I was a late adopter on the Apple bandwagon, holding out all through my first career as a computer engineer. I knew that Apple was cooler, but I was a nerd and didn’t want to pay the price of taking the plunge. Plus, I was into esoteric things like Linux and it ran best on an Intel platform, while Macs ran Motorola.
Much has changed since those days. Nowadays as a budding musician, I decided to get a bright shiny new MacBook Pro so that I could run Logic Pro like they do at college, and it isn’t available on Windows.
I paid top dollar and got the fastest model available with the fancy new Touch Bar, since I also want to do video editing in Final Cut Pro and don’t want to have to wait around. I compromised on the screen size because I want it to be easy to take to university with me next year, and to compensate for that I got a massive 32” 4K external screen which is great for working on complex songs with a zillion channels in Logic.
The lack of basic ethernet interface and video connecters is slightly inconvenient, obvious from the product description and relatively easily solved with an external multi-port adapter; so I’m only going to briefly complain about that here. I am going to complain at length about the following things I didn’t know about though: (more…)
