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by brentis 3412 days ago
I saw the new MacBooks in person 2 days ago and kept asking, "why would I buy one of these?" Cheap feeling keyboard, useless difference in thickness, and only 16gb. Not going back under 32 with Photoshop ever.

I'll stick with my 2013 and look at a Lenovo 2-1 next. Pretty tired of OS X too.
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jonaswi 3412 days ago
I was in the exact same situation. I was so tired of being forced to buy overpriced hardware from apple that I'm not even happy with just because I work with OS X.

I then bought a new Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition and was really surprised that a) the scaling doe snot even work with dells own "tweaked" Ubuntu (even the installer looked horrible) and b) "coil whine" is a thing at this price point. I was so unhappy with it that I sold it weeks later. To replace the Dell I bought an HP spectre x360 and was really happy with the hardware but could not get the thunderbolt ports to work with ubuntu. Eventually I also returned it. I "surrendered" and bought the new MBP and so far I'm quite happy with it. But it still feels very uncomfortable to be so "dependant" on one manufacturer.

Other than the thunderbolt problem (which I'm sure will be fixed soon) I was really happy with Ubuntu as my main OS. I really do hope that other manufactures step up their game so I can finally switch without too much compromises.

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Buetol 3412 days ago
I did the same, bought an XPS 13 become it seemed everybody would recommend it but got many problems (battery died, wifi range is very low, suspend on disk not working, no hdmi, ...)

I then discovered Clevo, they sell very customizable laptop where you can have crazy specs (two HDD, 64gb ram, latest i7) for very reasonable prices (compared to apple). I'm waiting for mine but it seems like the perfect solution.

Also, that's what System76 and many "custom linux laptops" shops sells but under other names.

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AsyncAwait 3412 days ago
Have a Clevo, it can feel a bit plasticky at times, but the performance is great and Linux runs well, so overall am very happy with it.
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rimantas 3412 days ago
Your 2013 came with 32GB RAM?
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phaed 3412 days ago
They are upgradable.
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mciancia 3412 days ago
They are not.
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brentis 3412 days ago
I should clarify.. I have 32 on my iMac and use my mbp for remote Photoshop. It has 16Gb I believe. I want to move to just one device vs. two with desktop monitor for home - not going to do it with current 2016 MBPs as my primary.

Fwiw I don't like the fake click on the trackpads or iPhone 7's either. Already started moving away when pine 7 came out - went with Pixel xl and couldn't be happier.

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