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Re:The Life and Death of the Touch Bar: Revisiting the MacBo... by gommm on Saturday August 26, 2017 @09:18PM (#15108477)
Yes, I'm actually very happy that magsafe is disappearing, never liked it. It tends to fall down when using the laptop on my lap and the only time I've tripped on my cord, my mbp went with it because it managed to somehow pull the cord straight.

I haven't bought a new mbp yet because I'm still waiting for 32 gb (I want VMs and it's just faster working locally than using aws to work)

My biggest problem with Apple is macOS, it went from a good stable OS back in Snow Leopard to a buggy mess that crashes rather often with broken features (mission control takes more than 20s whenever I use it whereas expose was always fast and responsive).

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Re:The Life and Death of the Touch Bar: Revisiting the MacBo... by wingworks on Sunday August 27, 2017 @01:40AM (#15109306)
I suspect it's something wrong on your end, I have no lag at all with mission control on a 2015 MBP. I do think however that Apple hasn't been innovating much on macOS for years. All the resources seem to go to iOS.
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Re:The Life and Death of the Touch Bar: Revisiting the MacBo... by coldtea on Sunday August 27, 2017 @10:41AM (#15110961)
>I do think however that Apple hasn't been innovating much on macOS for years.

They have literally done tons of work. They just haven't disturbed the facade.

Heck, in last 3-4 releases there has been a whole new FS, memory compression, transparent internet storage for user files (optimized storage), handoff, system integrity protection and widespread sandboxing, a whole new 3D graphics API (now in its second version, Metal 2), night shift, gatekeeper and path randomization, wide gamut color support, timer coalescing (to save battery), Notification Center, Airplay, Power Nap, etc.

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Re:The Life and Death of the Touch Bar: Revisiting the MacBo... by gommm on Sunday August 27, 2017 @06:15AM (#15110070)
To be fair I'm using a mbp 2013 and I tend to have a lot of windows opened (usually 50-60). It worked perfectly with expose not with mission control.
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