Increasingly Familiar Apple Lust Objects for 2016 and onwards

lol pro

m1 pro meh. m1 max is more like it.

Why Max over Pro?

it's more

what else i'm looking for: wait and see but pro sounds like it might only support two (maaaaybe 4?) thunderbolt ports again. max will certainly support 4 (maybe 8).

show the bloody computer already

I don't even know what a thunderbolt port is so maybe I'm more of a pro guy -- or are you saying people need 64gb ram? (I am at 16 on my current mbp)

they have been very careful throughout to mention notebooks only. no mention of macs or mac pros. will be surprised if there's not an imac pro though.

HDMI

thunderbolt is physically the same port as usb 3. the current m1 macs are limited by the chip (not laptop size) to two usb 3 ports. i personally don't care, but it's an ongoing complain. these new chips will hopefully raise that limit.

MAGSAFE

damn they listened

magsafe is back again awooooo

THIC

v THIC so no fans?

lol guess not

sd card and magsafe niiiiice

very good ports

only 3 usb c ports but the addition of magsafe makes that ok imo (and the usb c's still support power delivery)

very nice display

max is an option in 14 and 16" so we may not be getting macs today

oof $

Fans too. And a camera notch FUCK OFF.

I work closely enough with the data scientists at work that I might be able to swing requesting one of these bad boys

If Apple can now recognise text in images..... can it index that metadata for Spotlight??

Spotlight can’t even index my home folder

the notch on the new pro book displays is hilarious

I don’t see why the notch is a big deal to people, the middle part of the menu bar is dead space anyway.

I have never watched a movie on a laptop, though, because I’m not a disgusting savage.

Exactly 0 % of display real estate is extraneous

Then you will like the notch because it means the bit below the menu bar is 16:10 and more pixels than without the notch.

Basically you have the same screen space you had before, but you no longer lose a strip at the top to a menu bar.

more pixels than without the notch.

You can make a case that it looks bad but you can’t make a case you’re losing “real estate” to it. The alternative is no notch and a smaller screen and a bigger bezel at the top.

No, the alternative is no notch

then where does the camera go?

re: looks bad, I wonder if it would be distracting (or if you'd quickly learn to filter it out) but a black menu bar at the top instead of the gray I have now seems like it would take that out of play.

Completely irrelevant because I priced one that I'd desire (32GB, 2TB SSD) and lol, of course.

No, the alternative is no notch

re: looks bad, I wonder if it would be distracting (or if you'd quickly learn to filter it out) but a black menu bar at the top instead of the gray I have now seems like it would take that out of play.

Cake slaying it itt

https://www.notebookcheck.net/fileadmin/_processed_/f/0/csm_MG_2651_e35de15c37.jpg

big nostril energy

You can lose a notch (new MacBooks), or a full width stripe the height of the notch (old MacBooks), or you can have one of those extremely cool pop up nostril cams. Those are the choices.

i thought i remembered somebody (apple?) patenting a camera that could be positioned behind a flat display, like it was actually IN the screen

You guys are so right

duh

i thought i remembered somebody (apple?) patenting a camera that could be positioned behind a flat display, like it was actually IN the screen

i guess part of the problem with that idea is there's more than just the camera in there at this point. there's room for a bank of sensors, and they don't make it big for fun. there's the ambient light sensor, and tbh there's probably face id sensors in there too in a revision or two. the notch is way too wide to just be the camera.

Like uh before the camera was in the bezel now you’re saying the bezel is the display but uhhh

Fuck apple