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Re:Why Apple ditched PowerPC, and what it says about Apple d... by happymellon on Sunday June 21, 2020 @03:40AM (#23590512)
I am in the UK, and I've only found startups willing to spend money on developer hardware. The larger companies seem to pick up low-end Lenovos for developers, and better i7 Lenovos for those managers who would never use them.

Though I would gladly dump the MacBook Pro 16" I currently have to use for work in an instant for a high-end Lenovo/Dell. Apart from MacOS being extremely flakey these days (why does Spotlight only seem to pop up 50% of the time), I don't understand why they don't provide proper ISO and instead give us some form of ANSI that has the dancing alien (§) dedicated key, and why they hide the # which as a Pro developer I use all the time.

That it also spends its entire time overheating so it burns my lap is just the icing on the cake.

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Re:Why Apple ditched PowerPC, and what it says about Apple d... by solstice on Sunday June 21, 2020 @09:46AM (#23591990)
Shot in the dark here but have you tried to charge it from the other side? See this Stackoverflow thread that was also featured on hn: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/363337/how-to-find...
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Re:Why Apple ditched PowerPC, and what it says about Apple d... by happymellon on Monday June 22, 2020 @11:59AM (#23601670)
No, switching the charging did nothing for me or any of my colleagues.

But when I used a MacBook Pro about 10 years ago the machine overheated all the time and burnt my lap. They are just a shitty design, but they look pretty.

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Re:Why Apple ditched PowerPC, and what it says about Apple d... by ngcazz on Sunday June 21, 2020 @02:56PM (#23594368)
I recommend using the PC layout.
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Re:Why Apple ditched PowerPC, and what it says about Apple d... by happymellon on Monday June 22, 2020 @11:59AM (#23601684)
They keyboard is still wrong, and doesn't match the layout.

Plus it seems to disable the switch between windows in the same app.

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