Don’t buy the MacBook Pros even on sale, in my opinion

Re:Don’t buy the MacBook Pros even on sale, in my opinion by j32fun on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @11:50AM (#16922692)

I can relate to what the article says, and yet find it hard to break away from the ecosystem given the tools I've come to use every day runs so well on the Mac. Muscle memory with shortcuts and all.

I've found a quick workaround to simply let the machine cool down. Eg. When running Docker previously and when the machine got heated, I found keyboard problems keep cropping up consistently. Letting it cool for about 20 minutes with a laptop cooler seemed to help.

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Re:Don’t buy the MacBook Pros even on sale, in my opinion by tomduncalf on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @11:52AM (#16922714)

I'm an iOS dev so have no other choice - but even if I did, I like pretty much every other aspect of the Mac (both this specific laptop, and the ecosystem) and am happy to give Apple my money, but expect a certain level of quality in return, which this generation of keyboards seems to lack.

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Re:Don’t buy the MacBook Pros even on sale, in my opinion by j32fun on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @11:54AM (#16922739)

Definitely agree with you. I feel underwhelmed with the 2017 MBPs (typing on one right now). And you're absolutely correct: if you're developing for certain app systems, you have no choice. I'm a Ruby developer and I remember years ago people switched to Mac simply so they could use Textmate. Some tools just work better on the system (for better or for worse).

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Re:Don’t buy the MacBook Pros even on sale, in my opinion by tomduncalf on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @11:58AM (#16922798)

I actually quite like the laptop otherwise - I walk to and from work with it every day so the reduced weight and size is great - although the touchbar is meh and the USB-C/dongle situation is still a pain!

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