Yes, vote with their wallets by choosing properly priced Android phones.
Sure, a small number of idiots happily overpay, and a smaller number of bigger idiots happily make people overpaying into some sort of virtue, but that doesn't change the fact that apple is a bit player in the overall smart phone market.
I wouldn't call the second-largest Smartphone marketshare holder, having around 13% of the worldwide smartphone market (and nearly 40% of the U.S. Smartphone market) a "bit player".
I wonder how cannabis compares. There is no way smoking small particulate matter of any kind is healthy, and while it isn't as carcinogenic as tobacco, I would be extremely surprised to see if it didn't have long term health effects on the lungs. Only time will tell.
Curiously enough, the non-biased studies seem to show that cannabis does NOT seem to contribute significantly to COPD, and may even be ANTI-carcinogenic. I know it seems impossible, but them's the facts.
Even the Canadian Medial Association Journal stated in 2009, Article "Does smoking marijuana increase the risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease?" that "Given the consistently reported absence of an association between use of marijuana and abnormal diffusing capacity or signs of macroscopic emphysema, we can be close to concluding that smoking marijuana by itself does not lead to COPD."
And, as far as Marijuana smoking causing Cancer, even the most pedestrian of Medical Resources, WebMD, are saying publicly there is no causal link between Pot smoking and increased Cancer risk, even for the heaviest of smokers. "The heaviest marijuana users in the study had smoked more than 22,000 joints, while moderately heavy smokers had smoked between 11,000 and 22,000 joints.
While two-pack-a-day or more cigarette smokers were found to have a 20-fold increase in lung cancer risk, no elevation in risk was seen for even the very heaviest marijuana smokers."
And yet, Marijuana is STILL listed as a Schedule 1 NARCOTIC in the U.S....
I quit smoking by using a vape and gradually toning down the nicotine levels in the fluid from 18mg to 0mg. After that I found myself using the vape less and less until finally I quit that too.
For anyone who doesn't smoke, don't start smoking OR vaping. If you are already a smoker, I wholeheartedly recommend giving vaping a try.
What was your "ramp" like? IOW, how long did the entire process take from 18 mg to 0 mg? How long at 0 mg before you were able to set the vape down, too? How long had you been smoking, and how many cigs/packs a day before you started vaping? How long did you continue to smoke cigs while vaping?
Police already know how to prove these sort of thing haven't been tampered with: it's called "the chain of evidence". These techniques are simply going to have to be applied to recorded testimony, that's all.
First, it's called "Chain of Custody", and it already exists for recorded evidence.
Second, when the "Custody" continues to be in the LEA's hands, who's to say that someone at the LEA didn't replace the recording in the Evidence Bag with a SoundShopped one?
Don't worry, Apple sell a USB A to USB C adapter. You can buy one for $19.00, or get nine for just $170.00!
Or you can get them for $2 or so on Amazon by the bushel-basketfull. For example, here's a 3-pack for $6. Even the high-end ones are only around $7 or so.
I'm ticked not only about the lack of USB-A ports, but that they're moving away from MagSafe power supplies. I LOVE that feature, and it has saved many a laptop of ours from damage as we have a rampaging standard poodle who does not respect power cords when we're sitting on the couch. My current laptop is a MBP 2011, I can't see me moving past the '14, which I think is the last year for MagSafe and SD card reader. Maybe I'll just keep my '11 and we'll see how long an SSD will keep it alive, then we'll see if Apple comes back to their senses or the ghost of Jobs returns to take over the company.
I'm surprised that Belkin or someone else hasn't made a C-to-MagSafe adapter for MacBook owners.
No, you misunderstand me. I'll admit I wasn't entirely clear, but the power button is a software button in the sense that it's displayed by software and not a physical button in any fashion. Here, take a look at the developer page for the Touch Bar. See the power button there? No? Because there isn't one. It's entirely software driven.
The "power button" apparently would be displayed on the right end of the "touch bar" where the Touch ID sensor is. In fact, apparently you can't even use this to turn the new MacBook Pro on, Apple had to create a support article explaining how you turn the new MacBook Pro on: you either open the lid, or plug it into power. There is no "on" switch.
