I'll add to it; my (work) Surface has it, and I like it. Far better than I expected… It's better on a desktop than a mobile anyhow, because when you sit down to use it, it has had a chance to find you already.
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Code in macOS Big Sur Suggests Face ID Could Be Coming to Macs
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Well, they could just release an external keyboard with Touch ID at least. I‘m really sick of having to constantly enter my password, while on Windows this hasn‘t been necessary for years. The Apple Watch sometimes works for the login screen and for paying with Apple Pay, but it won‘t work for, say, a password manager.
As if that is innovation? That is way overdue, and Apple is sadly catching up to other computers.
How about a touchscreen?
How about getting rid of that 10 year OLD DESIGN BASE and implement something more 2020 that you can actually move up and down and does not cost $999.00???
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THere has NOT BEEN a WOW factor in a very long time in the entire computer line.
Even the new Mac Pro, is way overpriced leaving many Pro users without an option to buy decent priced modular Mac.
MacBooks Pros, the only Pro is the price.
the entry level for a MBP 16 in 2020 should not ship with a 512 SSD.
It should have an HDMI, a better camera, user upgradable RAM, get rid of the lame touchbar and replace it with a full on touchscreen.
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If they are not dead, they reduce the development team tremendously to the point of ridiculousness.
Mac Pro and Minis, 6-7 years for an update. That is pathetic.
iMac has the same 10 year old external design and still ships with a 5400 rpm drive in 2020.
MBP had a major keyboard problem for 4 years until they decided to fix it.
I would say it is way far from what Apple used to be.
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They could make the lid thicker just where the FaceID system is (with a corresponding space in the bottom that it fits into when closed).
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With an indentation that it slots into, surely?
I use Windows Hello on my Surface and love the convenience. However, I also love that my Mac Mini opens with my Apple Watch. Sometimes Windows Hello can be a bit annoying if I’m not looking the right way, which isn’t an issue with my Apple Watch.
I think having the watch as the “key”
to unlocking is the more elegant solution.
I think having the watch as the “key”
to unlocking is the more elegant solution.
Honestly I think it makes more sense to have Face ID on the Mac and Touch ID on the iPhone, since you primarily look at your iMac and handle your iPhone. Seems more natural and easier to implement into the respective form factor.
Pro prices.
Dead specs.
I agreed with that you said.
12 year old designs. 6 year dev cycles.
Just pathetic.
Steve Jobs would have kicked the Mac dept's A*** over that MBP keyboard issue.
...and that heap of junk £1050 iCrap with duo and hard drive...with no retina display. Shame. SHAME!
Azrael.
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The iMac ergonomic (giggles...) stand is a joke. And I'm sure they could come up with an iStand that doesn't cost £1k and that is just as rotaty... That stand isn't the 2nd coming...except on price.
Yeah. They killed teh WOW factor of the Mac Pro with WOW (drops dead from shock...) pricing.
Azrael.
Why would you be wearing a mask sat at a desk?
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I’m so glad some of you aren’t Apple engineers.
Bumps and indentations to fit bigger cameras in? That would be hideous from a design standpoint.
Who says you have to be at a desk? Apple’s laptops get used a lot of places that aren’t desks. And things are going to go from back to completely back to normal overnight - masks are going to be with us for a long time, in a lot of different settings. Ask the companies that have open plan offices what they’re going to do when people start going back to the office. FaceID will be nice at home, bit not anywhere else.
Why would something that takes up half a centimetre of space on a current iPhone take up Half a square kilometre of screen space as per your render? There would never be a Notch on an iMac product ever, because Apple would rather increase the total bezel height if they couldn’t fit in the components of a front facing Face ID set up (they can) than to ruin the consistency of having a perfectly square screen for users. Silly render and silly post, but maybe you made that render (appropriate for 2015) and wanted to show it off.
Like always Apple is Far Behind Windows / PC. yep, Windows Hello exists almost in every PC in the last 3y ... it's about time .... ( reminds me the support for HDR).
Sorry Apple you're going to a dead end. ARM will be the end. (See AMD roadmap to understand - how huge is the gap)
Nobody in Apple is insane enough to transmit biometric data over wireless. Hopefully.
