Posted on 05/19/2015 7:53:15 AM PDT by Loud Mime
Apple on Tuesday issued an update to its 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display, adding faster Intel processors, as well as the new pressure-sensitive Force Touch trackpad.
The new trackpad, previously available on the 13-inch MacBook Pro and 12-inch MacBook, has built-in force sensors and a Taptic Engine that delivers haptic feedback. It allows users to click anywhere with a uniform feel, and users can even customize the amount of pressure needed to register each click.
Force Touch opens up a range of new gestures, including the new force click. Developers can tap into these expanded capabilities with new APIs available in the latest builds of OS X Yosemite.
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However, with the Dell, you do get the opportunity to get your grubby fingerprints all over the Dell 4K touch screen. . . which puts the text and internet images at a ridiculously small, unreadable and unviewable size.
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Is that a male, female or "other" that MS Marketing has manning the "dennisw" cubicle, today...?
Nicely backlit, perfect for daily online perusal, but I also own the usb keyboard with 10-key functionality which I use when working remotely. The keys on the external keyboard feel more 'robust' and capable of handling a heavy volume of keystrokes.
What about the watches? You’re missing the bigger, more worthy target!
I would think you would want an Audio Technica AT3482P .7 mil Conical Cartridge .
Close it, it plays. Open it, it stops. "Listen to the rhythm of the falling rain..."
The Asus keyboard tends to “miss” my keypresss enough to be very disruptive. The previous laptop I had, what would be a very old MBP if it were still around, also had this issue, though only for a few keys. I played around with the subsequent generation MBP keyboard at an Apple store once, and it seemed fine.
I guess the moral of the story is to try before buying.
I don’t care fir the curved keyboards. I have a Logiitech keyboard at home. It has the Cherry brown keys, and it is awesome to type on. But I don’t expect a laptop to be able to achieve that. I would settle for one that didn’t drop keypresses.
I’ve read a lot of online reviews simply condemning Yosemite. They were older reviews and comments, so maybe the bugs are worked out. It is good to here that you are not having problems with it. There was a lot of initial criticism right down to the new Photo management replacing iPhoto.
Still have Rootpipe vulnerability as far as I know.
I have heard it loads notoriously slowly compared to Mavericks.
A lot of people don’t like the new user interface, don’t like the transparency. Some people don’t like the iOS look to all the controls, a step backward from Mavericks.
I’ve read some critics saying it freezes up regularly and they have to reboot their imac. I NEVER reboot my iMac. Once in a blue moon and it is usually due to some external software hanging up my internet. Usually forced close works in those cases.
It sounds like it is just not as polished as Mavericks. I am very happy with Mavericks, so the avalanche of criticism toward Yosemite makes me nervous.
I have heard it has gone back to smaller fonts you can’t enlarge. Maybe that is baseless, but those kinds of complaints make me hesitant to even try Yosemite.
It goes on from there. iOS is for CPUs that have that limitation. It is wrong of Apple to try to impose iOS on a personal computer that has the power and speed to run something better. I realize Yosemite is not iOS per se, but I don’t want my user interface to take a step backward and looking like a cell phone when there is no need for it with the speed and power of my iMac.
I will keep an ear to the ground but for now, I am afraid to jump to Yosemite.
Rootpipe was fixed for OS X.10 but it also affected all Macs back to OS X.8. . . and Apple did not fix it for the older versions. A newer version of the Rootpipe was supposedly found by a hacker, but all versions require physical possession of the computer to do anything with them. If you have physical possession there are far easier ways to compromise the computers than a root pipe.
Slowly compared to Mavericks? Not that i've noticed. . . but then what is slow on an SSD? Ten seconds to usable screen. . .
Transparencies can be turned off if you don't like it. I kind of like it.
I haven't noticed anything that looks iOS like at all in the controls. . . It looks like OS X.
i have never had to reboot my MacBook Air or my iMac which has been running OS X.10 Yosemite for quite some time even on the beta. I don't know what their problems are. . . but I'm not experiencing them.
Avalanche? 58% of Mac users are on OS X Yosemite now. . . and there are few thousand complaints. That is not an avalanche of complaints. 55 million to a few thousand. I'll go to with the 55 million without problems.
I have heard it has gone back to smaller fonts you can’t enlarge. Maybe that is baseless, but those kinds of complaints make me hesitant to even try Yosemite.
Sounds like FUD to me. . .
It goes on from there. iOS is for CPUs that have that limitation. It is wrong of Apple to try to impose iOS on a personal computer that has the power and speed to run something better. I realize Yosemite is not iOS per se, but I don’t want my user interface to take a step backward and looking like a cell phone when there is no need for it with the speed and power of my iMac.
There is nothing iOS like about OS X Yosemite. Not at all.
IMHO Apple’s keyboard is greatly improved over previous versions. The keys are more sensitive to the touch requiring only a delicate touch and the added ‘dimension’ of depth felt when using the Force Touch Trackpad feels like a marriage between user and machine. You should drop into an Apple store and try the new MBP. #TryItYoullLikeIt
Yosemite brings the “flat” visual characteristics of the IOS UI to the Mac. I’m still not a huge fan of the flat look on either platform.
Thanks. I’ll swing buy the Apple store at lunch time next week and check them out.
Go ahead and flush your money down the toilet. When will you be buying one so that you can keep up with the Joneses, the teenyboppers, the gays, the hipster urbanite trash and the fanbois debris?
Meanwhile, back on planet Earth there are very fine 15" laptops for $500 and under. Crappy Apple product is not an option for those with a functioning brain
I like flat GUI in Windows 8. It was instituted to save on CPU horsepower and prolly the same reason Apple did it
What crappy watches do you have in mind?
I noticed how you reframed the question. Nice try.
Earlier I named two watches that used ridiculous associative advertising. Why didn’t you address those?
... that in no way match the power and functionality of the MacBook in question. If you want an underpowered, cheap piece of junk to browse the web and read email, by all means buy a disposable piece of junk.
If you want to do real work, you're going to have to pony up for a machine that can do it. MacBooks tend to be roughly in the upper middle of the price range for similarly-spec'd machines.
You are tripping same as Sword. FAIL! 90% of computer users will do perfectly well with a Windows laptop under $500. You want some kind of ultra-powered Apple crap for $2500 then go blow your $$$. FAIL!
Its not about your fanbois needs, status seeking and obsessions. Its about how the average laptop user can buy a $400 Windows 8 or 10 laptop that will perfectly suit his needs. You don’t get out much do you?
Heck. They buy a cheap Chromebook that will suit them just as well as a crappy Apple laptop costing five times as much. I can see chromebooks on Amazon with 2000+ reviews
Apple does not make low-end laptops, they are made specifically for the high-end of the usage spectrum. Yes, some non-power users will buy more computer than they need (on the other hand, it will have a longer useful lifespan than the cr*p you're suggesting they buy), but a power user can't get away with a Chromebook or an underpowered laptop.
I’ll wait until the price of SSD’s stop being ridiculously high (it could happen by this fall) and then I’ll get a Windows 10 laptop with 8 GB of RAM and 512 GB SSD that won’t cost US$2,500. :-)
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