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

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Post by dont__panic »

nohr wrote: post #83
bla3 wrote: post #63

For me personally, they hit it out of the park -- except for the notch, which seems like a complete showstopper to me at first sight. Maybe it's not so bad in practice if games and full-screen videos keep that whole strip solid black? But almost all the screenshots are of fullscreen apps, so it seems Apple thinks it looks a bit ungainly too.

I imagine most games and videos can be run in 16 by 9 aspect ratio and that'll draw black bars above and below thus hiding the notch anyway.

I hadn't even thought of gaming, but most games I play tend to use the entire screen. Though maybe with a ratio above 16:10 that will be different?

Games have never showed awesome support for Apple's weird decisions, so I guess I would expect some issues there, unfortunately.

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Post by dreamer7 »

TheOtherHobbes wrote: post #187
dreamer7 wrote: post #141

I don't really like the chassis design. It looks dated. But the rest of the Macbook Pro sounds really exciting! For those who missed the keynote, here are some laugh-inducing moments - "Our Pro users love to use physical function keys. So we have added them" "Our Pro users like to connect a lot of devices without using a lot of dongles"

I'd guess that's about thermals. Thin looks good but runs hot. Apple have de-Ived and gone for practicality over fashion-accessory style. I'm not convinced that's a bad move.

I have nothing against being thick. The 2012 model was thicker but I like its design

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Post by apozem »

cletus wrote: post #201

And so ends the last of the Dark Days of Johnny Ive. Don't get me wrong: he innovated a lot. My theory is when Jobs died, he lost his counterbalance and his designs suddenly became without compromise (no that isn't a good thing). It's when we saw the 12" Macbook as the crusade for thinness at all costs (terrible performance, only one port, a terrible version of the macbook Air), the end of the Macbook Air (before get…

And the thing is, I don’t mind they put a weird, shallow keyboard and one USB C port on that 12” MacBook. They were trying to make the lightest laptop they could. Those compromises made sense.

The same compromises made no sense on high-end pro machines.

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Post by chromatin »

bingohbangoh wrote: post #179

what's the general need for microSD? My XPS-13 has one but I've never understood why its such a big deal. I almost never use it.

Besides photo/video which was already mentioned, SD is commonly used in 3D printing (to transfer STL to printer)

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

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Post by trenchgun »

playpause wrote: post #192
have_faith wrote: post #28

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.

This is a good framing.

It is not a loss, it is a pure gain.

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