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Seems they may have finally noticed the hit from a decent number of the pro's using their products migrating to different platforms, and realized they needed to take a few steps back on the more radical innovations to put out a solid working machine. Hell I haven't wanted an Apple machine since the early days of the unibody when other manufacturers started releasing the same form-factor. This has me considering one for my next development machine depending on the price premium over the competition.
Apple almost single-handedly made computing devices non-repairable or upgradable; across their own product line and the industry in general due to their outsized influence.
Growing up, the most effective anti-bullying enforcement was pretty much bystanders, and a minority thereof to boot. Don't know whether the difference was, but 90% of the time for me, official intervention was nowhere near as effective as that that just happening to see something and intervening because they felt it was wrong.
I would venture that what we call capitalism these days isn't truly the capitalism of old. Rather, we're in some dystopian Corporatism future (corporatism vs capitalism) that aims to reduce choice, lock users in, and then treat those users as captive customers. It's no longer about providing a better or competitive product / service, but rather finding more ways to lock in users and eliminate choice. An acquisition by a FAANG is often a means to reduce choice instead of increase quality of a product or service.
I don't see the touchbar on the 13". (EDIT: Ah, 14")
They still do a big chunk of the work.
The notch gives us smaller bezels / more screen real-estate. It _kind of_ makes sense.
> "Bad choices" from the perspective of wealth accumulation

Which is not a paramount motivation for everyone.
> I shouldn’t have to pay 80% more just to get HDMI, SD, and other features

Pedantic nitpick, but a USB-C hub costs ~$40, or about 4% more than the base price of a Macbook Air.
The 12” MacBook was beloved by my elderly parents, who liked the low weight design and didn’t need to do anything other than check email and the web. Horses for courses. It was a great machine for the right audience.
Is MacOS also going to restrict all apps that run full-screen to the 16:10 display area and not the strip?

If they have done that, it's fine.

But even then I can think of a bunch of people who buy MacBooks to run Linux.. it's going to be a showstopper for them.
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People will get used to it... but they could have just shifted the screen down, using that chin. For example there are plenty Windows laptops with 3:2 aspect rations, where they use up all the vertical space.

They could have just moved everything down for IMO a slightly better design.
Holy smokes. I was impressed. I can’t understand how some folks here are underwhelmed. Who is buying and what did you buy??
Actually it would have been a contextual keyword, meaning it could be any word the committee wanted it to be, and it is only recognized as such in this particular context (i.e. at the end of a function declaration). They could have chosen anything they wanted, but decided that '=delete' was fine.

Other examples of contextual keywords are 'final' and 'override', which may also occur on function declarations.
It's only a matter of time before we find out how much extra user spying they added in Windows 11, in exchange for having icons in the middle of the taskbar.

Seriously, switch to Pop OS now. Windows is not going to get better, only worse.
Now, if only Unreal Engine builds were available M1 native, I could get rid of my huge and heavy desktop entirely!

Interestingly, some improvements to Rosetta were mentioned, extremely briefly.
I skip getting a Starbuck's latte, and avoid adding extra guac at Chipotle.

I'm kidding, that stuff has no affect on anything.

Justifiable, as in "does this make practical sense", is not the word, because it doesn't. Justifiable, as in, "does it fit within my budget?" yes that's accurate. I don't have a short answer to why my personal budget is that flexible, but I do remember there was a point in my life where I would ask the same thing as you about other people. The reality is that you either have it or you don't. That being said, nothing I had been doing for money is really going to max this kind of machine out or improve my craft. But things that used to be computationally expensive won't be anymore. Large catalogues of 24 megapixel RAWs used to be computationally expensive. Now I won't even notice, even with larger files and larger videos, and can expand what I do there along with video processing, which is all just entertainment. But I can also do that while running a bunch of docker containers and VMs... within VMs, and not think about it.

