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To squeeze in the extra RAM, they might decide they need to remove the few ports which were left. #courage

The "few ports" they left are actually WORTH much, much more than a dumbass couple of "legacy" USB-A ports, or an HDMI port, or even worse, some SD card slot that 10% of users use more than once per year.

Oh, and HERE's what you can do with just ONE of those "few ports".

And after that, you still have THREE identical Ports left...

And how large are they? If you know of a router/firewall in this size, please let me know.

And how this one machine, when plugged into a USB-C cable, becomes a desktop, and when I unplug it, it becomes a laptop. And all my stuff is on it. Simple. Thing I like most about the MBP is that it has *four* TB3 ports. It has more connectivity than the Mac Pro tower it replaced.

FINALLY! Someone who GETS IT!

Have you seen this?

Even if you already HAVE a dock for home, this would make a great addition to your work, or to just have in your computer bag.

Disregard the negative reviews. They are from people that didn't realize you have to load a driver to get the video ports to work right, and those who didn't realize you may have to change a setting or two in macOS, like the Audio Out, to get certain things to work (like the audio port).

Falsehood #4. Dongles are a PITA and constantly get lost. What's the point of losing a millimeter on the laptop thickness in some artificial inverted penis-size competition where the manufacturer has brainwashed everyone into thinking they need/want "THINNER!" when really they don't, but the trade-off is a pile of dongles that are an even bigger hassle to lug around than +1mm in laptop thickness, meanwhile they get lost all the time so the TCO of the laptop skyrockets.

I don't think you'll be losing THIS.

ahhh yes apple fanboys answer to everything, carry a sack full of dongles and cables so you can save half a millimetre of width or 10 grams of weight on your laptop. DVD's are very much a legacy thing now, SD cards are NOT, they are the current standard for most current devices.

Sack full?

No. You just have to shop smarter.

And you STILL have THREE identical ports LEFT!!!

So yes, we DO have an answer "to" everything. Now, STFU, Hater!

Give us back MagSafe charging Ports that are useful And Better tactile keyboard (e.g. Long travel keys) give the thin shit to the hipsters

I'll give you MagSafe (although Griffin kinda has that covered).

But the "Ports that are useful" meme is just bullshit.

Here you go. All of this I/O is done with ONE of the MBP's FOUR USB-C/TB3 Ports. And you STILL have 3 Ports left!. So, STFU.

Better Tactile Keyboard: Reports from people who have switched from the 2015 MBP to the 2016, report that the keyboard feels far less "mushy", and "more precise".

Give us back MagSafe charging Ports that are useful And Better tactile keyboard (e.g. Long travel keys) give the thin shit to the hipsters

I'll give you MagSafe (although Griffin kinda has that covered).

But the "Ports that are useful" meme is just bullshit.

Here you go. All of this I/O is done with ONE of the MBP's FOUR USB-C/TB3 Ports. And you STILL have 3 Ports left!. So, STFU.

Better Tactile Keyboard: Reports from people who have switched from the 2015 MBP to the 2016, report that the keyboard feels far less "mushy", and "more precise".

And with the right coffee maker (BUNN Velocity Brew), you can brew a whole pot in 3 minutes.

exactly for a decade apple was at or near the top with annual updates and feature changes.

since 2012 and the broadwell/skylake fiasco apple basically stopped trying to keep up with laptops and desktops.

I want a new macbook (currently a 2009 macbook)but i want a modern cpu and a sd card slot. things i can't get in current line up. So many macbook owners have been waiting 5-6 years screaming for new tech and apple is failing to deliver.

I won't own a windows 10 machine and linux might be possible if all the hardware worked.

