I always wonder if people commonly do that. The rivets on the watch bands must do a number on people's palm rests. This is one of those situations where I'm glad I took "Keyboarding" in high school. Our teacher was such a stickler about never resting your hands on the keyboard while typing that I just got in the habit early of not doing that. I've tried and it literally feels uncomfortable to me. ? My MacBooks always have pristine palm rests when I get rid of them!
I was taught this same thing in my piano lessons. Probably be good to bring that technique over to my typing!
I would have stated go with the one that has better battery life and better heat dissipation. Which depending on the workload could go either way. But glad you sorted it out.
well for some reason it hasn't felt bulky or noticeably heavy to me. Also, I just like having this screen. I did have the 14" for about a week. it was great, just needed more space in front of me for spreadsheets and what not.
the 14 is smol, 16 feels so much immersive
I am not even sure I've even heard my fans run! I have my MacBook Pro on my lap now, for about 2 hours, and the bottom case is still cold. Not doing much on the MacBook Pro but hanging out on MacRumors and watching a movie.
I've made the fans come on one time on the 14" model--but it was when I had it in clamshell mode connected to a 4K monitor playing Civ VI at completely maxed out settings. That doesn't sound very impressive, I know, but that game is a CPU/GPU hog, especially in the later turns when an entire globe has to process every time you hit the return key.
During the workday I'm on the 16", and I typically use it with 3 or 4 Spaces open. Lately I've been having to do a lot of work in Office, and it is such a great machine to run those applications in split screen side by side or even just have one giant document open. Just makes everything so much more efficient.
Warm doesn't equal overheating. With your logic I guess iPhones overheats every time it's charged.
Couldn't agree more. This has been a bit of a reset for what Apple can do with thermals, so I'm sure these larger models will get thinner and lighter again over the years. Pretty exciting to think about what M chips are going to be able to do down the road from now. As long as they never ever ever try to resurrect those butterfly switches, I'm a happy camper.I'll go back to the 16" size when it trims down a bit. I find the size of the 14" to be absolutely perfect, and I can hook it up to an external monitor when I need the absolute largest screen possible. Speakers and battery life are indeed better on the 16", but it's diminishing returns at that point IMO. The screen is huuuuuuuge, and that's awesome, but so is the laptop (in comparison to the 14"). Just weighs too much, I think. 4lbs was the sweet spot.
Here's to hoping for a 15" goldilocks model
I've never really had my 14" get warm, but I use it primarily for media consumption and web browsing.
Agree, but everyone is different. My niece who is 5’5”, probably weighs under 120 surprised me by getting the 16 over the 14. If you can handle the extra heft and footprint, 16 is the clear winner
Valid points. As someone who also has the 13 M1 the move up to 14 was not warranted
No thanks to white bezelsIf you need 64GB RAM (means more power of CPU and GPU performance), go for MBP16,
else,
MBP14 is good enough.
If you only want a big screen, waiting for the rumored M2 MBA15
I had to switch to sports loops because of this. While a lot of my typing is not done resting my wrists - I do rest my wrists when I'm not typing and that caused damage when using the band that came with the watch (that silver button on the bottom). Sports loops solved that for me completely.