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The new MacBook Pro looks and feels so good it's unreal (with video at source)
The Verge ^ | October 27, 2016, 4:37PM | By Dieter Bahn

Posted on 10/27/2016 6:21:48 PM PDT by Swordmaker

The new MacBook Pro is here — literally available for preorder today — and I’ve just tried it. The best thing I can say about is simple: everything about it looks and feels so good I almost didn’t believe it.

We’ll start with the marquee feature, the Touch Bar. What you might not have gathered from the keynote is that it has a matte finish, which makes the buttons on it somehow feel a little more physical. It’s bright, but not so bright that it distracts — it seems to be about on par with the brightness of the backlit keyboard.

THE TOUCH BAR LOOKS REALLY GOOD, THE SCREEN LOOKS INCREDIBLE

I have questions about whether or not all these changing function buttons will be comprehensible, but in my brief time with them they all made sense to me. There’s no haptic feedback on them, unfortunately, but obviously they all worked perfectly. That included quickly applying filters in Photos and sorting emails in Mail.

I also rearranged buttons (you can find the option in a menu) and it worked, well, as advertised. What’s neat about dragging buttons down from the screen to the Touch Bar is that you can keep moving them with the mouse on the second screen.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: apple; applepimp; applepinglist; handson; icult; macbookpro; macgasm; newmacbookpro; touchbar
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To: Swordmaker
I have been using my iPad exclusively and never use my MacBook Pro anymore since my charger frayed. I'm NOT buying another one!!!😡 I absolutely love my iPad but miss the keyboard. I hate this pecking and looking at the keys when I type. This new MacBook might be in my future-a good compromise with its lightness and real keyboard. Maybe next spring when I'm fat with cash.
41 posted on 10/27/2016 8:56:15 PM PDT by FrdmLvr (A is A)
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To: Swordmaker

Give me thinness and lightness over the lighted apple any day!


42 posted on 10/27/2016 9:03:15 PM PDT by FrdmLvr (A is A)
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To: Swordmaker

Give me thinness and lightness over the lighted apple any day!


43 posted on 10/27/2016 9:03:17 PM PDT by FrdmLvr (A is A)
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To: Swordmaker

Give me thinness and lightness over the lighted apple any day!


44 posted on 10/27/2016 9:03:18 PM PDT by FrdmLvr (A is A)
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To: Swordmaker

I know. It says I will have to wait 3-4 weeks.


45 posted on 10/27/2016 9:03:46 PM PDT by Defiant (#HillaryGropedMe when I tried to get her hands off my girlfriend.)
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To: Swordmaker
Both the ESC key and the full set of Function Keys still exist as virtual keys accessed by pressing the Function Key (hey, who'da thought that the Function Key would bring up Function Keys?) Press the Function Key and the Touch Bar turns into the full set of Function Keys with the ESC key in its normal location on the left.

A virtual key. I'll give it a try when the new MacBooks hit the Apple stores, but I'd rather just have a real Escape key without having to remap another physical key. It's hard to understand why Apple chose to get rid of the Escape key - they know many of their users use Bash with 'set -o vi' as well as vi itself.
46 posted on 10/27/2016 9:07:14 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: minnesota_bound
Only people who own Tesla’s could afford this.
$1,499 to $4,299. It must be the cost of the 2TB SSD.

You get this with so many Windows laptops today for under $1,000, heck under $700.

That's part of it. Those $700 - $1000 PCs with large capacity SSD drives don't have the drives that are in these MacBook Pros. These are PCIe high speed SSDs. The Dell price for a 512GB high performance is $525! The 1TB version is $775! Dell doesn't offer a 2TB, but Apple does for a $1200 upgrade price over the default 512GB.

To get to the $4299 price, requires upgrading the processor to a 2.9GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 processor, Turbo Boost up to 3.8GHz, which the Dell did not offer on the model I was configuring. That model only allowed upgrading to the lowest i7 on the MacBook.

47 posted on 10/27/2016 9:11:06 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: FrdmLvr
Give me thinness and lightness over the lighted apple any day!