Seriously? You are passing up on an upgrade of an 8 year old MacBook because the new ones do not have a built in SD card slot? I do a lot of Photoshop work and I build Raspberry PI based cameras which involves a lot of programming and SD card use and I would not dream of passing up on a computer upgrade because of a missing built in SD card slot on my 2016 MacBook. I solved that problem in about 5 minutes: https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=n.... As for your second concern. Even the new MacBook with its 2-core mobile processor handily beats an early 2009 model while the latest i5/16gb model literally buries a 2009 MacBook in the benchmarks. A used 2-core 2015 model MacBook pro, which still had an SD card slot, would also bury a 2009 MacBook in terms of performance. You can also get a MacBook pro with a more modern Core i7 CPU (since you seem to care about Intel's meaningless marketing garble), you just can't get one with 32 MB of RAM as well until later this year. One can find a PC in the same price bracket that can beat the snot out of the latest MacBook Pro by virtue of the PC having a 4-core CPU like like this guy did. However, since you (just like myself) are unwilling to leave the Apple ecosystem you can still get a very capable new MacBook Pro to replace your 2009 model, you'll just have to wait a while for 32 Gb.

And for those who can't afford to buy a kit, you can get free plans off the internet. I'm pretty sure you could build it out of toothpicks and tissue paper if you couldn't find balsa.

https://www.amazon.com/Crucial...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...

just an quick google.

apple will make it so that you can't install your own ram.

Violence is the only answer! ...MURICA

In MURICA, violence is a way for highly conflicted, not-smart people to get rich. Bush and Cheney started a war that was profitable for them: House of Bush, House of Saud, by Craig Unger.

$172 for an 11.6" 1366x768 4GB/32GB with USB 2.0 and 3.0 laptop Win10 (or Linux, I suppose) on Amazon -- and that's in just the first page of Google results.

https://www.amazon.com/Lenovo-...

Netbooks are alive and well.

Or this, which appears to be a cheaper re-brand: Bluetooth Transmitter / Receiver - TURATA 2-in-1 Wireless Bluetooth 4.1 Portable 3.5mm Audio Adapter
Although not TRSS, the Mic is in the unit.

You mean this? TROND Bluetooth V4.1 Transmitter Receiver / Wireless 3.5mm Audio Adapter with aptX Low Latency & aptX for Both TX & RX, Dual Stream and Volume Controller

I wonder if they have something to say about putting dual USB (either dual USB-C, or USB-C plus micro USB) on the phone, because I need power + audio out more often than I need something else.

Good question. I don't think dual USB would be the right solution, though. USB can deliver data/audio out while pushing power in, so you only need one port. With a miniature USB hub plus a USB audio adapter you'd be able to charge and listen at the same time. And someone could even combine them into one small device. I found one that allows charging the device while getting HDMI output, so something like that.

Personally, my phone (Pixel XL) charges so quickly and lasts so long that I rarely need power + audio, except in the car where I use Bluetooth audio anyway. The combination of quick charging and long battery life means I charge when it's convenient for me to charge, rather than when the phone needs it. Mostly that means I only plug it in when I'm in the car (where my dock has a charger, so it requires no conscious decision to charge).

Here's a wonderful invention that might interest your father.

Get an FM modulator and you'll end up with sound better than your cassette, and a way to bypass it altogether (unless you have a cassette player without an FM radio?)...

Unless perhaps you have a old car with no CD or Aux In.

Then buy a goddamn cassette adapter like everybody else has said in the thread or get one of these for fucks sake.

You can get a Bluetooth Casette Adapter https://www.amazon.com/ION-Aud...

Doesn't a CD-R cost like 50 cents? Is recording a cassette really cheaper than burning a CD?

Oh god no, they're waaaaaaaay less than that:

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=n...

600 discs for $83 is 0.13 per disc and there are lots of similar deals.

UI designers have already read those. (I also like Rocket Surgery Made Easy, the sequel to Don't Make Me Think).

The problem is that user interfaces and web applications are largely being designed by developers who are not UI designers.

With these awful flat UIs, it becomes much more difficult to determine how to interact with them. It's unclear what's a button, and what's a label, and what's an icon, and what happens if you click/press in a given area of the screen. That was the whole point of using borders and effects to try to give a three-dimensional appearance to UI elements: it makes it more obvious what they do and how they should be used.

