<div dir="ltr"><div style="white-space:pre-wrap">My problem with the new MacBook Pros isn't the USB-C ports (it's going to be a painful transition but we have to move with the times) but things like this:<br>- The USBC/TB3 ports on different sides of the 4xTB3 MBP have different amounts of PCIE bandwidth. The left side is faster than the right, so you can only run a 5k display from the left. This from the company that derided PC notebooks for having a combination of USB2 and USB3 ports.</div><div style="white-space:pre-wrap">- The touchbar contains a secure enclave for the Touch ID sensor that is used as a power button. If the power button fails mechanically you need a new logic board.</div><div style="white-space:pre-wrap">- The baseline for a (cut-down) USBC MBP is now about £1500. <br></div><div style="white-space:pre-wrap">- The baseline for a USBC MBP with touchbar is about £1800.</div><div style="white-space:pre-wrap">- The cheapest Mac notebook of any kind is a £1000 MacBook Air.</div><div style="white-space:pre-wrap"><br></div><div style="white-space:pre-wrap">And a very personal one:</div><div style="white-space:pre-wrap">- The key travel on new Mac notebooks is now so shallow that I can't use them for more than a few minutes due to lingering RSI issues that were caused, at least in part, by shallow-travel keyboards.<br></div><div style="white-space:pre-wrap"><br></div><div style="white-space:pre-wrap">(Regarding price whinges - I know that GBP is down against USD but for the new models the prices have gone *up* in USD and the excellent value entry-level 11" Air is now gone.)</div><div style="white-space:pre-wrap"><br></div><div style="white-space:pre-wrap">On the subject of other Macs, here's an interesting article about the possibility that Apple is having corporate culture problems:</div><div style="white-space:pre-wrap"><br></div><div style="white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="http://www.vox.com/new-money/2016/11/27/13706776/apple-functional-divisional">http://www.vox.com/new-money/2016/11/27/13706776/apple-functional-divisional</a><br></div><div style="white-space:pre-wrap"><br></div><div style="white-space:pre-wrap">It does present a possible explanation for the world's most valuable company being unable to update the niche-but-flagship Mac Pro or the niche-but-has-a-cult-following Mac Mini. The other explanation is that they just don't care and the machines are still on sale whilst they run down inventory and milk every last penny from those models before they go away forever.</div><div style="white-space:pre-wrap"><br></div><div style="white-space:pre-wrap">Chris</div><div style="white-space:pre-wrap"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, 28 Nov 2016 at 15:17, m.c. schraefel <<a href="mailto:mc@ecs.soton.ac.uk" target="_blank">mc@ecs.soton.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><a href="http://boingboing.net/2016/11/28/new-macbook-pro-great-for-ha.html" rel="noreferrer" class="gmail-m_-8934256295859189130gmail_msg" target="_blank">http://boingboing.net/2016/11/<wbr>28/new-macbook-pro-great-for-<wbr>ha.html</a><br class="gmail-m_-8934256295859189130gmail_msg">
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