However, it's precisely what they spent years doing with the regular A-chips for iPhones and X series iPad chips. The superior X series chips were always superseded in single core performance shortly after they were released, while remaining faster in multi core and graphics. Apple seem fine with it.
Sure, but due to software and workflows which actually take advantage all the available performance, MacPro owners, and the computer workstation world in general, care a lot about performance benchmarks in a way that iPad owners don't.
Yes, they do, but they care primarily about multi threaded performance, due to the types of software they need a Mac Pro for. Xeon chips are all about multi threaded performance. Single core scores, which the M2 would be impressive at, are of secondary consideration. Prospective Mac Pro buyers will not care that M2 trumps their processor by a bit in single core, as it won't impact their work flow.
While I agree there is no need for a yearly Mac refresh, I always point out in response to posts like this is that the target market for new machines is NOT those who bought the previous year.
I knew I'd read someone say they liked them eventually ? You're part of an exclusive club, if these forums are anything to go by.
I never minded it on my old Apple devices either, but I thought the black bezels looked infinitely nicer when Apple made that upgrade.
For what it's worth, back when thick bezels were still a thing, I liked white bezels on my iPad3. But when bezels got thin and notches came in they just stopped working well, and look distracting, if anything.
Definitely counts.
It's funny how much this stuff bugs us.I've been grieving them since 2007 and had a big internal party last year when they unvailed the 24" iMac. For me, white is just iconic "Apple". The black bezels always are kinda "in your face", sticking out like a sore thumb. I find them incredibly distracting.
Even after all these years, I still really really do not like the black bezels*. I merely tolerate them. (*on macs, I don't mind them as much on iPhones and iPads, though I do miss my white-bezeled iPad mini a bit)
Close enough
That's only an issue when working in dark-mode. I actually find the dark notch very ugly on a mac when working in light mode with a light-colored menu bar. Hence, you can't really win there as there are people who prefer dark mode (for whom the dark bezels work better) and there are people who prefer light mode (for whom white bezels might work better), and then there are people like me who switch between light mode and dark mode by the time of the day.
So, yeah, that definitely does apply to white bezels on iPhones and iPads and I agree, it just stopped working.
Nope. Love them. Still iconic. Granted, they do get dirtier faster. But they just look so much better. Not like every other (PC) keyboard out there. And one of my biggest WTFs for years has been Apple moving to black bezels on the iMac but keeping the accessories white. Black keyboards on the Macbooks with black bazels matches; but hell yeah move back to white keyboards if moving away from the black bezels in an updated Macbook Air; like with the new 24" iMac.
I'd go back to Windows before buying a device with a white keyboard. I'm not sure how well illuminated letters would work with a white keyboard either. What do you make of the all black keyboard on the new MacBook Pros? Rather than the classic black keys on aluminium background look. I think it's uglier, but not a dealbreaker. It'll also look dirtier faster.The general consensus that I have observed on MacRumors is that M# Mac upgrades will be every 18-24 months.
This fall is 18-24 months after the M1BA was released.
Has Apple ever made a significant material change, metal to plastic for example, without a new design? Even changing metals, Titanium to Aluminum, had a new design if for no other reason than the new metal required different fabrication and construction requirements. I wonder if it's possible to machine or cast plastic to keep an identical design.
Depends on how different you mean for "new design".
The Powerbook and iBook were similar only in the general sense that they were rectangular with rounded edges and corners, but if that's the qualification then the 14" MBP doesn't have a new design compared to the 14" iBook. The screen integration is different, but the same is true of non-retina and retina Airs and they do have the same design despite that change.