John
John
Jul 30, 2017 · 2 min read

This is what infuriates me about the abomination of a “Pro” level laptop the Macbook Pro Retina has become. I switched to using Mac Pros about 10 years ago and absolutely love the operating system which gets out of my way and the level of quality of the hardware. I cant believe in 10 years there is still almost no competition.

[Dell XPS 13 Developers Edition fairs no better btw, 3 iteration models and it is STILL plagued with coil whine issues all through its online forums. I’ve gone through 2 replacements including a motherboard revision and its still there; Dell says thats normal. Yes normal to litterally have the sound of nails on a chalk board all day. Dell’s build quality is horrendous.]

I’ve now come to a point I cant wait for Apple to figure out what it wants to do and wait for some magical fix to their problems with their Pro market and tools. I have to move on and it looks like the next laptop I get will not be a Macbook Pro or any Apple product.

The touchbar and butterfly switch activated keyboard are both show stoppers for me as DevOps. I press ESC near 200+ times a day. I cant remap my vim profile and push it onto the 3500 servers I manage every day just for myself. Some would even argue sure you could remap it to Caps or the FN key or some nonsense, but why should I have to do this? This is insane. Why should I pay the $300 tax to get a keybar I dont want just to get the higher Intel Core i7 processor upgrade option (limited to 2.5 GHz vs 3.5 GHz of touchbar equiped model), 16 GB of RAM, and 2 more ports (limited to only 2 thunderbolt ports)? They intentionally handicapped the model without it and you cant upgrade to the same specs as the one with the key bar. If its courage, have the touchbar optional on all models and if the feature is a must have, people will add it for the $300. THAT takes courage.

When a product destroy’s my workflow, I get rid of that product. A product is supposed to work for me, not the otherway around.

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