If only UI designers could be bothered to read the books that have covered this topic for years:

• About Face - Alan Cooper
• Don't Make Me Think - Steve Krug

You're welcome

With these awful flat UIs, it becomes much more difficult to determine how to interact with them. It's unclear what's a button, and what's a label, and what's an icon, and what happens if you click/press in a given area of the screen. That was the whole point of using borders and effects to try to give a three-dimensional appearance to UI elements: it makes it more obvious what they do and how they should be used.

If only UI designers could be bothered to read the books that have covered this topic for years:

• About Face - Alan Cooper
• Don't Make Me Think - Steve Krug

You're welcome

I don't want to subscribe to a damned streaming service. I don't want to subscribe to Amazon Prime. I don't want to subscribe to Netflix. I don't want to subscribe to HBO. I want to subscribe to specific shows.

I believe Amazon offers something like what you describe, namely a TV Season Pass, where you can purchase an entire season of a TV show, even one that's still on the air. For many series, new episodes will become available soon after airing. I believe some other online services offer such an option too.

I'm sure one complaint you'll probably have with this model is that many shows seem to have a relatively high price. If you want streaming access to all seasons of several big-name shows, you might end up spending more than an annual subscription for the three services you mention.

On the other hand, these are "purchases," which don't just give you temporary monthly access or whatever. (Well, as much as streaming services can ever be "purchases." Obviously these are only "purchased" as long as Amazon is around and offering this streaming.)

you subscribe to get a ton of content that you don't want, just so you can get the small amount of content you do.

It's always a trade off. Networks can subsidize all their content through monthly fees, or they can make money through individual shows. The problem is that you're going to pay a LOT for access to POPULAR individual shows (whether by buying DVDs or purchasing streaming access to specific shows) because the networks can't depend on your subscription revenue in general.

It's like anything -- buying in bulk makes things cheaper, but only if you use enough of it. Buying in smaller amounts means sellers will jack up the price to ensure they're still making a profit overall.

They're obviously trying to boost sales of the Hutzler 571 Banana slicer. https://www.amazon.com/Hutzler-571-Banana-Slicer/product-reviews/B0047E0EII

I'd argue that it isn't. The best pro notebook they ever made was the last one that allowed you to upgrade the ram and hard drive, and replace the battery. That's "pro".

Their latest macbook pro might be the best appliance they've ever made, but it isn't "pro".

The max. RAM is 16 GB. What "Pro" isn't going to configure it that way out of the box? So, there's one of your three arguments nicely refuted. Let's try the other one.

You can replace the battery in the new MBP. Considering it is something that is done maybe ONCE in the lifetime of the product, having it be a little inconvenient is not a reason to say that it is an "appliance". And, BTW, Apple doesn't gouge for battery replacement. In fact, they charge little enough that I simply can't imagine wanting to do it myself to "save money." Ok, so now let's try for that last objection...

Can't upgrade the hard drive. Well, that's something that, now that most laptops are going SSD, we're going to start seeing more and more. But no one will do any hand-wringing about them; because they aren't Apple, and so nobody cares what the other guys do. Again, survey says: "Most people, by and large, never upgrade the storage in their laptops." And the more "Pro" a laptop-user is, the LESS likely they are to be able to store their DATA on an LAPTOP's internal drive. Even at 2 TB, editing video projects is going to make that 2 TB seem crowded in a year or so. And with USB-C/TB3 available, there really isn't a speed penalty for having an external drive enclosure. And, although the TB3 enclosures are still a bit pricey (and hard to find, both which might change now that everyone and his dog is switching to USB-C/TB3), USB-C enclosures/drives are plentiful and available for the $20-30 range (driveless) on Amazon, like this one. So, it sounds like 3 for 3 to me.

You are out of gas...

Anyone try one of those cheap "Smart Watches" you see on Amazon? Here's one I looked at: CNPGD Bluetooth Smart Wrist Wrap Watch Phone for IOS and Android, Black

I don't know. Based on the size, it appears to be a bit cumbersome...

...and to the horror of its rivals, everyone wanted one.

It's almost as if the people who make these purchasing decisions are unpredictable.