How do your force a reboot when macOS isn't responding? Who even knows. I haven't been able to find that on Apple's support site.
Where did you get the idea that the TouchBar MacBook Pros don't have a Power Button? It is simply integrated with the TouchID Sensor, much like the Home Button on an iPhone. And it is every bit as "real" a Power-Button as on previous models.
These days they are down to Final Cut Pro. As far as I can tell, that is literally the only software which is of any relevance which is mac-only.
You are conveniently forgetting:
1. Logic Pro. Well respected world-class multitrack audio recording and sequencing, used by many Pros and casual users alike.
2. Mainstage. Better not try to take it away from Pros like Trent Reznor!
3. GarageBand. Bringing easy-to-use Multitrack audio recording to everyone. There's nothing else even remotely close.
4. XCode, LLVM, LLDB, etc.
5. Major F/OSS Projects they have created and/or maintain, e.g., CUPS, WebKit, OpenCL, GCD, Bonjour, Swift, ResearchKit, Darwin, launchd, to name just a few...
So says Apple, yet they aren't giving us an actual number. Could they be lying? Nah! Apple would never lie to their customers. By the way, I'm pleased to see that all your posts are now defaulting to -1 moderation. You thought your lying, shilling, and trolling didn't have a price to pay. As usual, you were wrong.
Some people are irritated by the fucker trying to drive them forward into the market stall to buy all new shit every time they blink.
So you're actually going to argue that the new MBP would have been a better design to have four 5 Gb/s USB-A ports with a total I/O bandwidth of 20 Gbps instead of four 40 Gbps USB-C/TB 3 Ports with a total I/O bandwidth of 80 Gbps, and the ability to easily and cheaply be turned into not only FOUR USB 3.0 ports APIECE, but also 1g/10g Ethernet, VGA, DVI, HDMI, TB 1 - TB 3, FireWire, etc, and in many cases, into more than one of those simultaneously?
You sure have a funny definition of "better", and an even funnier version of "future-proof".
Not even that! My 2012 MBA has 2 USB 3 ports, a magsafe charger and a SD card slot. A lot more useful than the half-a$$ed macbook "pro" they came up with. What a sad piece of hardware.
Let's see:
Your MBA has 2 USB 3.0 ports with a combined total I/O Bandwidth of 10 Gbps. And those USB Ports can be adapted to be Ethernet ports, or, or...?
The 15" TouchBar MBP has 4 USB-C/TB 3 ports with a combined total I/O Bandwidth of 80 Gbps. And EACH one of those 4 identical ports can be easily and cheaply adapted to be up to FOUR USB 3.0 Ports, 1 or 10 Gb/s Ethernet, VGA/DVI/HDMI/DisplayPort video, TB 1 to TB 3, or many COMBINATIONS of the above.
Yeah, your 2012 MBA sure whips all over that... Even the 13" TouchBar MBP has about 3 times the I/O Bandwidth of your MBA.
Apple wants.you to buy the bigger ssd laptop as it has higher profits. Bastards. Consumers.buy the cheapest and add a 128gb SD card.
And you are still free to do that. But now, it will read and write at USB-C speeds (IOW, it will be bound by the R/W speed of the card itself).
Personally, I'd purchase one of these with one of these for 1 TB of "storage expansion", though, for about the same price as a good quality 128 GB SD Card.
It will be some time before you can beat the cost of spinning-rust...
Absolutely. At this point, we have CARS with USB-A plugs, and televisions. USB-C is just a mobile port, and will remain so for at least decades. What's the big deal? Just put a damned normal port on there.
All of the Laptops on This List have at least one USB-C/TB 3 Port. Think it's just a "Mobile Port" now?
And that doesn't even begin to count those that have a USB-C Port WITHOUT Thunderbolt 3 support.
DO try to keep up. USB-C is a "normal port" these days.
A simple google would show you there are plenty of them.
Possibly but the primary use of USB sticks is for sharing files between machines so until the vast majority of laptops in use have USB-C and the vast majority of memory stick use it too it is really important to have at least one USB-A port. A single USB-A port would have been vastly more useful than a fourth USB-C.
All but about ONE of the many USB-C Memory Sticks on Amazon ALSO sports a USB-A connector on the other end; so there you go.
