Waiting for Skylake MBP thread

[volcomvenom]

This'll be my second one. One in a 7" screen enclosure and one for my 27" screen using it as a desktop on Raspbian. I wasn't trying to advertise, I hate advertisements. I just can't wait until Wednesday (I know there won't be any Macbook Pro announcements but am still excited).

 

[eroslws]

This'll be my second one. One in a 7" screen enclosure and one for my 27" screen using it as a desktop on Raspbian. I wasn't trying to advertise, I hate advertisements. I just can't wait until Wednesday (I know there won't be any Macbook Pro announcements but am still excited).

Haha, less an advertisement and more a push for me. I needed a local SQL server set up for some data stuff in my lab. Figured this should do the trick and I get a new gadget to mess with.

I also just found out my dusty Vita can be hacked; that'll add at least a week of stuff I can mess with in my free time.

 

[volcomvenom]

Haha, less an advertisement and more a push for me. I needed a local SQL server set up for some data stuff in my lab. Figured this should do the trick and I get a new gadget to mess with.

I also just found out my dusty Vita can be hacked; that'll add at least a week of stuff I can mess with in my free time.

I am glad to be of service. lol

 

[whg]

This. So much this. What will it take for everyone to see that Apple's target audience for the rMBP isn't the "power user"?

I also came to this conclusion, but it still makes me sad. I'm getting used to Windows 10 more and more, and it seems inevitable to make the switch permanently. Sad, just sad!

 

[volcomvenom]

I also came to this conclusion, but it still makes me sad. I'm getting used to Windows 10 more and more, and it seems inevitable to make the switch permanently. Sad, just sad!

Ssd, just Ssd. Is what my mind read automatically.

 

[ArchimeZix]

no way i'm going back to these stuff

 

[whg]

. . . I don't have to worry about the Registry being compromised in Windoze . . . - my Windows laptop that I carry with me is more of a PITA to deal with, not to mention the Registry. . . This is my own opinion, that's all that matters here. I want Apple to get their crap together and offer Xeon and Kaby Lake options or I'll figure out a work-around to their creaky old RAM/processor options. FWIW, I'm not taking issue with anything you've written...

While I agree with most what you said, I cannot understand your Registry laments. I've been using Windows since the beginning (well, not quite, Windows 2.0 was my first version), but I never encountered a serious problem with the Registry (I know that this was not there in the 16bit versions built on DOS). Even your wording (WindoZe) indicates that you don't exactly like Windows. I don't now what happend in your case, but I can tell you that I also have some trouble with OS X from time to time (Yosemite was a disaster on my iMac 27" mid 2011, and it made me reinstall on my rMBP 15 mid 2012 because it corrupted my Bootcamp partition). Please take have of your hourly income and get a decent Windows notebook. I have absolutely no issues with my ASUS Zenbooks, for instance.
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. . . In particular the top end 15 inch pro is a fairly powerful laptop, it has a quad core cpu , 16gb RAM standard and discrete graphics . . .

I agree, the 2.8GHz CPU is still up-to-date, but the discrete graphics is certainly not. I have now a similar weight ASUS Zenbook Pro with Nvidia GTX960M graphics for half the price of the MacBook.

 

[TechZeke]

What do you do for math? hard taking notes on a computer for certain classes. I would of failed all my calculus classes with trying to keep up taking notes on a computer.

Calculus classes are different, though. Pencil and Paper or tablet will still reign supreme, since these classes typically don't have labs or software. Its theoretical calculus. It's pretty much lecture-test-lecture-test.

My school, Cal Poly Pomona is known for its "Learn by doing" philosophy, where almost every engineering class has a lab or activity component, so you will definitely need a laptop for labs and practical work. At my school, the engineering labs are also used as classrooms. Being able to using CAD, structurual anaylsis, slope analysis, and traffic sim software anywhere at anytime will give you much greater flexibility when completing projects. With that said, pencil/paper/tablets are still used for the lecture component.

Cal Poly's a great school, I've worked with several alums over the years on projects our firms collaborated with and have nothing but praise for the work they've done.

About being fresh out of college, it's just me but I steer clear of people that don't have field experience. Including many, many P.E.s I've worked with in my office - I earned a nickname of Mr. Fix-it at my firms until I went out on my own. Ugh. Flashbacks just now when typing this...

