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Agree with 1. Disagree entirely with 2. I have two MacBook Pros (one from work) and the keyboards both have issues. One is newer and they tried to fix it, didn'
by kahnjw 9y ago
Agree with 1. Disagree entirely with 2. I have two MacBook Pros (one from work) and the keyboards both have issues. One is newer and they tried to fix it, didn't work. The touchbar is a gimmick. It's decent on small workloads, and of course is fairly useless on heavy workloads. But none of that surprises me. They push the limits of what is possible with hardware design. The worst part is price. These macbook pros are close to $4k each. Go ahead and look what you can buy for $4000 if you aren't buying apple. You can get laptops that are much cheaper, much faster, somewhat extendible, and _well designed_. This is probably the last macbook i'll buy unless something changes.
Apple definitely is dropping the ball on its professional customers. These machines are great for browsing the web or writing some code (assuming you have an external keyboard), but anytime you need to do some actual computation, you need an EC2 instance or a different workstation. The DL/ML community is more or less left out unless they use an external GPU chassis (which is trash).
I get that they are not trying to make workstations or servers, in any case, higher end chassis should be extendible, at least if you want professionals to use your products.
Anyone dropping ~10k on an iMac Pro either has more money than they know what to do with, or they're a fool.