Wow every day I'm wishing that Apple would copy M$'s hardware ideas.
As a guy who bleeds 6 colours (since pre OSX) it has been really sad to watch the decline of Apple's Mac hardware.
This product is designed to compete with the MBA not MBpro.
Even so my maxed out Touchbar MBP is sluggish and has dismal battery life. It regularly complains about running out of memory. Oh, and in terms of input Apple has gone from having an absolutely infallible touchpad to one that regularly has spurious input whilst typing. It's like using a crappy windows laptop again. The keyboard is also craptastic, with the iPad's Smart Cover even feeling better.
I can understand why M$ decided to forego with USB-C as connecting peripherals via USB-C is still very hit and miss. E.g clicking a mouse connected to an Apple Keyboard won't wake the Mac if it is in closed lid mode and connected to the LG 5K.
Whilst M$'s fabric keyboard feels great to use, it got worn and grotty after a few months on my Surface Pro.... but aleast with the Surface you can always buy a new keyboard for that "feels like new" feeling.
Apple's only saving grace is OS X and the awesome like up of indi apps, with everything from Alfred, Sketch, TextExpander, iMessage and iTerm crushing equivalents on Windows/Linux.
As a guy who bleeds 6 colours (since pre OSX) it has been really sad to watch the decline of Apple's Mac hardware.
This product is designed to compete with the MBA not MBpro.
Even so my maxed out Touchbar MBP is sluggish and has dismal battery life. It regularly complains about running out of memory. Oh, and in terms of input Apple has gone from having an absolutely infallible touchpad to one that regularly has spurious input whilst typing. It's like using a crappy windows laptop again. The keyboard is also craptastic, with the iPad's Smart Cover even feeling better.
I can understand why M$ decided to forego with USB-C as connecting peripherals via USB-C is still very hit and miss. E.g clicking a mouse connected to an Apple Keyboard won't wake the Mac if it is in closed lid mode and connected to the LG 5K.
Whilst M$'s fabric keyboard feels great to use, it got worn and grotty after a few months on my Surface Pro.... but aleast with the Surface you can always buy a new keyboard for that "feels like new" feeling.
Apple's only saving grace is OS X and the awesome like up of indi apps, with everything from Alfred, Sketch, TextExpander, iMessage and iTerm crushing equivalents on Windows/Linux.