Anyone try one of those cheap "Smart Watches" you see on Amazon? Here's one I looked at:
CNPGD Bluetooth Smart Wrist Wrap Watch Phone for IOS and Android, Black
(search on Amazon).
It has been selling for $9 ("price has dropped by 53%!"), but I'm not sure about the quality of these watches. This particular one gets crummy reviews, but are there any that are worth getting?
To be more specific: are there inexpensive watches that will do most of what the Apple Watch does (whatever that happens to be --I don't know) without the expensive price tag? I'm including Android watches; the watch doesn't have to sync to an Apple iPhone, since Android phones are much cheaper and more accessible to the thin wallet.

CASIO Watch Lineage Tough Solar Radio Watch Titanium MULTIBAND6 LCW-M100TD-1A3JF Men's Watch
https://www.amazon.com/CASIO-L...

This watch is always on time because it synchronizes with atomic radios globally.
The battery never runs out because the watch face is a solar cell.
You don't have to take off the watch because it is water resistant to 5 bars/50 bars.
It looks like an "adult" watch though it has standard digital features:
Date, world time, stopwatch, countdown, and alarms.

The titanium makes this watch almost indestructible.
The sapphire glass only had a minor scratch when a person fell pinning my wrist to a rock face.
Everything still worked, but I replaced the glass anyway.
Not bad for 4 years.

tl:dr; ... this watch will outlast YOU.

So, this is a bit of a repeat, but I'll answer as I did last time. I have a Citizen Eco-Drive Skyhawk:

https://www.amazon.com/Citizen...

Mine's a little different as I bought it as Service Merchandise which closed in 2002. I think I got it the year that they closed and paid $300 or $400 for it. It's still my watch.

It doesn't run Android or anything. But it has a slide rule around the bezel and is actually made for making some aviation calculations simple. It also handles all time zones, shows utc on the face at all times, has a couple of alarms, a countdown timer, and a stopwatch. It's solar powered and I've never replaced the battery. It's also water-resistant. I've never had trouble with the watch. I just now realized that it's 15+ years old, and has lasted far longer than any other watch that I've owned.

I know there are some amazing computerized watches out there, but a slide rule is the ultimate nerd accessory, right? Also, show me your second generation Apple Watch in 15 years.

consumables, which aren't really...

I believe the existence of and apparent broad expansion of Amazon's Dot device says otherwise. It's core purpose is reorder a specific consumable item with one touch.

I think you mean the Amazon Dash Button . The Amazon Dot is a less capable Amazon Echo device.

consumables, which aren't really...

I believe the existence of and apparent broad expansion of Amazon's Dot device says otherwise. It's core purpose is reorder a specific consumable item with one touch.

I think you mean the Amazon Dash Button . The Amazon Dot is a less capable Amazon Echo device.

I'm a lifelong proponent of nuclear energy, and I've often vented my rage at the mindless knee-jerk reactionary opposition to nuclear energy voiced by "greenies" who over-inflate accidents caused by infamously careless and dysfunctional regimes. I tell you this so you'll understand the significance when I say that your point is not lost on pro-nuke activists.

"We almost Lost Detroit is one of my favorite nonfiction books - especially because I was born and raised in Fermi I's potential fallout shadow. The book does a lovely job of documenting other costly accidents and near misses as well. Nuclear energy scares the hell out of me - and I think any pro-nuke activist should feel the same. I'm also an avid firearms enthusiast, and as any gun owner can tell you the rules of gun safety are based on multi-layered, defense-in-depth paranoia. It is not a question of if you will make a mistake, but when. Failing to apply this same standard to nuclear energy is insane, and we can't expect anyone to take our advocacy seriously if we brush off their concerns as fear-mongering, Luddite hysteria or flat-out ignorance. All three are present in anti-nuke activism, but that doesn't excuse us from the valid fears that need answering.

