$2500 USD (£1800 GBP) to buy in the US vs £2500 GBP. Apple are a total rip off.
MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch
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#452This was a "Shut up and take my money" day for me. I've been running on a 3-year-old machine, straining at the leash, and it's time to change. I made my order about a minute after the store went live, and I won't get it until next month. I suspect part of that, is because I'm getting the M1 Max processor. They'll make a lot of money, this week.
I've been running on a 3-year-old machine, straining at the leash, and it's time to change. My daily driver MacBook Air is very close to ten years old. I wonder if I'll get ten years out of this one, too.
Xcode is getting so damn big, that I'm actually running out of disk space. It's insane.
I develop on the computer, so I tend to keep it busy.
My computers are always in great shape, aesthetically, but I run them hard. The fans are generally going from about 6AM to 9PM.
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#453HDMI, 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 /…
Bummer, I hooe usbc can still be used for charging. Abd that will be the default charger. I love the fact that I can charge my phone laptoo (lenovo) and my wifes macbook air all with the same charger. Bummer 2, because now producers of tvs/monitors will have less drive to reolace old hdmi with usbc. sd cards? Are they that popular nowadays?
You can still charge with the USB-C ports. The supplied power adapter is a USB-C charger with a detachable USB-C to Magsafe cord.
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#454what'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.
Photo/video import mostly. I don't feel like transferring 1TB of data over crappy built-in wifi chip on my camera or having to plug the camera in and have it act as a fancy card reader.
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#455When I interviewed at Apple years ago there was a poster on the wall that had a picture of a MacBook with a MagSafe charger connected. A kid was crossing by the desk the laptop was sitting on it and it was about to cross the charging cable. Without MagSafe laptop could've fallen on this kid's head.
The writing on the poster said: Come work with people who invented MagSafe to save children's lives. (or something similar)
I really liked that poster. Never worked at Apple but I still remember that moment.
MagSafe is great! What a shame they took it away for a few years!
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#456what'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.
> what's the general need for microSD?
I use a USB pendrive formatted with a case-sensitive partition to cache data for an app I use, because it's far better to spend 20$ on a pendrive than 200$ for a SSD upgrade.
Given the choice, I'd prefer to use a SD card for that than a USB pendrive, as the USB pendrive requires either a USB hub or a USB pen always sticking out of the chassis.
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#457Nice. Ports are back. Very nice. Prices are up. Not nice. The deal breaker is the notch. Sorry Apple I am a designer. I cannot watch this 24/7. Even if the top bar is black the notch will be visible enough to distract my visual line. The more I look at this, the more I like the Framework laptop. P.S. Happy down-voting, have a nice day and stay safe.
Can you help me understand that? I have an iPhone with a notch and I find it’s totally fine. Day to day I don’t notice it. It just kind of blends in to the design of the phone. And I assume the situation here will be the same. Most software doesn’t use the whole menu bar anyway. It wont be on top of anything except if you use that space to watch full screen video. I’m not excited about the price, but I’d totally take…
Well if you are also exposed to notch-less experience elsewhere, ie work, it can become quite annoying. If that's your whole world, I can imagine you just learn ignoring it
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#458Epic 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.
What a beast! I already feel sorry for my MacBook Pro 13 with M1. Left in the dust essentially.
same for my m1 air! :D... but then I remembered that apple does trade ins! :D
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#459Epic 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.
What a beast! I already feel sorry for my MacBook Pro 13 with M1. Left in the dust essentially.
The new models are a lot more expensive though. And the entry level model of the 14 inch has an 8 core variant of the m1 pro, which probably will not perform that much higher than the 8 core m1 in the 13 inch.
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#460If they'd only add touchscreens. Sigh. Edit: Ouch, so many downvotes just for asking for a feature. Weird.
I'm very, very happy they haven't done this yet.