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The lack of escape key could cause me major issues in some windows apps..... will see how it goes.

The toolbar will display the Esc and Fn keys as soft keys for apps that do not take advantage of the magic toolbar feature.
 
What a leak.

Looking forward to know more about the discrete graphics.
And the weight.
My daughter on the other hand wants to know about colour-options...

Will probably miss the physical ESC button. There is something comforting about that exact key being physical.
 
loving my early 2015 more and more. Well see on thursday if i get buyers remorse or not. All usb-c is a no go for me since all my stuff uses old usb port inluding my iPhone 7+. Plus i returned my 12" macbook cause of the keyboard, now the function keys goes touch panel ---> goodbye using that without looking.
 
how soon will we find instructions from webpages like ifixit explaining how to remove this “biometric fingerprint recognition” permanently as hardware? and i hope this “Apple Pay” thing can be uninstalled very easily (btw, it’s really awesome that we can still install GNU/Linux on macbooks, and boot it via rEFInd)
 
No jack on the macbook either? How am I going to connect my studio speakers and sound equipment now? Do I have to buy yet again more adapters? ffs.

The article quite clearly states that the MBP will have a headphone jack.
Do you really rely on the onboard sound for studio output though? You would get much better quality audio using an external interface with balanced outputs to your monitors rather than using the unbalanced 3.5mm jack on the MBP.
 
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Right?
 
I feel like we're not gonna see light up apple logos on the new notebooks. Looks so thin!
 
It's definitely a little smaller. Resized images to match the width of the keyboards. (Right side to the right of the OLED panel since the keys are obscured.) I like it, but wish there was a better solution for no esc key.
 

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Cool.

- @ just noticed the butterfly keyboard. Good luck pro-folks with not being able to type normally. :rolleyes:
People will get used to it, in time. Not before too long, many users will understand it as the new keyboard standard. In the long run, this is not a major issue.
 
The article quite clearly states that the MBP will have a headphone jack.
Do you really rely on the onboard sound for studio output though? You would get much better quality audio using an external interface with balanced outputs to your monitors rather than using the unbalanced 3.5mm jack on the MBP.
I need to have multiple out and in. Some is already over usb. usb-c would certainly help, but also means yet another one.
glad to hear it probably has a jack / must have misread
 
This is where we find out that every game and app where we use the [esc] key now needs to be updated to support the 'new way to escape' ..

My bet is on a dedicated/physical esc button and power button.

In one of the images you can see the Cancel text doesn't appear to go all the way to the left, the space it leaves between the edge of the black strip and the text appears to be similar in size to the esc button in current rMBPs.
 
Magic Toolbar is awful. So now if I want to change volume/screen brightness it will probably be easier just to use System Preferences instead of trying to switch to the right program (Finder?) to bring to front so that the "magic toolbar" displays desired controls. Hopefully it doesn't get burn-in too fast either. Remember, people don't swap computers every year. Well, at least they didn't make the entire keyboard awful... oh wait.

Incredible how people hate on functionality that isn't yet introduced. Why don't you wait and see what the implementation looks like before you give yourself an ulcer?
 
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