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I thought I would hate the new MBPs and it kept me from upgrading for a while. But after making the switch last year, I'm pretty much fully onboard. The USB-C
by kenneth 8y ago
I thought I would hate the new MBPs and it kept me from upgrading for a while. But after making the switch last year, I'm pretty much fully onboard.
The USB-C ports are great, and I am looking forward to the future where old-school USB ports are dead and everything is USB-C. There's the occasional frustration with not having all cables be equal (you could have a USB-C to USB-C cable that transfers power, slow data, or Thunderbolt-3 data… it's unintuitive).
The lack of ESC-key doesn't bother me as much as I thought either. I finally made the switch and remapped caps lock to escape and will never look back. I use BetterTouchTool to get the ideal touchbar with shortcuts to my 5 most used functions, a Spotify player and a couple system controls. It's perfect, customized to my liking, and beat the previous FN-key setup I had. TouchID rocks. I never see Apple's crap TouchBar implementation.
I have been having the keyboard issues, usually it materializes in the form of double impressions of keys I type. I'll end up with `ee` instead of `e`, and a couple other letters like that. Doesn't seem to be happening as much as it used to (after a "top case" replacement for an unrelated TouchBar issues).
- nothis 8y agoI keep forgetting that they killed the ESC-key. Wow. What I never got is: Yea, add a touch-bar if you want, Apple, but why not stick it above the F-keys row? It's standardized for decades, programs actually use it. Why remove the F-keys for it? It's not like on a MBP there isn't enough space for both.