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posted by martyb on Tuesday November 21 2017, @08:12AM   Printer-friendly
from the it's-not-YOUR-computer-any-more dept.

Quoted from the http://tidbits.com/article/17633: "If you're running macOS 10.12 Sierra or earlier, and do not want to upgrade to 10.13 High Sierra right now, be careful because Apple has started pushing High Sierra to older Macs and making it all too easy to upgrade inadvertently." [...]


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  • (Score: 2) by TheRaven on Tuesday November 21 2017, @05:28PM (1 child)

    by TheRaven (270) on Tuesday November 21 2017, @05:28PM (#599737) Journal

    I wasn't convinced by the touchbar, but a couple of my colleagues have got them and they're surprisingly useful - the escape key is still the corner so your fingers can find it (so vi users are happy) and it's programmable by applications, so you they can have context-specific shortcuts that aren't as confusing as the behaviour of a function key changing depending on the selection.

    That said, I still have a late 2013 MBP, in spite of our policy of upgrades after three years, because 32GB of RAM is the one upgrade that I actually want and it's not available yet. I had been blaming Intel for not supporting LPDDR4, but Dell has managed to put 32GB of DDR4L into a laptop and there's only a 15% power difference between LPDDR4 and DDR4L.

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by RedBear on Tuesday November 21 2017, @07:54PM

    by RedBear (1734) on Tuesday November 21 2017, @07:54PM (#599825)

    I wouldn't care about the Touch Bar if it had been just an addition. What I can't tolerate is the removal of physical media keys that have been basically the same for 20 years, that I can practically use by reflex now even in the dark. To have those not be reliably accessible without going through an extra step is not acceptable to me. Touch interfaces are useless unless you're looking at them, which car manufacturers have to keep rediscovering.

    But even if that problem were solved, the increased cost, poor battery life, lack of higher memory capacity, lack of upgradeability, and lack of any of the common ports I'm still constantly using are all bridges that I cannot cross. The Touch Bar is almost the least of the issues with the latest MBPs. Just saw another Apple pro on YouTube a few days ago do a hardcore panning of the current MBP which he said he would NEVER, EVER BUY, and he was far from the first one to say that.

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