 X 6.7mm and usbc is 2.6 X 8.4mm , pretty small difference but enough that apple will probably never switch Perplx fucked around with this message at 16:22 on Oct 31, 2016 |
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Oct 31, 2016 16:10
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Is there any way we can pool our powers together to make a goonbook pro?
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Housh posted:Is there any way we can pool our powers together to make a goonbook pro?  This ought to get us moving in the right direction. Of course it's a touch display, and you'll notice that all function keys are intact.
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procgen posted:
sorry i only use fully mechanical keyboards 
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Oct 31, 2016 16:42
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TraderStav posted:Whomever joked that the startup chime was next to go was prophetic. Dick Trauma posted:The startup chime is next. 
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Biodome posted:Feels like it happens every time they launch anything, nowadays. And then it ends up being great. No I've been watching these since the 80s, this one is unique. People are loving mad in a way that is beyond even reasonable, I think it's like half anger at apple and half existential angst at the death of an industry. It's really something else.
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Skimmed thread and done some googling but can't find any detailed batter tests on the no-touch macbook pro. Apple only says 10 hours, but I bet it's really 12 hours. It has same 54 watt hours and U-series processor as the 13" MacBook Air and an even more efficient display, and that 13" Air is advertised with 12 hours of battery. Anyone seen any good benchmarks?
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Krispy Kareem posted:I hate to admit it, but Apple is generally pretty good about saying 'gently caress you' to older technologies that people don't yet realize they shouldn't be using anymore. I recently got to find out how much of a shitshow iOS video output is while trying to rig up a status board with an old iPad 4 + TV we had laying around at work. Yeah, it essentially loving airplays the video over the wire, with even worse compression than over wifi somehow. Conclusion: Don't do this, return the adapters and use that money to buy a ChromeOS stick instead.
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I went and touched a new rMBP at the Apple Store today. The keyboard isn't great, but otherwise it is a fantastic laptop, and I might go back and buy one. The price was putting me off at first, but then I realized my previous 13" with largely identical specs cost the same. The only hangup I have is performance - it used the lower wattage CPU, and I don't know how the Iris graphics compare. I do light gaming in Windows, and my 2015 13" does fine with it, but I wouldn't want to lose any performance.
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Oct 31, 2016 18:24
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Krispy Kareem posted:The Internet hated the first iPod even more than the first iPad. The Internet is stupid. Also reminder that the first iPhone was lambasted for being "too big".
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IuniusBrutus posted:I went and touched a new rMBP at the Apple Store today. The keyboard isn't great, but otherwise it is a fantastic laptop, and I might go back and buy one. The price was putting me off at first, but then I realized my previous 13" with largely identical specs cost the same. Is the keyboard roughly the same size? The rMBP/MBA keyboard is close to as cramped as I could comfortably go. It's something I thought of when I went out to check out the Dell XPS in person, the super thin bezel means their 13" is smaller than the (old) Apple 13" I'm used to.
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I have many complaints about the direction they're taking but even as the owner of a MBA 11" I don't understand the complaints about the mac keyboards being bad or cramped. What are some examples of a good keyboard?
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nerdz posted:I have many complaints about the direction they're taking but even as the owner of a MBA 11" I don't understand the complaints about the mac keyboards being bad or cramped. What are some examples of a good keyboard? The 2016 rMB
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The Milkman posted:Is the keyboard roughly the same size? The rMBP/MBA keyboard is close to as cramped as I could comfortably go. It's something I thought of when I went out to check out the Dell XPS in person, the super thin bezel means their 13" is smaller than the (old) Apple 13" I'm used to. It's basically the same, but the key switches are extremely similar to the MacBook. I'm not a huge fan.
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nerdz posted:I have many complaints about the direction they're taking but even as the owner of a MBA 11" I don't understand the complaints about the mac keyboards being bad or cramped. What are some examples of a good keyboard? http://wasdkeyboards.com But, what I meant was that the keyboard on old 13" was fine and good, but any smaller and I think I'd have a bad time. IuniusBrutus posted:It's basically the same, but the key switches are extremely similar to the MacBook. I'm not a huge fan. Yeah, I wasn't thrilled with the switches on the rMB but that I could adjust to with time.
