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Re: MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch

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Post by rstupek » Mon, Oct 18, 2021, 5:56 PM UTC

valine wrote: post #46

Epic update. Crazy fast chips, 120hz, mini LED, more ports, 64 gigs of ram. It's literally everything you could want in a new MacBook Pro.

And they got rid of the touch bar which everyone dumped heavily on

Re: MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch

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Post by wodenokoto » Mon, Oct 18, 2021, 5:57 PM UTC

have_faith wrote: post #28

Can'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 can’t believe they didn’t color the menu-bar black to hide the notch.

I suppose the notch is only in the way if you are watching 4:3 video in full screen. For every other use case, the notch is hidden in either the menu bar or black, horizontal bars.

I’m also wondering if the led backlighting is arranged so that backlight is completely turned off in the black horizontal bars shown when viewing 16:9 video in full screen.

Re: MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch

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Post by cocoggu » Mon, Oct 18, 2021, 5:57 PM UTC

I know it will be an unpopular opinion here, but bringing back the HDMI and SD card port is making the macbook much thicker and will eat up some space than can be used by battery instead, all that for ports I will never use. I wish there was another option without these ports.

Re: MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch

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Post by msie » Mon, Oct 18, 2021, 5:57 PM UTC

tiffanyh wrote: post #27

No FaceID. Interesting.

The touch-id is so fast, I don't mind.

Re: MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch

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Post by TheGRS » Mon, Oct 18, 2021, 5:57 PM UTC

eknkc wrote: post #22

shantara wrote: post #9

Everything 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.

I bet there will be software adding a black line, hiding the notch tomorrow so no big deal. Those are additional pixels anyway.

They basically showed that in some fullscreen images in the demo, so I think that's how it'll be.

Re: MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch

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Post by Toutouxc » Mon, Oct 18, 2021, 5:57 PM UTC

kfprt wrote: post #60

Still no removable storage? How are you supposed to get your data off if it dies?

You're kinda supposed to be doing that periodically BEFORE it dies.

Re: MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch

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Post by eric_b » Mon, Oct 18, 2021, 5:57 PM UTC

HDMI and magsafe are back!

Re: MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch

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Post by troupe » Mon, Oct 18, 2021, 5:57 PM UTC

nharada wrote: post #53

Happy to see they added Magsafe but ALSO still support charging via the USB3 ports.

This was my biggest concern. Having the option to use MagSafe is much better than always being required to carry around yet another charger.

Re: MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch

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Post by nojito » Mon, Oct 18, 2021, 5:57 PM UTC

salamandersauce wrote: post #36

If the M1 Max maxes out at 64GB does that pretty much imply no new Mac Pro until M2?

Yup. They will have 20/40 core arrangements as per Gurman

https://9to5mac.com/2021/08/01/apple-silicon-roadmap-gurman-...

Re: MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Oct 18, 2021, 5:57 PM UTC

More-nitors wrote: post #52

when will they open up the laptop specs/pricing?

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