This machine, for me, is the catalyst for greater consumptive spending though. I've held off on new cameras, new NASs, new local area networking, because my current laptop and devices would chug under larger files.

Hope there was something to glean from that context. But all I can really offer is "make, or simply have, more money", not really profound.
How do you present examples when all it takes is a narrative of "conspiracy theory" to dismiss them? We know both government and corporations are, remain, and will continue to remain corruptible. We know they've done bad things, we know they do bad things, we know they can continue to do bad things.
There are very few critiques of the empirical assertion that the capital share of the economy is not increasing, though. Most are on other parts of his thesis or argument.
Apple has a pretty generous return policy. Get them and return them if you don't like them.
In this context the absence of the 27 inch iMac was interesting. If these SoC were not deemed to be 'right' for the bigger iMac then possibly a more CPU focused / developer focused SoC may be in the works for the iMac?
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Him and Steve were a great combo keeping each in check. Ive should have left a long time ago.

He is now designing at Ferrari: https://www.wsj.com/articles/ferrari-hires-former-apple-desi...
I’m curious about all the distaste people have of the notch. It’s more screen space. Would people prefer a larger bezel? My guess is you’ll have the option for a virtual bezel on apps that don’t properly account for the notch.
Recently? That's been going for years. Literally since I started reading hacker news in 2005 there's been how to info products aimed at tech workers.

And people were calling it a gold rush then and talked about selling the shovels that long too.
Thank you for your comment! I’m going to consider reaching out, but I also like keeping my account pseudonymous so I’ll have to figure some things out.
Its amusing that a lot of the features being hyped are simply Apple giving up on terrible design features they've been forcing for years and just providing what every other laptop does (normal keyboard, no touch bar and physical function keys, ports for HDMI cables, headphones, SD cards).
I really hope the magsafe cable is not fixed to the power brick, it is the only bad memory I have from magsafe 2
From the marketing images on the website, it looks like fullscreen apps will just have a black bar across the top. Kind of frustrating! The inaccessibility of the top menu bar is the main reason I never use the native full-screen mode on macOS. Since the menu bar is now within the extra added space on top, I hope we eventually get the option to leave it visible.
I thought the memory was one of the more interesting bits here.

My 2-year-old Intel MBP has 64 GB, and 8 GB of additional memory on the GPU. True, on the M1 Max you don't have to copy back and forth between CPU and GPU thanks to integrated memory, but the new MBP still has less total memory than my 2-year-old Intel MBP.

And it seems they just barely managed to get to 64 GiB. The whole processor chip is surrounded by memory chips. That's in part why I'm curious to see how they'll scale this. One idea would be to just have several M1 Max SoCs on a board, but that's going to be interesting to program. And getting to 1 TB of memory seems infeasible too.
I really enjoy the way that they admitted their design mistakes of the past by having the speaker mention that users love tactile function keys and made it come back. They tried their best to say it was a mistake without explicitly stating it. It's almost like they did real design and usability studies, and then acted on it!

I find it so surprising that in this day, a big tech company is actually listening to its pro user segment (at least more than before).

Fingers crossed for lightning port switching to USB-C, Touch ID making a return to mobile devices (does not have to replace Face ID although I wouldn't care if it did), and the screen notch going away over time.
That doesn't mean that people are copying them. Thunderbolt 3 adopted the USB-C format. Until USB-C, USB wasn't capable of delivering the power required for charging. It made logical sense to switch charging to USB-C. If anything, Apple copied USB-C.
> Apple playing 5d chess.

I think you're giving them too much credit. This is Apple's way of admitting they were wrong.
> I was laughing when every single one of these changes was presented as "revolutionary" in the keynote.

Exactly none of these changes were presented as "revolutionary", that's just in your head.
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I do care about it a lot.
Actually no "extra" chip area in comparison to x86 based solution.

They just throw away so much of cruft from the die like PCIE PHYs, and x86 legacy I/O with large area analog circuitry.

Redundant complex DMA, and memory
controller IPs are also thrown away.

