@MayurDhaka I thought the presenters were fine.
@MayurDhaka Yes, like the Watch, I think Touch Bar is Apple feeling like they have to prove something, instead of simply improving things.
@MayurDhaka Touch Bar seems like Apple’s version of the MS ribbon, which I never liked. Duplicate but not really better interface.
@MayurDhaka Most compelling use case is full screen, I guess, but the buttons would only take up 30 points along the bottom.
@MayurDhaka Yeah. Keyboard shortcuts work by feel, without taking your eyes off the display. And trackpad is better for slider-type stuff.
Touch Bar: https://t.co/3omPZNKyID #mjtsaiblog
@joesteel Which is saying a lot because the v3 remote is not comfortable at all.
@z31r4m I have no idea whether it’s because of the loss of Forstall, but current leadership seems out of balance.
@joesteel TV does still seem like a mess. Haven’t followed too closely. I still have v3, which no longer works well. Hate the new remote.
@joesteel I don’t *want* a clone. I just mean that if Apple doesn’t want to make certain Macs, at least let someone else do it.
@lapcatsoftware In that example, it seems to combine the worst aspects of the screen and keyboard, for no benefit.
New MacBook Pros and the State of the Mac: https://t.co/VQjOr2p8U0 #mjtsaiblog
Sierra Log Littering: https://t.co/wolV3j19NX #mjtsaiblog
Parsing JSON Is a Minefield: https://t.co/4vtaYZKHEJ #mjtsaiblog
@smashingfiasco Hmm, I thought it was a PDF rendering issue. But this sounds like maybe both are related to GPU?
@smashingfiasco For PDF files or Web page?
@mjdrayton I don’t want that headache, but I can see where you’re coming from. Even in the 90s they had real Pro stuff.
Now Sierra’s Preview is displaying every page of every PDF as a solid black rectangle. Hopefully I just need to reboot.
The Tim Cook quote is from https://t.co/YPxnjyDu6U
“Even Cook questioned why anyone would buy a personal computer instead of an iPad Pro…Cook didn’t answer our question about that.â€
Still waiting for that macOS 10.12.1 update download, too.
@StephenFleming I don’t think so, but it doesn't stick out (much) so you can just leave it in, almost like a drive bay.
@thequinntaylor Will there be a xip download for Xcode 8.1?
@notio Yeah, I think it’s best to keep waiting and see what they do. Would love an old-style Pro.
@petermaurer I was planning to instabuy it maxed. But this doesn’t look like a big improvement and would be most expensive I’ve ever bought.
@StephenFleming Selective folders.
@StephenFleming I’m going to miss the SD slot. Good for Time Machine.
Considering iMac for the first time in 10 years, for the performance, but I don’t want the display—much smaller than 30-inch.
Internal keyboard likely worse, fewer ports, lots of dongles to buy, more max storage but $.
Waited 4+ years, but not sure this MacBook Pro is worth it. Touch Bar useless when using external kb. 16 GB of RAM. No non-GPU benchmarks.