Well if I have a bunch of files to work on and move today it could be yes. Not to mention those USB-C with USB-A port thumb drives are about 3x the price of normal drives. But I guess money's no object to those buying these things anyway. The people buying them probably use $20 bills to light their artisanal firewood as well.
Well, I don't know where you looked, but here's a nice set of Kingston USB-C/USB-A Memory Sticks on Amazon for pretty much exactly what the USB-A 3.0 ones normally go for. This one is available from 16 GB to 128 GB, with the 32 GB version going for the princely sum of $14.99, and the 64 GB version for $21.99. Doesn't sound anything remotely like the "3x" that you stated...
And this is just during the "changeover" period. In a couple of years, almost ALL the new USB sticks will be USB-C by default.
Ever noticed that these "creatives" mostly seem to be copying apple?
I think what we need is for these people to stop doing that and try to be innovative and think new forms, shapes and concepts. Then maybe they wouldn't call the 7'th generation of slight improvements of a product for a breakthrough and a revolutionary design.
So you think that a new (at least to the MacBook Pro, if not the world), multitouch, graphical interface device that doesn't require ANY onscreen real-estate to be actualized and Instantiated is a "slight improvement?"
This is not like the dumb Microsoft "Dial", where you have to stick a nasty chrome hockey-puck ONTO YOUR SCREEN, and then spin it around as a proportional controller of some sort. And what if you want TWO "Dials"? Or THREE...?
But instead, the Touch Bar on the MacBook Pro allows a nearly infinite and dynamic mix of OS and Application buttons/keys, sliders, scrubbers, custom interactive controls, pretty much you-name-it. And all without the visually-jarring annoyance of tool-pallettes, pop ups, sub-windows, drop downs, menus, etc vying for your precious screen space. in fact, when the Application Developer takes good advantage of the Touch Bar, that a wonderful thing happens: Fullscreen mode begins to make real sense! It's a boon for creative professsionals, developers and in fact, many users.
Also, you call a laptop with 80 Gbps of I/O bandwidth; I/O that can be adapted to almost any standard and protocol imaginable, a "slight improvement"? Well, whatever. You just keep on pining for the USB-A. But remember, o e USB-C/TB 3 port on the Touch Bar MacBook Pro has the equivalent of EIGHT 5 Gbps USB 3.0 ports, so I think that qualifies as more than a "slight improvement".
Oh, and even though you didn't mention it, you can go over to Amazon, and buy Griffin's nice Magnetic-coupling USB-C charging cable (which also doubles as a data cable); so there goes that objection, too. And while you're there, you can also pick up a nice SD reader writer if you need such things, for $7.
This is just PR, and a bad deal for someone looking to sell/trade an extra laptop they have sitting around. (I have 6.) You will get more cash money by selling your old laptop on ebay than by taking up Microsoft on this "deal" – and all the back-doors you'd expect from Lenovo and Microsoft.
In sum, the offer is insulting. If I trade in my fully-loaded Mac to get a Microsoft (Lenovo) clone of that Mac that has the same specs of what I am trading in (1 TB, 16 GB RAM, etc.), then the price is at least $3300! That is more than I paid for my Mac with similar specs. . . a couple of years ago! Why does this myth of Macs being expensive persist? Sure, you can buy a cheap computer, or a cheap car. Neither is the same as a well-designed and reliably manufactured laptop or car. You can buy a Camry or a BMW. You can buy a Dell or a Mac. I digress. . .
In any case, a Mac can dual-boot to run OS X, Windows, or Linux. Just partition your drive and go. I run Windows, when required, from a sleek Micro-SD card that does not stick out. I use Fusion, enabling use of Windows and OS X simultaneously, thanks to my two dual cores. And it's sand-boxed, so no Windows sploits can breach my main system (OS X).
It works seamlessly. I switch between Windows and OS X in a programming class that I teach: I use the environment that a given student is using on their laptop. The API is running on both OS's, as well as Firefox on both, and some others on the OS X side. It is so dead-easy to switch between them on the fly, during lab-sessions of a class.
No one will take this "offer" from Microsoft. You would get less than you gave away. And be stuck in Windows-only. Ick.
