Still no MST. Is this a hardware or software limitation?
Could you tell us what MST stands for? I doubt you mean “mountain standard time” :-)
macOS Monterey
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Re: macOS Monterey
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If they used an XPS people might accidentally realize that you don't need a notch to put a camera at the top of your screen.
Dell uses a low quality 720p camera on their XPS line. And the notch gives them room for a future FaceID sensor stack.
Why can't the most valuable company in the world just engineer a solution? Dell was able to fit infrared facial unlock inside that tiny bezel too, so I don't really buy the "it's for faceID" argument (especially since they didn't include the hardware this time). It's a ridiculous decision by a company that deserves to be ridiculed for cutting corners on a professional device.
Re: macOS Monterey
#173I'm still on Mojave. Is it possible to jump versions, or must I upgrade incrementally?
It's fine to jump versions
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I think window management in Mac leaves much to be desired (hot key and snapping floating windows). But associate fullscreeen window/split with a new workspace is actually one thing it does right. I installed an addon on Gnome just to emulate that. Split is kind of useless with an ultrawide monitor though, I wish it was 3 columns
One free option for Mac: https://rectangleapp.com/
I use it, not the point though, should be built-in.
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Bluetooth menu structure is god-tier compared to how it used to be, what do you mean "abomination"?
Apple took away a key feature, where you pressed a key combo (shift+alt) and clicked on the Bluetooth menu bar item, and you'd get an option to reset Bluetooth; this helped for the inevitable case where people have bugs and devices won't connect, or Bluetooth just won't work. https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/reset-mac-bluetooth-module/ That no longer exists on Monterey. They might be referencing Control Center, thoug…
How are secret features better than the now-discoverable option of simply shutting it off and turning it back on? It's an all-time computing classic and now it's using the UI classic toggle language. This seems superb to me.
Re: macOS Monterey
#176It is frustrating to see how stagnant desktop OS's have become. Both macOS and Windows 11 have added incremental features that are surely nice to have, but no one dares to improve on the human-computer-interaction which has remained the same for decades now. With the advances in AI and the ridiculous compute power of modern CPUs, we should be able to have OSs that are Digital Assistants. Just one example: - file mana…
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Re: macOS Monterey
#177Earlier quoted context omitted.
Bluetooth menu structure is god-tier compared to how it used to be, what do you mean "abomination"?
Apple took away a key feature, where you pressed a key combo (shift+alt) and clicked on the Bluetooth menu bar item, and you'd get an option to reset Bluetooth; this helped for the inevitable case where people have bugs and devices won't connect, or Bluetooth just won't work. https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/reset-mac-bluetooth-module/ That no longer exists on Monterey. They might be referencing Control Center, thoug…
...are you sure? When bluetooth was broken as all hell in the Monterey betas I believe that the reset trick was the go-to for people to get it to reconnect to devices properly.
Unless they removed it entirely in a later beta and I'm simply unaware.
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And yet iPhones are flagship phones... Taste is subjective. Anyone arguing that the MBP is objectively better than, say, https://icdn.digitaltrends.com/image/digitaltrends/dell-xps-... is just expressing their preferences. And I say that as someone who is waiting on delivery of the 14" MBP.
M1 Pro/Max destroys the competition by every definition. https://www.anandtech.com/show/17024/apple-m1-max-performanc... So taste maybe subjective. But there is simply no argument that if you care about performance or battery life then the MacBook Pro is objectively better.
How does it fare in price/performance? I'd wager that's what will matter more than performance/watt to 90% of customers.
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As you say, we're getting exactly these advances with phone and tablet OSs. iPads are becoming a dream appliance in the ways you mention and capture 90% of the average person's computing needs. Regular computers have to maintain some backward compatibility and it's nice for power users to still be allowed to fiddle with file extensions and system internals.
But no one uses tablets in practices. Everyone I know who bought an iPad or iPad pro use it for a bit and then it just takes dust.
Correct. Or they become Netflix viewers, or are used to doodle in Procreate or something. I am yet to meet a person who uses the OS (as opposed to specific apps) for something complicated. Apple loves to show how easy it is to drag an image from Email in to Pages. But nobody uses an iPad for Pages. And even that simple interaction is still somehow easier on a Mac.
The latest MacBook gives me hope that post-Ive Apple is serious about giving their customers what they want. I would love to see an iPadOS for people who do actual work one day.
Note: I'm trying to make a distinction between iPadOS and the apps on an iPad. Plenty of apps are useful for actual work. However the OS itself is very much a hinderance.
Re: macOS Monterey
#180Still no MST. Is this a hardware or software limitation?
Could you tell us what MST stands for? I doubt you mean “mountain standard time” :-)
Multi-stream transport.
If you have a dock with say, HDMI and DisplayPort and have both plugged in, with a mac you can't use a single dock for multiple displays in this way. You'd have to use DisplayLink.