Epic update. Crazy fast chips, 120hz, mini LED, more ports, 64 gigs of ram. It's literally everything you could want in a new MacBook Pro.
For the most part though it seems they've settled on Thunderbolt, Charge, and bog standard ports. Are there any that do Thunderbolt + Charge?
It's a shame about the name because the Thunderbolt icon would be perfect to indicate a charge port. Instead we're stuck with a little plug icon that is usually isn't discernable.
It's great, as I only need to plug in one cable and my laptop is powered, connected to both my external monitors (displayport mst) and USB peripherals.
It's also a reason I asked not to have a Mac when I changed jobs. The Intel Macs and the older m1s don't support MST.
I wonder if the new m1s finally support it?
As more folks returned to the office, we get lots of issues with shitty network and other drivers on docks.
Also, HDMI ports are approximately the same height as USB Type-A ports, so presumably it would fit in this design.
It did
Traveling is when I'm least likely to do that. And regardless, I travel with this[1] anyway, so no problemo.
[1] https://www.amazon.com/Purgo-Adapter-2018-2016-Delivery-Thun...
* My yubikey to perform 2-factor auth
* The checkra1n jailbreak for my work iPhone (I do some iOS dev and occasionally need a jailbroken device. For whatever reason, it doesn't work with a USB-C-to-lightning cable, it has to use a USB-A-to-lightning cable + a dongle.)
* A USB flash drive for transferring a presentation or whatever. (I know these come in USB-C variants, but I don't have one.)
* Charging all the random things that charge from USB-A ports.
I made the transition at the beginning of the year to "USB-C everything I can" and it's very liberating. Ironically the only devices I have left that are not USB-C are my iPhone and AirPods (and my Kindle, but they just released a USB-C model which I will soon use to replace my current one).
[1] https://www.amazon.com/SDBAUX-USB-Compatible-Electronic-Tabl...
Looks like a handy cable.
In practice I’ll probably mostly just deal with for a while by carrying a hub with me.
Of course I have a ton of other things I’ll home but that’s easier dealt with using various usb hubs.
He is now designing at Ferrari: https://www.wsj.com/articles/ferrari-hires-former-apple-desi...
- Removal of the brake pedal since you should only need one input to control things
- The gas inlet port relocated to a more aesthetically pleasing location in the very center of the undercarriage
- Total width of the car down to a svelte and sexy 3.5 feet because the thinner it looks the better it is
There is 3D Touch where a long press on the steering screen lets you set cruise control
You have to attach them via dongle, but the only input port is in the trunk.
Why is this a problem? You shouldn't be trying to drive it while it's fueling anyway
It also requires the car to be on the front wheels, with the back awkwardly suspended by the fuel hose.
https://dealerimages.dealereprocess.com/image/upload/v157591...
Pretty telling since that was sort of the heyday of Apple's devices having all sorts of conflicting designs.
Edit: I think this is the article: https://www.wsj.com/articles/jony-ive-is-departing-apple-but...
With a summary at: https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/07/01/jony-ives-departu...
Furthermore, it's hard to imagine Ive and Ferrari gelling. Ive's style is about as diametrically opposed from Italian design as I can think of. I characterize his design as character-less, something Italian designers don't go for.
with the new chips, they can comfortably sacrifice some battery size.
Personally I'm surprised they didn't decide to keep the same weight by shrinking the battery. Not that many people absolutely need a 21 hour battery life, though it is nice.
USB-C is pretty great, and the sooner we shift things over the better. When I bough a MBP with only USB-C ports I just bought a little dongle thing that slots in to my two ports on the side and gives me USB-A, HDMI, SD and MicroSD. I've used the thing around 20 times and its never been a burden because I carry it with me in my laptops case.
At this point I actually see adding the other ports back as a step backwards. HDMI is old and aggressively large in 2021. My 3 devices that use an SD card actually use a microSD card so I need to carry around an adapter anyway.
Even twenty years ago I wanted just the best features in a laptop.
Give me a quality machine, at a reasonable price; and I would drag around a boat anchor.
I also wanted repairability, and room for future upgrades inside the laptop, but gave up on that one.
I think you're giving them too much credit. This is Apple's way of admitting they were wrong.
Some people run applications full screen most of the time. For example the browser, text editor, chat, etc.
I wonder if it automatically inserts a black bar in those situations.
They could have just moved everything down for IMO a slightly better design.
Looking at the product photos it looks like they black-bar the entire top of the display when anything is full-screen? So that seems to make the notch even more intrusive as you lose out on all the screen real-estate next to it when something is fullscreen.
Or rather, the menu bar is now a permanent bezel that nothing else can occupy?
That would have been bezel in a notchless design.
Just see literally any other laptop that has both a fairly small bezel and fits a webcam in it, like the Dell XPS 13. The camera in the macbook may be better and require a larger lens assembly as a result, but it's surely not as big as the bezel + notch itself requires.
The screenshots showing application menus almost hitting the notch are ugly af. I'm sure that there are applications that have even more menus than Photoshop or Premiere.
