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  • Comparison: Which Apple MacBook is right for you?

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    MplsP said:
    Except that's the problem - it's not a great laptop; Compare the price/performance of the 2015 MacBook Pro to the 2016. Apple is charging 20% more for a machine with marginal improvements in performance and significantly reduced battery life. 
    The base 2016 15" is 20% more than the base 2015 but comes with discrete graphics, faster SSD and brighter screen ignoring the touch bar for the time being.  The performance  improvements are more than marginal from a GPU perspective and when you bump the 2015 to a discrete GPU model the price delta is much less.
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  • No, Apple did not switch to USB-C on its new MacBook Pros to profit from dongle & adapter sales

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    I have to disagree with you in the need for USB ports.
    I do a lot of travelling and often the internet connection is poor or even non existent. It is often expensive to use.
    So I take at least 1 USB drive with me, usually two. These are USB-3 drives. 1TB or 2TB in size.
    I can put three weeks of photography on them while I'm away on the boonies (or on an island that has no internet apart from via Satellite).
    I can also put a number of VM's on them. Are you really being serious to suggest that I would upload a VM of some 140Gb in size to a cloud provider and then download it when I wanted to use it? (This is a real world VM. It replicates the systems used to run a petro-chemical plant)

    In the words of John McEnroe, 'You can't be serious'.
    Then there is the 4TB drive I use for my TimeMachine Backups. That is USB-3. Where do you suggest that I connect it then? To a ghost?

    all of these are USB-A connections. Useless on the new MacBooks. So I'll have to fork out for a few dongles if I do buy one of the new MacBooks.

    Oh, and I forgot. As a dinosaur. I prefer wired (ie USB) keyboards and mice when I'm using the MacBook in my office when it is connected to two 4k screens.
    See, I have a very good use case for keeping USB ports.  I know that I'm not alone
    You are whining about a $35 USB-C hub from amazon that includes a SD card reader.

    http://a.co/bIR2ppi

    $20 for ones without.

    A TB-3 docking station costs more but gives you a single cable attachment for everything including monitors.  That's the last docking station you likely need to buy for the next decade as USB-C/TB3+ is standard for Apple, Dell, HP, etc.

    You have a dumb assed use case for putting USB-A on the MBP.
    macplusplusnetmagewatto_cobraDaekwan

  • Apple has 'great desktops' on Mac roadmap, CEO Tim Cook says

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    lorin schultz said:

    Perhaps that's true for YOUR use. For the things I do, it's fantastic.

    One of those applications is firing audio cues during live shows. The touch screen is essentially a giant control surface with dozens of buttons. It's WAAAY faster, easier and MUCH more intuitive than selecting and firing with a keyboard and/or pointing device. When I need to do things that are not easily accomplished with a fat finger, like accessing menus, I just use the mouse.

    One of my big complaints about using Pro Tools without a physical fader controller is that I can't turn one thing up while simultaneously turning something else down. 


    https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pro-tools-control/id1017075761?mt=8

    Free iPad app from Avid.

    Soft keys, custom app sets, channel controls etc.  It even works over ethernet (via camera connection kit) for lower latency.

    http://www.pro-tools-expert.com/home-page/2016/5/18/pro-tools-control-app-update-a-first-look
    It may be possible to do all that with an iPad sidecar, but that's less convenient than just sliding my finger over a screen that's right where I'm already looking.
    How is it less convenient?  The controls and displays are together on the iPad.  Ideally in a control surface you don't need to look at the mix screen.  All the info is at your fingertips and for the controls the iPad offers it looks to be mostly there.  It's not a S6 replacement but it's free.  

    And seriously, you're bitching about how Apple is inferior without even trying the free app?




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  • Microsoft touts Surface success, claims more MacBook switchers than ever

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    knowitall said:
    One fact is that MS released project 'bash' (yes its actually called like that, like pressing Start to Exit) to have an Ubuntu Linux subsystem (that's binary compatible, at least on Intel systems) to prevent web developers to leave Windows in droves ...
    It's called project bash because it ports the bash shell onto Windows.  Which is pretty danged awesome for them to do if you are a multiplatform developer.  Even if I kinda think that powershell is better...but having bash on windows, OS X and linux means that any shell scripts I write might work cleanly across all three.  How useful that will be is still TBD and depends on how much more they will develop bash.

    It's a shame that project astoria died but its nice pieces survive.
    jSnively