{"id":27252,"date":"2019-11-08T17:17:25","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T22:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=27252"},"modified":"2019-11-26T14:02:32","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T19:02:32","slug":"falling-back-to-an-older-mbp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/08\/falling-back-to-an-older-mbp\/","title":{"rendered":"Falling Back to an Older MBP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ericasadun.com\/2019\/11\/07\/falling-back-to-an-older-mbp\/\">Erica Sadun<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/ericasadun.com\/2019\/11\/07\/falling-back-to-an-older-mbp\/\">\n<p>The basic truth for me is that both keyboards are fully usable and that having the dedicated escape key (or not) was never a big deal. The virtual one did the job just fine. That&rsquo;s something I never expected to admit but it&rsquo;s true. I may not love MBP keyboards but they work.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, moving back from USB-C to all these wonderful ports is delightful. My 2018 was always an octopus, and I had to carry around a bag of hubs and adapters.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>I have a bunch of extra file space with the built-in SD card reader with my computer-flush reader adapter so it looks built in. The two standard USB ports are so convenient. I have an entire bag of USB-C gizmos that I&rsquo;d carry around with the 2018 machine that I dumped into my USB box-of-everything for now.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Unlike others, she doesn&rsquo;t seem to have had trouble with keyboard reliability and likes the big trackpad. She misses Touch ID but not the Touch Bar.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/01\/tylenol-moment-for-apples-laptop-keyboards\/\">Tylenol Moment for Apple&rsquo;s Laptop Keyboards<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/15\/the-best-laptop-ever-made\/\">The Best Laptop Ever Made<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/27\/new-macbook-pros-and-the-state-of-the-mac\/\">New MacBook Pros and the State of the Mac<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"falling-back-to-an-older-mbp-update-2019-11-09\">Update (2019-11-09): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NSExceptional\/status\/1192962183744884736\">Tanner Bennett<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NSExceptional\/status\/1192962183744884736\">\n<p>This mirrors how I feel. I don&rsquo;t mind the Touch Bar or the miss the escape key, and my keys rarely broke, but<\/p>\n<p>&#8226; I hate the low-travel keys<br \/>\n&#8226; I hate the new arrow key layout<br \/>\n&#8226; I miss ports (HDMI, USB)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/m.signalvnoise.com\/back-to-windows-after-twenty-years\/\">David Heinemeier Hansson<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/m.signalvnoise.com\/back-to-windows-after-twenty-years\/\">\n<p>Apple&rsquo;s stubborn four-year refusal to fix the <a href=\"https:\/\/m.signalvnoise.com\/the-macbook-keyboard-fiasco-is-surely-worse-than-apple-thinks\/\">terminally broken butterfly keyboard design<\/a> led me to a crazy experiment last week: Giving Windows a try for the first time in twenty years.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>What this experiment taught me, though, was just how much I actually like OSX. How much satisfaction I derive from its font rendering. How lovely my code looks in TextMate 2. How easy it is to live that *nix developer life, while still using a computer where everything (well, except that fucking keyboard!) mostly just works.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p id=\"falling-back-to-an-older-mbp-update-2019-11-26\">Update (2019-11-26): See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=21477511\">Hacker News<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erica Sadun: The basic truth for me is that both keyboards are fully usable and that having the dedicated escape key (or not) was never a big deal. The virtual one did the job just fine. That&rsquo;s something I never expected to admit but it&rsquo;s true. I may not love MBP keyboards but they work. 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