Lol no
― calstars, Monday, 25 October 2021 01:32 (two years ago) link
Not sure what else to sayβ¦ enjoy your notch. Itβs totally normal
― calstars, Monday, 25 October 2021 01:50 (two years ago) link
Lots of laptops these days have a notch
― calstars, Monday, 25 October 2021 01:51 (two years ago) link
Donβt feel like youβre the only one with a notch
― calstars, Monday, 25 October 2021 01:52 (two years ago) link
https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/6/18170564/asus-zenbook-s13-display-bezels-notch-specs-ces-2019
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Monday, 25 October 2021 01:57 (two years ago) link
Tbf I think youβre right that no one is going to copy this. The only hardware manufacturers that could make a laptop with a notch are the ones that control the operating system. And I donβt think Apple or anyone thinks this looks good. Itβs just better than the alternatives.
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Monday, 25 October 2021 02:01 (two years ago) link
this notch talk is mindnumbing. who fucking cares
― akm, Monday, 25 October 2021 02:02 (two years ago) link
The only hardware manufacturers that could make a laptop with a notch are the ones that control the operating system..
― calstars, Monday, 25 October 2021 02:07 (two years ago) link
You must taking the piss. There no other explanation. Cheers
― calstars, Monday, 25 October 2021 02:09 (two years ago) link
Sorry. I will shut up now β¦
― calstars, Monday, 25 October 2021 02:20 (two years ago) link
Asus couldn't unilaterally make changes to Windows basic UI, probably?
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 25 October 2021 02:31 (two years ago) link
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/10/samsung-tablet-leak-shows-notched-display-just-like-in-the-new-macbook-pro/
Everyone saw the Macbook Pro announcement last week, right? Apple has made the controversial design decision to bring the iPhone notch to some of its laptops, minimizing bezel space but introducing an awkward cutout on the display area. Now, Samsung is apparently working on bringing the same idea to tablets. The reliable leaker, Steve Hemmerstoffer, aka "OnLeaks," has created renders of the Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra design, and it basically looks like someone cut off the top half of a Macbook Pro, complete with that weird notch....Notching a tablet is a pretty strange idea. Was anyone calling for smaller bezels than what you get in something like the leaked S8 Tab design? You hold a tablet by its bezels, so the goal shouldn't be a zero-bezel device like on a smartphone. The move will get Samsung some attention, though.
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Monday, 25 October 2021 19:33 (two years ago) link
putting a notch on a thing you sometimes use in portrait and sometimes in landscape and on which the bezels are actually useful.
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Monday, 25 October 2021 19:35 (two years ago) link
not the thread for it but i'm intrigued by this drooling review and some of the features they talk about sound pretty useful
https://gizmodo.com/the-pixel-6-is-so-good-why-buy-anything-else-1847927331
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 25 October 2021 21:22 (two years ago) link
am I too late to hop in on some hot notch action
― talkin' about his flat tire (DJP), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 13:27 (two years ago) link
the notch can be your niche if you can fit your commentary in the slot
― mh, Tuesday, 26 October 2021 14:26 (two years ago) link
rowr
― talkin' about his flat tire (DJP), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 14:31 (two years ago) link
I'm pretty close to buying an iPhone after years of Android, mostly because I'm missing some action on the group chat (video gets shared via iMessage only, FaceTime etc)The only thing holding me back at this point is that it is sooooo nice to have only USB-C charging - phone, iPad, MacBook all use the same charger.
― lukas, Tuesday, 26 October 2021 15:50 (two years ago) link
Are you by any chance an undercover official of the European Commission, in propagandising mode or perhaps hoping to out any unwary Brexit-leaning Apple fans: EU common charging solution ?
― Luna Schlosser, Tuesday, 26 October 2021 16:09 (two years ago) link
I'm just a normal consumer out here saying that the charging port and fast charging technology must be harmonised.
― lukas, Tuesday, 26 October 2021 20:42 (two years ago) link
calstars you can have the old display back https://topnotch.app/
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Saturday, 30 October 2021 16:24 (two years ago) link
The only thing holding me back at this point is that it is sooooo nice to have only USB-C charging - phone, iPad, MacBook all use the same charger.
I've got some great news for you, lukas:
https://www.macrumors.com/2021/11/04/usb-c-iphone-ebay-auction/
― Alba, Thursday, 4 November 2021 14:34 (two years ago) link
;_;
― lukas, Thursday, 4 November 2021 17:04 (two years ago) link
dumb question - i have an old macbook pro (like about eight years old) that i mostly use for making music. it works pretty well but it runs slow, especially starting back up and starting applications. would installing more RAM help with this? if so, seems like an easy/cheap fix, right?
― na (NA), Thursday, 11 November 2021 16:19 (two years ago) link
you have an SSD drive or regular?
― dan selzer, Thursday, 11 November 2021 16:44 (two years ago) link
probably regular - looks like that was the default
― na (NA), Thursday, 11 November 2021 16:50 (two years ago) link
Generally speaking ram is an easier upgrade on old macs. switching to an SSD is a bigger performance boost but involves a reinstall or data migration and is trickier to physically install. This is all assuming your Mac is old enough for both parts to be user replaceable.
