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No it wouldn't. It would be awful. The MacBook screen isn't oriented the same way as a natural writing or drawing surface. Apple Pencil would be utterly useless on a MBP display.
I use the SD card slot for cheap additional storage. I used a Transcend card ($80 on Black Friday) vs the $200-300 Apple wanted for extra HD size. The card has worked flawlessly for 3 years and sits almost flush.
Unless the trade off is a little more battery or some new useful hardware feature, I am disappointed. I can't help to think Apple is dropping the SD slot just to get some extra revenue / margin.
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Unless the trade off is a little more battery or some new useful hardware feature, I am disappointed. I can't help to think Apple is dropping the SD slot just to get some extra revenue / margin.
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FFS. You're probably the same kind of person that said Apple dropped the headphone jack on the iPhone 7 to save money. The cost of an SD card slot is infinitesimal, and would be cheaper than absolutely anything Apple would fill that space with.
I'm no fan of the SD card slot being removed either, but claiming it's because Apple needs that extra $.60 on every notebook sold shows a mind-boggling level of ignorance.
what I meant was to push people to buy larger sized storage options. I always went with the 256 vs 512 or 1TB because I could store my lesser used files on the SD. That difference was always at least $100-200. Much more margin for Apple on upgraded hard drives than $0.60 But go ahead and miss the point.
I'm not the one who missed the point, and you're still displaying that same level of ignorance. If you think people who use permanently-mounted SD cards as add-on storage are anything resembling the majority of Mac users (or even a revenue-impacting share of users) you're living in a dream world. Most people use the SD card slot for what it was supposed to be used for - transferring photos or files from card to computer.
Almost nobody would go into a computer store and see a computer without an SD card slot and think, "well I better get the model with more storage because no SD slot!" That's absurd.
Pro users don't need toys like Touch ID and Apple Pay. I'm a huge fan of the MacBook Pro (still on mid 2009) and looking to upgrade however if Apple continue with their recent functionality regression (headphone jack etc) I'll look elsewhere. I pretty much have had the money ready to buy this for months but now I'm not so sure. The only problem is there is no viable alternative in the market. I would be happy to use linux but the hardware out there is not up to Apples standards. I'm really hoping Xiaomi bring out a MBP competitor to shake things up again.
As someone who has been working in network security for the past 20+ years, I can confidently say that you are talking out of your ass.
Then it should bend all the way back. At least make it touch screen. I do find touchscreens useful for some applications.
Apple wants you to buy an iPad for those applications.
A touchscreen Mac would be stupidly goofy to use.
I can use a dev iphone to test Apple Pay and Touch ID is annoying as f*** because I let other people use my machine from time to time. I have never and will never use either feature for personal use.
Could I afford a larger sized HD? sure. Did I want to spend an extra $200-300 just because? Not if I could help it. I think Transcend made a product because they saw a need. It feels a little opportunistic on Apple's part.
The same way that Apple pushes everything to the cloud and then only gives you 5GB storage gratis. They are here to make money as you saw with their services revenue increase. Eliminating an SD slot and the financial benefit to the company for doing so, *could* be a factor. Yes. I do think that. But I understand different use cases and you've made your point.
You don't like it. Congratulations. That's not the problem. The problem is that you're using your dislike to presume to speak for all "Pro" users.
I also like how you don't understand the concept of adding fingerprints to Touch ID.
Please enlighten me
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I'm not saying that it shouldn't exist but it should be optional. I am 99% certain that it won't be optional in the very near future.
First of all I didn't say it wouldn't work, I said it wasn't designed for that and that no laptop with mobile chip was.
Second, I might agree with you if it was one dB with one extra vm. But OP said multiple dB's on mutiple VM's. Yes each dB only about .5-.6 gb. But then you have about 2 gigs for a VM. Even if OP has the best multicore chip, that's only 4 whole cores. Each VM requires 2 to run smoothly. Plus OP runs Visual Studio, Xcode, AND some other IDE (I forget what it is.)
So let's say three VMs with windows, two with dB's one with Visual Studio. That right there is 10 gb to run semi-smoothly. Plus another 4 to OS X. That's 14 gb.
I could live with that. But then you have the problem that the processor can't run 2 VMs at the same time because it doesn't have enough cores, let alone 3. So it has to swap. And if you have users accessing all 3 VMs at the same time, it has to swap a LOT.
Like I said, it might work, but the system was never designed for that, and you can't really complain if it doesn't.
Oh I see. So your opinion is: "I personally dislike these features and it's my personal belief that there's a hypothetical future where Apple Pay is going to be forced on all users, and there will be absolutely no way to disable Touch ID despite the fact that there are lots of handicapped computer users who don't have hands or viable fingerprints"
...and in your world it's reasonable to express that belief as "Pro users don't need toys like Touch ID and Apple Pay."
You're all kinds of genius, aren't you?
So I have to add every single person I let use my device.... or I could just let them press a button. That's worked pretty well all my life so far
At first I didn't like the removal of the MacBook Pro text on the retina notebooks, but I have grown to love its absence.
Like lots of people have mentioned, in System Properties -> Keyboard -> Modifier Keys (button on the first tab), you can map, for instance, Caps Lock to Escape.
There's also another option: Karabiner for macOS. Recently the Japanese developer Takayama Fumihiko open sourced it:
https://github.com/tekezo/Karabiner-Elements
You can then map any key to Escape, for instance tilde, or backslash or what have you.
For many years, he has been maintaining Karabiner, and with every update to OS X/macOS, he was ready with a new version to support the new OS. It's astounding, really. Every year, I donate because it's worth it to me:
https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/pricing.html.en
you could give them your password.. or unlock it for them.. or have them use a guest account.. or not use any password and have a free-for-all..
whatever method you've been doing all your life will still work.. i think you're misunderstanding something about touchID.. it's basically a way to simplify some things for people who use passwords to lock their macs or to buy product online.