Tomo
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Post by Tomo on Oct 18, 2021 22:43:08 GMT
Gah. My work ordered me a Macbook Pro several weeks ago and it's still not been delivered... Just as these new ones are around the corner. Waaahhh
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Post by dominalien on Oct 19, 2021 6:14:09 GMT
I'm a huge fan of usb-c charging, I have a charger everywhere and don't have to carry one with me plus I can connect the cable on both sides of the machine.
That said, Magsafe is soooo welcome! I really bemoaned it being gone, it's saved my machine a number of times. And just look at all the ports! /o\ Glad someone at Apple came to their senses.
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Post by elstoof on Oct 19, 2021 7:25:16 GMT
You can still charge via any of the usb c sockets if you have the cable, the brick they give is still a usb c socket as well
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ozthegweat
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Post by ozthegweat on Oct 19, 2021 8:42:15 GMT
I'm a huge fan of usb-c charging, I have a charger everywhere and don't have to carry one with me plus I can connect the cable on both sides of the machine. That said, Magsafe is soooo welcome! I really bemoaned it being gone, it's saved my machine a number of times. And just look at all the ports! /o\ Glad someone at Apple came to their senses. Thank God MagSafe is only needed for quick charging. I really like my setup where I can connect 1 Thunderbolt cable for power, external monitor, backup disk and USB hub. And it's the only situation where MagSafe wouldn't be of much use, as the setup (with its cable routing) presents no danger of anyone tripping over a cable. |
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Post by ozthegweat on Oct 19, 2021 8:43:38 GMT
The new Pros have a 3.5mm audio jack with improved support for high-impedance headphones. Perfect for my 250Ω Beyerdynamics…
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Post by elstoof on Oct 19, 2021 8:55:53 GMT
It's almost as if they purposely made the last intel MacBooks a bit shit
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Post by Tonka (🐑,🪤) on Oct 19, 2021 9:13:41 GMT
Well, finally a PRO McBok that caters to people who use their laptops professionally.
I can replace my unsightly dongle for one that only does ethernet
No silly touch bar
Proper hardware keys
SD card port
HDMI port
Horsepowah!
I can live with the notch.
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Post by Tonka (🐑,🪤) on Oct 19, 2021 9:17:32 GMT
You can still charge via any of the usb c sockets if you have the cable, the brick they give is still a usb c socket as well This was a surprisingly nice touch. Very un-Apple. I was scared I would have to go back to the days of one bespoke charger for eac item in the house. Great to be given the choice. I wonder what went wrong with the MacBook PRO line... I think Sir Ive only read the "Everything should be made as simple as possible" part of the famous quote, and skipped "but no simpler" Thank fuck they sacked him after the butterfly fiasco. |
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Post by Phattso on Oct 19, 2021 9:44:40 GMT
I'd be all over this if the spec I wanted didn't pop out at £3,699. I mean... I'd be scared to carry the thing around in my bag at that point. I was already a bit leery at carting about the last one from 2018 or whenever, at £2,499. Christ alive.
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dndhm
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Post by dndhm on Oct 19, 2021 10:01:07 GMT
I just cancelled my first order (due for delivery next week) and forked out for more RAM and GPU, which pushed delivery back to mid-November. It's a lot of money, but what price can you put on physical function keys?
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Post by elstoof on Oct 19, 2021 10:11:13 GMT
I’m holding out til the new year I reckon, I want to see what the benchmarks are for the pro vs max anyway before deciding. I can get 570 quid back for my current one, hopefully that won’t drop too much over the next few months
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Post by beastmaster on Oct 19, 2021 10:27:03 GMT
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Post by Tonka (🐑,🪤) on Oct 20, 2021 10:14:43 GMT
Apple did everything I told them to. Even making the magsafe cable detach from the power brick.
Where is my check Rodger Apple?