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Thursday, 11 November 2021 17:02 (two years ago) link
if it's possible to do an SSD, that's a huge boost. It's not so hard. If you have an old machine w/ an optical drive you can replace that with the SSD, then transfer everything over to the SSD and boot up with that. You've also just doubled your storage.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 11 November 2021 17:32 (two years ago) link
The alternative is to buy an SSD and a $10 external USB enclosure (anything SATA to USB3 off eBay will do, pretty much) then use the free CarbonCopyCloner to duplicate the internal drive to the SSD in the case. Switch the drives and you now have an internal SSD and an external backup drive in the case. The switch is the most challenging but itβd be about a dozen small screws (line them up on a flat fridge magnet to preserve the arrangement) and a couple of small Torx screws mounting the disk in its rubber mounts. Half an hourβs work. Iβve done this about 10-15 times for a range of peopleβs laptops.
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 11 November 2021 20:41 (two years ago) link
8 years old is on the cusp of when they started to switch to SSDs so you better google the model number (hold down option key, choose System Info under the Apple menu)
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 11 November 2021 20:42 (two years ago) link
Or just look in in the Storage section of About This Macβs System Reporthttps://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203001
― Alba, Thursday, 11 November 2021 21:10 (two years ago) link
use the free CarbonCopyCloner to duplicate the internal drive to the SSD in the case. Switch the drives and you now have an internal SSD and an external backup drive in the case.
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Thursday, 11 November 2021 22:01 (two years ago) link
Why is that? Havenβt used it in a while but used to depend on superduper.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 11 November 2021 22:24 (two years ago) link
Alba holding the option key takes you straight there without going thru About This Mac.And I have used CCC to create bootable HDD clones up to at least 10.13, and that machine wouldn't run anything more recent.
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 11 November 2021 22:39 (two years ago) link
Apfs means thereβs lots of volumes on a disk, and cryptographic signatures of volumes means a naive bit for bit copy wonβt boot. The CCC and super duper maintainers are doing heroics but seem to be on the verge of giving up on the bootable clone use case for apple silicon.
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Thursday, 11 November 2021 23:15 (two years ago) link
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2021/03/10/the-role-of-bootable-duplicates-in-a-modern-backup-strategy/
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Thursday, 11 November 2021 23:19 (two years ago) link
and https://bombich.com/blog/2021/05/19/beyond-bootable-backups-adapting-recovery-strategies-evolving-platform
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Thursday, 11 November 2021 23:33 (two years ago) link
Great, thanks for the info. I just updated my home computer from Mojave to Monterey (I know) and it froze near the end. I waited hours then finally gave up. Rebooted and installed again but instead of updating my system disk it did a clean install, so I was afraid Iβd lost lots of settings and things. Was esp worried about losing iTunes/music playlists. So I did a migration from my time machine and almost everything is back in order.
― dan selzer, Friday, 12 November 2021 00:34 (two years ago) link
Macs last so long now for a lot of people that I think they donβt realise how good migration has become over the past five years or so.
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Friday, 12 November 2021 01:20 (two years ago) link
yeah I was always pro super duper because just cloning back to my start-up disk from a day or two ago seemed easier than some sketchy "maybe there's some stuff I can dig out of time machine" but really this worked incredibly smooth.
My only problem now is I can't get back to a song I was working on in ableton, probably because it uses some plug-in that's not playing nice with Monterey. I think I had already wiped all my 32-bit relics but who knows.
― dan selzer, Friday, 12 November 2021 01:49 (two years ago) link
ugh it's not 32bit that's an issue, it's probably aggressive gatekeepering from OSX on these plugins that I have to figure out a workaround.
― dan selzer, Friday, 12 November 2021 02:16 (two years ago) link
For calstars
@siracusa the "cleanest" way to get rid of the notch without having to deal with a suboptimal resolution is to just set a 16:10 resolution:https://t.co/N2E0RkHypS— Roberto Jung Drebes (@drebes) November 5, 2021
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Friday, 12 November 2021 02:19 (two years ago) link
they donβt realise how good migration has become over the past five years or so
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 12 November 2021 02:56 (two years ago) link
oh and it was running 10.13 uneventfully, without errors on the drive. Can't recall if it was APFS but I doubt it.
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 12 November 2021 02:57 (two years ago) link
Alba holding the option key takes you straight there without going thru About This Mac.
― Alba, Friday, 12 November 2021 03:14 (two years ago) link
oh yeah! I'm used to asking for diagnostic info from my folks over the phone, which involves the minimum number of clicks and least opportunity for confusion ...
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 12 November 2021 03:28 (two years ago) link
Adam Engst! TidBits! Man I had forgotten about them.
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 12 November 2021 09:43 (two years ago) link
huh
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/11/apple-announces-self-service-repair/
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 19:04 (two years ago) link
World that cover batteries?
― calstars, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 19:54 (two years ago) link
The initial phase of the program will focus on the most commonly serviced modules, such as the iPhone display, battery, and camera. The ability for additional repairs will be available later next year.
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 21:06 (two years ago) link