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Re: The new MacBook

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Post by nardi »

npalli wrote: post #468

Looks like apple has finally introduced a netbook or iPad with a keyboard. Frankly, I'm disappointed with this macbook as I was expecting a full scale retina macbook air. After seeing the Dell XPS 13, I was hoping apple will take the retinafy the regular air. Ah well, the wait continues. Let's see -- 1. Resolution of 2304x1440 which means at Retina this is 1152x720!. This is worse than the 11 inch air, much less the…

> 1. Resolution of 2304x1440 which means at Retina this is 1152x720!. This is worse than the 11 inch air, much less the 13 inch 1440x900. I don't think people realize how cramped this will seem if you start doing work on this laptop.

For this reason, it seems clear they won't run it at 2x by default. This is perfectly okay with a Retina screen, as you can't tell the difference. I believe the iPhone 6+ is run at non-integer scaling, and it looks great.

> try driving a monitor and doing some work. Don't be surprised if you get 3-4 hours. Then what do you do. Plug it off and wait for 1 hour to recharge? What if you need to do development, how do you plug your device. Yeah the usb dongle will be needed which kind of defeats the point of having a single port.

I imagine they will release a Cinema Display that provides power, display, and USB hub all over USB-C.

Re: The new MacBook

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Post by thirdsun »

nsxwolf wrote: post #561
SiVal wrote: post #509

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because you can't really tell how well software is working when looking at the device edge-on, and that's apparently the way Apple looks at them most of the time. I mean this more metaphorically than literally, but I'm so tired of complaints about the ridiculously primitive Finder being met with, "the edge of the iMac now appears even thinner, now that we've repositioned formerly convenient connectors and such into a…

Curious - what do Finder complainers consider the gold standard of file browsers that Finder should aspire to be? I do most of my file management at the command line so I don't experience the pain of Finder very often, and I've generally been able to get Finder to do what I want without much fuss. Windows Explorer is, to me, a painful experience (but its 1980s DOS command line is so much worse) I've found the various…

What bothers me most is the fact that tabs aren't as useful as they should be - I want folders to always open in tabs, resulting in just ONE finder window unless I explicitly say otherwise. Instead whenever I trigger an action that shows something in finder I'm presented with a new window. In my typical use case I'll end up with several finder windows unless I manually merge them.

Finder tabs should behave like browser tabs, where opening in a new tab is the default action unless the user really wants a new window. Total Finder, a third party app, did this better.

Re: The new MacBook

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Post by tim333 »

serve_yay wrote: post #605
MBCook wrote: post #21

Noticed the changed the headline? The Air still exists and is NOT replaced by this. I believe it's staying because it's non-retina, but I may be wrong. Either way, they seem to have made a call a bit too early when posting this.

Yes, but I think it will go away pretty soon. It doesn't have much reason to exist with the introduction of this new machine. Long term I would say it's this new Macbook + MBP.

I can think of a couple of reasons to keep the Airs. Firstly some people may feel the need for usb sockets etc. And secondly they may well keep them as a low cost option the way they usually keep the previous years iPhone on sale. The Air 11 is $899 now. Guess that'll drop to $799 or so when the new one's out. It'd help get the budget conscious to go Mac rather than Windows.

Re: The new MacBook

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Post by easytiger »

nkoren wrote: post #261

This is a beautiful machine. Once again, Apple excels at hardware. But what the living hell is going wrong with Apple's desktop software? OS X and Apple's applications suite have been getting steadily worse with every release. Look at the App store: the latest releases of OS X, iPhoto, iMovie, Pages, and Numbers are (in stark contrast to earlier versins) all rated at 2.5/5 stars, with the plurality being 1-star revie…

OSX is a joke. Between a minor upgrade they destroyed compat with thousands of apps. How is that even possible.

Re: The new MacBook

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Post by neoromantique »

screamin_jesus wrote: post #776
nkoren wrote: post #261

This is a beautiful machine. Once again, Apple excels at hardware. But what the living hell is going wrong with Apple's desktop software? OS X and Apple's applications suite have been getting steadily worse with every release. Look at the App store: the latest releases of OS X, iPhoto, iMovie, Pages, and Numbers are (in stark contrast to earlier versins) all rated at 2.5/5 stars, with the plurality being 1-star revie…

The one area where apple really exels though, in both hardware and software is the touchpad. I cannot stand using the touchpad on any windows laptop I used, the touchpad is 99% the reason I still use a mac/osx.

IBM's trackpoint is killer.

Re: The new MacBook

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Post by fit2rule »

blawa wrote: post #14

I love my Surface Pro 3, thank you very much :-)

How does Linux run on the SP3? I'm considering moving from Apple one my rMBP bites the dust - is the SP3 fully Linux-compatible, do you know by chance?

Re: The new MacBook

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Post by conradfr »

otakucode wrote: post #762
nkoren wrote: post #261

This is a beautiful machine. Once again, Apple excels at hardware. But what the living hell is going wrong with Apple's desktop software? OS X and Apple's applications suite have been getting steadily worse with every release. Look at the App store: the latest releases of OS X, iPhoto, iMovie, Pages, and Numbers are (in stark contrast to earlier versins) all rated at 2.5/5 stars, with the plurality being 1-star revie…

With Apple I think the problem most comes from their aspiration for a mobile-only world. But they might just be suffering the same problem many (if not most) software packages face: The software gets near perfection.... but the organization does not have the capability to process this. They've got a team of developers, and developing on that particular piece of software is what they DO. There are managers of that tea…

Internet Explorer ? :)

Re: The new MacBook

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Post by zaroth »

neillyons wrote: post #763

It's amazing how small they made the circuit board http://images.apple.com/v/macbook/a/overview/images/internal...

Almost like they have experience building smartphones ;-)

Seriously, it's an x86 iPhone 7 sitting in a Macbook chassis. Just imagine it with the single USB port located on the bottom center.

Re: The new MacBook

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Post by scandinavian »

joshvm wrote: post #231
mmastrac wrote: post #2

USB-C as the "one connector to rule them all" is the big news. That's the end of MagSafe and the exploding era of USB-C docking stations that work for multiple devices. I think we'll start to see an era of expandable computing coming up soon: USB-C is a perfect connector to push your data and state into a larger desktop experience. Why not carry around your laptop in tablet form when you are mobile? [1] [1] https://g…

It also looks like (finally) the complete modularisation of the power supply. You should be able to have a localised wall cable, power brick and separate USB cable to the computer. In principle this should mean an end to ridiculously overpriced power supplies (currently north of £60). It's even more galling given that they realised the cables were so poorly made that US customers have a special return program for fra…

£25 for a 2m cable is ridiculous.

Re: The new MacBook

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Post by smenko »

nsxwolf wrote: post #561
SiVal wrote: post #509

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because you can't really tell how well software is working when looking at the device edge-on, and that's apparently the way Apple looks at them most of the time. I mean this more metaphorically than literally, but I'm so tired of complaints about the ridiculously primitive Finder being met with, "the edge of the iMac now appears even thinner, now that we've repositioned formerly convenient connectors and such into a…

Curious - what do Finder complainers consider the gold standard of file browsers that Finder should aspire to be? I do most of my file management at the command line so I don't experience the pain of Finder very often, and I've generally been able to get Finder to do what I want without much fuss. Windows Explorer is, to me, a painful experience (but its 1980s DOS command line is so much worse) I've found the various…

I used to love the physical cabinet I had in the fifties. The sound of it opening, the actual rustle of the paper under your fingers - these _were_ your files, with real letters written on real paper, not some representation of them in a window on a screen. They don't make finders like that any more....
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