My geotech prof was Dr. Matthew Kuhn, also at UP and he's still there AFAIK 25 years later. An odd, but pretty brilliant guy. We used Mac SEs with 2 floppies for our lab work on the Mac side, HP Vectras for CAD work and environmental modeling - they're boat anchors now. Geotech "fix" projects were my bread and butter for years until a decade ago, and I miss the work but not the legal hassles if you're literally not standing over the dirt work contractors...

Enjoy school, and make sure you tour offices when you start looking for your professional destinations - if you can hear a pencil drop, run far, far away!

Thanks, will do.

 

[volcomvenom]

no way i'm going back to these stuff

Windows (even with Skylake) sux!!!

 

[x-evil-x]

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[The Reasonable One]

I vote no more posts until 12 AM on the 7th

 

[2457248]

no way i'm going back to these stuff

just to be fair, when updating my mbp from 10.11.0 to 10.11.1, something f'ked up and as i restart my laptop it boots into nothing because it can't find an OS...

And it turned out i couldn't restore it from my University's LAN because restore utility cannot connect to networks that require user/pw log-in...

At least i didn't lose all my data though, but i was mad.

 

[volcomvenom]

just to be fair, when updating my mbp from 10.11.0 to 10.11.1, something f'ked up and as i restart my laptop it boots into nothing because it can't find an OS...

And it turned out i couldn't restore it from my University's LAN because restore utility cannot connect to networks that require user/pw log-in...

At least i didn't lose all my data though, but i was mad.

Sounds like a good time.

 

[ArchimeZix]

just to be fair, when updating my mbp from 10.11.0 to 10.11.1, something f'ked up and as i restart my laptop it boots into nothing because it can't find an OS...

And it turned out i couldn't restore it from my University's LAN because restore utility cannot connect to networks that require user/pw log-in...

At least i didn't lose all my data though, but i was mad.

yah no OS without problems even OS X but comparing to windows it's nothing. I work as an IT and this windows update issue stopped more than half of our company employees from working. They can't even login to their accounts.. the computers just keep restarting. Microsoft has an update every one hour!!.

 

[dealmaker]

Who thinks the MBP's will be 14" and 16" - instead of 13" and 15" ??? I am quietly hoping as my 17" is slowly dying in front of me.....

 

[volcomvenom]

Who thinks the MBP's will be 14" and 16" - instead of 13" and 15" ??? I am quietly hoping as my 17" is slowly dying in front of me.....

Maybe. One can only hope.

 

[2457248]

yah no OS without problems even OS X but comparing to windows it's nothing. I work as an IT and this windows update issue stopped more than half of our company employees from working. They can't even login to their accounts.. the computers just keep restarting. Microsoft has an update every one hour!!.

i'm still trying to figure out which version of W10 i have atm... updates are just so random!
KB-and-a-bunch-of-numbers. why??

 

[padaxax]

So, how are the chances for a sneak peak or presentation of the new MBPs on the 7th?

 

[Dutchdude99]

Who thinks the MBP's will be 14" and 16" - instead of 13" and 15" ??? I am quietly hoping as my 17" is slowly dying in front of me.....

If they're the same size (reduced bezel) I'd be in.

So, how are the chances for a sneak peak or presentation of the new MBPs on the 7th?

Hope to see this is the form of a one more thing. Sneak peak a la Mac Pro in 2013

 

[whiteRAD]

Who thinks the MBP's will be 14" and 16" - instead of 13" and 15" ??? I am quietly hoping as my 17" is slowly dying in front of me.....

I don't think increasing the screen size to 16" is necessary as the 15" screen is already big enough imo

 

[thekev]

You can definitely type text faster than you can write it, but have you ever tried to take engineering/physics/math notes on a laptop? Even a LaTeX wizard probably wouldn't be able to keep up with a lecture!

Use lyx rather than plain LaTeX. It can be distracting, but it's much faster than LaTeX, especially with shortcut keys like the use of spacebar to end a subscript or superscript.

 

[x-evil-x]

Calculus classes are different, though. Pencil and Paper or tablet will still reign supreme, since these classes typically don't have labs or software. Its theoretical calculus. It's pretty much lecture-test-lecture-test.

