- Keyboard cover for macbook pro with touch bar 13 inch review premium mac os x shortcut hot keys upgrade#
- Keyboard cover for macbook pro with touch bar 13 inch review premium mac os x shortcut hot keys software#
A $600 price difference for this machine is probably worth it in my mind, just given my experience with resale value, longevity and lack of competitors, but there's a lot of room improvement. I'm hoping given how they've walked the keyboard back, and how the new Mac Pro is actually a Pro machine that they're headed back in the right direction (post Jony Ive). I have the 16 inch MBP right now, and I will say that even though I prefer the travel of the '12-'15 era keyboards, this typing experience is far superior than the faulty butterfly keys. I still don't understand that decision.Īlso, I'm happy with the new Magic Keyboard. IMHO I think the Touch Bar disappointment is probably over dramatized by developers, it's not too bad a couple years in and BTT has made it so I can run whatever macros I want in any application, so overall tossup in my mind. Objectively, seems to me that list used to be a lot longer on the Apple side. * More Ports (Upgraded Dell only has 2 USB-C, while Upgraded MBP has 4) * Row of function buttons (I've used BTT to customize my touch-bar to the point where it's a little bit of a tossup, but years of muscle memory still haunt me) Ram is the same at 32GB.ĭell came out to $2399 USD and Apple came out to $2999 USD.
Keyboard cover for macbook pro with touch bar 13 inch review premium mac os x shortcut hot keys upgrade#
Dell has a better processor (maybe, ), but I couldn't find the option to upgrade the Dell to 4TB internal SSD, so I compared both with the 2 TB option.
I was curious how the 13 inch was priced so I compared it to a new Dell XPS 13.
Keyboard cover for macbook pro with touch bar 13 inch review premium mac os x shortcut hot keys software#
) But not having F-keys is so disruptive to a lot of deeply-ingrained software development muscle memory and UI conventions transplanted from other OSes and other decades that I guess it just wouldn't fly with this crowd in pretty much any shape and form factor. Those are things that make the Touchbar a pretty neat feature for lots and lots of people, even given its many "legitimate" issues (it tends to micro-freeze for some people, it isn't as precise as it could be, lots of apps use it in not-well-thought-out ways, it's very hard to use blindly.
Text-based communication loses a lot of emotional cues, that's really hard to get used to if you're used to mostly in-person communication or at least voice, and in my experience keeps causing small (or not-so-small) misunderstandings and microdose vitriol even among people who have been doing this for ages and ages, been socialized in it, aren't too keen on lots of face-to-face, and detest emoji with a passion. Plus, and most importantly by a long way, it makes emoji really usable on MacOS, and emoji are super, super important stuff, it's hard to overstate their value. As a photographer, you get a multi-function slider in post that feels (to me) a lot more precise than any touchpad acrobatics I'm capable of. As a musician, you get a neat little slider – no replacement for a proper external controller, but it's always there when needed, and it can change its behavior dependent on the context. Think about it – you lose some keys you never really had a use for anyway except as media keys, and you get almost analogue-ish volume and brightness controls, apps can give you context-dependent options that are really discoverable (which F-keys totally aren't) and can adapt to your feature use patterns and be a lot richer than static bindings on 12 keys. I guess the actual, underlying problem is, the Touchbar is bad UX for a bunch of software engineers, but pretty great for most everyone else.
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