Re: Macbook Advice...
Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2017 8:24 pm
what's even with that touchbar ?? (no offense winston)winston wrote:he got a new 15inch touchbar one,
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I mean, seriously, why would you even need that shit ?
I already have a ribbon controller on my Andy, thank you very much, and I wouldn't have paid extra for my Andy just to get that thing.
As far as I can tell from where I'm sitting, that touchbar is just the "next-hot-sell-item".
It's the next gizmo, and nothing else.
I totally agree regarding the HD space !!winston wrote:but upgraded the hdd to 500gb ssd. it turned out quite pricey as OP says these apple upgrades do, but 128gb is just way too small IMO. isn't the full ableton suite pack around 40-50gb? with background updates and other bs you have no control over, 128gb will be gone in no time. i get you can have external hdd etc, but i'd rather have the convenience of all things on the laptop and ext hdd for backup.
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Here's what I want from an MBP when I buy one : obviously, the fastest processor possible, the biggest amount of RAM, and the biggest SSD.
I pay serious money to get that stuff,
but it means I can install everything I want onto my main SSD, and I don't need to drag around external HD's with sample libraries and blablabla.
So yeah, first MBP I bought (now about 9 years ago), had a 256Gb drive, and I replaced it with a 512Gb drive later on.
I remember the last year or so that I was using it, I was in constant search for free HD space.
But in all fairness, it did get abused pretty much non-stop for 6 years, and even at the time I bought my next MBP,
the computer was still working, but the screen had died on me
So eventually I bought another MBP (now 3 years ago), and I had to pay an extra 400€ just to get a 1TB SSD,
(knowing very well 512Gb just wouldn't cut it any more)
and because Apple was smart enough to have that SSD memory soldered to the mainboard, it meant that if you didn't take the extra memory from the start,
you were not able to upgrade later on unless you replaced the whole motherboard as well.
But yeah, 16GB RAM and 1TB SSD, it's been working fine for 98% of the time.
Of course, I also had to buy like 3 or 4 convertor pieces just to be able to connect all the shit I had been using for years,
and that stuff probably costed me another 150 to 200€ in total, but hey...
I fucking despise them for putting on less and less ports on their MBP's. It's just plain stupid and a safe and easy way for them to make extra money.
People have more and more external shit they need to connect through their USB ports,
so why would you put less ports on your MBP ?
Yeah, most of us are using USB hubs (I've been using one for years), but I don't doubt we are the more demanding customers,
so I'm pretty sure this frustration must exist just as well with the more regular customers.
Anyway, last time I checked the latest MBP models, I could only find 512Gb SSD as the biggest HD option.
Which finally makes me reach the end of my patience with Apple !
I don't honestly need a laptop (at the time an MBP was just always cheaper than a Mac Pro),
and next time, I'm going to build my own desktop and install OSX on it (windows as well, but only for practical reasons)
Because the ONLY thing I can honestly say that I still love on a mac after al these years, is the OS.
Sure the HW is more reliable, but they make you fucking pay for it 3x the price it would actually cost you.
Fuck you Apple, go serve the hipster crowd, I'm done wih you.