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First Real-World Photos and Video of New MacBook Pro Models Begin to Surface
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Often, people complain about what they don’t immediately like. More often than not, they grow to love it.
It's particularly worth comparing the new black keyboard to the (IMO, superior) elegance of the keyboard on the old space gray MBP.
I'm starting to think their main purpose in changing was simply to distinguish the appearance of the new MBP's from the old ones—even a better-looking product can seem dated after it's been out for a while.
Alternately: The black background does give it a more "industrial" look than the more polished consumer look of the last gen MBP. Maybe they were going for that.
I'm starting to think their main purpose in changing was simply to distinguish the appearance of the new MBP's from the old ones—even a better-looking product can seem dated after it's been out for a while.
Alternately: The black background does give it a more "industrial" look than the more polished consumer look of the last gen MBP. Maybe they were going for that.
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The whole FaceID aparatus is with IR emitter and the rest is not a small component. There is a lot less depth in the lid of a laptop than in a phone.
Hahahahahaha. That’s so stupid it’s funny!
The stupid grin on his face makes it work.
Good one Yay, you’re good value on these boards!
I agree with your point on touchscreens, they just don't work great with laptops.
I disagree on OLEDs, while burn in is a concern I thin it is really overblown. My iPhone has a lot of static images on screen quite a lot of the time and it's a non issue on iPhone. Personally I wish the 14" MBP I just ordered came with OLED rather than LCD.
Wow.... indeed the MBP has a big chin and, what's worse, it's asymmetric. (This was BTW the biggest aesthetic problem with the Dell 5k monitor back in the day.) By shifting down the active area of the screen a bit would have made 1, it vertically symmetric 2, do away the notch entirely :/
It's 720p AND 30fps with terrible aperture and lenses. It's a bad 720p camera vs what I'm sure is a very good 1080p60 FaceTime camera.
Yup. I certainly don't but Apple couldn't have made a significantly smaller camera module. Every other manufacturer is capable of doing so - why didn't they?
Just the screen protective cover between screen and the main body.
The black on black keyboard looks fine. Don’t really care. Even the notch isn’t so bad if it’s all everybody is saying. We get more space so it’s all good. But it is ugly overall. That thing looks like a bus! But under the hood it’s gonna fly so can forgive Apple.
Nice to see real life images of the new Macbook Pro. Bezels are significantly less compared to the outgoing model
Wow, lots of people really upset about the notch. I mean, I don't think it makes it look better than the old MBPs, but I don't think it really makes it look any worse either. It seems like a lateral move, at least.
For the people who can't stand it though, I think we can pretty much guarantee there'll be a one-click freeware tool within a few weeks of release that bumps the menu bar down to just below the notch and fills the space above with black. With the Mini-LED display, you shouldn't even see any backlight bleed! If you hate it that much, it'll be like the notch was never there in the first place.
For the people who can't stand it though, I think we can pretty much guarantee there'll be a one-click freeware tool within a few weeks of release that bumps the menu bar down to just below the notch and fills the space above with black. With the Mini-LED display, you shouldn't even see any backlight bleed! If you hate it that much, it'll be like the notch was never there in the first place.
You want to look down as far as possible when using the device?
I know, right? It literally stretches from one end to another, taking away so much screen real estate!
All the review units in the Geekbench database are Monterey.
There will be no notch on full screen app which split screen is.
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It reminds me a lot of the Titanium PowerBook G4 (all black keyboard) and later aluminium PowerBook G4 (squarer design). I think they took a lot of inspiration from those models. And it sounds like the next MacBook Air will be taking inspiration from the iBook G3 (the colours) and later iBooks (all white).
Interesting.
Interesting.
This machine would have been hot in an all black anodized aluminum like the Razer Blade