Don't speak for all of us. I got the iPhone X at launch and iPhone 13 at launch. I notice the notch every.....single....time I use my phone because its just an obstruction of the display. Looking from left to right there is a big gap in the display.
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Apple Plans to Obscure MacBook Pro Notch With Wallpaper in Marketing Images
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Have developers even figured out how to write apps that actually take advantage of 32 cores?
notch will be strange on a macbook but i don't really mind since at home, i'll be using an actual monitor for work. On that note, does anyone have good recs for 4K+ , 27"+ monitors for Photo/design work to use with a Macbook Pro? I'm 90% sure I'll be ordering a new Macbook Pro when it's available and will need a monitor to go with it but not looking to spend XDR monitor money. Much appreciated.
It sounds like it's going to have bezels like a Dell XPS (if even that good) yet still require a notch and still not have Face ID. How is it Dell can manage super-thin bezels with a camera and face recognition without a notch?
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If they turned the menu bar black to hide the notch... that I could see making a lot of sense. The middle of the menu bar is essentially unusable space today.
However, since we already have a camera there today, I'm not sure I see how this leaked photo necessarily implies a "notch".
Given the work apple has put in on 3d effects in apps on iOS, many of which are enabled by the neural processing cores in an apple silicon chip, while we also use our macs for video conferencing, it makes sense to me that they'd at least want to put in a dual-camera system if not an actual lidar scanner (or some other 3d sensing technology) to enable those features on macs. Many of those apps are prevented from running on apple silicon macs because of their use of 3d cameras, so wouldn't it be great if they could run on a mac?
However, since we already have a camera there today, I'm not sure I see how this leaked photo necessarily implies a "notch".
Given the work apple has put in on 3d effects in apps on iOS, many of which are enabled by the neural processing cores in an apple silicon chip, while we also use our macs for video conferencing, it makes sense to me that they'd at least want to put in a dual-camera system if not an actual lidar scanner (or some other 3d sensing technology) to enable those features on macs. Many of those apps are prevented from running on apple silicon macs because of their use of 3d cameras, so wouldn't it be great if they could run on a mac?
Er no, you can’t display status info (battery %, Wi-Fi strength, time etc.) on a bezel, can you?
Yes. We even figured how out code to take advantage of 64 and 128 core machines. No your games don't run faster, but a lot of productivity software can take advantage especially on any sort of batch operation.
"Picard facepalm" just needs to be added as a standard reaction to all social media platforms including this one.
Wait, what if the menu bar stays where it is, and there's a new "above the menubar" status area that stays black?
How will that work on an external display? This is just asking for glitches and bugs to occur.
Notch or not, I'll still buy one if it stops the fans going mental when I plug in my 5K monitor. I'll let guinea pigs try it first, though.
So proud of their designs they have to use dodgy marketing practices to sell them. Now that’s courage
That par for course.
That's a sign of a really great design: something you feel compelled to conceal in your marketing materials.
The notch is a hack in the iPhone design, necessitated by how compact the device is. Carrying it over the Mac would be ****ing idiotic at best.
The notch is a hack in the iPhone design, necessitated by how compact the device is. Carrying it over the Mac would be ****ing idiotic at best.
Not sure how I feel about Apple putting in a notch to make the new screens 14” instead of 13.3” inches, but then making two rows unusable to justify putting in a notch to justify a bigger screen. Y’know?
You get more screen space everywhere except a small notch. That's a win... I don't see how people have a problem with having more screen space if it comes at the cost of a single little notch.
even apple is embarrassed by the notches lmao
including the people complaining about the complainers
M1 (13" MacBook Air / 13" MacBook Pro / Mac mini / 24" iMac)
8-core CPU (4P/4E)
7-core GPU (8-core GPU option)
16-core Neural Engine
8GB RAM (16GB RAM option)
M1X (14" MacBook Pro / 16" MacBook Pro / Mac mini / 27" iMac)
10-core CPU (8P/2E)
16-core GPU (32-core GPU option)
16-core Neural Engine
16GB RAM (32GB & 64GB RAM options)
Jade 2C (Mac Pro Cube / 32" iMac Pro / Mac Pro)
20-core CPU (16P/4E)
64-core GPU
32-core Neural Engine
128GB RAM
Jade 4C (Mac Pro Cube / 32" iMac Pro / Mac Pro)
40-core CPU (32P/8E)
128-core GPU
64-core Neural Engine
256GB RAM
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I want thumb ID.
And how do you do face id if the laptop is in a dock and closed, and I have my iPad and a bunch of other clutter resting on it?
If you think stockholders defend everything a company does, then you are BADLY lacking in your knowledge of investing.
If I'm a stockholder, I don't want foolish mistakes. I don't want product delivery faux pas. I don't want labor shortages, strikes, or high turnover. I also don't want a surplus of employees and I surely don't want lazy people just playing air hockey there, either. I don't want idiocy that results in missed market opportunities, labor lawsuits, or copyright infringement suits.
Buying the stock and becoming an immediate sycophant or shill for that company would be a terrible investment strategy that would only end in major losses and no long-term financial success.
Tell you what: Go put some money into a half dozen companies. Or buy an index, I don't care. Then listen to what your politicians are ACTUALLY SAYING. Yeah, get the cr@p scared out of you a few times when your foolish, doddering President or some evil cabal in Congress says something truly idiotic or passes something else even more idiotic. Come back after the company you bought has been forced to spend millions on some crazy, expensive things, like implement impossible green initiatives, wait 6 months for their cargo to be unloaded at the port, stop letting employees flush toilets, stop using glass cleaner, or stop selling breakfast in the employee cafeteria.
In other words: Come back after you've actually been investing for a few years.
Whole lotta pins there...
Assuming analogous to the M1, it's seemingly a normal amount, especially as these may have four DRAM chips instead of two. Each LPDDR4X chip is 200 pins alone. And I assume the larger 32C will seat at least 4 DRAM chips (800 pins).
Desktop systems, though, can use proper DIMMs, so you can scale memory quickly without needing too many more pins. For example,
AMD Zen3 + 2x DDR4 = 1907 pins
Alder Lake + 2x DDR5 = 2276 pins
