I won't be getting one, because the M1 Air is currently more than enough for comfortable webdev, but I'm genuinely happy for people who will be getting one, because those things are incredible!
MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch
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#113Can'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
The Apple Event showed that full-screen apps and videos have a black bar extending the whole notch height; which still leaves you with an Apple standard 16:10 screen area. Since it's mini-LED, it'll be just as black as the previous bezels, and since the non-notch area is still 16:10, you're not missing anything at all; and the menu bar in a sense "doesn't take any usable space" anymore.
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#114Epic 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
sure. But with video conferencing being a new part of the job, it's likely a good tradeoff
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#115Nice hardware. It's a pity that I don't trust them with my data any more. What will they scan and report?
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#116Interested if the macsafe cable ends in a power adapter or ends in a usb-c plug.
E.g can I attach a usb-c to usb-c cable to the accompanying power brick when traveling?
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#117The greatest improvement: no Touch Bar.
I love my touchbar.
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#118HDMI, SD Card, and MagSafe. Things people on the internet inclusive but not limited to HN said they will never come back because the future is USB-C.
Now I just want to know if the new keyboard has more key travel distance back to the like of MacBook Pro 2015.
In case anyone wants to know the thickness difference.
MacBook Pro 13" 2015 - 1.8 cm
MacBook Pro 13" 2016 - 1.49 / 1.55 cm
MacBook Pro 14" / 16" 2021 - 1.55 / 1.66cm
So basically even the new 16" is still thinner than the MacBook 2015 era. Which I think vast majority of people were happy with.
Edit: Both 14" and 16" have 254 PPI, up from ~220. Apple tends to stick with same PPI for a very long time. So this is interesting. 3456-by-2234 or 3024-by-1964 is 14:9 Ratio. So somewhere in between the old 16:10 and 3:2 which is current trend of Lenovo and Surface Laptop.
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#119This is literally a dream laptop. Improved in every area and lacking in none I can think of right now. And the price is crazy cheap for this performance if you ask me.
I was surprised at the price point as well
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#120Real 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.
Sure, but did anyone had a serious use for them? Surely there are people, but I have the _feeling_ that the Touch Bar was a failure from the beginning. Also they brought back a magnetic snap cable for charging (the same my Air mid 2012 has that I'm typing on rn) and they added a HDMI and a SD card slot. It's all coming back ^^