Clock, and power rails on the SoC are also probably taking less space because of more shared circuitry.

Same with self-test, debug, fusing blocks, and other small tidbits.
> In what sense was USB-C ever supposed to be an alternative to SD card slots?

You use a USB-C dongle.

99% of people never use SD cards so don't care. The people who do care can use a dongle.
I'm not commenting on whether storage expansion or video output is more important. That obviously depends on the person.

I'm saying that while USB-C is an effective solution for video output, and therefore can conceivably overtake HDMI at some point in the future, it doesn't address the same use case as SD at all.

I can use an SD card slot for permanent expandable storage. I can stick a terabyte card in there and forget about it until I need to move it into a new device. USB-C doesn't help with that use case at all. It's actually worse than USB-A, because at least the latter has decent slim fit drives available that will stay in without sticking out too much.
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Those power comparisons aren't really fair IMO. They're testing power consumption...

They're using a "msi prestige 14 evo (intel CPU)" vs an optimized laptop using an M1.

Further, where's AMD? They have a better power vs performance ratio.

I'm not sure it's as good or not, but that's a lot of cherry picking.
I took the parent’s suggestion to mean they’re asking for a chronological news feed instead of one that prioritizes engagement. So not censorship or anything like that.
It'd be interesting to see a design like Safari 14 with the address bar to the left of the notch and buttons on the right.
You can order a Macbook Pro 14" with the M1 (not M1 Pro) for $2000.

EDIT: My mistake, it's an 8-core M1 Pro with 14-core GPU (so neither the 8-core M1 with 8-core GPU, nor the 10-core M1 Pro with 16-core GPU) at that price.
My Thinpak P1 has a moveable mechanical shutter I can move to physically block the camera lense. I don't see how you could do that reasonably with a notch design.

Before that on previous laptop models I used a post-it note or a piece of paper held in place with a clothes pin.

With the notch design you can't do that either without blocking parts of the UI!
Interesting, because for me, the first result was the link to the source code.

Does it work better for you if you surround the query in quotes?
the great thing with this update is that you can still do that :)
Yeah, that was extremely good. Definitely surpasses expectations.
But my point is the firms CAN'T turn off their contracts on the blockchain. Anyone can call the contracts.
Yeah, but one of them doesn't cost a ton to implement (what they're doing) and the other one would cost them a ton through lost sales (what you're asking for).

Always follow the money :-)
What is spatial audio? That the sound sounds like it has an origin?

If so, why is it useful/wanted?
It’s weird how now the only touch bar mac is that weird m1 macbook pro which now nobody will be buying when the 14 inch is so much better for not much more money, and the macbook air is almost as good for a lot less money. They went from all pro macbooks sold having touch bars to effectively none of them.
The 12" wasn't for everyone, but I know 2 people who had one and they both thought they were just fantastic.
> you lose out on all the screen real-estate next to it when something is fullscreen

That would have been bezel in a notchless design.
There's a few drawbacks to SSH tunneling:

- SSH uses TCP for transport, and tunneling TCP-over-TCP has considerable performance issues: http://sites.inka.de/~bigred/devel/tcp-tcp.html

- SSH doesn't support tunneling UDP out of the box (you need to either wrap UDP with TCP, or use SSH's -w option for creating a TUN interface, which requires root access).

WireGuard being a very simple UDP protocol has its advantages for things like this. The downside is you can't use onetun with the same private-key/assigned IP on multiple devices, since WG only supports 1 UDP endpoint per peer at a time.

Note: my tool doesn't support UDP in it's current state, but there's no technical reason it shouldn't be feasible (unlike SSH). I have a draft PR for it right now.
Import your days photoshoot to review your work, reformat the card and most importantly to back it up to TimeMachine.

Wonder how many people just now shoot on their iPhone 12/13 at least for snaps.
Yes, but let's see the price tag for an M1 Max with 64 GB is, and then we can rejoice. Or not.
> This also means that every chip Apple creates, from design to manufacturing, will be 100 percent carbon neutral.