I found that with my 2 pound MacBook. Wonderfully light.

48 posted on 10/27/2016 9:14:56 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: bigdaddy45

Too bad the company hates America


49 posted on 10/27/2016 9:16:30 PM PDT by arl295
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To: Swordmaker
Interesting thread. My mother in law is looking at upgrading. Looks like I'll be checking out the apple store soon. I'm still a 'build your own' linux guy, but you gotta love Mac hardware.

this thread sure attracted a lot of trolls.

50 posted on 10/27/2016 10:24:47 PM PDT by zeugma (Welcome to the "interesting times" you were warned about.)
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To: minnesota_bound

“Sure you can buy a hamburger for $1. But then you’d have to eat it.”


51 posted on 10/27/2016 11:28:22 PM PDT by ctdonath2 ("If anyone will not listen to your words, shake the dust from your feet and leave them." - Jesus)
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To: Swordmaker

I need a laptop. I want this one now. Wish I had $2k sitting around.


52 posted on 10/27/2016 11:45:12 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Swordmaker; AnotherUnixGeek
Press the Function Key and the Touch Bar turns into the full set of Function Keys with the ESC key in its normal location on the left.

Fail!

AUG is a vi user. Your workaround is an additional keystroke, but vi is all about keystroke efficiency!

Merely touching the mouse (or its surrogate) is something vi enables its users to avoid (a feature, not a bug). Having to invoke a mode change through a soft function key keyboard first in order to access a basic control key is a deal-breaker.

That said, when not traveling, I use a Bluetooth keyboard (and a 30" external monitor) with my MBP. So, if ESC still works from the BT keyboard, I'm probably happy.

53 posted on 10/27/2016 11:48:33 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: occamrzr06

“Does it self ignite?”

You’ve confused Apple with Samsung. ;-)


54 posted on 10/27/2016 11:53:26 PM PDT by PreciousLiberty (Trump/Pence 2016! Make America Greater Than Ever!)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

“I need a real Escape key.”

Pressing control plus “left square bracket” is also Escape. I often use that as well as control+i for Tab. It involves less hand movement. Escape in particular is quite a reach.


55 posted on 10/27/2016 11:56:53 PM PDT by PreciousLiberty (Trump/Pence 2016! Make America Greater Than Ever!)
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To: cynwoody
That said, when not traveling, I use a Bluetooth keyboard (and a 30" external monitor) with my MBP. So, if ESC still works from the BT keyboard, I'm probably happy.

It does. Also, once you've pressed the Function Key, the Function Keys don't go away. They'll stay until you select another application or re-press the Function Key. There is no additional keystroke required if the Function keys are already available.

56 posted on 10/28/2016 12:29:09 AM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: FrdmLvr

Have you considered a Bluetooth Keyboard?
They are available with a case to fit the iPad into, so forming a mini notebook. Have been using this for the last three years.
Stress free mobile computing. :)


57 posted on 10/28/2016 2:02:56 AM PDT by moose07 (DMCS (Dit Me Cong San ) One month to Toupee Day.)
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To: Defiant

Plus the Surface Pro has many issues.


58 posted on 10/28/2016 3:23:40 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: FrdmLvr

You can buy a keyboard for your iPad or you can use Siri. I use Siri for this forum when I post from my iPhone or iPad and I also use Siri for text messages.

I was using a keyboard on my iPad for a very short time, but I find that Siri mostly does fine.

That little microphone is a very cool feature on the iPhone and iPad.


59 posted on 10/28/2016 4:47:10 AM PDT by Not gonna take it anymore (If Obama were twice as smart as he is, he would be a wit)
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To: minnesota_bound
Only people who own Tesla’s could afford this. $1,499 to $4,299. It must be the cost of the 2TB SSD.

"The best is always the cheapest"- old Singer Sewing Machine slogan.

60 posted on 10/28/2016 5:12:27 AM PDT by jalisco555 ("In a time of universal deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act". George Orwell.)
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