My school, Cal Poly Pomona is known for its "Learn by doing" philosophy, where almost every engineering class has a lab or activity component, so you will definitely need a laptop for labs and practical work. At my school, the engineering labs are also used as classrooms. Being able to using CAD, structurual anaylsis, slope analysis, and traffic sim software anywhere at anytime will give you much greater flexibility when completing projects. With that said, pencil/paper/tablets are still used for the lecture component.



Thanks, will do.

You would be surprised how many people still take Hand notes at my university (ASU). Biological sciences classes. Math classes. Most students still do the pencil and paper route it seems over the last 3 years I've been here. Most people on their computers are following along the lecture slides(or screwing around on the internet) and writing hand written notes.
Thats the only reason why i think that "different" tablet would be welcomed with the notes---> saved on tablet feature.

 

[Loge]

If they're the same size (reduced bezel) I'd be in.

Hope to see this is the form of a one more thing. Sneak peak a la Mac Pro in 2013

Unless they're almost ready to ship then no; it would kill sales in the meantime. The Mac Pro was an exception as almost no-one was buying the old one by then; indeed you couldn't even buy them new in the EU at that point.

No 16"; if they can reduce the bezel, they will reduce the footprint; this is Apple remember.

 

[whiteRAD]

You would be surprised how many people still take Hand notes at my university (ASU). Biological sciences classes. Math classes. Most students still do the pencil and paper route it seems over the last 3 years I've been here. Most people on their computers are following along the lecture slides(or screwing around on the internet) and writing hand written notes.
Thats the only reason why i think that "different" tablet would be welcomed with the notes---> saved on tablet feature.

I think there would be a huge market for, lets say, a Surface Book-like Macbook Pro, with Touchscreen, detachable Tablet, Pencil and macOS.
However, I think that'll never happen as Apple would kill of both the Macbook and the Tablet product line.
But I'd buy that

 

[rezwits]

i'm still trying to figure out which version of W10 i have atm... updates are just so random!
KB-and-a-bunch-of-numbers. why??

Dude, I watch the show on twit.tv called Windows Weekly, why? because it almost never lets me down on freaking comedy. You should watch the last episode if you get a chance. It's was a full blast of what has been happening this last year with Windows 10.

So they start off talking about how, some users haven't even gotten the "Anniversary Update" and some have reported that they have. Then Leo, the moderator if you don't know, says yeah mine actually just showed up finally and I am going to do it right now, so he installs or something or tries to because he has been getting blue screens and they talk about how a modern OS shouldn't even get kernel panics, hahaha.

Then they go into how you can get into the "fast ring" or "slow ring", sorry, I am cracking up so hard as I type this HAHAHA. The normal ring is just regular updates on update Tuesday which was supposed to be the first or second Tuesday of the month, but has turned out to be almost every Tuesday of the month. HA

Then they say "and if you want even MORE updates you can get on the fast ring or insider program, and get updates on the hour, hour after hour, HA.

But the main focus was, they were all updating their machines LIVE on the show trying to get them to WORK! and all they were talking about was trying to get the update, the Anniversary one, especially the one that fixes the Skype camera.

To boot tho, they had no idea what the hold up is with some machines that get it (Anniversary) or not, because they "Think" parts of it aren't ready, or don't work with certain drivers on some machines, and if you have certain drivers, it won't do the update, because it would totally bork your computer, they "think". I was cracking up so hard as I was laying down going to sleep.

Honestly Wednesdays are amazing when I goto bed, because I load Plex up and Windows Weekly at midnight, and the show is cool, because the moderators, except for Leo, are cool, because they keep it real.

Thurrott and Mary Jo Foley, are such freaking Windows Fan Boys, but they are honest with themselves, which is what keeps the show in touch. Because when they bag on all their problems, especially Thurrott with the Surface Pro with the Hinge, omg, the whole year he was just like this thing blah blah.

But most of the time they just keep on with the "What is Microsoft doing" motif, and hopefully they will etc etc

But eventually, Thurrott will bust out his, but Windows is installed a BILLION devices, HAPPINESS, and that's when I just crack up so hard. Cause yeah at one point there was a billion VCRs and a billion TV's wtf is you're point! haha And then Mary Jo will get into Azure Services segment and get all happy.

But it's all good fun to keep in touch with the Windows Base, and what goes on, kinda have too to keep the IT in me alive.

Seriously tho, the last episode dated:
https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly/episodes/481?autostart=false

was freaking AWESOME COMEDY!

Laters...guys as we all can't wait for Tuesday to be OBLITERATED!