Apple announced the new 16-inch Macbook Pro.
Per usual, their main landing page goes over the key features. The major highlights:
- 16-inch Retina display
- Up to 8-core processor
- Up to 8TB SSD storage
- Up to 64GB of memory
- AMD Radeon Pro 5000M series graphics
- Six-speaker sound system and studio-quality mics
- Up to 11 hours of battery life
- Dedicated escape key
- Dedicated arrow buttons
What does everyone think?
Latest comments (106)
I picked one up and after a little hiccup
the machine is pretty awesome
My own personal experience is that if I get a laptop this big, it will never leave its spot on my desk. I might as well get an iMac Pro instead.
If I have the lightest Mac laptop I can get, it has a very good chance of being carried around, or taken with me on business trips. Even though such a light laptop does not have the "big hitter" CPU for compiling code.
"Having it with me" > "powerhouse"
I'm going to be purchasing one of these in the new year, and I'm still flip flopping on specs.
I'm sure 32GB RAM and 1TB SDD are adequate, but my inner monologue is like "well if you're already paying thousands of dollars for this machine, max it out a bit more"
64GB sounds insane, but I plan on having this machine 4 years from now, so is it really that insane? Please help my inner monologue. ๐
Hope Linux will run on it without too much trouble.
I'll install Manjaro i3 as soon as I get my hands on one of these. And update my old tutorial :)
lobotuerto.com/blog/how-to-setup-m...
And still that ugly touch bar instead of regular function keys... It's so "fun" debugging with this
Good, work is getting me a new machine in the new few months :)
One of the advantages is they switched keyboard from Butterfly(new design with issues) design to scissor based design.
8TB SSD, 64GB RAM and 8GB VRAM for graphics. Best one available yet
But The max price is $6000. Anybody going to buy ??
I'm not seeing a "sponsored by Apple inc." disclaimer anywhere, but has dev.to started doing paid ads? ๐คช
How is that an ad?
Well, it's a post about product X from company Y. I don't see how it is related to coding or development by the dev.to standards (judging by the rest of the conent).
Feels misplaced, it's something fit for the likes of pcmag, gizmodo, wired...
But maybe I'm wrong, just my thoughts.
A lot of devs use MacBooks, so I don't see anything strange about that post. There are always discussions about hardware, so seeing one about MacBook is not something that feels misplaced (at least for me).
It does for me. It's just a certain machine from a certain company, like many others, nothing special or praise worthy, perhaps the opposite tbh; brand new game changing esc key charade, the kb fiasco, thermal throttling, at that price range? All that aside, it's just a box where you run the tools to get work done, and dev.to, for me, is about that work.
My thoughts :)
$6099 before tax and Apple care with the hardware maxed out.
For real though. I have a 2012 MacBook Pro and the only reason I have it in the first place was because my Dad gave it to me. It's not going to last forever...the battery is pretty much gone, 8 GB of RAM is a joke (almost as funny as being soldered to the motherboard so I can't upgrade it), and every "update" to MacOS breaks something new.
I really enjoy the operating system and they are cool computers. But the hardware markup is nuts. I can't justify that right now, or probably ever. Unless a company is buying this for me, this thing isn't in my future anytime soon. Definitely a little jealous of the people who can just throw down for one of these.
What USB ports does it have?
Does it have a headphone jack?