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Post by AgentHomer on Oct 20, 2021 10:56:51 GMT
I have a mid-2014 MacBook Pro that in theory still works okay, it does most of what I want but part of the track pad is dead (bottom left corner), the coating on the screen has mostly disappeared and the battery is empty. The new MacBook Pros look great, I am so tempted but the price is a lot higher than I paid for this one 7 years ago. The temptation is high!
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Post by neilka on Oct 23, 2021 15:01:47 GMT
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Post by neilka on Oct 23, 2021 15:03:22 GMT
We already had it on the last page. I'll see myself out.
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Post by [maven] on Oct 24, 2021 10:02:22 GMT
I ordered myself a 32GB M1 Pro (with all the cores). If Geekbench is to be believed that should be roughly as fast as my 12-core (24-thread) Mac Pro Xeon for CPU-bound tasks (which is what I'm doing all day — compiling code essentially).
I don't quite get the upset about the notch; it's just bonus menu-bar space "on top" of the normal display. (But I guess that depends a bit on whether the backlight LEDs are exactly aligned with the notch-line and make it look proper black in fullscreen.)
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Post by Phattso on Oct 24, 2021 10:05:58 GMT
Is the notch on both new models or just the 14”? Somehow can’t definitively tell from the pics and write ups I’ve perused.
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Bongo Heracles
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Oct 24, 2021 10:16:36 GMT
I think the upset at the notch is that it eats into full screen and it feels like it doesn’t need to be there. If it hasn’t got all the faceid bumf in it, for a company famous for its design ethos, it doesn’t feel like they tried very hard to avoid it.
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Post by [maven] on Oct 24, 2021 11:05:03 GMT
Is the notch on both new models or just the 14”? Both models. |
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Post by elstoof on Oct 24, 2021 11:17:07 GMT
Be a bit shit if they made the notch smaller this gen for the webcam, then had to go bigger to fit Face ID once the tech is ready to fit
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Post by Fake_Blood on Oct 24, 2021 11:34:47 GMT
I don’t really see the point of faceID if you’ve got a fingerprint scanner right there on the keyboard.
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ozthegweat
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Post by ozthegweat on Oct 24, 2021 15:23:22 GMT
With macOS Monterey you can choose to show the menu bar in full-screen apps as well, which I'd wager a lot of people will enable. Also, apps can design around the notch, so menu bar entries can flow around the notch.
So in a way, with the new MBPs, full-screen apps gain the menu bar without losing screen real estate. The area below menu bar/notch has an aspect ratio of 16:10, like the old models.
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Post by Fake_Blood on Oct 24, 2021 17:22:45 GMT
We’ll see. They should start arriving this week.
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Post by beastmaster on Oct 26, 2021 9:08:04 GMT
Monterey OS was released yesterday. Going to wait a few weeks before I update. Anyone installed it yet?
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askew
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Post by askew on Oct 26, 2021 9:10:00 GMT
Monterey? I'll hold off until I know Docker works OK  |
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Post by elstoof on Oct 26, 2021 11:37:39 GMT
Still waiting for Citrix to work properly with Big Sur
First MacBook reviews with M1 Pro and Max are coming through, sounds like they’re storming. Still shit for gaming mind
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Post by darkling on Oct 26, 2021 13:41:44 GMT
With the notch on the new MacBooks, I don't understand what happens when the program menu items (in the MacOS top toolbar) reach the middle, where the notch is.
Photoshop, for example, has 12 menu items, which reach the middle of the top toolbar on my 15" MacBook Pro.
... will the last menu item be obscured by the notch?
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Post by elstoof on Oct 26, 2021 13:43:34 GMT
Considering there’s no actual screen behind the notch, I would say no, and it’ll probably just be on the right side of the bar
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Post by Phattso on Oct 26, 2021 14:10:57 GMT
Yeah - the toolbars on apps use system frameworks, so those frameworks will just be made notch-aware and menus will flow around them.
Any app not using the framework won't be able to go full-screen.
The same thing happened when they added the notch to iPhones. Apps using system level frameworks "just worked" and everyone else had to do some work to be allowed to go full screen.
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