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Images of New MacBook Pro With Magic Toolbar Leaked in macOS Sierra 10.12.1
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I didn't say anything about thinness. I said they didn't feel the need to waste space on an additional port when they can accomplish the same task with a multi-purpose port that's going to be on there anyway.
That's bad for the iPhone but not for the Mac since the toolbar is not the primary display. They have one more year to find a way to integrate it under the display
Current status in the Dutch webshop:
My guess: 128GB won't be available in the new model, that's why it's the only option with next day delivery.
256GB and 512GB new models will be available for delivery on monday ...
My guess: 128GB won't be available in the new model, that's why it's the only option with next day delivery.
256GB and 512GB new models will be available for delivery on monday ...
Doesn't matter. SQL is a 1960's technology that runs on general computing hardware. Back then, enterprise mainframes had about as much computing power as your USB controller today, so your puny little mobile CPU is perfectly able to run a couple of SQL servers.
Could we simply stop with the idea that "professionals" in the Mac ecosystem means "someone doing video and GFX"? The CPU in my Dell Precision at work is no different from what Apple uses, the RAM and SSD are likewise. Yet my daily job consists of running SQL servers, VM's with Linux, coding in a Java IDE and starting Docker containers while the Notebook also runs a 12GB Java backend application in a Tomcat.
Does that push the limits of the machine? Hell yes, but a game developer would likewise push against the GPU limits and someone doing video encoding would feel the limits of the CPU bandwidth and computing power. Power users will not comfortably run a machine in the lower band of its performance envelope, but push it. This has been true for the last 30 years and only lately is changing a little bit.
Stop what? That's exactly the kind of professional that anyone ever refers to. There's literally no reason whatsoever to get up in arms because you're not that kind of professional. You're a professional in your field. People are specifically referring to stressing hardware to its full potential and Apple's current offerings are lacking compared to PCs.
Literally the only point of that link was to show that ports don't need to be sacrificed for thinness.
Maybe it is the catalyst you need to use emacs instead
The real problem isn't for people using one editor on one mac.
You can change key mappings or something like that.
But imagine you need to access multiple VMs inside multiple hosts in multiple datacenters and sometimes you need to access them from a non Mac pc or notebook (or just a physical keyboard connected to the server).
Plus there are other system administrators using vi from the same account...
The great thing about vi is that it's found on almost all *nix operating systems, even in the most minimal installations and the behaviour is predictable (for as least for the most common features) on any system.
My function row is already looking ancient.
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From what I've read they're expected to be available almost immediately, but in limited supply. Personally I'll be waiting until the holidays; reviews will be out, any manufacturing problems should be resolved, and there's the chance Apple will have some kind of holiday promotion. I don't expect them to lower the price (I mean, c'mon) but maybe an iTunes gif card with every Mac, or a new iPod - something. I figured I've waited this long for a redesigned MBP. What's another month or two? Also by then there should be more developers supporting the touch bar.
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I would argue Apple is currently lacking in power but not stability; sure, on paper you can get a more powerful PC with Windows 10 - but at some point you'll want to jump off a bridge.
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What's most funny and ironic is the picture they've used to showcase the idea says "Pay Apple".
And they have removed the escape key too, so there is no escape from paying them. They should just replace the whole damn bar, or even the whole keyboard with one actual button that says "Pay Apple".
Stupid. Typical useless junk from Apple (I say this as a 20 year Apple customer and at times a bit of a fan boy). It's the sort of thing my 8 year old boy will be excited about for 2 minutes. Apple is, for me, one of the most annoying companies and things in my life now. They just put out over priced useless shiny gimmicky junk that has nothing but problems and their focus is not on the making the customers life better but making them spend more money, upgrade, update, consume more, and now and after 20 years of happily buying their computers over anything else, I find myself wishing and wanting to look for something else. RIP Apple.
And they have removed the escape key too, so there is no escape from paying them. They should just replace the whole damn bar, or even the whole keyboard with one actual button that says "Pay Apple".
