I am bit disappointed. Dell has similar sized laptop, with bigger display, smaller bezel and higher resolution. http://www.dell.com/us/p/xps-13-9343-laptop/pd
Also made out of plastic, and just as expensive with less SSD storage.
The new MacBook
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Re: The new MacBook
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No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.
No wireless?
This is a joke referring to how Slashdot made fun of the iPod when it came out: http://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-ip...
Re: The new MacBook
#53Say what you will about the logic behind a single port for everything (as far as I know this is the first computer to do this so there's nothing to compare it to), this Air is a pretty drastic change from what we're all used to when it comes to laptops. We're basically hitting the limits of thinness at this point right?
> We're basically hitting the limits of thinness at this point right? And for what? A razor thin laptop with just one port seems to be really pushing towards one extreme side of the function/form continuum. I thought giving up ethernet was bad enough with the Retina Macbooks. It's very pretty, but it seems more like a toy than a serious computer. Maybe that's what Apple wants, but that's never something I would have…
> It's very pretty, but it seems more like a toy than a serious computer.
I really must disagree. I do Infrastructure by day (not just AWS, but physical colo as well), and quite a bit of microcontroller/CNC/robotics on the side/as a hobby. Nothing in the new Macbook stops me from doing this. I'll just move to using Bluetooth for my interfaces when I can, and when I can't, serial interfaces over USB-C.
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I am not too happy about that. HP already has USB charger for laptop, and it had bunch of problems, including fire hazard. That was just ARM chromebook, not sure how it will on 'full' mac. EDIT: there are physical limitations how electric current is transferred. USB contacts do not have good shape and will probably deteriorate more quickly.
In the old days, HP had a high standard of quality. More recently, almost coinciding with the introduction of inkjet printers, HP quality standards have slipped to a new dismal low. I'm not surprised to hear of fires.
USB connector was not simply designed for 10 amps or how much they push through it.
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#55USB-C as the "one connector to rule them all" is the big news. That's the end of MagSafe and the exploding era of USB-C docking stations that work for multiple devices. I think we'll start to see an era of expandable computing coming up soon: USB-C is a perfect connector to push your data and state into a larger desktop experience. Why not carry around your laptop in tablet form when you are mobile? [1] [1] https://g…
Is this the end of Thunderbolt as well?
I have two thunderbolt displays daisy chained into the single thunderbolt port on my 2013 MacBook Air. Each display is basically also a dock, with other peripheral ports in the back. It works very well because as I understand it thunderbolt is 10gbps transfer.
Does USB-C work the same way?
Re: The new MacBook
#56Say what you will about the logic behind a single port for everything (as far as I know this is the first computer to do this so there's nothing to compare it to), this Air is a pretty drastic change from what we're all used to when it comes to laptops. We're basically hitting the limits of thinness at this point right?
I'd hate to have to worry that I'll cut myself on my laptop. Is there anyone that's super-excited about a thinner Air? My preference is always for greater battery life. I'm curious if there are people that wish their already thin laptop were even thinner, and if so, why?
I think that it targets a lot of students. Most people want to carry around something that is light, I think this targets a lot of college students. In all of my business classes that I am currently in more than 90% of the class uses Mac's, they bring their chargers with them to class so they are set.
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I am not too happy about that. HP already has USB charger for laptop, and it had bunch of problems, including fire hazard. That was just ARM chromebook, not sure how it will on 'full' mac. EDIT: there are physical limitations how electric current is transferred. USB contacts do not have good shape and will probably deteriorate more quickly.
Not sure how USB is a factor in that. Plenty of old-style chargers have had issues (including fire hazards) over the years as well.
Including Apple chargers, so it's really nothing new.
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I'm glad apple picked this up after so many others pushed it forward :) But 1 port is sad, because now you have to choose between a lot of things (charging, using hdmi, whatever)
It just means we're going to stay stuck in dongle hell. When I'm on the road the minimalism of a Mac is nice, but at my desk, hooked up to everything I really need for heavy work, my desktop is a cluster-f of cables and adapters and wires.
Isn't it only dongle hell for a few years? Theoretically monitors, printers, hard drives, etc will all have USB-C connectors as well at some point.
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#59They messed up the resolution. No more "4x the resolution" as "retina" anymore for Apple devices, it seems. It's the end of that, as we've seen with the new iPhones. So now developers will have to target those resolutions exactly as they are. No more "elegant scaling" and whatnot.
226 ppi, apparently. Straight pixel doubling would be a pretty small screen in terms of logical pixels, to be sure.
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#60I'm disappointed that this has only one port. I shouldn't have to choose between charging my laptop and using my USB port for something.
Having said that, battery power is my number 1 priority when buying a laptop. My 2013 Macbook Air is great in this regard, it charges to full in 40 minutes and lasts for a long ass time. If this new model has even better battery tech, I'm all for it.