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The new MBPs is literally everything I wanted
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My complaint is that the SDXC slot is not a CompactFlash or even a CF Express slot.
Another niggle is the display border that is 3.5mm but I expect it to be thinner in 6-10 years from now when they do a redesign which will probably replace the notch with an under screen 4K camera that can do Face ID.
Keeping MagSafe, Headphone, HDMI & SDXC slot "as is" this is how I would have done the USB of the 2016 to today's MBP
Prior to USB-C Apple used to do gradual transitions from FireWire 400 to FireWire 800. With the 2016 MBP their design just quit the pre-2016 I/O like cold turkey.
Another niggle is the display border that is 3.5mm but I expect it to be thinner in 6-10 years from now when they do a redesign which will probably replace the notch with an under screen 4K camera that can do Face ID.
Keeping MagSafe, Headphone, HDMI & SDXC slot "as is" this is how I would have done the USB of the 2016 to today's MBP
- 2016 - one TB3, one TB2 & two USB 3.1
- 2019 - two TB3, one TB2 & one USB 3.1
- 2021 - three TB4 & one USB 3.1
- 2024 - three TB4
Prior to USB-C Apple used to do gradual transitions from FireWire 400 to FireWire 800. With the 2016 MBP their design just quit the pre-2016 I/O like cold turkey.
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I much prefer real world usage instead of benchmarks.
The new version of Davinci Resolve from Blackmagic Design is now up to 5x faster with the M1 Pro and M1 Max.
Well, some people use their laptops for work and a lot of professional apps have extensive menus ...
For example most Adobe apps need more than half of the screen for their menus on a MBP 13"
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Yeah, I'm curious as to whether this will result in some long term UI changes to take advantage of the extra space. Obviously easy for Adobe to just ignore it and run the menu beneath, but perhaps there's a way to manage the menus and keep the rectangular space for the work area.
I was wrong. I just checked one out in store and when you auto-hide the menu bar it does not let you put windows up into the "notch space." That is indeed kind of annoying.
Ok, finally tested the menu behaviour today:
1) In normal mode the menu items flow around the notch
2) In application fullscreen mode the notch zone is black over the full screen width, but the menu stays on this level.
So normal or fullscreen does not matter, there is a little bit more (vertical) screen space for applications.
On the other hand (due to the notch) there is less (horizontal) space for menu items.
For many professional apps with a lot of menu items the rightmost items won't be directly visible / accessible.
So depending on what apps you work with the missing menu space could be annoying.
For me personally it is a minor problem, I mainly work on desktop. Still this is something to be aware of.
1) In normal mode the menu items flow around the notch
2) In application fullscreen mode the notch zone is black over the full screen width, but the menu stays on this level.
So normal or fullscreen does not matter, there is a little bit more (vertical) screen space for applications.
On the other hand (due to the notch) there is less (horizontal) space for menu items.
For many professional apps with a lot of menu items the rightmost items won't be directly visible / accessible.
So depending on what apps you work with the missing menu space could be annoying.
For me personally it is a minor problem, I mainly work on desktop. Still this is something to be aware of.
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I meant that in non-notch Macs you can auto-hide the menu bar and use the space that the menu bar typically occupies for your application windows. In the new MBPs you can auto-hide the menu bar but cannot put application windows into the space that the menu bar typically occupies. If you try to do so the application windows are automatically bumped down below the notch.