How is that even possible?
>the system is rigged against entrepreneurs (no social safety net)

So then, why does the EU lag behind the US so much at successful startups even with our safety nets?

Or is it mostly due to the US VC funding system that pumps crazy amount of $$$ in tech companies plus having a giant homogenous market with a high purchasing power, all speaking the same language, that's lacking in the EU and in the end has nothing to do with social systems?

>unlike EU where you can fuck around without a job for years.

That's definitely not true. While there are a few people who have made a lifestyle from playing the system in order to live off unemployment their whole lives, that's a minority and not something you can easily voluntarily do.

For the most part, you can't just voluntarily choose not to work for years and still receive unemployment. They'll just cut off your welfare if you do that.
I mean, Apple gets to decide how thick the laptop is, so they could make it work if they wanted to. Didn't the original Macbook Air have a USB-A port?

Also, HDMI ports are approximately the same height as USB Type-A ports, so presumably it would fit in this design.
It's not useless, remember that full-screen is thing?
bring back pre-2014/2013 YouTube, back when people could unload content without as much fear of arbitrary take-downs or content violations warnings.
At least there's good choices all around these days. Very recently it was 'everything sucks'.
Exactly this. I use cloud VMs for heavy lifting. But if I used a laptop for even an hour every day, I would snap this $2k machine.

I just wish they had a $1000 M1 laptop with ports.
I think the usefulness of a bunch of different ports/port types is for when you're on the go. A hub/dock is of course way more convenient when you're at your main workspace. But if you're traveling or even just on your couch, having extra ports makes things much more convenient.
Can you make Gnome Shell do something else, then? Or if you don't want the extra pixels, I'm sure you could arrange it so that your OS does not use them.
Ha, well tinfoil hat on... Maybe they have not had to process any search warrants, because the various three-letter agencies know to just ask nicely and they'll hand it over.
And this debate is why Framework's approach to port modularity makes so much sense and why it's not just a gimmick, despite what early critics were saying around here.
No they didn't? The 14 and 16 inch don't have the touchbar.
The rumored 20-core M1 Extreme and 40-core M1 Plaid haven't been announced yet.
There is one area where the M1 is lacking - software support. There are still areas (eg Docker) that don't work well. It's definitely coming but it isn't here yet.

If you work outside of those areas though, an Apple Arm CPU is amazing.
Me too. I'm not sure I'll get this new hardware or look for a different laptop, but I'm going to miss the touch bar.

It was incredible for volume and brightness control, occasional uncommon characters input and switching between application tabs.

Yea, it sucked really hard when I needed F-keys, but it had its utility. Honestly, it was a bad idea as a replacement for the F-keys - it should've rather been a separate addition above those. It's not like there isn't enough space for both on a 16" chassis.
A lot of the time musicians sign themselves up to licensing services that create sub-agreements and some that don't even let the creators know that they have been licensed out to others. Then these artists stumble across their work in a project they didn't know about and report it out of confusion.

There are also some gutless people out there who file the copyright claims for other negative purposes.

Copyright has always been a huge mess though, and YouTube's method of making everyone compete for visibility certainly doesn't help it all.

I only sign licensing agreements directly with the film makers I work with, and refuse to use 3rd party sites to handle my licensing in order to properly protect my work use rights though. The Internet can be a scary place to share personal work at times.
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No, the model is the product-led growth model. For example, take our BEE Pro product: we do tens of thousands of monthly users of the free editor at beefree.io, of which over 10,000 become free trial users of BEE Pro every month, and of them hundreds convert into paying customers, every month.

Similarly with our embeddable visual builders: you can get started completely free of charge, then move up to a paid plan when you need more. And with this product there are actually many that "need more" from the get-go, so they get in touch with our sales team to make sure that the product is a good fit, do a proof-of-concept at no charge, and then go live.