That is a wonderful post, and so elegantly shows the unsung, largely under-appreciated real-world advantages of using Macs.
Citation? and not some ridiculous skewed apple research, real research please.
That wasn't "ridiculously skewed Apple research". In fact, some very high-up on the original Mac team, most notably Jef Raskin, actually wanted a VERY multi-button mouse (I think 5 was what he wanted); so that pretty much negates any "corporate bias".
I don't have time to comb through a bunch of research; but the answer is in here. Search for "button" on that page.
>>> "the Watch List," the app will recommend shows based on the content viewers access through their Apple TV
> I seem to remember Netflix suggestions just showing up on my main content selection screen. Never having seen one, why does an Apple TV need a separate app to suggest TV shows to its viewers?
Tivo suggested things for you 17 years ago.
If iTunes was less lame, it would already be doing this (like Amazon).
It did for music; but people didn't like it and they took it back out.
The fact that it overheats and throttles all the time even though I've had it apart and nothing is obstructing the ventilation. The piss poor battery life. The OS is ok, but overrated. For the amount I paid for it I expected much better. I'll never go that road again. Apple laptops may be pretty but that's all they are.
Describe what you are doing (encoding video, playing games, etc) that is causing it to "overheat and throttle" all the time.
Can you quantify "piss-poor" a little better?
"Overrated" is a completely subjective statement. Can you be more specific?
Did you ever take it to Apple while under warranty to address the overheating/battery-life concerns?
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Yes, vote with their wallets by choosing properly priced Android phones.
Sure, a small number of idiots happily overpay, and a smaller number of bigger idiots happily make people overpaying into some sort of virtue, but that doesn't change the fact that apple is a bit player in the overall smart phone market.
I wouldn't call the second-largest Smartphone marketshare holder, having around 13% of the worldwide smartphone market (and nearly 40% of the U.S. Smartphone market) a "bit player".
Now if we're talking about Windows Phone...
I wonder how cannabis compares. There is no way smoking small particulate matter of any kind is healthy, and while it isn't as carcinogenic as tobacco, I would be extremely surprised to see if it didn't have long term health effects on the lungs. Only time will tell.
Curiously enough, the non-biased studies seem to show that cannabis does NOT seem to contribute significantly to COPD, and may even be ANTI-carcinogenic. I know it seems impossible, but them's the facts.
Even the Canadian Medial Association Journal stated in 2009, Article "Does smoking marijuana increase the risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease?" that "Given the consistently reported absence of an association between use of marijuana and abnormal diffusing capacity or signs of macroscopic emphysema, we can be close to concluding that smoking marijuana by itself does not lead to COPD."
And, as far as Marijuana smoking causing Cancer, even the most pedestrian of Medical Resources, WebMD, are saying publicly there is no causal link between Pot smoking and increased Cancer risk, even for the heaviest of smokers. "The heaviest marijuana users in the study had smoked more than 22,000 joints, while moderately heavy smokers had smoked between 11,000 and 22,000 joints.
While two-pack-a-day or more cigarette smokers were found to have a 20-fold increase in lung cancer risk, no elevation in risk was seen for even the very heaviest marijuana smokers."
And yet, Marijuana is STILL listed as a Schedule 1 NARCOTIC in the U.S....
I quit smoking by using a vape and gradually toning down the nicotine levels in the fluid from 18mg to 0mg. After that I found myself using the vape less and less until finally I quit that too.
For anyone who doesn't smoke, don't start smoking OR vaping. If you are already a smoker, I wholeheartedly recommend giving vaping a try.
What was your "ramp" like? IOW, how long did the entire process take from 18 mg to 0 mg? How long at 0 mg before you were able to set the vape down, too? How long had you been smoking, and how many cigs/packs a day before you started vaping? How long did you continue to smoke cigs while vaping?
Genuinely curious here.
Police already know how to prove these sort of thing haven't been tampered with: it's called "the chain of evidence". These techniques are simply going to have to be applied to recorded testimony, that's all.
First, it's called "Chain of Custody", and it already exists for recorded evidence.
