Poll: *** The official 2021 14" and 16" Macbook Pro thread (it has an SD slot and everything!) ***

Will you be buying a new MacBook Pro

  • Yes, 14"

    Votes: 43 31.9%

  • Yes, 16"

    Votes: 28 20.7%

  • No

    Votes: 64 47.4%
  • Total voters
    135
Very annoying but can only assume that they will come back when they do the new iMac Pro / 32/27 inch version.... might need to find one second hand then as I don't want white!
 
Are the delivery estimates on Apple’s website generally quite accurate? There’s a minimum 11 day wait for a base 14” Pro but it’s in stock in a lot of stores.
 
Slightly off-topic, but what External HDDs are people using these days? I've got a WD Elements from a very long time ago which is 2TB, Powered and noisy. I've eventually filled it up, looking to make the move to something USB-C nowadays. Probably looking around 4TB as it's taken me 8+ years to fill up 2TB. Looking for something fairly reliable, but none of the data is life-altering if it's lost, anything critical is 3:2:1. Speed doesn't matter hugely, and something quiet and unpowered would be amazing.
 
I doubt many people are still using spinning disks, its all about solid state these days. Samsung T5 seems to be the regular do to but there are many others on the market from all the big players.
 
I just last week picked up an Elements 5tb for £59.99 from the WD store, have no complaints about that so far. I have a 500gb SanDisk Extreme Portable that I use for speed but for storage you still can't beat the value per TB of the 2.5 HDD's. I have three on the go now although admittedly two are redundant backups.
 
My WD Passport SSD recently died completely, whereas both of my older spinning 2.5's are still running fine. All of which have similar infrequent usage. The sort of data that I now handle doesn't really benefit from the added speed, so I won't be replacing it.
 
b0rn2sk8 said:
I doubt many people are still using spinning disks, its all about solid state these days. Samsung T5 seems to be the regular do to but there are many others on the market from all the big players.
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There's no point in using SSD for cold storage though. I see a lot of people still using HDD in their NAS, I don't need a full-on NAS, just something to chuck archive storage / time machine backups etc on to.

GMac11 said:
I just last week picked up an Elements 5tb for £59.99 from the WD store, have no complaints about that so far. I have a 500gb SanDisk Extreme Portable that I use for speed but for storage you still can't beat the value per TB of the 2.5 HDD's. I have three on the go now although admittedly two are redundant backups.
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Yeah, considering just sticking with Elements, they've done me well so far - unfortunately looks like they're back up to >£100 so might see what the average price is over the next few weeks. Just wanted to see if there was anything people were using that I might have missed out on, as I haven't looked at non-Enterprise storage in a long, long time.
 
Had the Pro 14 for a couple of weeks now and using it as my main machine for work and personal - it's an an absolute rocket, never breaks a sweat, haven't heard the fans at all yet and the battery life is remarkable compared to the surface device I was using before.
 
blairw said:
Had the Pro 14 for a couple of weeks now and using it as my main machine for work and personal - it's an an absolute rocket, never breaks a sweat, haven't heard the fans at all yet and the battery life is remarkable compared to the surface device I was using before.
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Have you used macOS before or are you trying it for the first time?

I get the impression that you work for Microsoft so isn't it difficult to move away from Windows?
 
I've used Mac OS on and off for a few years but it wasn't really practical as a primary work device in my previous role (I held quota for surface) but now I am in a completely different part of the org and work very closely with development partners so Mac's are fairly common.

We actually have a really good approach to using other technology in the workplace, it's enrolled as a personal device which allows MSFT to control some aspects of the device. I like a lot of things MacOS does, but I still do miss aspects of Windows. For me, the Multi Touch Pad and Full Screen App mode is the biggest upgrade on productivity when working exclusively from the MacBook on the road, swiping back and worth between apps super quick to reference data etc is so much faster than my old way of working.
 
blairw said:
I've used Mac OS on and off for a few years but it wasn't really practical as a primary work device in my previous role (I held quota for surface) but now I am in a completely different part of the org and work very closely with development partners so Mac's are fairly common.

We actually have a really good approach to using other technology in the workplace, it's enrolled as a personal device which allows MSFT to control some aspects of the device. I like a lot of things MacOS does, but I still do miss aspects of Windows. For me, the Multi Touch Pad and Full Screen App mode is the biggest upgrade on productivity when working exclusively from the MacBook on the road, swiping back and worth between apps super quick to reference data etc is so much faster than my old way of working.
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Thanks for the insight :) I've tried an M1 MacBook air before and really battled to get along with macOS after using Windows for over 30 years. A lot of what the guy in the videos below resonates with me.

However, buying a Windows laptop is a minefield and all of them seems to have a flaw when it comes to the hardware. I also really, really dislike fan noise. There are no apps I use on Windows that can't be found for macOS so switching over from that perspective will be easy.

I think I might order a MacBook Pro 14" and give it another solid try since I found out after selling my Air that there were apps that would help to manage the windows (not Windows) in macOS a bit easier.

 
If you're coming from Windows then Magnet or Better Snap Tool are pretty much essential. Windows management out of the box in macOS is lacking.
 
ChrisD. said:
If you're coming from Windows then Magnet or Better Snap Tool are pretty much essential. Windows management out of the box in macOS is lacking.
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I was trying to remember the name, and Magnet was the one. Thanks :)

I found the window management super frustrating the last time I tried macOS.
 
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