I had my money on it being called the "Courageous Toolbar".... FFS.
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Evidence in Trademark Filing Points to MacBook OLED Panel Officially Called 'Magic Toolbar'
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I for one love the short-throw Apple keyboards.
The "Magic Toolbar" seems like an interesting idea; am curious to see how this works in practice.
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As Microsoft is unveiling their new Surface two days before Apple, the Journos will be chomping at the bit to compare the Surface and the apple releases.
As the MS Adverts keep telling us.... 'I could not do that on my Mac', they will be out to make that the whole point of the new release and subsequent advertising.
Apple had better come up with something 'Revolutionary' otherwise MS will have a field day with the promos that are probably alrewady in the can ready to be shown. IMHO, the 'magic bar' won't hack it.
What does Apple have that can complete with the Surface Pro? Answer nothing directly and that is the problem. The average punter won't know the technical differences. all they will see is smart graphics on the Surface Pro. ergo, the Surface is better than the MacBook.
I can't help think that apple have been blindsided by MS here.
As the MS Adverts keep telling us.... 'I could not do that on my Mac', they will be out to make that the whole point of the new release and subsequent advertising.
Apple had better come up with something 'Revolutionary' otherwise MS will have a field day with the promos that are probably alrewady in the can ready to be shown. IMHO, the 'magic bar' won't hack it.
What does Apple have that can complete with the Surface Pro? Answer nothing directly and that is the problem. The average punter won't know the technical differences. all they will see is smart graphics on the Surface Pro. ergo, the Surface is better than the MacBook.
I can't help think that apple have been blindsided by MS here.
So the initials for the 'company' is PAAL (including the LLC). Do a little mixing and it's AAPL. Irony?
I wouldn't have thought Surface would compete against a Macbook Pro and wouldn't be a suitable comparison? The direct competitor would be an iPad?
Hope there is an option to put the dock on the toolbar to save screen space.
I wonder what the battery life will be like on the Mac's that have this OLED strip, wouldn't it drain the battery faster than the Mac's we have now? also i have a 2011 MacBook Pro, what are the chances that the new MacBook Pro will have much better battery life?
I really hope this doesn't ruin function keys. I love to use the volume up/down keys, display brightness and media playback keys, as well as using them as shortcuts in Photoshop and Flash for actions and a bunch of other stuff. I'm fine with quickly pressing Fn+F1 to do something in Photoshop, but not sure if I'd enjoy having to look down at the keyboard each time, in addition to pressing 2 keys.
It sounds great to be able to have a display that changes depending on what the keys do, with sliders for volume and seeking, etc... But you also lose the ability to use these functions without looking, which is exactly why a physical keyboard has advantages over a touchscreen.
It sounds great to be able to have a display that changes depending on what the keys do, with sliders for volume and seeking, etc... But you also lose the ability to use these functions without looking, which is exactly why a physical keyboard has advantages over a touchscreen.
"Magic" - making intellect vanish, one IQ point at a time.
Next week's news article: "Tim Cook refuses to hire Americans to work for him, since they are too stupid and he is too lazy to want to raise their intelligence but has no qualms taking their tax money as corporate welfare and selling human rights notions only when it suits him."
Next week's news article: "Tim Cook refuses to hire Americans to work for him, since they are too stupid and he is too lazy to want to raise their intelligence but has no qualms taking their tax money as corporate welfare and selling human rights notions only when it suits him."
Now you can do everything you did before, but viewing icons... it's amazing! Maybe no...
They'll make the case a bit slimmer, take out a few ports and replace the footprint of those ports with battery. But don't worry, same battery life as before.
That's gonna happen. You may not like it but Apple believes that the keyboard they put in the new MacBook is the way to go and they're almost certainly going to go that direction with the new one.
People hate every new keyboard Apple comes along with and have since the beginning. Then they get use to it, love it, and when they change to a new one some people cry. The cycle repeats itself again.
Less magic and more functionality, please. 
Despite what The Verge says, it's really much more a hybrid - both a tablet and a laptop. And even more of a laptop than a tablet, as it apparently runs x86 processor and thus gives the full Windows experience. Whereas the iPad cannot run MacOS.
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Don't forget that the surface uses an X86 CPU and runs full blown Windows 10 and so has access to apps like Photoshop etc, that also run on Macbooks.
As a result, it competes directly with Macbooks. It has Touch enabled applications that Apple can't compete with and that is what MS will emphasise in their advertising.
I guess it will have a magical eject key that brings back the optical drive when you need it and another magical key that doubles your RAM for 50 bucks. Now that's magic.
Same here - once I got used to it (less than a week), I found I much prefer it and other keyboards feel "weird"
You're on MacRumors - it's de rigueur to complain on here!
This Magic Toolbar will also magically siphon $2,000+ from my bank account when it comes out
This thing is going to cost a fortune in the Uk.