… and yet, sales have continued to be extremely high, which suggests that is a self-selected group of extremely vocal opponents rather than a real market trend.
I hate the notch, but I'll still buy iPhones all day long if my only other choice is to buy products with questionable privacy from an advertising company versus dealing with Apple's shitty designs.
The Mac notch is right in the middle of the toolbar. I have lots of applications that use that space for menus and will be curious how cumbersome it will be now that we need to literally navigate around it.
Will we need to move the mouse down to get around the notch, or will the cursor be allowed to go under the notch?
From the full-screen screenshots, it appears that it's simply black across the top of the screen unless the application has been designed to support it. That looked like the regular Safari developer tools with an unbroken bar slightly lower down in the video.
Literally during the latest iPhone announcement where Apple was even timid about showing off the front of the display or talking about the smaller notch, as everyone mocked how dated the notch looked.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/09/apple-makes-the-ipho...
Again, not saying this is nothing or that I love it, only that the buying public does not seem to feel anywhere near as strongly about it and I've never heard anyone complaining about it on a regular basis. Most people get used to it, if they're curious they probably understand that it's for the camera, and get on with life. I'd be quite surprised if this did not follow a very similar trajectory — especially since the display is larger so you could black out the entire top of the screen in software and still have more screen real estate than the previous model.
In this case, the 16" screen gained ~0.2" diagonally and 314px extra resolution. Those extra pixels mean that even with the notch you're going to see more on the screen than you could before and in my experience that's far more likely to be the part which shapes people's impression of a new device.
10 people complaining online doesn’t mean that all the millions of purchasers dislike it too.
That doesn’t mean it’s zero but it suggests that the compromise was actually quite reasonable, even if there are a small number of people who vocally disagree.
I think for me it'll fade away, especially with a dark-mode UI.
Laptops are effectively always in landscape.
And yes, sarcasm.
That's just my half-assed stab at it. Presumably someone whose job is to write these things for a living can improve it meaningfully while maintaining the essence.
It's a company dude, Apple is not your buddy. They're not listening to you, they're listening to market research and usage analytics.
I suspect the 13" M1 Pro was probably just something to cater for those who were skeptical about a fanless laptop since no one really knew back then how well these machines would perform. Now that the M1s have been out for a while and no one seems to be complaining about the Air, they can drop the M1 Pro.
If it doesn't run VirtualBox then I can't use it to write code, so why does it even matter if it's faster?
Conceptually I'd love one of these machine, but realistically if I can't develop locally in an Ubuntu VM then I might as well just wait a year or two to buy one until that's possible. I'm not going to use Docker, and realistically I have zero interest in spending multiple weeks rewriting all of my provisioning scripts.
QEMU can virtualise arm and emulate x86.
You could use that now or wait for virtual box to catch up (I assume).
This thing is running Rails, mysql, elastic search, redis, mongodb, and workers inside docker. As well as nodejs, vscode, a handful of electron apps all at the same time and the laptop is cold.
gulp.watch would often eat an entire core, and stuff in Docker ran slower than on Linux, but my laptop could keep up. vscode didn't lag and Firefox ran just fine—all with 5+ Docker containers running.
Have you considered that plenty of people don’t need VirtualBox to write code?
Mini-LED backlighting. It’s still an IPS panel. MicroLED is something else entirely. Had me excited for a second.
No reason they had to do that - just pure icing on the cake.
It’s not like a huge majority of office workers have been staying at home or working from the office for the last year and half or something. The coffee shop surfing, working in the plane / train must have taken a dive.
If our stuff makes M1 runs slow ... It's probably poorly optimized code.
Of course game dev is exempt from this.
But also those who run multiple VMs at the same time.
I tried this route a few years ago but gave up out of sheer frustration. I wonder if it's improved now. At this point I'm more inclined to setup my local stack in AWS and be done with it. Like no local laptop testing at all.
The original M1 pro had a touchbar, that alone make it suck. But the M1 is still thinner by a mile and has no fan!
Many people overlook this but no fan means no dirt will get into the chasis. That is HUGE.
https://www.eizo.com/library/basics/10_ways_to_address_eye_f...
I bought a QLED TV 3 years ago, and tried to use it as an external display for my laptop. It's painful to look at. You switch from a white window to a black one and the TV adjusts backlight dynamically and blasts your eyes. I would react by putting my hand in front on my eyes like if i had looked outside from inside a cave after getting used to the cave.
Something like e-ink would be best for office work indeed. Lighting is external so controlled by the user and in line with the rest of the room
Is it really the contrast though? No contrast is sharper than blank and white, and reading a book is fine.
Let's say your movie shows a full moon in the night. Looking at that moon on the screen is now like looking at a torchlight in the night in real life. The moon section of the screen is blasting high brightness right at your eyes.
This is what I meant. I tried doing office work on such a monitor, and quickly realize it's good for immersion, but terrible for office work, for which you want stable brightness.
Everyone likes to have mobile workstation.