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The new MacBook
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Re: The new MacBook
#552Yeah, it looks pretty. I'm way more interested in news about the 15" Macbook Pro. It really is the only developer laptop I'd consider at this point. Given the fresh reviews about the new Macbook and the trackpad update to the 13" model, I'm a little worried they're going to do something screwy with the 15" model. Haptic feedback? Do I want this? I think it would be rather frustrating to have wikipedia entries popping up when I'm trying to highlight my code.
Touch pressure is such an individual thing. I tend to pound on my keys and trackpad. It's the way I am. This Force click business (while reminding me of Force Push and Force Pull) seems very different from a binary "click" vs "no click." Even if you can adjust the sensitivity, it doesn't help when someone else has to use your laptop.
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#553For people interested in typography: It seems like the Apple Watch UI font (San Francisco) replaced VAG Rounded as keyboard font. This is interesting because it would be the first time (AFAICT) that Apple uses the same font for keyboard and UI.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typography_of_Apple_Inc.#Keybo...
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#554I think no magsafe and just 1 port is a bit excessive. Also, what's the niche for MBA now?
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#555Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Apple laptops have been limited by a lack of docking ports, which is my favorite use case for having a work and home workstation. Now, instead of hooking up a power cable, monitor cable and USB hub, you slide one connector in. How is that bad?
Well with the Thunderbolt Display or various other Thunderbolt docking stations, 2 cables to the Macbook already was a reality
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#556Earlier quoted context omitted.
No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.
I know where the comment is coming from but I don't see the relevance. It's like everyone should blindly know Apple is going to rule everything.
Yes, that is exactly the point. Apple make superior products, period. Even if they fall short on this or that spec, when it comes to the user experience, fit and finish, build quality, and design innovation, the safe bet is that Apple is leagues ahead of the competition. Apple is driving most of the major advances in personal computing: since the 90s virtually every laptop has been a clone of the 1992 PowerBook -- until recently when a market developed for MacBook Air clones. PDAs were off-brand Newtons, and so were smartphones until the iPhone came out. There wasn't an appreciable tablet market until the iPad. When it comes to personal computing, it's Apple's field and everyone else just plays in it.
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#557This is a beautiful machine. Once again, Apple excels at hardware. But what the living hell is going wrong with Apple's desktop software? OS X and Apple's applications suite have been getting steadily worse with every release. Look at the App store: the latest releases of OS X, iPhoto, iMovie, Pages, and Numbers are (in stark contrast to earlier versins) all rated at 2.5/5 stars, with the plurality being 1-star revie…
Because you can't really tell how well software is working when looking at the device edge-on, and that's apparently the way Apple looks at them most of the time. I mean this more metaphorically than literally, but I'm so tired of complaints about the ridiculously primitive Finder being met with, "the edge of the iMac now appears even thinner, now that we've repositioned formerly convenient connectors and such into a…
I think this is good thinking.
It might also boil down to something as simple as "Jony Ive". He strikes me as truly a designer of physical things by nature.
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#558Like the Macbook Air, it does not offer a 16 GB RAM option. That's a bummer for web developers who keep lots of tabs open.
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#559This is a beautiful machine. Once again, Apple excels at hardware. But what the living hell is going wrong with Apple's desktop software? OS X and Apple's applications suite have been getting steadily worse with every release. Look at the App store: the latest releases of OS X, iPhoto, iMovie, Pages, and Numbers are (in stark contrast to earlier versins) all rated at 2.5/5 stars, with the plurality being 1-star revie…
Because you can't really tell how well software is working when looking at the device edge-on, and that's apparently the way Apple looks at them most of the time. I mean this more metaphorically than literally, but I'm so tired of complaints about the ridiculously primitive Finder being met with, "the edge of the iMac now appears even thinner, now that we've repositioned formerly convenient connectors and such into a…
I agree - I'd love to see them re-think Finder. I just don't grok Finder... I do most of my work in the terminal and occasionally midnight commander or nerdtree inside vim. I tried free ones like muCommander but don't like the overhead of starting a java app... Similarly I don't want the overhead of running an X server so I can use an X based file manager. And I don't want to buy some 3rd party File Manager. We should get a great File Manager OOTB with OS X. I don't see why Apple can't implement a modern File Manager... At least give us something comparable to Windows Explorer... or take the time to make a video to convince us Finder is actually good for those who may not grok it.
And a swappable battery would be wonderful but I can live without it.
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#560I can't believe the new MacBook has no internal fans. [0] Fanless architecture The new MacBook is the first Mac notebook ever without a fan. Since the Intel Core M chip draws only 5 watts of power and therefore generates less heat, no fan or heat pipe is required. Instead, the logic board is seated on top of an anisotropic graphite sheet, which helps disperse any heat that is generated out to the sides, all while you…
The CPU dissipates a maximum of 5W, there's no discrete GPU, and the power dissipation of the other logic board components is minimal (maybe a watt or two at most). That's barely enough to warm the machine up, let alone to make it hot.