I didn't do the report. I just read it. If YOU choose to not believe their report, go ahead. I don't give a flying rat's hind quarter what you believe. 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. You must LOVE your Macook Pro. Other people are clearly not pleased with it AT ALL as the intro thread for this notebook plainly show and you can't handle that. But that is YOUR problem not mine and so you will have to deal with it. I personally couldn't care less. I simply wont buy one. They need to fix their keyboard problems, offer a USB-A port since most things still use USB-A and 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. They make too much money off these adapters and so they keep creating more and more connectors that REQUIRE adapters to do a single damn thing.
What's the current report on the next iPhone's continued use of Lightning ports? It says point blank one of the two reason they refuse to switch to USB-C on the iPhone is that they make a LOT of money selling licenses to 3rd parties to use their Lightning adapter and they're not about to give up that money to make the consumer happy or to make life easier or better for the consumer. That should tell you evrything you need to know about Apple and their priorities. Forget being the best. They're out to rape the consumer for every last dime and people like you want us all to be happy about that! Unreal.
Ignoring? If a notebook can't play 2017 games and is good only for Flappy Birds, I'd call that underpowered. When a $400 console can run circles around it, I'd call that underpowered.
If by not fitting my narrative, you mean it has NOTHING TO DO WITH ANYTHING I had to say, then yes, I'd say that's it exactly. I didn't talk about the hard drive speed either (just its piddly size for the extremely high basic price) or the trackpad since I don't have a complaint about them. Why would I bring up WiFi speeds when it has nothing to do with my issues with the notebook? This seems like a "change the subject" tactic. Hey, go investigate how they allegedly bugged my phone instead of talking about how I colluded with a foreign power to get into power!
Your statement makes no sense. Besides, Jony didn't make that WiFi chip. He did at least approve the ever-thinner cases that leave no room for higher powered better performing chips. Not everyone uses their notebook in battery mode all the time. Some of us would like a desktop-level notebook when it is docked. Apple could have provided a dock for this USB-C only connection notebook. They chose to get out of docks, monitors and routers and instead to invest heavily into ever-increasing numbers of PAIN IN THE KEYSTOR ADAPTERS.
Thunderbolt 2 is simply not acceptable on a Thunderbolt 3 machine.
There is no restriction for USB 3.x speeds on a USB-A connector. Including one extra USB-A connector for backwards compatibility with everything from an older (or newer since most new one still use USB-A as well) but still useful backup drive to a simple MOUSE, you have to get your adapter(s) out every single time for every single product. If you only kept this notebook for 3 years, you will NOT have anywhere near 100% USB-C products in that time. This model should have included the extra port for that reason alone. But keep on defending a bad decision by Jony.
Calm down guy. You're going to have a stroke at that rate. The why NOW is simple. Apple has moved to 100% USB-C ports on these notebooks. There are NO other ports. NONE. ZERO. Yet they have just announced they are going to continue to use Lightning on their next iPhone while even changing the standards of it to use "some" of the USB-C features (well fast charging anyway). 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. You will need a different cable or adapter to even connect it to the Macbook Pro since the included cables are USB-A on the other end. Apple is 100% responsible for this nonsense and it didn't have to be that way, but thankfully, they have YOU to defend their bonehead moves.
I'm sorry, but we both know that's a load of horse manure. Other than the Thunderbolt 2 thing, everything I said is 100% accurate and correct. Whether you don't mind those shortcomings or design decisions is one thing. I cannot control what people like or don't like in a product. But telling me what I'm "whining" about has no basis in facts is just plain nonsense. Apple could have made this a GREAT notebook with a few basic changes.
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 while putting resources into making pastel colored icons and color-changing "night modes" instead. It's nice to know Apple has its priorities straight.
