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I hoped the notch would be just an experiment and Apple would get rid of it the next iteration. It seems I was wrong. It looks so weird to have your top menu bar split in two, I really don’t get why it is necessary.
This pushes menu and status bars up into the bezel area at the top of your laptop's lid, leaving more room in the primary 16x10 display area for apps and things.
It's free real estate, why not have menus go up there?
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> Not to be rude but this is an inaccurate and poor understanding of computers Not to be rude, but a poor understanding of computers would be to think that speed is all that matters. Software has only been getting more and more complex and bloated over the last 10 years. What good is 16GB of super fast RAM if the machine is swapping out to disk regularly?
> a poor understanding of computers would be to think that speed is all that matters. > What good is 16GB of super fast RAM if the machine is swapping out to disk regularly? If the swapping is fast enough not to be noticeable, then speed is all that matters. In fact, if SSDs were about as fast as RAM, we wouldn't need RAM at all! The whole reason why we have all these layers of memory (disk, RAM, L3, L2 and L1 cache,…
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Yes, they should say nothing at all. Instead of saying things like "This means that every Mac Apple creates, from design to manufacturing, will be 100 percent carbon neutral." Carbon Neutrality is branding and does nothing to reverse CO2 or climate change. It is all green washing. https://www.resurgence.org/magazine/article256-the-carbon-ne... Better for the environment is never buying another computer. Yes, I am say…
While I appreciate where you're coming from, your conclusion seems to imply there is no world in which technology and a sustainable future can coexist. I realize we are closer to the end now than ever before, but what you are suggesting is that the ending is inevitable. If this is true - we've triggered our downfall and nothing can stop it - then should we not be praising companies that make efforts towards sustainab…
Apple and all these companies show no be allowed to use this BS carbon trading. They should be taxed directly for the cost of externalities on the price of the product. It would be so prohibitively expensive very few people could afford it. The profit these companies make is because they are not charging anyone the true cost.
We can put things back into the box. We just do not want to.
You know what my PR would say?
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This creation and use of our products causes harm to the environment and puts the planet, and your children's future, at risk.
Oh my god, that midnight colour. I just bought an M1 and knew this would be coming soon. I didn’t expect a new colour that looks so amazing though, haha. I guess I’m selling my brand new M1.
One paragraph on that page bothers me: "Better for the Environment" No, it is not better for the environment, it is not as bad for the environment.
No matter how I squint, those 2 statements are logically equivalent, while "both harm the environment" is also true, but you "harm" the environment too, in that sense, no?
There was a time when the earth could handle the CO2 humans created. There was a balance.
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Tell me you haven’t used an M1 device without telling me. People getting their hands on 8GB M1 MacBook Airs in the early days were saying the memory management and performance were making it snappier than the 16GB Intel MacBooks.
I made a mistake of purchasing a 8GB M1 MacBook Pro. It was painful to work with. For casual stuff it worked just fine, but as soon as I ran a Docker image (with 2GB memory limit), had Slack and few other light apps open, some tabs in Safari it started to become slow. Painfully slow. The spinning beach ball was a very frequent sight to me. My RAM usage was often in the red zone and I had to kill applications constant…
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I don't understand the point you are trying to make here. I wish you luck getting a 2022 Apple machine with 8GB of RAM to handle 2 VMs, IntelliJ, a logic project with 100 tracks or 4K video editing. These tasks are all limited by available RAM and the available RAM has not significantly increased since 2012 (my point).
I definitely have used multiple VMs in VirtualBox and Docker on a daily basis on my Macbook Air M1. It's a phenomenal machine.
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> Software has only been getting more and more complex and bloated over the last 10 years That's just some handwaving complain that doesn't mean much. > What good is 16GB of super fast RAM if the machine is swapping out to disk regularly? Try - opening 2 Linux/Windows VMs on that 2012 laptop - or opening a big Logic project with 100 tracks, convolution reverbs, high end AU/VSTs, and so on - or opening and editing sev…
I don't understand the point you are trying to make here. I wish you luck getting a 2022 Apple machine with 8GB of RAM to handle 2 VMs, IntelliJ, a logic project with 100 tracks or 4K video editing. These tasks are all limited by available RAM and the available RAM has not significantly increased since 2012 (my point).
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I'm yet to find a single non-Apple laptop that comes even close to Macbook's touchpad. There are better keyboards (Thinkpads are great), even comparable screens, fast processors, better dedicated GPUs. But somehow no one can get the touchpad right.
I don’t really see a difference in trackpads anymore. It used to be a huge deal. The old windows laptops were garbage. Now it’s more or less the same. People keep talking about the apple ones but side by side it’s the same same for general use.
Side note, massive praise to anyone who has contributed to the windows drivers for the apple trackpads. They are amazing.