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Most people I know with MacBook Airs don't actually use any peripherals.
On the other hand, I need 2 dongles and a USB SD card reader just to do my job with my 2018 MBP. I also need an external keyboard, which I never used to need, because it's literally painful to use the keyboard all day.
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I actually think the current MacBook Air configuration with Touch ID & Retina - $1100 - is basically exactly what I (and many people) want in a personal laptop. It's light, easy to use, plenty fast for anything I do on a regular basis, and the Retina display is excellent. Unless I have reason not to trust it, Touch ID is the perfect way to log in when you: 1. want to have your computer lock after a short period of in…
You can get the same from other companies at similar price. Just with a traditional fingerprint scanner rather than touch id (Same thing really), or a face unlock (which at least works when you have wet hands)
The enrollment process takes forever for each finger too.
Also, it doesn't work in Linux.
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What, over and above the H.264 licensing that covers them for 1080p content? It’s google doing what google always does: pushing a google controlled thing to become a “standard”.
It's an open source, royalty free codec. I'd much rather use that than one owned and licensed by a private organisation, no matter whether Google develops it or not.
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In the same line as Ford's 'you can have your car in any color you want as long as it's black', Apple isn't restrictive at all! ...as long as you want to do things the Apple Way™, and only such things as Apple has deigned to allow you to do. Start wandering from the common path much at all and you just straight run in to walls.
Can you give an example?
OS X? No support without 3rd-party software.
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It's an open source, royalty free codec. I'd much rather use that than one owned and licensed by a private organisation, no matter whether Google develops it or not.
It’s still patent encumbered, and if you happen to sue Google, because they do something shitty, you lose your patent grant.
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Can you give an example?
Sure, one from last week: I needed to connect to an iSCSI target from a client's Mac. This has been easy to do on any Windows machine since at least Windows 7. OS X? No support without 3rd-party software.
There are plenty of things that you can’t do out-of-the-box on Windows but can on macOS, like SSH into remote machines.
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It’s still patent encumbered, and if you happen to sue Google, because they do something shitty, you lose your patent grant.
How does that make H264 preferable?
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Sure, one from last week: I needed to connect to an iSCSI target from a client's Mac. This has been easy to do on any Windows machine since at least Windows 7. OS X? No support without 3rd-party software.
I don’t feel that macOS not shipping with a particular feature can fairly be called an Apple-imposed restriction, especially if you can get that feature from third-party software. There are plenty of things that you can’t do out-of-the-box on Windows but can on macOS, like SSH into remote machines.
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The price for the 1.5 was truely ridiculous. It would be interesting to know how many they sold.
I went for the 1.5TB, despite the storage upgrade being more than the computer itself. That storage point is my bare minimum to keep existing personal files (plus headroom); I was happy to pay it, it's a great machine. :D
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I don't see the relation of High Motion Video, ( Sports ) to Video Codec and Resolution. Why cant H.264 not be used? ( Which is the standard used world wide now for All Sporting Events )
For 4k video, H.265/VP9 have better quality at the same file size, or equivalent quality at a smaller file size. Bandwidth usage matters for keeping people on the website and viewing Google's ads, so Google wants to ensure a smooth streaming experience. And since YT compresses so heavily, uploading in 4k increase the quality at lower resolutions (it seems weird but a 4k video uploaded to YT and streamed at 1080p will…