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Re: MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch

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Can'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

Maybe I've drunk the Apple Kool-Aid, but there's another way to look at this: it's a perfectly rectangular 16:10 display, plus they've added an extra (albeit imperfect) strip along the top, 74 pixels high, allowing them to push the macOS menu bar into the bezel, leaving you with a clean and unencumbered 16:10 desktop area for your content.

Re: MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch

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Epic 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

You get more usable screen though. I am curious how legacy apps with way-too-many menus will display with the split.

Re: MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch

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The 16" has a 140w charger, the 14" has a 97w charger. Did the TSA stop limiting chargers to 97-100w? I priced both w/32core 32gb 512ssd and the 16" is only $299 more than the 14" .. I want the 14" though, I'd like that 140w charger.. edit: I confused this with the battery maximums, nevermind! Thanks for letting me know!

I would be extremely surprised if the TSA started checking the wattage on power supplies. I've never even done the separate liquids thing.

That's a good point. I've never had a bigger charger than the 97w so I've never had to think twice about it. I wonder if this will be obviously 140w, when I see bricks like that on gaming laptops they're usually meant to sit on the floor not plug into the wall directly.

Re: MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch

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How many external monitors does it support? I got an M1 mini only to find out it could only drive 2 4K monitor. And the M1 notebooks can only use 1 external 4K monitor. I'm not getting one of these until I can run 3 external 4K monitors like I'm doing on my 2019 Macbook 16-inch right now.

Re: MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch

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If the M1 Max maxes out at 64GB does that pretty much imply no new Mac Pro until M2?

It looks like it, previously Apple have indicated Apple Silicon Mac Pros will come in 2022. That will be interesting to see. I'm wondering how the economics of a super high-end processor exclusively for the Mac Pro could work out. It seems unlikely a single chip aimed just at the mac Pro market could be economically viable. I wouldn't rule out a multi-CPU architecture with dual high end M2 processors.
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