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I've returned mine (15''). First time I've returned an Apple product. I previously wrote about my issues here [1]. For me, it was a combination of all the bad

I've returned mine (15''). First time I've returned an Apple product. I previously wrote about my issues here [1]. For me, it was a combination of all the bad things: Touch bar (useless, distracting gimmick, no match for physical keys, nearness to keyboard results in inadvertent touches), lack of physical Esc key, meh keyboard (super loud, not enough key travel, annoying arrow keys), and absolutely no improvements over my current Mid-2015 MBP. The only thing I miss is the fingerprint reader. I'm fine with donglegate, and I had bought all the cables/dongles I needed. I'm surprised to read about everyone expecting 10 hours of battery life. My Mid-2015 gets 3-4 hours when I'm almost exclusively in Safari + VSCode + Terminal + Slack. Those are energy-hungry apps (especially Slack — only in 2016 would your chat app be the most CPU-intensive app!), and I got the same mileage with the 2016 MBP. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13098257 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13098257

biehl 10y ago
Yes! Why is the slack app so power hungry??
- ulfw 10y ago
  Because it's not an app. It's Electron aka basically another copy of the Chrome browser running the slack web app
  - pokemongoaway 10y ago
    Any suggestions? I've a top of the line macbook and the two things it has the hardest time handling are Chrome and Slack... I think Chrome needs to start thinking more about performance and design.
    - lobster_johnson 10y ago
      I recommend switching to Safari. Faster and less resource-hungry.
  - alfanick 10y ago
    You can use now Slack to XMPP or IRC gateway and use native client for these protocols - as a result power consuption is greatly reduced. A minor problem is that Slack has no idea if you read the message or not (though they should easily fix this with XMPP gateway). #no-to-calling-electron-a-native-app-movement
  - alonmower 10y ago
    I recently switched back to using Slack in a pinned tab and I can't recommend it enough. The minor additional inconvenience of getting to it makes it less distracting for me

biehl 10y ago

Yes! Why is the slack app so power hungry??

ulfw 10y ago
Because it's not an app. It's Electron aka basically another copy of the Chrome browser running the slack web app
- pokemongoaway 10y ago
  Any suggestions? I've a top of the line macbook and the two things it has the hardest time handling are Chrome and Slack... I think Chrome needs to start thinking more about performance and design.
  - lobster_johnson 10y ago
    I recommend switching to Safari. Faster and less resource-hungry.
- alfanick 10y ago
  You can use now Slack to XMPP or IRC gateway and use native client for these protocols - as a result power consuption is greatly reduced. A minor problem is that Slack has no idea if you read the message or not (though they should easily fix this with XMPP gateway). #no-to-calling-electron-a-native-app-movement
- alonmower 10y ago
  I recently switched back to using Slack in a pinned tab and I can't recommend it enough. The minor additional inconvenience of getting to it makes it less distracting for me