He says, after posting a multi-page reply with puh-lenty of attitude...The length of your reply and sheer attitude problem tells me you are taking all this personally for reasons only a fanatic could possibly understand.
I can't help it if you're an Apple-snob that has to have an Apple-logo on every single connecting cable and accessory. The rest of us have simply chosen a less-costly alternative for a non-critical, easily replaceable piece of our setup.I'm tired to being told to buy overpriced Apple adapters (you pointing to some generic POS for $2 has NOTHING to do with Apple themselves. Their adapters DO NOT cost $2 and never have and never will.
Where did you get that? The German review clearly demonstrated that the 15" MBP was more than capable of keeping-up with other similar laptops in its class...If a notebook can't play 2017 games and is good only for Flappy Birds, I'd call that underpowered.
Why indeed, since it doesn't fit your narrative?Why would I bring up WiFi speeds when it has nothing to do with my issues with the notebook?
And that's EXACTLY what you got!Not everyone uses their notebook in battery mode all the time. Some of us would like a desktop-level notebook when it is docked.
He didn't make the CPU or GPU; but that didn't stop you from laying their specifications on him. Make up your mind, if you can...Besides, Jony didn't make that WiFi chip.
And yet, USB-A IS?!?!?!? LOLOLOLOL!!!!!!Thunderbolt 2 is simply not acceptable on a Thunderbolt 3 machine.
And some people still bemoan the removal of the floppy drive, even to this day... So what? Time marches on.If you only kept this notebook for 3 years, you will NOT have anywhere near 100% USB-C products in that time.
You're pretty far-gone, you know that, don't you?The ONLY reason they are not going USB-C is because they make more money by charging license fees for their propriety garbage than using the WORLD STANDARD of USB-C on it.
Strike that. I know you don't realize it.
And they did!Apple could have made this a GREAT notebook
From what I hear from the REAL tech forums, OpenGL is considered a dinosaur. That's why Apple created "Metal". Is is essentially "DirectX for Macs".But then Apple could have kept OpenGL fully up-to-date too. And they could have fixed the sleep bug with NFS networking (there is STILL no sleep token to keep the machine from sleeping if you use NFS which is 100% fully UNIX supported and therfore a part of macOS, but Apple ignores it and lets the machine sleep even if your computer is in the middle of transferring huge files. I've reported that bug at least 3 times personally and they continue to IGNORE IT
As for your NFS sleep bug: Yeah, that sounds like it sucks; but you are probably one in about 100 people worldwide that is affected by that. Switch to another OS and do your NFS downloading. At least you can easily do that with a Mac...
Or, here's a thought: Configure your Energy Saver prefs to NOT SLEEP the computer when connected to AC Power, then plug your MacBook in to your AC Adapter. Afterall, you wouldn't want to run out of battery power in the middle of that long torrent from Russia, would you? Problem solved! And you can still sleep the Display if you want. It's an imperfect world; but all in all, that's a pretty easily-mitigated problem, don'tcha think?
But of course you don't.
Oh, or you can use something like this to keep your Mac from sleeping. It's cheezy, but it works:
http://www.sticksoftware.com/software/Jiggler.html
Oh, and that took EXACTLY 2 seconds of Googling for "macos simulate cursor movement to prevent sleep"
But I'm sure you'd rather just whine than workaround a tiny OS bug. Better yet, move to Windows or Linux. See if your Bug Reports get addressed better there!
Next non-issue...
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