<story><title>Surviving the New MacBook Pro</title><url>http://bradfrost.com/blog/post/surviving-the-new-macbook-pro/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nrjames</author><text>I have a mostly maxed-out 15&amp;quot; new MBP. I love it. Now that I&amp;#x27;m used to the new keyboard, I can type much faster than with the older ones and it feels far less mushy. I never have problems with stuck keys, audio, etc. From time to time, I see some graphical artifacts around in the window shadows when I first open it up after sleeping, but they go away after a moment.&lt;p&gt;The biggest annoyance, to me, is the placement of a touch bar hotspot above the delete key. I hit it all the time. At first, by default, Siri was there. I switched it to be the &amp;quot;show desktop&amp;quot; button, but what I really want to do is to shift everything to the left so that nothing is above the delete key.&lt;p&gt;Even with that, however, I&amp;#x27;ve adjusted my typing so that I rarely hit the touch bar above the delete key.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve never had battery problems, the USB-C ports don&amp;#x27;t bother me because I rarely have anything plugged into the laptop other than the power cable, and in my work environments, we use Apple TVs for conference room televisions, so I can just connect wirelessly to show presentations.&lt;p&gt;I was skeptical when I bought it, due to all of the moaning that shows up here on HN, but all in all, I&amp;#x27;m really enjoying this computer and I&amp;#x27;m glad that I replaced my old MBP with it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>6t6t6t6</author><text>Same here. MBP 13&amp;quot; with 16GB of RAM. Fast enough to develop web apps with Rails and JS. It&amp;#x27;s light and the battery life allows me to go to any meeting without having to bring the charger.&lt;p&gt;USB-C doesn&amp;#x27;t bother me, and I guess that in the near future it will be the standard. I just had to buy a new Ethernet adaptor.&lt;p&gt;I agree that the touchbar is annoying. I summon Siri way too often, but it&amp;#x27;s not the end of the world. The keyboard is good.&lt;p&gt;I just think that it is a bit too expensive for what it is, but I didn&amp;#x27;t pay for it.</text></comment>
<story><title>Surviving the New MacBook Pro</title><url>http://bradfrost.com/blog/post/surviving-the-new-macbook-pro/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nrjames</author><text>I have a mostly maxed-out 15&amp;quot; new MBP. I love it. Now that I&amp;#x27;m used to the new keyboard, I can type much faster than with the older ones and it feels far less mushy. I never have problems with stuck keys, audio, etc. From time to time, I see some graphical artifacts around in the window shadows when I first open it up after sleeping, but they go away after a moment.&lt;p&gt;The biggest annoyance, to me, is the placement of a touch bar hotspot above the delete key. I hit it all the time. At first, by default, Siri was there. I switched it to be the &amp;quot;show desktop&amp;quot; button, but what I really want to do is to shift everything to the left so that nothing is above the delete key.&lt;p&gt;Even with that, however, I&amp;#x27;ve adjusted my typing so that I rarely hit the touch bar above the delete key.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve never had battery problems, the USB-C ports don&amp;#x27;t bother me because I rarely have anything plugged into the laptop other than the power cable, and in my work environments, we use Apple TVs for conference room televisions, so I can just connect wirelessly to show presentations.&lt;p&gt;I was skeptical when I bought it, due to all of the moaning that shows up here on HN, but all in all, I&amp;#x27;m really enjoying this computer and I&amp;#x27;m glad that I replaced my old MBP with it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jghn</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m curious to see how the keyboards hold up. I have a 2016 12&amp;quot; rMB. I believe that&amp;#x27;s the same keyboard as the new MBP. It&amp;#x27;s less than a year old and some of the keys are starting to become unresponsive. Admittedly I&amp;#x27;m a very &amp;quot;hard&amp;quot; typist, but still.&lt;p&gt;I actually quite like typing on this keyboard, although it was weird at first, but I wonder how these things are going to hold up.</text></comment>