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Update Macbook Pro offering in hardware list #310
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#309 is also related. This makes sense to me. |
I wrote the specs for the 15" model by finding a comparable relative spec to the 13" model. If we are going to bump up the specs for the latter, we should probably also do the former. Would you like me to prep a PR with those changes for your consideration? |
Just a note regarding the layouts: I type in azerty and on the laptop I got (which is not this model), there is no way for me to type I do believe that whenever the differences are small it's fine to opt for the most general layout, but still in some cases it hinders productivity for an unclear future benefit. |
Whoa, how do you do? But how is this (im)possible with a US keyboard? This proposal came from a general view a while ago, when a lot of the company had to either relearn how to type with the super quirky/inefficient Spanish layout or just literally ignore the key labels and map to a regular QWERTY layout (my case). So it's about choosing the "least" overall inefficiency/loss in resale value in the long run. |
US keyboard just doesn't have that button: |
I use X11 unicode input which means I type
I completely agree that we should aim for the best tradeoff between comfort and resale/reuse value. It's just that we have to take care to correctly weight the comfort depending on the specific layouts involved. |
I also wonder if inheriting laptops would be a priority for a company that is growing and is mostly remote, and there is no that much rotation, and the expected life of a laptop should be less than the expected for a developer in the company. |
I think we can move on with the Macbook Pro offering update and move the keyboard layout discussion to a different issue? The layout issue affects all laptops as well as external keyboards. |
The current Mac notebook model we offer in the hardware list, the 13-in non-touchbar MBP is by now already 1.5 years old (!).
Apple updated their MBP line a few months ago, but just the touchbar versions. With the recent launch of the new MB Air, it's becoming clear for months they're leaving the non-touchbar version to rot & discontinue. In the end, Apple is basically making this model a bad deal so that people move up or down the tiers.
The now updated touchbar version (w/the same 16GB RAM and 256GB SSD) is just ~10% more expensive than the non-touchbar yet vastly superior:
Generic model comparison article here.
Keeping the pretty inferior, objectively less reliable and likely to be discontinued non-touchbar version for a small price difference looks like a quite bad deal… even more so when considering the resale value in the future.
TL;DR: replace the current Mac offering, the MBP 13" 16GB / 256GB non-touchbar, with the newer & better MBP 13" 16GB / 256GB touchbar.
P.s.:
Also, I'd strongly encourage to set all the keyboard layouts in laptops to US. We're a fully international company for a while already, US English is our working language, so it becomes a mess when people inherit computers and have to adapt to languages with bizarre layouts.
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