Jony Ive to form independent design company with Apple as client

Re:Jony Ive to form independent design company with Apple as... by oliveshell on Friday June 28, 2019 @10:42AM (#20304767)

I wish everybody who buys a new MacBook Pro all the best, and I hope they enjoy it. I just won’t be getting one. (The card reader was just the icing on the cake; the unreliable keyboard and failure-prone backlight ribbon cable are the main reasons I won’t buy one.)

Ultrabooks exist for a reason, and my personal opinion is that it’s a bummer that the “pro“ offering is less capable and more annoying to use for media editing than it used to be.

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Re:Jony Ive to form independent design company with Apple as... by slantyyz on Friday June 28, 2019 @10:49AM (#20304828)

Even though my last Mac, the early 2011 15" Macbook Pro, was a complete lemon in terms of execution (GPU overheating issues), I loved that design and form factor. It had all the ports I wanted, plus the end-user expandability. At one point I popped out the optical and stuck in a second SSD.

Apple didn't handle the recall for the 2011 MBP problems very well.

This was incredibly problematic for me, considering Apple's fantastic reputation for customer support. After that experience, I basically went back to Windows, and the transition was surprisingly smooth.

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