That guy is absolutely disgusting in his worshiping of Apple.
The 2020 MacBook Air
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Re: The 2020 MacBook Air
#62Pro Tip: The MacBook Air line of today has taken over for the MacBook line of old. It's not like the original air which was so much thinner and lighter than everything else. Thickness of the 13" MacBook Air is 0.63" vs 0.59" of the 13" MacBook Pro and weight of the Air is 2.8lbs vs 3.0lbs for the Pro. The MacBook Air is the lower-end MacBook now.
"Pro Tip: The MacBook Air line of today has taken over for the MacBook line ..."
OK, I think that is correct.
But then what is the MacBook Air now ?
I am typing on a 2015 11" MBA that is, in my opinion, the high point of laptop design and execution ever. With this laptop, Apple solved the laptop - the same way that they solved the tower form factor with the original Mac Pro.
Re: The 2020 MacBook Air
#63Uh no. 8GB memory is not okay. 16GB is marginal but $200 more. Can you upgrade the memory?
Yeah, I was semi-interested till I saw 8gb ram and then remembered if I want value I should stick with used apple laptops or new PCs. Such a bummer because I’ve always loved apple aesthetics and still have my old Air and MBP but use my 3 year old (still more powerful than the new Air) Asus laptop daily with zero complaints beyond relatively weak Nvidia GPU.
Re: The 2020 MacBook Air
#64"Jony Ive was the hero long enough to become the villain" may be an overdone take at this point, but this just continues to prove it true. Ive led Apple's design org through a renaissance that lasted two decades, but it ultimately collapsed in a string of vanity projects that put a serious dent in Apple's design credibility. Maybe it was not having Jobs as a counterbalancing force that wasn't afraid to say "no;" mayb…
What vanity projects?
Removing ports from MBPs for one.
Re: The 2020 MacBook Air
#65I don't see the reason to buy a such a compromised machine over a X1 Carbon or a XPS 13. No ports, crappy soldered everything, worst company for consumer rights, etc. They have nice screens I guess? And you can't deny the brand appeal of the Apple logo.
There are certainly reasons to prefer whatever an "X1 Carbon" or "XPS 13" may be over a MacBook. But I wouldn't exactly call the latter "compromised".
In fact, would the addition of whatever ports people want and the ability to switch the GPU (or whatever soldering prevents you from doing) not be the exact definition of a "compromise", i. e. turning a product that works excellently for some and not at all for others into one that is "meh, I guess" for everyone?
Re: The 2020 MacBook Air
#66"Jony Ive was the hero long enough to become the villain" may be an overdone take at this point, but this just continues to prove it true. Ive led Apple's design org through a renaissance that lasted two decades, but it ultimately collapsed in a string of vanity projects that put a serious dent in Apple's design credibility. Maybe it was not having Jobs as a counterbalancing force that wasn't afraid to say "no;" mayb…
What vanity projects?
The $10,000 Gold first generation Apple Watch, the trash can Mac Pro, the 12” MacBook, and the dumpster fire last generation keyboards.
Re: The 2020 MacBook Air
#67"Jony Ive was the hero long enough to become the villain" may be an overdone take at this point, but this just continues to prove it true. Ive led Apple's design org through a renaissance that lasted two decades, but it ultimately collapsed in a string of vanity projects that put a serious dent in Apple's design credibility. Maybe it was not having Jobs as a counterbalancing force that wasn't afraid to say "no;" mayb…
What vanity projects?
- Touchbar
- Keyboard
- Shaving off more and more millimetres off notebooks when no one was asking for at the expense of functionality
- The disaster that is Apple's current approach to software design
- Mice that have to be charged from the bottom
- Apple pencil that can only be charged by sticking it into iPad's lightning port
- Moving audio jack the the right on the laptops when 99% of world's headphones have cables coming out of the left ear
Just off the top of my head, things I've been annoyed in the past year.
Re: The 2020 MacBook Air
#68The ARM comparison in terms of power efficiency doesn't really make sense, does it? I guess he's right about the efficiency but there isn't a real competitive ARM-based laptop available right now, at least I haven't heard of one and even if there is one: Apple couldn't just go for ARM they'd have to adapt their OS for that and I assume by now there is a lot of code in there making use of x86 quirks not easily adaptab…
> Apple couldn't just go for ARM they'd have to adapt their OS for that and I assume by now there is a lot of code in there making use of x86 quirks not easily adaptable to ARM If you think Apple doesn’t have macOS running on ARM today, then you’re probably missing something.
I guess it could make lots of sense for them to support ARM and build ARM-based devices, that said I'm not an Apple dev in any capacity so I don't know what's going on internally. But right now there is now ARM-based Apple device running MacOS, is there?
Re: The 2020 MacBook Air
#69Any opinions on mba 2020 vs xps 13 2020? Bezels = xps Color = mba? Ports = xps? Webcam = both bad? Keyboard = maybe mba?
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Re: The 2020 MacBook Air
#70It's hard to take Gruber seriously anymore. I haven't seen anyone with such an obvious bias for Apple and disdain for anything non-Apple so 99% of what he writes about Apple is going to be sunshine and butterflies. If you aren't going to say anything controversial, why bother even listening to you? I'll just watch Apple's PR videos and be happy.
I actually think he's escaped the Reality Distortion Field. If you read through his posts, there's actually a lot that are critical of Apple's recent missteps
You mean like in 2007 when he called the “sweet solution” of web apps for iOS a “shit sandwich”?