I Hate My MacBook

Re:I Hate My MacBook by astront on Sunday October 04, 2020 @05:13AM (#24677459)

I'm about to upgrade my old 2012 MR Pro this year and with the recent Pro negativity am now unsure if I should go Pro again or just get the latest gen Air - seems that the processor is the same, I'd go 13 inch anyway, memory/hd I can upgrade to levels I'm comfortable with and don't need the Touch Bar. Is the graphics card a lot slower/unusable if I fire up Creative Cloud Apps just every once in a while? I do use it like 10 hours per day - but 0 gaming, just coding/design mostly with an external screen..

Anyone else thinking about this? Is the Pro worth it over Air?

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Re:I Hate My MacBook by mxcrossb on Sunday October 04, 2020 @05:21AM (#24677489)

> Lot of negative feelings towards the latest generation of macbook pros lately...

This has been true for decades. Every time a new lineup is released, Hacker News declares this to be the last straw.

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Re:I Hate My MacBook by xondono on Sunday October 04, 2020 @05:37AM (#24677587)

Then they try anything else, see it’s even worse and most of them buy an MBP anyway.. until the next release

The circle of life!

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Re:I Hate My MacBook by prawel on Sunday October 04, 2020 @05:27AM (#24677522)

I changed my 2018 TouchBar 13" MB Pro to 2020 i7 MB Air just to get rid of the touchbar, which I hate.

So far, I'm quite happy. It's not crazy fast, especially in react native + android emulator, but for now I won't change it until good ARM version ships.

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Re:I Hate My MacBook by arthurmorgan on Sunday October 04, 2020 @05:37AM (#24677585)

The cooling on the Air is worse as there's no heatpipe from the processor to the fan. If you care about performance I'd suggest you probably should take a look at the Pro.

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