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Re: Apple October Event [video]

#11

Post by m_ke » Mon, Oct 18, 2021, 5:35 PM UTC

Not a notch!

Re: Apple October Event [video]

#12

Post by moepstar » Mon, Oct 18, 2021, 5:36 PM UTC

Speaking of Apple:

Hetzner is going live tomorrow with hosted M1 Mac Minis for 49€ excl. VAT (same added for setup) - available at https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/matrix-apple (link is not live at the time of writing, probably either at midnight CEST or early morning tomorrow)

Quote from their forums: Get ready for Apple Mac mini M1 (2020) with 16 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD and optional 2x 1 TB NVMe SSD.

Re: Apple October Event [video]

#13

Post by friedman23 » Mon, Oct 18, 2021, 5:41 PM UTC

This laptop seems to have 0 compromises, I'm buying one instantly.

Re: Apple October Event [video]

#14

Post by ascagnel_ » Mon, Oct 18, 2021, 5:41 PM UTC

asimpletune wrote: post #8

The way that Apple has scaled the original M1 architecture to the M1 Pro/Pro Max bodes extremely well for the future.

This has always been the thing to watch for me -- performance on its own hasn't been equivalent to "best of the best" (one of these new laptops isn't going to be beating a 3090), but what they're doing is being done in such a smaller thermal envelope that nothing really compares.

Re: Apple October Event [video]

#15

Post by simonebrunozzi » Mon, Oct 18, 2021, 5:42 PM UTC

Finally, the touch bar of the Macbook is gone.

Re: Apple October Event [video]

#16

Post by Jtsummers » Mon, Oct 18, 2021, 5:44 PM UTC

m_ke wrote: post #11

Not a notch!

The notch gets a "meh" from me. I mostly use my MBP with everything in fullscreen and a hidden menubar. However, this does come with a thinner bezel and extends the screen into that bezel space so it's kind of a wash. It still beats the 1.5" top bezel (with the camera) on my work laptops (HPs).

Re: Apple October Event [video]

#17

Post by weatherlight » Mon, Oct 18, 2021, 5:45 PM UTC

fdgsdfogijq wrote: post #6

The cynic in me wants to dismiss the leaps and bounds of the M1 chips. The reality is I own one of these laptops and am constantly surprised at how much better it is than the intel chips. Its going to be hard not to turn my current M1 laptop in and upgrade to the newer M1 Max.

I'm in the same boat. I really like my 14 inch M1. the M1Max specwise seems insane.

Re: Apple October Event [video]

#18

Post by weatherlight » Mon, Oct 18, 2021, 5:46 PM UTC

simonebrunozzi wrote: post #15

Finally, the touch bar of the Macbook is gone.

I'm going to miss it :( i know that's super unpopular and understand why people don't like it.

Re: Apple October Event [video]

#19

Post by protomyth » Mon, Oct 18, 2021, 5:46 PM UTC

friedman23 wrote: post #13

This laptop seems to have 0 compromises, I'm buying one instantly.

It has a notch. That is one heck of a compromise.

Re: Apple October Event [video]

#20

Post by incrudible » Mon, Oct 18, 2021, 5:48 PM UTC

I can't believe they're doubling down on the notch. The absolute best thing I can say about the iPhone notch is: I don't hate it enough to switch to Android. It's by far the thing that bothers me the most about the design. It's ugly and lacking harmony with the UI.