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There are rumours of a mac pro and Mac mini update next week??
 
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I've always operated computers using muscle memory, I don't look down at my hands. Changing the function controls to something that requires visual attention to me feels like a step back.

As do I. But after ten years on Macs my muscle memory doesn't extend beyond the qwerty keyboard and modifier keys. I'm always checking the function keys before pressing them. I know that the volume keys are roughly to the right, and the brightness somewhere on the left, but still need to look before hitting any of them.
So long the keys on the touch bar are laid out in a reasonably predicable manner, I don't see anything lost here.
 
The touch panel, coupled with the disgustingly-shallow keyboard, really comes across as a passive-aggressive attempt to make the laptop into an iPad without actually being an iPad. But maybe that's just me.
and they probably had to remove the magsafe and headphone jack to accommodate this new "feature".
2017 they'll extend this oled display all the way down and the keys will have haptic force touch to simulate key press.
or just release an iPad Pro with mac OS instead.
More courage 4 ya.
 
There are? Apart from someone just saying it, is there anything that points to those products being updated?

Oops, that was suppose to be a question mark, this news story references a Mac Pro and Mac mini update
 
Magic Inc. releases the new MagicBook Pro on October 27. Comes with Magic Toolbar and magicOS preinstalled. MagicPhone 8 is coming in 2017. MagicCar failed. MagicPod discontinued. MagicWatch will get a new set of magic Magic Bands including the magic Magic Band Magic Edition. After the presentation some clowns will perform on stage and show you some magic. Thanks for attending!
 
You guys just wait till they remove the glowing Apple logo on the Pro line-up, you'll regret having begged for the USB-Cbook Pro :)
 
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So this was found out in Feb 2016 and it makes the news now? Maybe there is truth in controlled rumours .... guess this week we will all the sudden get so many leaks on the new Macs to drum up the interest
 
What the hell is Apple's obsession with magic? They think that everything they come up with is magic. We made a mouse with no buttons or comfort, it's magic. Made a laptop trackpad a separate device from the laptop, it's magic. We put an integrated battery inside the Apple Wireless Keyboard, it's now magic. We replaced keys with a touch screen, it's magic.

It's said that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, but do they think that the average user is too stupid to distinguish an OLED touch panel from magic?
 
You guys just wait till they remove the glowing Apple logo on the Pro line-up, you'll regret having begged for the USB-Cbook Pro :)

Boy I really, really hope not. If they removed the glowing logo...

raw
 
Oooh "Magic Toolbar" :) That sounds expensive...

Wonder if there is developer API access.

I'd love to be able to have a custom Avatar or Image of some sort somewhere as well just for vanity sake.
No, but will be announced next year in WWDC 2017...
 
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