MacBook Pro 14.1 inch, miniLed, Apple Silicon, Face ID, 1080p webcam. I am sorted.
Apple's Face ID feature that allows a device to be unlocked with a facial scan is limited to the iPhone and the iPad at the current time, but code found in macOS Big Sur suggests that Face ID may come to Macs in the future.
Adding a TrueDepth camera system and Face ID to the Mac would be a logical next step for the feature, and 9to5Mac located Face ID references in the latest Big Sur beta, including an extension with code to support a "PearlCamera" function.
"Pearl" is the codename that Apple has used for Face ID and the TrueDepth camera system since the feature first launched in the iPhone X.
There are "FaceDetect" and "BioCapture" references inside the extension, and those names certainly suggest a TrueDepth camera feature for Mac.
Right now, Apple's MacBook Pro and MacBook Air models use Touch ID, and have a Touch ID button built into the keyboard that's powered by the T2 chips in the machines. Apple's Macs have supported Touch ID since 2016 when the Touch Bar was first introduced in MacBook Pro models.
There's no word on when Macs might get Face ID support or which Macs will be first to get it, but there are some major design tweaks rumored for machines like the iMac, the MacBook Air, and the MacBook Pro with the transition to mini-LED and Apple Silicon chips, so Face ID could be rolled out alongside of these updates.
It could also be a feature that will take longer to implement, and we've thus far heard no confirmed rumors on when Apple might make the transition.
Article Link: Code in macOS Big Sur Suggests Face ID Could Be Coming to Macs
I can’t believe it’s taken this long. Using Touch ID instead was just silly.
Apple's Face ID feature that allows a device to be unlocked with a facial scan is limited to the iPhone and the iPad at the current time, but code found in macOS Big Sur suggests that Face ID may come to Macs in the future.
Adding a TrueDepth camera system and Face ID to the Mac would be a logical next step for the feature, and 9to5Mac located Face ID references in the latest Big Sur beta, including an extension with code to support a "PearlCamera" function.
"Pearl" is the codename that Apple has used for Face ID and the TrueDepth camera system since the feature first launched in the iPhone X.
There are "FaceDetect" and "BioCapture" references inside the extension, and those names certainly suggest a TrueDepth camera feature for Mac.
Right now, Apple's MacBook Pro and MacBook Air models use Touch ID, and have a Touch ID button built into the keyboard that's powered by the T2 chips in the machines. Apple's Macs have supported Touch ID since 2016 when the Touch Bar was first introduced in MacBook Pro models.
There's no word on when Macs might get Face ID support or which Macs will be first to get it, but there are some major design tweaks rumored for machines like the iMac, the MacBook Air, and the MacBook Pro with the transition to mini-LED and Apple Silicon chips, so Face ID could be rolled out alongside of these updates.
It could also be a feature that will take longer to implement, and we've thus far heard no confirmed rumors on when Apple might make the transition.
Article Link: Code in macOS Big Sur Suggests Face ID Could Be Coming to Macs
A bump on the back of the MacBook case.
I’d be surprised if even with just a front facing Camera that it could be housed Conpletelyin the lid of any of the current MacBooks.
Or it could be that MacBooks keep Touch ID and the iMac gets Face ID.
But I can’t imagine that Apple doesn’t realise that people expect better front facing cameras (especially nowadays) & we’ll be seeing a different looking set of MacBooks because of that.
Specially prepared photos shown bypassing Windows Hello facial recognition
And the built-in protection against this technique doesn’t work on all hardware.
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Because it’s not secure.
It would be much easier to unlock your Mac with Face ID than Touch ID just as unlocking with Apple Watch is easier than Touch ID. And just like on iPad Pro and iPhone, Apple would obviously make some sort of confirmation step for Apple Pay purchases. Maybe it could even be just clicking a button on the screen. Who knows?
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I actually did that once in a Costco on a Microsoft Surface. It took a few tries, but after a while I got past “verifying it’s you” and it actually let me in.
Would be about right., Apple can also use the time to implement other stuff "just the way they like" and say "we couldn't do it before because we didn't have the same flexibility we have now"
Perhaps it was just perfect timing Apple were to transition silicon..... We'll see if they do FaceID for Intel Mac's, but that would seem "out of order"