And this is relevant how?
Wi-Fi 6 routers can handle all Wi-Fi types, 802.11b (Wi-Fi 1), 802.11a (Wi-Fi 2), 802.11g (Wi-Fi 3), 802.11n (Wi-Fi 4), 802.11ac (Wi-Fi 5), and 802.11ax (Wi-Fi 6).
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M1 Macs Support WiFi 6, MacBook Air Has Updated Function Keys
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Wi-Fi 6 routers can handle all Wi-Fi types, 802.11b (Wi-Fi 1), 802.11a (Wi-Fi 2), 802.11g (Wi-Fi 3), 802.11n (Wi-Fi 4), 802.11ac (Wi-Fi 5), and 802.11ax (Wi-Fi 6).
Better performance, especially sustained load, better screen (100-200 nits more, and most probably higher contrast and color accuracy), larger battery, better speakers and better mic (90% sure on that one tho)
I feel like almost every time Apple meddles with the keyboard, they end up making it worse. The 2012-2015 MBP keyboard was great. The new one is finally good again but still has the touchbar, and now they've meddled with the function keys again. They just can't help themselves.
It doesn’t though. The same channels are still utilized for 2.4 and 5.
Wifi 6 just adds a bunch of new tech from the cellular industry. Many features devices still won’t even use, like 160MHz channel widths. I have no AX devices that support this, despite having a router that does.
Wifi 6e will reduce congestion due to the addition of the 6Ghz band.
How is the article wrong? It clearly says this are the first Macs to support Wifi 6 and even clarify that other Apple devices already have it.
Auto brightness on Mac has never worked for me, so I’m always using the brightness keys as my brightness needs vary throughout the day. Now that the keys are gone it’s yet another troublesome step added unnecessarily and annoyingly to adjust brightness. The new spotlight key however I’m on board with and is logical.
They mentioned 8K video playback on DaVinci Resolve specifically on MacBook Pro, which could be due to active cooling helping with the sustained performance.
On the other hand, MacBook Air being fanless is an advantage as well. I guess we will see when the devices arrive how good the passive cooling of the air for sustained load.
I've always said that I will buy a drive-itself car from Apple when their engineers figure out that as the brightness in the room goes up the keyboard backlighting does not need to go up. Screen brightness yes. Keyboard brightness no. I have no idea why they don't get that.
there will probably be a dozen apps that let you set some key combination to adjust your keyboard lighting. me. i set it once and never looked at it again. do people really need fast access to adjusting it frequently?
I believe that symbol just indicates the ability to change keyboards, not just the emoji keyboard. If you have an iPhone with different language keyboards on it that symbol is used to change keyboards. For the Mac it probably just onscreen tells you you've switched keyboards (since they're physical and not touchscreen).
I agree with Apple that the launchpad key (F4) is pretty useless - as is launchpad itself. But why does Spotlight need a function key? It's super easy to activate with Cmd+Spacebar!
Instead, I've configured my F4 key to show/hide notification centre[*]. I still miss the old dashboard from pre-Catalina days, but having one-touch access the "today" view of notification centre is a decent enough substitute.
[*] Using the "FunctionFlip" app/utility
Instead, I've configured my F4 key to show/hide notification centre[*]. I still miss the old dashboard from pre-Catalina days, but having one-touch access the "today" view of notification centre is a decent enough substitute.
[*] Using the "FunctionFlip" app/utility
Keyboard brightness will be controlled from the new Control Center in Big Sur
The air will throttle hard as it has no fan.
The mini and pro (although lets be honest its a macbook, not a macbook pro, the specs arent good enough to have the pro label imho) both have active cooling so the soc wont throttle as often.
The keyboard brightness adjusts automatically according to ambient light. You can still adjust it manually through the control centre, and toggle it on and off with the F6 / "moon" key.
Why? While I agree that Spotlight is much more useful than Launchpad, Spotlight is already so easy to activate with Cmd+Spacebar.
Honestly, I see no benefit to the Spotlight Fn key.
Am I the only one who uses Cmd+Space about a thousand times a day??? My fingers are already there, no guessing required. Easiest no-look keyboard shortcut.
Am I the only one who uses Cmd+Space about a thousand times a day??? My fingers are already there, no guessing required. Easiest no-look keyboard shortcut.
And so the MB becomes more like a glorified iPad with keyboard and sans touchscreen. Nice!
i realize i have a hot take on this, but i use my touch bar all the time and i love it. I can set up macros and customize it. it's great.
There is that 2 week return period 🤪
Well that's not a good change at all. Keyboard and screen brightness keys are among the ones I use most often, alongside volume.
Heck they can charge me an extra $100 to take out the Touch Bar and i'll go for it!