This notch looks like it'll be fine. The notch I'm worried about is the one all the PC makers are gonna decide they need now but with zero integration or standardization with Windows.
MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch
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#102Feels a return to form, finally approaching this machine from the needs of the users rather than what's compelling for the industrial design team.
Every bad decision of the atrocious 2017+ era laptops reverted.
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#103when will they open up the laptop specs/pricing?
Details available already on their online store, though it's unresponsive at the moment as everyone is trying to check it at once.
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#10464GB of 512bit unified memory is REALLY fast/huge This will be better than many training GPUs for ML... Better than dual socket servers... I wonder if the mac pro will be dual proc...
So, now we know that LPDDR5 will be coming with at least 16GB per die stack. A doubling from LPDDR4. One package = 128 bit, a double of regular DIMM I/O width.
I see, it's not too much behind even HBM2, of which we may never see a mobile variant.
I was long pointing to people making laptops that LPDDR4 is much cheaper than DIMMs in overall, despite nominal per-GB cost being higher.
The elimination of manual assembly, termination, extra through hole parts, along with LPDDR actually taking less PCB area, less layers, and being less demanding of the PCB material easily compensates for higher chip cost.
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#105Epic 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
it is useful because it will be on the middle of the status bar. After 2 hours my guess nobody would notice anything weird. Like with the iphones, but this one actually makes sense.
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#106Real keys and not touchbar, advertised as a feature in the presentation. What a leap of innovation. Though Apple makes the best hardware, they are arrogant as ever.
The new "feature" is that the function keys are full height. Apple laptops had half height function keys for as long as I can remember.
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#107Can'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 don't see much issue with having a notch on a laptop since it now lives in the middle of the menu bar now. That's typically negative space in most apps anyways.
For my full screen web browser it's right where the tabs go.
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#108Killer specs, better keyboard (no touchbar), more ports, and yet the most frequent comment here is about the notch. HN is a tough crowd to say the least, in this instance IMO to the point of it being comical.
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#109Epic 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
I love how they boasted about bringing back the regular keyboard. Even though they're solving a problem them created.
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#110No FaceID. Interesting.
could be "face ID ready" without telling us, and share it will be a coming with macOS 12 on M1 Pro+
My thought as well. That's a software features as long as the requisite hardware is there. There is a track record of hardware sitting dormant on some Apple hardware, too.