Posted on 10/27/2016 6:21:48 PM PDT by Swordmaker
The new MacBook Pro is here literally available for preorder today and Ive just tried it. The best thing I can say about is simple: everything about it looks and feels so good I almost didnt believe it.
Well 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. Its 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. Theres 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. Whats 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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Winner: Dell
Dell XPS 13 and Apples 13-inch MacBook Pro
http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/apple-macbook-pro-13-vs-dell-xps-13-apple-macbook-dell-xps-13/
Here’s the thing. That Dell is a very nice laptop. But it is unlikely you can run OS X or the new macOS on it. While I can work in Windows 10 but I hate 95% of doing so.
Vote Trump 2016
So there is a 5% chance then : )
I was hearing a computer radio show today called The Tech Guy and a guy called that was going to college said he wanted to buy a windows pc as the Mac was so expensive. He might be the only one in his class with a Windows pc.
You see Apple is the reason college is so expensive! : )
Quite a few of the higher end PCs are adding the Thunderbolt 3 drivers and hardware to their functions because of the much faster transfer speeds. It really is a no brainer. . . and the connector is identical. It merely involves adding the internal hardware and drivers plus licensing the Thunderbolt technology for a couple of dollars per unit. I doubt you'll see it on the $300-$400 cut rate PCs for a long time though.
Lots of US companies have stores there...
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