Pretty bummed about magsafe.
No more taking one charger for 5 devices and another single purpose cable that isn't so easy to get a workable backup/replacement for.
MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch
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#962Pretty bummed about magsafe. No more taking one charger for 5 devices and another single purpose cable that isn't so easy to get a workable backup/replacement for.
You can still charge via thunderbolt / usb-c!! :)
Re: MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch
#963Cool, the screen has a chunk taken out of it, great stuff. I'm sure everyone will consider this a feature, and next year you'll hardly be able to get a PC laptop without a third of the top of the screen devoted to a notch and hard radii ground off the top corners, as well.
Glad I bought my M1 when I did. At least it's a normal laptop.
Re: MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch
#964Cool, the screen has a chunk taken out of it, great stuff. I'm sure everyone will consider this a feature, and next year you'll hardly be able to get a PC laptop without a third of the top of the screen devoted to a notch and hard radii ground off the top corners, as well. Glad I bought my M1 when I did. At least it's a normal laptop.
It has a chunk added to it. It's a 16:10 area with an extra 74 pixels on top for the menu bar. It renders full black in fullscreen apps.
Re: MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch
#965Cool, the screen has a chunk taken out of it, great stuff. I'm sure everyone will consider this a feature, and next year you'll hardly be able to get a PC laptop without a third of the top of the screen devoted to a notch and hard radii ground off the top corners, as well. Glad I bought my M1 when I did. At least it's a normal laptop.
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Re: MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch
#966Cool, the screen has a chunk taken out of it, great stuff. I'm sure everyone will consider this a feature, and next year you'll hardly be able to get a PC laptop without a third of the top of the screen devoted to a notch and hard radii ground off the top corners, as well. Glad I bought my M1 when I did. At least it's a normal laptop.
It has two extra chunks of screen where before it was just black bezel? I'm not a user of these machines, nor do I use iPhones, but I still don't understand why people hate notches so much.
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#967It's refreshing to see them actually listening to customer feedback, I don't think this ever would've happened in a Jobs/Ive world. Would they have released "pro" focused M1 chips/laptops? Absolutely. Would they have gone back on the (IMO) trainwreck that was touchbar and removing everything but 2x USB-C ports? No way. ALSO, I'm actually kind of shocked they're supporting charging by both USB-C and magsafe. That is 1…
Obligatory reminder that Apple killed the miniDIN-8 and ADB ports on the original iMac before almost anyone had ever seen a USB cable in real life. They sold the notion of charging off your monitor cable pretty hard, there’s no way they could go back on that.
And to be honest, I use my laptop for home and office work. It’s very nice to be able to have to just (un)plug one cable and have everything (charging, 4K100 video, keyboard, mouse, webcam) working.
If Apple would have killed charging via USB-C PD, it’d have been a big regression for me.
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#968For 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.
Honest question, did you ever use an iPhone with a notch?
In my experience, it kinda disappears within minutes. I barely notice it’s there.
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#969These are the best Mac laptops in YEARS. I'm only 2 years into a usually-3-to-5-year replacement cycle, and I'm VERY tempted, especially with the trade-in offer on my 2019 model.
I guess it was Jony Ive that was pushing the "thinness above everything else" mantra that gave us embarrassing keyboards and no ports other than USB-C. I'm very glad he's gone and that's over.
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#970Wow looks like Apple has abandoned every bad decision on the MBP for the past 5 years in one swoop. No touchbar, increased key travel, added back hdmi/sd/headphone/power jacks. Plus bumped up RAM limit, M1, new displays, 120Hz... Wow.
Damn, I liked the touchbar :-( I think that Apple's biggest mistake is not making it more obvious that the bar is editable in all programs. It becomes pretty useful when you can keep only the functions that you use the most.
Because I work at home and never travel anymore, I've been using a late 2019 15" for 2 years and I'm not sure I've had it in "laptop mode" often enough to have a real opinion about the touchbar.
I use an external keyboard and a pair of 4K screens with it, so it runs closed at the back of my desk. :)