Second, when the "Custody" continues to be in the LEA's hands, who's to say that someone at the LEA didn't replace the recording in the Evidence Bag with a SoundShopped one?
USB-C? If you want anything else, pay a dongle tax, because you live in the future now. If you don't like it, you can stay in the past.
Considering the length of time that users typically hang onto their Macs, going with all USB-C is a VERY logical and wise choice.
Don't worry, Apple sell a USB A to USB C adapter. You can buy one for $19.00, or get nine for just $170.00!
Or you can get them for $2 or so on Amazon by the bushel-basketfull. For example, here's a 3-pack for $6. Even the high-end ones are only around $7 or so.
I'm ticked not only about the lack of USB-A ports, but that they're moving away from MagSafe power supplies. I LOVE that feature, and it has saved many a laptop of ours from damage as we have a rampaging standard poodle who does not respect power cords when we're sitting on the couch. My current laptop is a MBP 2011, I can't see me moving past the '14, which I think is the last year for MagSafe and SD card reader. Maybe I'll just keep my '11 and we'll see how long an SSD will keep it alive, then we'll see if Apple comes back to their senses or the ghost of Jobs returns to take over the company.
I'm surprised that Belkin or someone else hasn't made a C-to-MagSafe adapter for MacBook owners.
You mean like this one?
No, you misunderstand me. I'll admit I wasn't entirely clear, but the power button is a software button in the sense that it's displayed by software and not a physical button in any fashion. Here, take a look at the developer page for the Touch Bar. See the power button there? No? Because there isn't one. It's entirely software driven.
The "power button" apparently would be displayed on the right end of the "touch bar" where the Touch ID sensor is. In fact, apparently you can't even use this to turn the new MacBook Pro on, Apple had to create a support article explaining how you turn the new MacBook Pro on: you either open the lid, or plug it into power. There is no "on" switch.
How do your force a reboot when macOS isn't responding? Who even knows. I haven't been able to find that on Apple's support site.
Where did you get the idea that the TouchBar MacBook Pros don't have a Power Button? It is simply integrated with the TouchID Sensor, much like the Home Button on an iPhone. And it is every bit as "real" a Power-Button as on previous models.
This Support Article might help.
These days they are down to Final Cut Pro. As far as I can tell, that is literally the only software which is of any relevance which is mac-only.
You are conveniently forgetting:
1. Logic Pro. Well respected world-class multitrack audio recording and sequencing, used by many Pros and casual users alike.
2. Mainstage. Better not try to take it away from Pros like Trent Reznor!
3. GarageBand. Bringing easy-to-use Multitrack audio recording to everyone. There's nothing else even remotely close.
4. XCode, LLVM, LLDB, etc.
5. Major F/OSS Projects they have created and/or maintain, e.g., CUPS, WebKit, OpenCL, GCD, Bonjour, Swift, ResearchKit, Darwin, launchd, to name just a few...
No, nothing of relevance. Nothing at all...
So says Apple, yet they aren't giving us an actual number. Could they be lying? Nah! Apple would never lie to their customers. By the way, I'm pleased to see that all your posts are now defaulting to -1 moderation. You thought your lying, shilling, and trolling didn't have a price to pay. As usual, you were wrong.
It will all come out in the SEC Filings.
Which specific ports are no longer an option for the recording industry?
The Analog Audio port of course.
But the TouchBar MBP RETAINS the analog Audio I/O on a 3.5 mm jack. So?
Some people are irritated by the fucker trying to drive them forward into the market stall to buy all new shit every time they blink.
So you're actually going to argue that the new MBP would have been a better design to have four 5 Gb/s USB-A ports with a total I/O bandwidth of 20 Gbps instead of four 40 Gbps USB-C/TB 3 Ports with a total I/O bandwidth of 80 Gbps, and the ability to easily and cheaply be turned into not only FOUR USB 3.0 ports APIECE, but also 1g/10g Ethernet, VGA, DVI, HDMI, TB 1 - TB 3, FireWire, etc, and in many cases, into more than one of those simultaneously?
You sure have a funny definition of "better", and an even funnier version of "future-proof".
Not even that! My 2012 MBA has 2 USB 3 ports, a magsafe charger and a SD card slot. A lot more useful than the half-a$$ed macbook "pro" they came up with. What a sad piece of hardware.
