Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Thursday, July 12th, 2018. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, a surprise Macbook Pro update.

Broadcom goes for Plan B.

The fate of Gocker and the onion.

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in the world of tech.

This morning Apple announced a surprise upgrade to its Macbook Pro line

giving those computers the latest Intel CPUs, the eighth generation I7 or I I 9 chips as well as the ability to have

DDR for RAM for the first time and a storage bump that now maxes out at

4 terabytes but these updates are only available on the higher end models, the

13 inch and 15 inch MacBook Pros with the touch bar. As Dieterbone pointed out at the

Virge, at least one complaint about the MacBook Prose has been laid to rest.

The processor options are no longer woefully out of date.

But what about the louder, more persistent complaint, the one about the keyboards basically sucking?

Well, Apple says that these updated machines also got a new third generation of keyboard, as they have all been tweaked to be quieter

and not so clicky to type on. But the sound they make is the only thing that has changed.

Travel remains exactly the same and the butterfly

design of the keyboard remains the same as well so that presumably means that

their propensity to malfunction remains the same. Indeed as Dieterbone notes quote we

got only minutes and no more to interact with the new hardware so at best I can tell

you that the keyboard does seem a bit less clacky than current Macbooks,

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