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!
Feels like an apology for prior design decisions. My 2011 MBP is new again!
Function over form.
All the time. The Macbook pro is meant to be for pros, pros care about other things like having physical function keys over it having a "light blue color that matches my shirt :)".
I haven't bought a Macbook since 2016 bc of all the trash they've been doing. A laptop without magsafe would last ~2 weeks in my household, so just that thing makes it for me.
Also, best battery, best screen, best trackpad, ports. Assuming nothing weird comes out later (screen or thermal issues) this will be the best laptop on the market for the next 10 years.
Great decision to have fired Jony Ive back then.
I like that they are going back to basics with the new models. Not crazy about the notch but otherwise it is all good. Decent screen, memory and ssd are super expensive but at least there's plenty of it now.
I'll wait a few months to see if their quality levels are back where they should be. Because I'm beyond taking their word for it after my last experience. I'm particularly curious to see if it delivers on the performance hype and thermal behavior when actually using it for doing work. If that's even close to what they are promising, it's going to be a bad year for Intel.
Does anyone know if those neural processors do anything useful or is that only for people that use specialist stuff like video editing tools? I run docker, intellij, vs code, etc.
The 2020 13" Macbook Pro was 1.5 cm thick. The new 2021 14" Macbook pro is 1.55 cm thick. So that is only 0.5 mm difference.
But I still use a 2012 MBP. Doesn't look sharp anymore, and its always been pretty heavy, but they keys work sooooo well, the touchpad is a miracle of engineering, 9 years of daily use and everything still works beautifully. And frankly, I mostly don't notice any lag still (though I might if I was doing video editing). And the port selection meant that I could hook up to just about anything with no hassle ... including ethernet. Wifi is still inferior to an ethernet port.
I know it's a very minor and a picky thing, but Apple takes such a great pride in the uniformity and design, it's strange they resort to this.
The 2003 12-inch Macbook with the aluminum keys was like a textbook made out of solid metal. That keyboard felt great.
This looks like a great machine to me and I am a little sad I bought in Feb!
There used to be a time when what people considered “professional hardware” was versatility and durability over pure aesthetics. I’m not saying we can’t have both form and function with professional grade hardware but with the later iterations of the MBP Apple have put form ahead of function and then trained an entire generation of developers to look at hardware superficially. I honestly weep for the industry if this is the path we are destined to continue down.
But I will say, the aluminium body is genius in terms of form and function. That's not an aesthetic compromise, it's the right thing.
Computers are our workplace, we spend most of our lives in them.
Would you be just as productive if we put your desk in a reeking pig sty?
I have no issue with people wanting their work environment to be pretty but aesthetics shouldn’t hamper the person’s ability to get their work done. (at least not unless you work in an industry where aesthetics is your job).
If so, that's not the keyboard everyone hates. They were already backtracking the butterfly switches by that point
Nah. It was hated by a small but vocal minority of users, of which HN has a lot of.
I posit that "hate" is too strong a word. I would describe the changes as merely unpopular.
Do you have a source for that? Because if that was the case, it would seem silly for them to undo.
I have not met a pro user that wasn't annoyed by not being able to plug in HDMI at some point without a dongle...
I wonder when I'll be able to get one of these new Macs at work ...
>About 90 per cent of computer users don't use CTRL-F to search for a word - as they don't know such a keyboard shortcut exists, a Google survey found.
The results stunned Google's Uber Tech Lead for Search Quality and User Happiness, Dan Russell.
I think we just all assume that we all know it, but no one actually does."
https://www.smh.com.au/technology/only-one-in-10-know-what-c...
It's an Apple product launch. Like every product launch ever in the history of ever, they point out the features of the thing they launch.
But yes, I don't care how they market it. They'd be dumb to pause and say "oh yeah we were stupid, here's your old toys back."
Maybe I'm weird, but my respect for a company that did that would go way up, not down.
Obviously they wouldn't say "we were stupid", but I'd absolutely appreciate an admission along the lines of, "during our design journey over the past X years, we've realized our customers prefer having a full function key row on their keyboard / more ports / MagSafe / etc., so we've listened and are bringing them back!" To me, that signals a group of folks who know they are fallible, listen to customers, and do their best to meet customer needs.
But of course admitting those sorts of things wouldn't be consistent with Apple's brand. Apple is all about "we know better than you know what you want and can do no wrong". Which is fine, and seems to have created a lot of success for them, but it's always turned me off.
I think technically-minded people would take that well, but the business/management types don't like doing stuff like this, likely because it has a chance of making the stock fall (or even just not rise as much as they wanted it to).
"We heard your feedback and we listened."
Exactly none of these changes were presented as "revolutionary", that's just in your head.
I would much rather have more usb-c ports that can do anything and add dongles, than have ports that are functionally limited.