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Re: MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch

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Post by enraged_camel »

paxys wrote: post #26
smoovb wrote: post #16

Kills the touch bar, the light touch keyboard, adds back weight, card reader, ports and the mag safe. Feels like an apology for prior design decisions. My 2011 MBP is new again!

I was laughing when every single one of these changes was presented as "revolutionary" in the keynote. No, you just had to revert everything because your previous revolution was universally hated by users.

>> because your previous revolution was universally hated by users.

Nah. It was hated by a small but vocal minority of users, of which HN has a lot of.

Re: MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch

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Post by have_faith »

dkonofalski wrote: post #34
have_faith wrote: post #23

Can't believe they did so many positive changes with the MBP only to add the notch from the phone in too. Almost the perfect update. Does this mean every app in full screen has to be updated to account for it?

No. It looks like the notch only cuts into the menu bar area and letterboxes fullscreen apps.

> letterboxes fullscreen apps.

Sounds odd but I'll see what it's like in practice

Re: MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch

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Post by bla3 »

For me personally, they hit it out of the park -- except for the notch, which seems like a complete showstopper to me at first sight. Maybe it's not so bad in practice if games and full-screen videos keep that whole strip solid black? But almost all the screenshots are of fullscreen apps, so it seems Apple thinks it looks a bit ungainly too.

Re: MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch

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Post by muggermuch »

jjcon wrote: post #7
Tpt wrote: post #4

I'm very curious to see how the 64GB of RAM GPU performs with deep learning models fine-tuning. It might be impressive.

Do any deep learning frameworks even have metal support? I could see inference working well on these laptops but they lack so much of the specialized hardware I'd be surprised if training was even possible for most useable models.

Tensorflow supports Metal AFAIK.

Re: MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch

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Post by Tpt »

jjcon wrote: post #7
Tpt wrote: post #4

I'm very curious to see how the 64GB of RAM GPU performs with deep learning models fine-tuning. It might be impressive.

Do any deep learning frameworks even have metal support? I could see inference working well on these laptops but they lack so much of the specialized hardware I'd be surprised if training was even possible for most useable models.

Apple is maintaining a Tensorflow plugin: https://developer.apple.com/metal/tensorflow-plugin/

Re: MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch

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Post by eecc »

zepto wrote: post #44
shantara wrote: post #9

Everything they’ve said about the new MacBook Pros is extremely promising, but they had to add a notch to the screen. Just why? All for the sake of reducing the top screen border by a couple of millimeters.

The notch occupies otherwise wasted space in the menu bar - how is that not purely positive?

Well, unless you’re only ever using text edit, the menubar is there for er, menus? It’s going to be interesting to see the gymnastics around this
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