Eric_WVGG

I'm surprised by how many folks here are siding with the telcos on this one. These companies have a long history of absolutely making up anything to forward their agenda and their bottom lines.

It's true that the aviation industry is also motivated by money, but unlike telcos they also have to take passenger safety very seriously. And does anyone here remember the other science-driven industry that objected to hasty 5G rollouts, the weather forecasters? 

I think the claims of telcos should be taken with extreme skepticism. 

tpurdy said:

Will it mess up my iPad Pro if I use this base with USB-C on both ends? Would be nice to keep it plugged in and use for both the laptop and iPad. 

Or the other way around, can I use the iPad charger safely on the new MBP?

1. Nope, that'll work great.
2. Sort of… as I understand it, if your laptop has an active draw of say 60 watts, and you have a 30 watt charger installed, then instead of charging, you'll be actively draining your battery (albeit more slowly than if the laptop were fully unplugged. This negative-charging of the battery could potentially be damaging.

It is safe, as far as I know of, to charge your laptop with the iPad charger if it is asleep or turned off. So if you were traveling and wanted to bring the lighter, smaller, charger, and was only charging the laptop while you were sleeping overnight, no problem. 

Loses a multifunction i/o port in favor of a whole series of single user legacy ports. back to trying to remember if F3 is “clear cache” or “split window” or ”run some automator function.” old colors. 

sigh. i’ll buy one but this will not go down in history as one of my favorite laptops. 

fastasleep said:

I’d like a 16” with Midnight finish (that doesn’t wear off on the palmrests) and a new 30+ display with Thunderbolt daisy chaining and power delivery to replace my aging 30” ACDs please, both with nanotexture matte glass. 

Jeebus anything but “space grey”

and seconded for a new Apple display… I’ve got the LG, it started ghosting, what a bummer of a device… absolutely cannot believe that it hasn’t been possible to buy a decent, sub-$10k display for OVER FIVE YEARS

there’s one really unexpected drawback to the Mini 6 that i haven’t seen anyone write about yet: loads of websites and apps use 768px wide (“screen points”) as the starting point for tablet UIs. The Mini 6 is 744 wide. 

Websites like Digg.com are rendering with this awful stretched out phone view. The Overcast pocast player is missing the sidebar, again looking like an oversized phone app instead of a tablet app. 

i am very worried that developer ambivalence is going to lead to a crummy experience for the future on the ipad mini.