Stupid. Typical useless junk from Apple (I say this as a 20 year Apple customer and at times a bit of a fan boy). It's the sort of thing my 8 year old boy will be excited about for 2 minutes. Apple is, for me, one of the most annoying companies and things in my life now. They just put out over priced useless shiny gimmicky junk that has nothing but problems and their focus is not on the making the customers life better but making them spend more money, upgrade, update, consume more, and now and after 20 years of happily buying their computers over anything else, I find myself wishing and wanting to look for something else. RIP Apple.
I seriously doubt the escape key has been removed; it's a function row that can display any function key you can think of. That's the beauty of it. My guess is you can swipe to reveal multiple function rows, customized however you want. You can probably even choose functions that remain static while others can be swiped and changed - like the escape key or volume or brightness or..... I think it's an exciting step forward and something that - once we're acclimated to it - we will wonder how we ever lived without. Good job Apple! I have plenty of criticism for your boring phone and useless watch, but this looks like a winner.
I hope not, its something I use often enough, and I hope the key spacing is nearly the same. I'm not a fan of the scissor keyboard mechanism, but as long as the spacing between the keys is the same, adjustment to the keyboard will be easier.
Well as I said in another post, you may be surprised how quickly you adjust. I hated the Smart Keyboard on the 9.7" iPad Pro and I would go into the Apple store for an hour at a time, twice a week, for a few months just playing with it (much to the annoyance of the Apple employees I'm sure!) It never clicked for me but eventually I broke down and bought it...and it is now - hands down - my favorite typing experience on any Apple device I've ever owned. Give it time, I bet you'll come to like it.
Perhaps, but I struggled with the iMac keyboard, I'm using a larger wired one, because my fingers just couldn't adjust. I think mostly is because the spacing is different and I'm a touch typist, I don't look where my fingers are when typing.
My 12"MacBook made my life better. Its so light my neck and shoulders don't even know when it's in my bag.
It's has made my osteopath poorer though.
Well hopefully you can adjust. I found the 9.7" Smart Keyboard to be VERY cramped at first (it is). But now I can jump back and forth between my iPad Pro and MBP without any issue. There is hope for you!
It takes practice but your brain will adjust.
It's so black and white isn't it for you.
I use function keys for stepping through code. Safari / xcode and other IDEs.
I use function keys for stepping through code. Safari / xcode and other IDEs.
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I use the function keys a lot as well, so hopefully its function or access to them has been compromised.
And you're saying that as if philosophy is just nothing – an opinion. As if the accuracy of our world view isn't the decider of failure and success. The company is called Apple, because Steve Jobs was a fruitarian of Californian counter culture. You're buying into his philosophy of computing. And he wasn't shy to tell people to stop living in the past and start to embrace his awesome new yet incompatible technology.
Again gravity – a law of nature we've all got to deal with. You can't cheat with it and you can't put all the ports you want on a laptop and keys with very long travel and hope it's still the lightest MacBook ever. Self-limitation is the price for sailing at the edge of lightweight computing. Less ports, smaller ports, more universal ports are a means to an end.
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And if it was all black and white for me, wouldn't that make me more like Steve Jobs? People were using floppies when the Mac dropped floppy drives, people were using DVDs when the Mac dropped optical drives, people are using SD cards as the Mac is losing the SD slot. The loss of features is unavoidable to reach the point where we are. Absolutely nobody owned USB peripherals when the first iMac only had USB 1.1 ports. Apple is constantly taking away features a lot of people use and giving them features nobody uses at that time. The alternative to that approach is keeping the old color-coded PS/2 ports around for ever.
Function keys had a good 50 year run despite being a poor solution to the problem. Do you want the children of 2065 to still memorize them or are we ready for a new technology? Safari and Xcode are Apple apps, they will support the **** out of this Magic Toolbar.
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If you clearly read my post we develop, so obviously those databases are for testing purposes so we don't mess with our clients live data to make changes on sensitive functions
I say it's 'black and white to you' referring to your comment about 'no professionals use function keys'
Also that statement is quite clearly incorrect.
Also that statement is quite clearly incorrect.