MacBook Pro featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max

Post by fruit2020 » Tue, Jan 17, 2023, 5:55 PM UTC

CharlesW wrote: post #471

fruit2020 wrote: post #459

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Just look at the Ventura settings window dude. How are they so sloppy that it cannot even scale properly, not commenting here about how ugly the experience is. At least make it scale a bit. Oh, and I did not say that it even has a lag when it loads, on a fresh login with no apps.

IMHO Ventura's rethink is a huge improvement — search is now actually useful, 3rd-party extensibility is much better, etc. (It does scale vertically, BTW. The old one did not.)

Post by londons_explore » Tue, Jan 17, 2023, 5:56 PM UTC

ehzy wrote: post #538

londons_explore wrote: post #524

In the feature list, the most underwhelming item to me is the '1080p FaceTime HD camera'. Aren't pretty much all cameras at least 1080p by now? I'd expect a top of the line laptop to have a multi-megapixel camera able to push 240fps for slowmo and windowing abilities to allow software zoom while still outputting a high enough resolution feed that someone viewing on another macbook pro can't see the pixels (ie. more t…

My understanding is that it's actually quite difficult to fit a high quality camera into a laptop lid. If you look at how thin the lid is you'll notice it's at least twice as thin as a cell phone.

Post by lordswork » Tue, Jan 17, 2023, 5:56 PM UTC

londons_explore wrote: post #524

In the feature list, the most underwhelming item to me is the '1080p FaceTime HD camera'. Aren't pretty much all cameras at least 1080p by now? I'd expect a top of the line laptop to have a multi-megapixel camera able to push 240fps for slowmo and windowing abilities to allow software zoom while still outputting a high enough resolution feed that someone viewing on another macbook pro can't see the pixels (ie. more t…

Post by 2OEH8eoCRo0 » Tue, Jan 17, 2023, 5:57 PM UTC

Kirby64 wrote: post #576

2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #559

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No idea why they don't just stick one of the iPhone cameras in there. Heck, use the last gen camera. If the camera isn't too big for the iphone then it's not too big for a laptop- especially with the notch.

iPhone cameras are absurdly thick compare to the thickness of a laptop lid. If you've noticed, they've also gotten even thicker over the year (the camera bump has gotten thicker). Nobody will want a laptop lid as thick as their iPhone + camera bump.

Post by DoingSomeThings » Tue, Jan 17, 2023, 5:58 PM UTC

agloeregrets wrote: post #536

yewenjie wrote: post #491

I'm waiting for HN to reach a consensus so that I can decide whether to buy this one or the M1 MBP.

It's a spec bump, possibly meaningfully so but if you are on an Intel machine or want two monitors and can find a M1 14inch for ~$1500-$1700 that's a killer upgrade no matter what.