Those fears are why Americans proof-test our containment buildings to an extremely high standard. It's why our containment domes (Fermi I, shown here) are a damn sight more spacious than those used by other nations, which might explain why ours don't fail and others have. It's not enough to sit around and point out how the Soviet Union was a pack of incompetent bastards, or how Fukushima was the result of breathtakingly corrupt practices in government and industry, with half the employees being Yakuza, terrifyingly slapdash construction (when two major pipes didn't meet up in the middle like they were supposed to, hooking an earthmover to it, bending the pipe a bit and welding it together wasn't unheard of,) and laughable government "oversight" (i.e. "descent from heaven.") To dismiss these incidents is to say "it can't happen here" and most certainly can. And fear of that keeps the sharp edge on the vigilance needed to ensure it never does.

Sorry looks like multiple titles involved. here is the link. https://www.amazon.com/How-Hug.... Gaslighting is a common behavior of borderline personality disorder and victim type people. It is challenging but doable to live with this type of personality. The book is great at explaining it.

It's more like the little girl told the echo what it wanted for Christmas or something and the news caster paraphrased.

In case he wasn't though, Amazon's own voice ordering fact page says that when you attempt to order something it searches

Your order history - only Prime-eligible items.
Amazon's Choice - Amazon's Choice items are highly rated, well-priced products that are available to order immediately.
Prime-eligible items - including delivery by Prime Now for eligible items.

in an attempt to find/idntify what you ordered. If a dollhouse was on the Amazon's Choice list, it would have been ordered under this policy.

Exactly right. It's time to go. Gaslighting makes the victim depressed and stupid, so you won't be able to perform at your best. Eventually you will be fired for cause, and it's because you really will have failed to do a good job.

Now that you're aware of being gaslighting, it's absolutely critical for you to take care of your on your mental health and decision making as you plan and execute exit strategy. Establish, nurture, and rely on relationships outside of work; preferably with people you know and trust to give you honest feedback.

To quote a neuroscientist:

"The effects of gaslighting on normal individuals can be extraordinarily unsettling and can contribute to confused behavior and scattered thinking patterns in those who have been subjected to the phenomenon. [....] Could it be that, by sending conflicting signals as with the difference between reality and what [the gaslighter] falsely insists is reality, desynchronization might occur in neural structures that normally work together? Such desynchronization might account for the confused short-term reaction and the depressed long-term reaction to gaslighting behavior."

Source: Barbara Oakley, Evil Genes: Why Rome Fell, Hitler Rose, Enron Failed, and Why My Sister Stole My Mother's Boyfriend

It are the same kind of (bullshit)stories as the deck of cards stopping the bullet..,

How is it bullshit if it worked?

What the MacBook has over most of those items is a greater area it offers protection for.

How many other people at the airport which got shot did have their macbook with them and didn't get the chance to use it as a shield?

Probably most, but think of it this way - it offers a concrete reason to sling your backpack over your back if you are running away from a shooting (or slinging it in front of you if you are running towards one).

It might even save someone life hearing this story if they think to do the same in the future...

I've often wondered if it would be a good idea to have a backpack made from kevlar... apparently that is a real thing (I espceially like how the results include a QuickClot bandage in case you go too cheap).

It never ceases to amaze me how prevalent and commonly accepted are UFOs in the Chilean collective psyche. You can even do a general search in the news for UFO-related articles and come back with a bunch (in Spanish). In virtually all cases, the generally accepted belief is that they have an extraterrestrial origin.

An overwhelming 85% of Chileans believe in the phenomenon, compared to a 48% of Americans, and the topic can easily come up in any colloquial conversation among regular people as something totally accepted.

Coincidentally, Chile is also fertile ground for "spiritual movements" that very regularly include UFO elements. As a Chilean myself, and as someone who was attracted to those movements in my 20s, I struggle to come up with a clear explanation of why Chile in particular seems to be so captivated by beliefs in the supernatural. Michael Shermer does a good job explaining generically why people believe weird things, but doesn't explain why certain specific cultures or countries seem to be more susceptible than others.