Some more thoughts on being product-led here, if you are interested, here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/product-led-vs-product-focuse...
Yup, waiting for the performance review embargo to lift.
But you'd have to carry that around separately and not forget it, lose it, etc. OP is asking for those ports to be on the laptop itself.
Redis - it's probably in your stack already and fills all the use-cases.
I had the same thought, if you're charging on the right side you don't have a USB port left there.
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I wonder how it will work with a mouse. What happens when you’re hovering the menu bar and go inside the dead area? Does the cursor disappear and return on the other side? Making the dead area unvisitable (so the cursor keeps following the border) seems the most logical solution probably, but it makes it very awkward to go from one menu item to the next if the notch is between them.
My understanding is that DeepMind did not previously own MuJoCo, but today they have acquired it and released it for free.

On the other hand, Brax is developed by Google and is written using Jax (which DeepMind loves and uses extensively).

Why would DeepMind have been concerned that people were switching to Brax?
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I'm not bothered about it and if that's the space they need to put their tech into it, then this is it. Would be a shame if anyone would make something thinner on the cost of tech specs. Not that that ever happened...
Just one day before the new Pixel 6 launch...
Disingenuous for Apple to compare these against 2017 Intel chips and call them 2x and 3.7x faster.

I would love to see how they fare against 2021 Intel and amd chips.
For me the only, huge, selling point of 4k is text rendering.
I could watch movies, do graphics or play games on a full HD screen all day long, but for programming I cannot go back.
Really curious if the memory bandwidth is entirely available to the CPU if the GPU is idle. An nvidia RTX3090 has nearly 1TB/s bandwidth, so the GPU is clearly going to use as much of the 400GB/s as possible. Other unified architectures have multiple channels or synchronization to memory, such that no one part of the system can access the full bandwidth. But if the CPU can access all 400GB/s, that is an absolute game changer for anything memory bound. Like 10x faster than an i9 I think?
I think the move back to an older design language is purposeful, to remind people of the "good old days" before the 2016 design.
The reactor didn't blow up. The building around it, outside of the containment structure, did blow up because of a hydrogen leak. It wasn't actually a big problem by itself, but it looked pretty dramatic on TV, so it probably contributed to people's overreaction afterwards.
Netflix is simply following public opinion. As far as I can tell, most Americans think that blackface is wrong.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/02/11/about-a-thi...

By comparison, most Americans think that gender is determined by your sex at birth.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/11/08/transgender...

Platforms like Netflix do have to draw a line somewhere. The question is just where the line should be.
And just like that, the outrage about the photo scanning malware Apple installed on their iPhone is forgotten.

"The screeching voices of the minority" indeed.
There is a small clojure project that transpiles clojure to openscad, (if I remember correctly...)

https://github.com/farrellm/scad-clj

Demonstrated and talked about in this clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk3A41U0iO4

edit: it is a fantastic talk but the part related to this starts at 17:35
Of the 2 laptop failures I've experienced both of them wouldn't boot but the data was recoverable because the drive didn't fail. Only in a vanishingly small percent of cases is the computer so destroyed that the SSD is also destroyed. The secure enclave is just another failing on Apple's part. If I'm encrypting my data it should be with keys I control. Apple should have a backup plan for users. Not doing so is negligent.
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Yes, but instead of acting like bringing back the regular keyboard is an amazing achievement, they could instead just admit that the touch bar wasn't a good idea. But admitting errors is not the Apple Way.
I haven't tried doing this with Apple TV, but iPhones also let you share your audio with a second pair of AirPods.
And then they added a notch hahaha
Well, no surprise this was down voted since most people in this thread never seems to have worked in this field. I have worked with recommendations on a service with millions of users. We do not guess. We look at things like conversion rates to tell us what works. If one think down votes would play a significant part in training a model you simple does not understand the amount of metrics a modern service collects and what impact different variables have.