Surprised that they didn’t take the opportunity to update the industrial design, especially of the MacBook Air which retains its wedge-shaped heft.
Introducing the next generation of Mac
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#32Super interesting how they kept the touchbar on the Macbook Pro keyboard but not on the Air. As a software developer, I'm going to be more likely to buy an Air just due to the keyboard.
Has anyone ever seen anyone use the Touch Bar? Like really use it?
My fondest wish is a high-end MBP 16" with no touch bar. The touch bar's sole role is to generate errors and missteps resulting from merely grazing over it.
Even setting the touch bar to vanilla F-keys, grazing triggers F-key actions which is so frustrating.
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#34Is this the first time they call their laptops "notebooks"?
The term was used frequently in the Jobs keynotes.
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#35Super interesting how they kept the touchbar on the Macbook Pro keyboard but not on the Air. As a software developer, I'm going to be more likely to buy an Air just due to the keyboard.
Same, the only issue with the current air for me is that the graphics struggle a bit when driving a large 4K monitor.
If the new graphics capabilities are that much better I would be very tempted to upgrade
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#37The 16GB RAM limit is unfortunate.
Five years later and I still can't buy a new 13" laptop from Apple with more RAM than my 2015 MBP.
Edit: Apparently you can configure a (Early 2020) Intel-based 13" MBP with 32GB of RAM - I was not aware of that. Hope they bring that option to the ARM versions ASAP, especially if the performance gains are as good as Apple claims.
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#38What I can't find is how many external monitors can be supported on the M1 chip? I don't see any detailed specs. Al they say about the M1 specs are: "The Apple M1 chip is the first system on a chip (SoC) for Mac. Packed with an astonishing 16 billion transistors, it integrates the CPU, GPU, I/O, and every other significant component and controller onto a single tiny chip. Designed by Apple, M1 brings incredible perfo…
From MacBook Pro tech specs:
Simultaneously supports full native resolution on the built-in display at millions of colors and:
One external display with up to 6K resolution at 60Hz Thunderbolt 3 digital video output
Native DisplayPort output over USB-C VGA, HDMI, DVI, and Thunderbolt 2 output supported using adapters (sold separately)
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#39Apple has been getting trashed lately by developers for how hot and loud their macbooks get. You can tell how much focus they put on cooling in this presentation. The macbook air literally doesn't even have a fan!
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#40Super interesting how they kept the touchbar on the Macbook Pro keyboard but not on the Air. As a software developer, I'm going to be more likely to buy an Air just due to the keyboard.
as a software dev who went for air before the current gen of pro macbooks with hardware esc, dont do it
the air is really sluggish for anything but the lightest of tasks. there was even extremely noticeable latency using gmail.com