New MacBook Air with M2

Post by egypturnash » Wed, Jul 06, 2022, 9:33 PM UTC

PragmaticPulp wrote: post #308

egypturnash wrote: post #267

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How does the notch deal with programs with enough menus to hit that midpoint? Which includes the one I do pretty much all my paying work in. Or people who have enough stuff squatting in the right side of the menu bar to cross the midpoint from the other direction. Which is also me when I'm not hiding most of them with Bartender. So many things just want to plop an icon up there. I guess I'll find out soon, because on…

Apps that have been updated to work with the notch will flow around it. If you have an old app that hasn't been updated, you can enable the "Scale to fit below built-in camera" option on the executable and it will show the full menu bar under the notch, exactly like it worked before the notch existed. Best way to think about the notch is that it's not subtracting from your 16:10 screen, it's just pushing the menu bar…

Post by AOsborn » Wed, Jul 06, 2022, 9:34 PM UTC

hardlianotion wrote: post #170

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The 2016 MacBook Pro was a turd. The butterfly keyboard would inevitably break. I went through several of these laptops. To add insult to the injury, this model's unique innovations were "Touch Bar" and "no ports"... I've been buying Macs since 2000, and the 2016 MBP is definitely the worst Mac I ever had. It was enough to drive me to purchase a Surface Book as an alternative.

The 16" Macbook pro I bought in 2019 has been a source of constant irritation to me - unexpected fan thrashing, overheating, the usual stuff - and the performance and low cost of the new M1-based MacBooks has done nothing to improve my mood.

Post by jmull » Wed, Jul 06, 2022, 9:37 PM UTC

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For a frame of reference, one full frame buffer for a 4K monitor is around 32MB. Put another way, you can have about 32 of them per GB of RAM. Not that you can’t use plenty of GPU RAM, but 8GB gives you a lot of room to work with. (Video decoding need all that much — probably three buffers worth per stream, and at the size of the video, not the screen.)

If you think a compositor only holds a single frame buffer (or even up to three), boy do I have some news for you about the last 30 years.

Post by heystefan » Wed, Jul 06, 2022, 9:41 PM UTC

kristianp wrote: post #632

epolanski wrote: post #595

I was interested to pick when I saw the price in USD.. Then I realized the starting price in Italy for the 8GB version is 1829 euros, and more than 2100 to get 8 GBs of memory more.

Wow, the euro is just about at parity with the dollar recently. That's a big markup.

Post by wildrhythms » Wed, Jul 06, 2022, 9:42 PM UTC

wombat-man wrote: post #158

pavlov wrote: post #148

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The 2016 MacBook Pro was a turd. The butterfly keyboard would inevitably break. I went through several of these laptops. To add insult to the injury, this model's unique innovations were "Touch Bar" and "no ports"... I've been buying Macs since 2000, and the 2016 MBP is definitely the worst Mac I ever had. It was enough to drive me to purchase a Surface Book as an alternative.

I refuse to buy a touchbar mac although some have been issued to me by employers. I remember when they came out they raised the price of the MBP for this "feature" that just kinda sucked. Ended up leaving my MBP closed 95% of the time and using a separate keyboard.