Fair enough. Based on the GPU performance graphs that Apple showed it does look like the minimum power consumption on the M1 Pro is about 8W, whereas the minimum power consumption of the M1 Max is about 13W. You don't think those 5W will have any appreciable impact on heat and battery life? I'd love to be able to cancel my M1 Pro orders once I know the Max isn't going to run significantly hotter and last less time unplugged.
The complaint is that it's completely unnecessary and breaks the aesthetic of the screen which is what our eyes are looking at 99% of the time. No one is putting notches on laptops for good reason, because it's idiotic and 100% unnecessary. Most people will always choose a slightly thicker top bezel over a notch. The bezels can be thinned out on the sides and bottom, and a little bit on top with no notch, and that would have been totally fine. No one asked for this notch and no one wanted it. It's only now that it's been thrust upon us that the apologists are coming out of the woodwork doing backflips and mental gymnastics trying to justify this idiotic design choice.
Gamers gonna game. It kind of pissed me off when Apple showed the graphics capabilities of the M1max by using what is essentially a 3D video game rendering of a fictional spacecraft. Totally awesome and at the same time totally pointless. I hope that all this new CPU and GPU capability will be used to improve the real world, not to escape from it.
I couldn't wait and bought the Mac mini M1 like 3-4 months ago. I absolutely hated that hot oven noise making piece of crap.. I only wish Apple could compensate me for the loss of having to recycle it....
This is an excellent question. Thank you for answering it. In the past with Intel Macs, I have opted for higher amounts of RAM combined with the lowest graphics capabilities. With M1 Pro/Max I wanted to buy 64GB of RAM but now the only option is the highest graphics capabilities. Because of battery life and heat concerns, I was thinking of just getting the binned 24 GPU cores.
Think of a squirrel cage fan. The air enters from the sides and exits from a hole in the circular enclosure. This diagram shows that for this chassis, cool air enters from the sides and center rear and exits to the sides on the rear.
The intakes for cool air (blue arrows) are located either side of the chassis and in the centre-back - the latter being a new and additional location.
Such a stupid thing to be a deal breaker. The display next to the notch is outside the 16:10 ratio. It will either be hidden or part of the time menu bar
You’ll be waiting a long, long time.
Agreed they should have picked a smarter thing to design as a deal breaker.
I didn't see your response before I posted. I have the same concerns. In the Intel days you could max out RAM but select a weaker graphics option, which is what I used to do. I want 64GB of RAM, and know that it slightly negatively affects battery life, but have no choice but to go with a 24 or 32 core GPU but don't want to take an additional significant battery hit from potential graphics performance that I'll never use.
Your anecdote isn't a valid argument against the notch complaints and you're also misrepresenting my position. I never said or implied "doomed to fail". I said it's a deal breaker for me. I'm sure these will do quite well with the already established Macbook user base but some will be buying them begrudgingly due to the notch, as is very evident in these forums.
