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

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Kills the touch bar, the light touch keyboard, adds back weight, card reader, ports and the mag safe. Feels like an apology for prior design decisions. My 2011 MBP is new again!

I was laughing when every single one of these changes was presented as "revolutionary" in the keynote. No, you just had to revert everything because your previous revolution was universally hated by users.

Ignoring that none of the changes was presented as "revolutionary" (the touchbar wasn't mentioned, magsafe was referred to as "Brought back", and the ports were simply noted for convenience), for some small but very loud subset of HN users, an Apple event is all a giant lie if it apparently isn't hosted by some sneering Apple detractor.

It's an Apple product launch. Like every product launch ever in the history of ever, they point out the features of the thing they launch.

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

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post #73

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.

Given the power efficiency of the M1, I’m not sure it matters all that much.

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

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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.

But that notch is kind of a really ugly blight on the face of an otherwise good looking update. Especially since it's lacking faceid or something equivalent to windows hello

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

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post #41

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

> Does this mean every app in full screen has to be updated to account for it? A simple black bar in full screen apps would be sufficient I guess.

I wonder. Maybe full screen will behave differently and the menu bar will never be hidden?

Otherwise I am looking at my web browser in full screen and how do you design around that? You have to push the tabs down anyway, might as well just make the menu bar static.

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