Let's see:
Your MBA has 2 USB 3.0 ports with a combined total I/O Bandwidth of 10 Gbps. And those USB Ports can be adapted to be Ethernet ports, or, or...?
The 15" TouchBar MBP has 4 USB-C/TB 3 ports with a combined total I/O Bandwidth of 80 Gbps. And EACH one of those 4 identical ports can be easily and cheaply adapted to be up to FOUR USB 3.0 Ports, 1 or 10 Gb/s Ethernet, VGA/DVI/HDMI/DisplayPort video, TB 1 to TB 3, or many COMBINATIONS of the above.
Yeah, your 2012 MBA sure whips all over that... Even the 13" TouchBar MBP has about 3 times the I/O Bandwidth of your MBA.
Apple wants.you to buy the bigger ssd laptop as it has higher profits. Bastards. Consumers.buy the cheapest and add a 128gb SD card.
And you are still free to do that. But now, it will read and write at USB-C speeds (IOW, it will be bound by the R/W speed of the card itself).
Personally, I'd purchase one of these with one of these for 1 TB of "storage expansion", though, for about the same price as a good quality 128 GB SD Card.
It will be some time before you can beat the cost of spinning-rust...
USB-C is just a mobile port, and will remain so for at least decades.
No it won't. Now Apple have dumped USB-A, everybody else will do the same. In five years, USB-C will be ubiquitous.
Five?
More like one to two years. You heard it here first.
Absolutely. At this point, we have CARS with USB-A plugs, and televisions. USB-C is just a mobile port, and will remain so for at least decades. What's the big deal? Just put a damned normal port on there.
All of the Laptops on This List have at least one USB-C/TB 3 Port. Think it's just a "Mobile Port" now?
And that doesn't even begin to count those that have a USB-C Port WITHOUT Thunderbolt 3 support.
DO try to keep up. USB-C is a "normal port" these days.
A simple google would show you there are plenty of them.
Possibly but the primary use of USB sticks is for sharing files between machines so until the vast majority of laptops in use have USB-C and the vast majority of memory stick use it too it is really important to have at least one USB-A port. A single USB-A port would have been vastly more useful than a fourth USB-C.
All but about ONE of the many USB-C Memory Sticks on Amazon ALSO sports a USB-A connector on the other end; so there you go.
Next fake objection?
Well if I have a bunch of files to work on and move today it could be yes. Not to mention those USB-C with USB-A port thumb drives are about 3x the price of normal drives. But I guess money's no object to those buying these things anyway. The people buying them probably use $20 bills to light their artisanal firewood as well.
Well, I don't know where you looked, but here's a nice set of Kingston USB-C/USB-A Memory Sticks on Amazon for pretty much exactly what the USB-A 3.0 ones normally go for. This one is available from 16 GB to 128 GB, with the 32 GB version going for the princely sum of $14.99, and the 64 GB version for $21.99. Doesn't sound anything remotely like the "3x" that you stated...
And this is just during the "changeover" period. In a couple of years, almost ALL the new USB sticks will be USB-C by default.
Everyone wants change without change.
Because its not based on fact?
Prove it.
Note that every other Quad-Core lappy released in the past few months is also Skylake (or rarely, Xeon).
Ever wonder why?
Why do people always assume their time is free?
Because that's the Linux mindset. And for most Linux users, it's probably true. Afterall, it doesn't usually cost anything to live in Mom's basement!
Ever noticed that these "creatives" mostly seem to be copying apple? I think what we need is for these people to stop doing that and try to be innovative and think new forms, shapes and concepts. Then maybe they wouldn't call the 7'th generation of slight improvements of a product for a breakthrough and a revolutionary design.
So you think that a new (at least to the MacBook Pro, if not the world), multitouch, graphical interface device that doesn't require ANY onscreen real-estate to be actualized and Instantiated is a "slight improvement?"
This is not like the dumb Microsoft "Dial", where you have to stick a nasty chrome hockey-puck ONTO YOUR SCREEN, and then spin it around as a proportional controller of some sort. And what if you want TWO "Dials"? Or THREE...?
