This article is very interesting, but it's unfortunate that its title says little about its content. I had no idea it was about Apple when I opened it, expecting it to be about the Go programming language instead.
> Why the 7th generation Intel chips?
I suspect the author meant "6th generation", or "why not the 7th generation Intel chips", because the new MBPs have 6th-gen (i.e. Skylake) CPUs.
Am I the only one getting title fatigue? Now I automatically skip or flag links whose title (not necessarily editorialised) are completely uninformative or deceitful.
It's clickbait, and I seem to recall hearing that it's a deliberate strategy from Hacker News – that they want people to be "intrigued" by the headline. I hate it.
I wonder if Mac-users realise that isn't actually an Apple logo, but is just a private-use character which Apple display as their logo (while every other system can do whatever it wants).
Yeah, we do. However, since our primary audience of people we are talking to are on a Mac/iOS device, it doesn't really matter. And when we are on a non-Mac, we know what the square box symbol is supposed to be.
I would totally buy a laptop with the weight and a bit thicker than my 2012 13" MacBook Pro, if I could get:
nvidia 1060/1070 GPU able to run VR headsets, without sounding like a hairdryer
Commensurate or better battery life
More than 16GB RAM
Easily upgradeable SSD.
More durability
Apple is not making this laptop! In fact, I have no inkling if they're going to make that if I wait another year, or ever. So why should I remain an Apple customer? I don't think Apple is interested in me as a customer. What kind of customer am I? Basically, a dev.
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[ 3.5 ms ] story [ 50.4 ms ] threadAaah, standards.
It was just a couple of months ago that I noticed somebody misusing "reign" for "rein", and now it's everywhere.
> Why the 7th generation Intel chips?
I suspect the author meant "6th generation", or "why not the 7th generation Intel chips", because the new MBPs have 6th-gen (i.e. Skylake) CPUs.
http://gizmodo.com/why-are-apple-and-microsoft-using-such-ol...
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
nvidia 1060/1070 GPU able to run VR headsets, without sounding like a hairdryer
Commensurate or better battery life
More than 16GB RAM
Easily upgradeable SSD.
More durability
Apple is not making this laptop! In fact, I have no inkling if they're going to make that if I wait another year, or ever. So why should I remain an Apple customer? I don't think Apple is interested in me as a customer. What kind of customer am I? Basically, a dev.