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Re: New MacBook Air

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Post by ksec »

marcus_holmes wrote: post #342
dev_tty01 wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We all (most of us anyway) wanted them to go back to the scissor design. Are we going to now complain that they did what the community has been begging them to do? Was butterfly a mistake? Yes. Were they slow to correct the issue? Yes. Now that they fixed it we should be happy about it. As far as talking about it being amazing, its called marketing spin. This is how it works. However, those two sentences do not say a…

To be honest, yes, I'd like them to say "we messed up, and we finally recognised that, so we're fixing it". I think it would be amazing if the most valuable, most design-focused company in the world admitted to everyone that they made a mistake. It would do a lot towards allowing everyone else to make mistakes without beating themselves up over it. After all, if the thousands of specialist engineers, paid billions in…

>To be honest, yes, I'd like them to say "we messed up, and we finally recognised that, so we're fixing it".

Exactly. In Steve Jobs days he would have either jokingly admit there was a mistake or at least say something that people dont like it ( hence admitting there is a problem ).

The new Apple put up a big middle finger and didn't act until there are class action.

Re: New MacBook Air

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Post by ksec »

hoorayimhelping wrote: post #96
cytzol wrote: post #19

The refined scissor mechanism with 1 mm of travel delivers a responsive, comfortable, and quiet typing experience. The inverted-T arrow keys help you fly through lines of code, spreadsheets, or game environments. This isn't progress. This is the baseline. Apple have gone from bad to OK, and they're celebrating as though they've achieved something amazing.

Ok. How should they communicate this? "We've gone back to where we were three years ago after a mistake, sorry." I don't understand what the issue is with Apple trying to sell their products. It sounds like people here are upset that marketing and sales exists, and that they use language to try to make their products seem impressive, and that consumers aren't rational when it comes to buying things.

In the old days Steve would owe up to their mistakes, or at least put forward with a statement, or talk about it in conference.

New Apple doesn't act. Refuse to listen. Even with the Repair programme they still act as if it was not their fault.

Re: New MacBook Air

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Post by acomjean »

tarasmatsyk wrote: post #257
climb_stealth wrote: post #182

After using the latest Macbook Pro 13" for over a year I have recently had my 2015 Macbook Pro 13" repaired. Both are max specs. It was a $600 bill, but it has been so worth it. The keyboard just works, it doesn't run hot and the fan doesn't blast under the slightest load, the performance is much better, the battery lasts longer and the external screen + keyboard and mouse are detected every single time without havin…

Ha-ha, reading this from the 2015 MPRO 13", exact same experience. I've tried to move to DELL XPS 13 2 years ago on Linux, did not work for me, however with a new line of Dell's I am starting to thinking about repeating this experiment. Apple's 2016-2019 laptops were pretty unusable, hope they revert the touchbar too.. A question, has anybody tried System76 comparing to Dell/Apple?

oddly enough I have a system76 ibex pro and a 2015 macbook pro 13". I'm almost a year into switching over. (Everything except lightroom). The system76 is much bigger, clunkier and not as well built. But honestly its fine, the software is updated frequently and besides a couple of times where the keyboard didn't come back after sleep the systm76 has been a trooper (sleep awake cycle brought it back).

I enjoy this machine and would buy another.

Re: New MacBook Air

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Post by ksec »

mFixman wrote: post #183
highace wrote: post #81

- Quad core processor - Scissor keys - No touch bar MacBook Air, the new MacBook for Pros.

I honestly never understood the hate for the touchbar. It allows me to be much more granular with volume and brightness, and I never really used F-keys anyway.

>It allows me to be much more granular with volume and brightness

I press the physical button a few more times? I find that 10 times easier.

Re: New MacBook Air

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Post by closeparen »

ctvo wrote: post #322
pyrophane wrote: post #266

Keep in mind that probably the most important spec when considering a new laptop is one that is often not directly stated: the processor series. I'm not talking about i3/i5/i7, but rather U/Y/H. This letter determines the TDP (thermal design power/point) them machine is designed to run at. The TDP will govern the setting for the base clock speed, and, just as importantly, the throttling behabior under load. Processor…

This is underestimating modern processors and overestimating programming compute resource usage. Your post may apply if we're working with 4K+ resolution video files, rendering and other activities, but the modern programmer, even compiling binaries, will be fine on a MacBook Air. How do I know? I use a 2 generation old Macbook as my primary personal development machine. I write Go, Rust, Java and TypeScript using th…

Compiling routinely pegs all 12 cores on my top-spec MBP for 5-10 minutes at a time. YMMV.

Re: New MacBook Air

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Post by kristianp »

Almost $2k Australian for the quad-core model. Pretty steep for a machine that still needs an upgrade of 16g of ram for my use, then the Y-series processor is still too low performance.

Re: New MacBook Air

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Post by ksec »

mrpippy wrote: post #152
stagger87 wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which is still a 1.2 GHz base clock.

And turbos up to 3.8 GHz. We’ll see, but I suspect it’ll spend a lot of time above 3 GHz

At a 9W TDP the chip wont spend any more than a few seconds at boost clock.

Re: New MacBook Air

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Post by ksec »

pfranz wrote: post #426
terramex wrote: post #305

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When Macbook Pro 16 premiered last year (using 720p camera too), I've read comment here on HN, saying that nobody produces higher resolution sensors that can fit into such a slim form factor (as notebook cover is slimmer than even thinnest smartphones). Their competition like Dell XPS 13 2020 also seems to still use 720p camera.

> nobody produces higher resolution sensors that can fit into such a slim form factor That seems like a very flimsy excuse. These seem to be the exact same cameras they've been shipping since 2011 and nobody would excuse them for using 2011 era cameras in their phones (I remember being disappointed in the quality back in 2011). Apple has added bigger and multiple camera bumps to their phones to accommodate space. Tha…

>These seem to be the exact same cameras they've been shipping since 2011

As explained in your previous comment, the sensor in post 2018 model are different due to thinner Display Lid / Panel.

Re: New MacBook Air

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Post by ksec »

chipotle_coyote wrote: post #500
abledon wrote: post #330

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"30 %" seems like a good amount more. also https://twitter.com/variety/status/1226710675554091008 every year they get worse

I mean, okay, percentage-wise you're absolutely correct, and if you subjectively feel that the difference between 1.3mm and 1.0mm key travel is the difference between typing bliss and "might as well not be moving at all," who am I to tell you otherwise. For me, subjectively, the Magic Keyboard is the nicest-feeling "low travel" keyboard I've ever used, and as a technical writer and a novelist on the side who has a cl…

The key travel has absolutely nothing to do with the thickness of the current MacBook as proven by many other vendors. It was a compromise / invention for the MacBook 12" which was light weight and thin.

And the despite the small difference, Magic Keyboard felt the same as the Butterfly keyboard. It is similar enough to group them in the same Category while the old Scissors keyboard being a different one.

Re: New MacBook Air

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Post by mrpopo »

rimliu wrote: post #26
mrpopo wrote: post #17

> Total greenhouse gas emissions of 176 kg CO2e based on Life Cycle Assessment. This is definitely lower than the real number. Is there any more info on how this carbon accounting is done?

Well, you claim it is "definitely lower" so you must know how it is calculated, no?

Yes, I do, and I cannot believe they took every step of the life cycle into account, else the number would be 3-4 times higher.

That's why I was hoping for more details. But obviously this is not something we like to talk about, and it's so easy to sweep it under the carpet, so why bother?

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