But instead, the Touch Bar on the MacBook Pro allows a nearly infinite and dynamic mix of OS and Application buttons/keys, sliders, scrubbers, custom interactive controls, pretty much you-name-it. And all without the visually-jarring annoyance of tool-pallettes, pop ups, sub-windows, drop downs, menus, etc vying for your precious screen space. in fact, when the Application Developer takes good advantage of the Touch Bar, that a wonderful thing happens: Fullscreen mode begins to make real sense! It's a boon for creative professsionals, developers and in fact, many users.
Also, you call a laptop with 80 Gbps of I/O bandwidth; I/O that can be adapted to almost any standard and protocol imaginable, a "slight improvement"? Well, whatever. You just keep on pining for the USB-A. But remember, o e USB-C/TB 3 port on the Touch Bar MacBook Pro has the equivalent of EIGHT 5 Gbps USB 3.0 ports, so I think that qualifies as more than a "slight improvement".
Oh, and even though you didn't mention it, you can go over to Amazon, and buy Griffin's nice Magnetic-coupling USB-C charging cable (which also doubles as a data cable); so there goes that objection, too. And while you're there, you can also pick up a nice SD reader writer if you need such things, for $7.
This is just PR, and a bad deal for someone looking to sell/trade an extra laptop they have sitting around. (I have 6.) You will get more cash money by selling your old laptop on ebay than by taking up Microsoft on this "deal" – and all the back-doors you'd expect from Lenovo and Microsoft.
In sum, the offer is insulting. If I trade in my fully-loaded Mac to get a Microsoft (Lenovo) clone of that Mac that has the same specs of what I am trading in (1 TB, 16 GB RAM, etc.), then the price is at least $3300! That is more than I paid for my Mac with similar specs. . . a couple of years ago! Why does this myth of Macs being expensive persist? Sure, you can buy a cheap computer, or a cheap car. Neither is the same as a well-designed and reliably manufactured laptop or car. You can buy a Camry or a BMW. You can buy a Dell or a Mac. I digress. . .
In any case, a Mac can dual-boot to run OS X, Windows, or Linux. Just partition your drive and go. I run Windows, when required, from a sleek Micro-SD card that does not stick out. I use Fusion, enabling use of Windows and OS X simultaneously, thanks to my two dual cores. And it's sand-boxed, so no Windows sploits can breach my main system (OS X).
It works seamlessly. I switch between Windows and OS X in a programming class that I teach: I use the environment that a given student is using on their laptop. The API is running on both OS's, as well as Firefox on both, and some others on the OS X side. It is so dead-easy to switch between them on the fly, during lab-sessions of a class.
No one will take this "offer" from Microsoft. You would get less than you gave away. And be stuck in Windows-only. Ick.
That is a wonderful post, and so elegantly shows the unsung, largely under-appreciated real-world advantages of using Macs.
Citation? and not some ridiculous skewed apple research, real research please.
That wasn't "ridiculously skewed Apple research". In fact, some very high-up on the original Mac team, most notably Jef Raskin, actually wanted a VERY multi-button mouse (I think 5 was what he wanted); so that pretty much negates any "corporate bias".
I don't have time to comb through a bunch of research; but the answer is in here. Search for "button" on that page.
>>> "the Watch List," the app will recommend shows based on the content viewers access through their Apple TV
> I seem to remember Netflix suggestions just showing up on my main content selection screen. Never having seen one, why does an Apple TV need a separate app to suggest TV shows to its viewers?
Tivo suggested things for you 17 years ago.
If iTunes was less lame, it would already be doing this (like Amazon).
It did for music; but people didn't like it and they took it back out.
The fact that it overheats and throttles all the time even though I've had it apart and nothing is obstructing the ventilation. The piss poor battery life. The OS is ok, but overrated. For the amount I paid for it I expected much better. I'll never go that road again. Apple laptops may be pretty but that's all they are.
Describe what you are doing (encoding video, playing games, etc) that is causing it to "overheat and throttle" all the time.
Can you quantify "piss-poor" a little better?
"Overrated" is a completely subjective statement. Can you be more specific?
Did you ever take it to Apple while under warranty to address the overheating/battery-life concerns?