The greatest improvement: no touchbar.
MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch
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#52when will they open up the laptop specs/pricing?
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#53Happy to see they added Magsafe but ALSO still support charging via the USB3 ports.
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#54Can't believe they did so many positive changes with the MBP only to add the notch from the phone in too. Almost the perfect update. Does this mean every app in full screen has to be updated to account for it? > posted in wrong thread so copying here
No, remember that the notch extends the display upward, and does not expand downward into the display. Apple's reasoning is now you get a 16:10 display without having the top menu bar enroaching within it.
Which I'm perfectly fine with. Useless black area made useful.
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#55No FaceID. Interesting.
The iris is superior to other biometric modalities in so many ways that they appear to be almost toys in comparison.
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#56I'm very curious to see how the 64GB of RAM GPU performs with deep learning models fine-tuning. It might be impressive.
Wouldn't you use the Apple Neural Engine for that? https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/11/apple-tensorflow-accelera... "Recently Apple released the new M1 "system on a chip," which not only contains a built-in GPU, but also includes a 16-core "Neural Engine" which supports 11 trillion operations per second. Apple claims the Neural Engine will support up to 15x improvement in ML computation."
The neural engine seems to be only about inference. For training it seems most systems rely on Metal like the Apple Tensorflow plugin [1]. But I have never tried to do ML on macs so I am maybe wrong.
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#57So basically apple just went back to the things they tried to fix that weren't broken and then messed up the aesthetics by making it a design from 2010 and added a notch. Why do they do this. Does the design team not understand how to design macbook pros ?
So, they were wrong when they removed those things, and they were wrong again when they put them back?
No i meant they were right to just put back what wasnt broken. I guess I have worded it wrong. I am just complaining about the design team putting the notch.
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#58Can't believe they did so many positive changes with the MBP only to add the notch from the phone in too. Almost the perfect update. Does this mean every app in full screen has to be updated to account for it? > posted in wrong thread so copying here
I don't see much issue with having a notch on a laptop since it now lives in the middle of the menu bar now. That's typically negative space in most apps anyways.
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#59Everything they’ve said about the new MacBook Pros is extremely promising, but they had to add a notch to the screen. Just why? All for the sake of reducing the top screen border by a couple of millimeters.
Top-Center is among the most useless screen real estate. It takes just about the same amount of space as the keyboard language selector a bit to the right, or any one of the menu items to the left. And those two interface never fill up to the point where they need that center spot (or I'd be cleaning out those mostly annoying gadgets top-left).
Top centre is where Gnome Shell on my Fedora install shows time, notification indicator and application notification icons (hexchat, Steam, etc.). Hardly an useless part of the screen!
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#60Still no removable storage? How are you supposed to get your data off if it dies?