Keyboard innovation is making them worse

Re:Keyboard innovation is making them worse by dman on Friday January 17, 2014 @06:03PM (#7079085)

Money is one factor. The other factor is that I dont want a retina-esque screen right now since I will be running linux on it and kde and chrome's support for hidipi screens is not great right now.

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Re:Keyboard innovation is making them worse by m_mueller on Saturday January 18, 2014 @12:09AM (#7080165)

They still sell 15'' Macbooks without Retina.

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Re:Keyboard innovation is making them worse by _delirium on Saturday January 18, 2014 @04:34AM (#7080622)

I believe that was discontinued in the October 2013 refresh. Unless I'm missing options hidden somewhere else, Apple has a summary here of all their current laptop form factors here: http://store.apple.com/us/mac/compare

It looks like the current options are:

11" and 13" non-retina MacBook Air

13" non-retina MacBook Pro

13" and 15" retina MacBook Pro

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Re:Keyboard innovation is making them worse by m_mueller on Saturday January 18, 2014 @05:23AM (#7080694)

Ok sorry about that - I saw one a few days ago in an electronics store but it was labeled as 'remainder'.

I wish Apple made a matte retina macbook - made discontinuing the old 15'' will put some pressure on them doing so.

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Re:Keyboard innovation is making them worse by TheSoftwareGuy on Saturday January 18, 2014 @12:01AM (#7080148)

Man that sucks. Almost every one of this guy's gripes are non-existant on a Mac.

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Re:Keyboard innovation is making them worse by dman on Sunday January 19, 2014 @10:02AM (#7084578)

I want to run linux - retina displays don't work well with it. If I could make do with OSX I agree the MacBook Pro 15 would be nice (save for the location of the power button)

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Re:Keyboard innovation is making them worse by bashinator on Monday January 20, 2014 @09:37PM (#7093076)

If you're not tied to the idea of running native, I'm running various linuxes in VMWare Fusion on my MPB and full-screen mode works perfectly. The only thing you might find annoying is the lack of middle-click for pasting selections when using the touchpad.

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Re:Keyboard innovation is making them worse by keypusher on Saturday January 18, 2014 @02:07PM (#7081845)

You think it's going to look worse on higher pixel density?

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Re:Keyboard innovation is making them worse by dman on Sunday January 19, 2014 @09:59AM (#7084568)

Yes I know that it does because I own a Chromebook pixel that I run linux on.

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