I, for one, believe the reason is the lack of formal teaching of Critical Thinking as a subject, throughout the school curriculum. In the US, critical thinking is virtually part of all subjects in the new Common Core standards, from K to 12. They were even part of the old standards, at least in all science classes. Although things may be different in Chile now (I graduated high school in 85), I don't recall to have ever been taught critical thinking skills. That's something I discovered years later when I moved to the US. That in spite of having gone through a rigorous degree in Computer Science at the University of Santiago. University careers, at least back in my day, were very technical in nature, and focused very narrowly on deep subjects, without concern to create a more rounded individual. That was an exercise left to each student.

I think they're these: https://www.amazon.com/Gtron-R...

They feel fine and work great. But the cords are only 4ft long so I got USB extension cords. If you want to play N64 games there are also pads with the analog stick, etc, but I haven't bothered with that. My goal was to play simple games with my kid because vidya games these days on the Xbox One and such are way too complicated.

So, does the sound system consume 50 watts of power in operation, or is it capable of converting 50 watts of power into sound?

Most likely they are using class d amplifier technology. I have one like this. link which would be 40 watts rms. It works fine for my pc to big speakers. It isn't super loud, but it is loud enough. Actually I doubt it really is 40 watts rms though. Still the idea is similar. Class T is a variant of Class D. Efficiency of a glass D is good since the output waveform is, as the D implies digital. It becomes analog after the filtering.

The interesting this is with the class D you need to match the load to the filter circuit, since it is actually part of the filter. In an all in one that is quite doable.

$3.66 on Amazon. I've also seen spring-loaded ones that do it without requiring you to break a sweat. Just press button, break window.

These things exist, and for exactly that purpose.

A quick google will show dozens of videos of people trying to break glass out of car windows using hammers. It's clearly not as easy as you seem to think, nor is breakable glass considered to be a safety feature. Sure there may be a few edge cases where it might come in 'handy', but overall it's better to have stronger glass than weaker, not even by a little bit.

I believe you need a speciality hammer like this link I had thought those worked or some other small specialty tool. I remember a mythbusters underwater special.

All Samsung TVs use edge LED lit LCD panels. If they've switched to QLED they haven't made it public yet.

FYI, the KS9800 is a QLED tv (which apparently also does full-array local dimming)...

There are alternatives, but you have to look for them

Citation needed. Do give an example of a 4K-capable 65" monitor, that costs significantly less than $1200 without the "Smart" features (and, preferably, without built-in speakers as well).

Time for new textbooks that will be $250 each!

Yet only $195.27 on amazon ;^)

Of course the infamous Gray's Anatomy is published by the "respected" Elsevier company...

All editors quit top linguistics journal to protest Elsevier pricing
Elsevier going after authors sharing their own papers
More fake journals from Elsevier

You can buy a good quality 1TB SSD for $280 - much cheaper, faster, and incomparably better endurance than this thing. It'll be a little lighter and much more shock resistant and reliable than your hard drive for not a hell of a lot more $. You'll need an external USB-to-SATA enclosure, but you can get those cheap.

And, yeah, 2TB is also available for an even better $/GB.

Another good option is to re-use the existing wires in the wall to carry data. Ethernet-over-power-lines is cheap and works well (as long as your two endpoints are on the same circuit, and your appliances aren't too electrically noisy)...

I'm just afraid my appliances will know the network is talking about them...

For the very rare times when I've ever needed to make that much data portable, a basic external hard drive that cost a fraction of the price was more than sufficient (and probably faster).

When the day comes where we routinely need to carry around files that are 100s of GB in size then we can talk. And on that day this thing better be in the $30 range.

I can't think of a valid use case either. This shows 2TB with a 2.5" external for $78.50. Work would be lucky if they bought the cheaper one. No one is going to care about the very slight convenience factor. The only advantage I see to this is you might be able to develop directly on one, assuming you need something portable, but again there are 2.5" or smaller solutions that are far cheaper and for large file storage a spinning disk counterpart is far cheaper.

If you had to move a lot of data from point a to point b, well it is unlikely that space is at such a premium. Frankly the only valid use I can think of such a thing might be a narrow use case where space or weight is extremely expensive, or a cable plus external drive just doesn't work. I.E. it may be cheaper to transport 2TB up like that to the ISS than other solutions.