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Is $1300 a good price for 2015 rmbp 15" 2.2GHz, 512GB flash?
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Mordiceius posted:Is $1300 a good price for 2015 rmbp 15" 2.2GHz, 512GB flash? Depends. If it's broken and water is seeping out of the ports then nah, if it's new or refurb it's crazy good.
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Honj Steak posted:Depends. If it's broken and water is seeping out of the ports then nah, if it's new or refurb it's crazy good. I've just been trawling through Craigslist for them. Talked to the guy about it, he's has it about a year and is selling it because he's upgrading. No AppleCare with it though.  I plan on using the computer for film editing with adobe premiere. Mordiceius fucked around with this message at 20:05 on Oct 31, 2016 |
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Mordiceius posted:I've just been trawling through Craigslist for them. Talked to the guy about it, he's has it about a year and is selling it because he's upgrading. No AppleCare with it though. Keep in mind when buying less than 1 year old Macs on craigslist that a decent amount of them are stolen. Not saying specifically that one is, but someone selling a 1 year old PC for half price is suspicious. The reasonable expectation for the Macbook ultraportable is that with the Kaby Lake update coming sometime in the next 6 months, they're also going to make it's single port a Thunderbolt 3, right?
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mulls posted:I bet it's really 12 hours. It has same 54 watt hours and U-series processor as the 13" MacBook Air and an even more efficient display edit: oh hey http://www.laptopmag.com/reviews/laptops/macbook-pro-13-inch quote:Apple rates the 54.5 watt-hour battery in the 13-inch MacBook Pro for 10 hours of web surfing time, but we saw more impressive results. On the Laptop Mag web surfing test, in which we set the screen at 100 nits of brightness and surf the web over Wi-Fi, the MacBook Pro lasted an awesome 12 hours and 21 minutes. That beats the last 2015 MacBook Pro we reviewed, which lasted 12:04. Twerk from Home posted:Keep in mind when buying less than 1 year old Macs on craigslist that a decent amount of them are stolen. Not saying specifically that one is, but someone selling a 1 year old PC for half price is suspicious. Linguica fucked around with this message at 20:46 on Oct 31, 2016 |
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Linguica posted:The display is also *much* higher resolution, which requires significantly more processing power. From a quick search, the 1080p Dell XPS 13 lasted 12 hours, whereas the touchscreen 1800p one lasted a mere 8. Have you ever had to take it in to get something fixed? As time goes on these things get more and more annoying to self service and cheaper just to go to the apple store but I would be afraid of it being flagged.
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JHVH-1 posted:Have you ever had to take it in to get something fixed? As time goes on these things get more and more annoying to self service and cheaper just to go to the apple store but I would be afraid of it being flagged. No such thing. Apple 'warranties the device, not the user'. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204315 Other than the Find My iPhone and Find My Mac apps, there is no other Apple service that finds, tracks, or otherwise flags your device for you. Alice steals Bob's laptop. Alice goes in for warranty support. Apple can't prove Alice stole it so they fix her broken NVIDIA graphics. The only way you are going to 'flag' your laptop and get it back (without Find My Mac) is if Alice's meth-head boyfriends gets popped robbing a Rite-Aid and then they take a warrant and search her house and find your laptop and cross reference the serial # with the local PD and they get it back before they can sell it.
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Twerk from Home posted:Keep in mind when buying less than 1 year old Macs on craigslist that a decent amount of them are stolen. Not saying specifically that one is, but someone selling a 1 year old PC for half price is suspicious. It's kinda ridiculous to say that -- if you're a legit seller of a non-stolen device you still have to price match to what other sellers are charging. I have a brand new 15" rmbp in SA-Mart for like 55% of retail and only got one nibble on it.
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KS posted:It's kinda ridiculous to say that -- if you're a legit seller of a non-stolen device you still have to price match to what other sellers are charging. Apparently I need to start buying used high-end macs, the last time I did a big look-around 3 or 4 year old Macs were going for about that price, so I'm surprised that less than 1 year old Macs depreciate that fast legitimately.
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