I’m not that happy. I’d used a MBP for a short time before going all in with an IPP Loved the Touch Bar. Great for photo editing, word, logic, I really liked it. While I do like MagSafe, charging from either side is arguably better. SD slots don’t really make sense. There’s micro sd, CF cards, and variations of SD plus Sonys new one. It’s so complicated, most people will get a reader anyway. HDMI I don’t care much about.
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Redesigned 14-Inch MacBook Pro Expected to Feature Brighter Mini-LED Display With Slimmer Bezels and More
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I don’t know anyone who touch types the function keys except programmers. There are a lot of programmers on MR so that’s probably why we hear so much flak about the Touch Bar.
what if MagSafe is on the brick side and not on the Mac side, you can still make them all USBc and not have wasted ports.
I suspect USB-C charging will still be supported. My work-owned HP laptop supports both USB-C and their dumb barrel charger. Don’t understand why they keep the barrel charger when it offers no advantage like magsafe would.
Don’t get me started on the piss-poor port config on this thing. Left is two USB-A, lock, and 3.5mm. Right is two USB-C, barrel charge, and HDMI 1.4 (doesnt support 4K 60hz, why bother... how much more would a 2.0 have cost? Reminds me of the days there Windows laptops would ship with only one USB SS port and make it blue).
Why not put on USB of each type on each side?
The MacBook Pro at least the 16 inch not familiar with the older ones were always very competitive with windows laptops. Those high power windows laptops use a lot of power, very little battery compared to the MBP which is important since it’s a laptop not a desktop. Plus, they can’t perform well (the high power windows) when unplugged. As well, not able to be charged on a plane. In fact D2Ds video says that the 16 is the fastest laptop on USB C charging.
devs at work are the only ones I hear complain, most everyone else forgets the Touch Bar exists just like they did with Function keys before
I think Apple will keep a $1500 MBP model. The current 13" M1 starts at $1299...I don't think they will want that big of a gap in pricing. At worst I think the base will be $1799.
Besides the obvious magnetic aspect, another thing MagSafe had was the orange/green charge status light which I like.
I cannot read these 14" rumors anymore. I need one *now*.
My 2012 13" MBP is really really ripe for a replacement.
My 2012 13" MBP is really really ripe for a replacement.
If Apple is reverting its OS design, I want full-tilt Aqua.
I’m sure it’s based on the same cores. More of them, bigger cache, more bus bandwidth, and maybe higher clockability*. They probably made slight improvements to the core design (every time we spun a new die we would try and get another 5% clock speed, fix any known bugs, etc.).
* what i mean is that they reduced the delay time on the longest critical paths. They can likely increase the clock rate in the new machines even without modifying the cores, simply by raising voltage a little bit, because these new machines will likely have more thermal headroom. But I assume they also made minor physical changes as well. Note that while “minor,” as a CPU designer I typically spent most of my time reducing the time it takes for a signal to run through a critical path of gates, often one picosecond at a time, and it could take six months of design work just to make a worthwhile difference in speed.
I hope so. There are definite advantages to each choice, but when traveling it’s nice to be able to rely on a usb-c cable to charge both my ipad and MacBook Pro. Also nice to be able to pick which side to plug in. And as someone who once had a MagSafe charger die while in a hotel at another city, it’d would have been a lot easier to borrow an emergency usb-c cable than a magsafe charger - i had to send a runner to a bestbuy to get one.
I don’t know how to stop myself wasting the next 5-11 months thinking about this new laptop! Each of these non-rumours is so anti-climatic - I’m just wishing my life away waiting for a 14 inch MacBook Pro, it’s very sad! Must focus on more important things like family, relationships, work. It will come when it comes. Everything will be okay!
You have to be careful to not bend cables too tightly. Causes metal fatigue. I've never worn out a Mac charger cable, going as far back as original 2006 white MacBook and a bunch of devices in between. I have worn out lightning cables.
Thank you everyone for the advice. I'm going to just wait since it looks like a significant design change and I don't upgrade often looking for my next computer to last 5 years. Will give me time to save up a bit more as well.
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I just want a MacBook Pro in the airpods Max pink please. I’m actually so bored of space gray and silver.... why do MacBooks and non-pro devices get to have all the fun
I think there are two or three other ones so that you are not alone. (Me not one of them.)
Well I like it - a lot! Don't really get the hate either. If you don't like it you can have it to show the old function keys all the time.
I was wondering the other day what would happen if Apple turned the hole keyboard into a Touch Bar, adjusting to show shortcuts, different languages etc. With haptic feedback it would be pretty cool, I think.
This is the undoing of Ive. He had some great design ideas but was allowed too much design/feature control. He had some real knucklehead designs also. It looks like Apple is giving users what they want now, not what Ive thinks they want. He wanted art, but I'd rather have a computer.