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My review of the Mac Book Pro (w touch bar): I am a developer at Evernote (we are hiring fyi) 1. Touch bar - By far and away this is the most annoying thing e
by pm24601 10y ago
My review of the Mac Book Pro (w touch bar):
I am a developer at Evernote (we are hiring fyi)
1. Touch bar - By far and away this is the most annoying thing ever. IDEs use function keys all the time ... and the touchbar does not know how to display.
> defaults write com.apple.touchbar.agent PresentationModeFnModes -dict-add appWithCOntrolStrip 'functionKeys'
> defaults write com.apple.touchbar.agent PresentationModePerApp -dict-add org.eclipse.platform.ide 'functionKeys'
> defaults write com.apple.touchbar.agent PresentationModePerApp -dict-add com.jetbrains.intellij 'functionKeys'
I hate that I get no tactile feedback when trying to use the function keys. I can no longer touch type the function keys.
2. Keyboard - without the full travel I have to constantly readjust my typing pressure between my detached keyboard and the laptop keyboard. Painful on the fingertips.
3. Memory size: 16g! WTF - my 5 year-old 17" MBP has the same amount of memory
4. Performance - here is the kicker. I play a multiplayer game: World of Warships. The performance on the new MBP is WORSE than on my 5 year-old MBP. Mind you the 5 year-old computer does not have a SSD drive and its battery is EOL.
5. No ports - seriously? I can't hook my laptop to any display in a conference room without a dongle. I have to haul the powerbrick around with me. So instead of just the laptop, I have to take a backpack of gear with the various dongles to meetings. Looks very unprofessional. I can't hook my external ethernet RAID drive to it. Nothing.
6. Other missing things: you no longer get an extension cord with the power brick. This means you have to be right on top of the power outlet to use it. Like I can't use the power outlet right behind me at the dining room table.
7. Siri - really. Like the last thing I am going to do is talk to my computer at the office.
Based on my personal experience with the new MBP, I am not spending my personal money to buy a new mac at this time.
I will just keep my older macs functioning as long as possible.