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If anyone from Apple is reading, let me just say – this is exactly what I want. Magsafe charging. Function keys instead of the touchbar. 15-16" screen. M1 CPU.
by switz 6y ago
If anyone from Apple is reading, let me just say – this is exactly what I want. Magsafe charging. Function keys instead of the touchbar. 15-16" screen. M1 CPU. 32GB Memory.
I also prefer the 2015 keyboard, but it's not a dealbreaker.
I'll pay for the kickstarter now if it means it'll come out in the next 18 months. Please make it happen.
- llaolleh 6y ago^. Apple please listen to your customers. Beauty and thinness above functionality ain't worth it.
- odshoifsdhfs 6y agoApple, please don't. Keep the touchbar and if it affects design(shouldn't but ok) 16Gb is enough. Devs running docker with 69 machines are not Apple's customers. Can we just finally understand and move on?
- nicoburns 6y agoDevs are the people who make apps for Apple's customers. They'd be foolish to neglect them, even if they make up a small proportion of sales.
- dzhiurgis 6y agoThey need two lines of laptops for sure. Dev and Creative ones. Devs don’t care about colour gamut, gpu, touchbar, etc...
- nicoburns 6y agoAre many creatives using laptops? Most creative people I use are using desktops with big screens or iPad pros with an Apple pencil.
- dylan604 6y agoAs powerful as laptops are now, yes, lots of of creatives use laptops. There's entire industry (well, were before covid) of doing fast turn time on-site on video/photo editing. Lugging desktops around in giant cases paying surcharges for heavy and extra bag charges on airlines is incredibly expensive.
- twelve40 6y agoyes, but also the damn trackpad. I feel like i'm getting carpal tunnel just trying to avoid swiping the damn thing with my palm it's so freaking huge. Been 3+ years still feels like it's designed specifically to get in the way of my work.
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- odiroot 6y agoI always thought Macbook touchpad is too damn big and awkward to use. But here, it seems, people are in love with it.
- mih 6y agoI hear you. I have the same thoughts. Touchpads on most laptops have sufficed for my use. People swear by the touchpad on Macbooks, but to me it never really was that big of an improvement. My bias could be due to the fact that I don't use the touchpad exclusively and always attach a mouse when I can.
- nikau 6y agoIts a hangover for 10 years ago when low end laptop touchpads were pretty bad. I find my carbon X1 touchpad nicer to use than my 15" macpro. Although I am impressed how well they made the haptic tap feel like a real button on the mac.
- jackson1442 6y agoBought a mid-tier HP Pavilion recently and cannot _stand_ the touchpad on it. I carry around a USB mouse for that laptop. I largely prefer the mac touchpad because it allows you to click everywhere on the surface, not just the bottom.
- nikau 6y ago
- H8crilA 6y agoThis is one of the most profitable businesses on the planet (large margins / overpriced products on a giant volume), they really don't need or care about any kickstarter. You want to influence the company - get > $200B worth of shares to agree with you and then get a board seat. Anything else won't matter (and even then it won't be easy due to the track record of current management). Edit: Anyone care to explain what's wrong with the above?
- rorykoehler 6y agoOne more thing for the wish list. Make the play button work like it did 2/3(?) MacOS versions ago.
- 0x64 6y agohttps://github.com/milgra/macmediakeyforwarder https://github.com/milgra/macmediakeyforwarder
- rorykoehler 6y agoThanks. I've got Magic Keys install which does the same thing however it is a bit hit and miss unfortunately. I'll check this out though it seems to not be maintained anymore.
- RikNieu 6y agoI was not exactly planning on buying a new computer this year, but if Apple was to release this tomorrow I'd order it instantly.
- vmception 6y agoYou know they already got rid of the butterfly keyboards
- DennisP 6y agoOn top of that I want one USB-A port, so I can plug in my mech keyboards without using adapters, which I frequently lose or break.
- jagger27 6y agoI solved this issue by simply getting a few USB-C cables for my keebs. I even managed to find a USB-C to miniUSB cable for my HHKB. It has to be a fairly specific type of cable mind you. Anything marketed at USB 2.0 should work great.
- TheTrotters 6y agoI'd be shocked if they went back to USB-A. And, honestly, I'm glad with their push for USB-C, no audio jack etc. Most companies are stuck in the status quo due to the chicken-and-egg problem but Apple is willing to be the first mover.
- DennisP 6y agoAudio jack is another one. I have some nice open-back headphones and they don't have USB. I think it's actually fairly unreasonable to expect the entire audiophile headphone market to convert to digital; it makes more sense to do the DA conversion on the phone/computer, especially since some audio sources are analog anyway.
- sneak 6y agoUsing the same chip from the ~$1k air in the >$3k pro seems like an odd request. I doubt any Macbook Pro will ever have an M1. I would expect significantly more and faster cores. EDIT: I'm stupid - there is a shipping M1 MBP today.
- kube-system 6y ago> I doubt any Macbook Pro will ever have an M1. I typed this comment with one :)
- sneak 6y agoOh, I forgot entirely about the air-with-a-fan placeholder they launched already. I'm curious: why did you buy it?
- kube-system 6y agoOver the Air? I like to do a lot of work away from an outlet and occasionally outdoors. I wanted the larger battery and brighter screen.
- ryandrake 6y agoYup. All I want is a 2014-or-so form factor——forever. Update the tech guts year after year, but keep the old design. It’s perfect and requires no more innovation. While you’re at it, Apple, just keep High Sierra forever and just do bug fixes and security patches. No new features! One can only dream.......,
- heipei 6y agoAmen, there is such a thing as "perfect design" if you are talking about the narrow envelope for designing a laptop. A screen, a keyboard, there's not a ton of headroom for adding widgets or decreasing sizes in the physical domain. Plus, there is such a thing as "timeless design", and you can see that Apple has already achieved it by the fact that most other laptop vendors are converging on their MacBook designs that are a few years old now. Apple itself took inspiration from timeless, modern and functional industrial design found in things like Braun appliances from the 1960s which, by the way, still look modern today.
- thepasswordis 6y agoOkay but also bring back the glowing led in the front that tells you when the mac is sleeping! It was so charming.
- djrogers 6y ago> It’s perfect and requires no more innovation When I moved from my 2014 to my current 16" MBP, I immediately fell in love with the smaller and sleeker new design. Its lighter and has a bigger screen - how are those not improvements?
- ryandrake 6y agoPersonally not a big fan of small and thin if the trade-off is I/O ports. Reasonable people can disagree though!
- kube-system 6y agoI was a huge MagSafe fan, but USB-C interoperability is just too good to give up IMO. I hope they still support charging via USB-C PD even if they do have MagSafe.
- kall 6y agoI know you didn‘t mean this literally but the idea of apple doing a kickstarter is hilarious. It would be the logical conclusion of established, VC backed companies like ROLI doing them.
- foobarian 6y agoAlso can the function keys be grouped in groups of 4, with extra space between groups? I am forced to use an external keyboard already because of the touchbar and the 2017 keyboard, and it solves all of my problems except that the function keys are hard to hit especially during debugging. It's the little things!
- ksec 6y ago>I also prefer the 2015 keyboard, but it's not a dealbreaker. Well it would be perfect if they could bring that back.
- yurishimo 6y agoDidn't they already do this though? The mid-2020 MBP got the new keyboard which moved away from the super thin keys and back to a thicker switch. It's still thinner than the 2015 keyboard, but it's the exact same functional design.