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StrangeDays said:

ITGUYINSD said:

Annoying Mac thing #23 -- Why do only 5K monitors work with Macs?  I mean, literally any 1080p, 2K, 3.5K, 4K or more works and looks great with Windows (using scaling).
1080p on a Mac looks terrible.  Everything is too big, fonts are jagged and unsharp.  Why can't one scale on macOS?

Is there some physical barrier that Apple cannot overcome, or do they just want to sell you an uber-expensive monitor to makes tons of profit?

Yeah no. Font smoothing on Windows has been historically atrocious. The last time I ran Windows in BootCamp even on a MBP some apps would scale and some wouldn’t and it generally looked like garbage. MS’ font smoothing features also looked like garbage on my prior PCs. Are you saying they’ve recently completely improved?

entropys said:

I have a touch screen on my work HP f dragonfly. I don’t use it. For scrolling, and that is about it. And let’s be honest, touchscreens are probably offered because for some unfathomable reason windows trackpads are crap, and have always been crap, despite the mac example to copy.

if apple goes touch screen in 2025, it will be because the iPadisation of MacOS is complete; or it has become too hard to get a non touch OLED display.

Ironically, we are getting a thinkpad P14s workstation for engineering student daughter. It doesn’t have a touchscreen. And comparably priced to a very tricked out MBP. But I digress.

StrangeDays said:

Definitely not needed as it’s a gimmick feature. Had them on work Windows machines and they were an oft forgotten about annoyance. Reaching up to the touch the screen when your hands are on the keyboard is baaad, m’kay?

9secondkox2 said:

urahara said:

9secondkox2 said:

Such a strange offering. Doubt that’s what it is. Probably a new “MacBook studio” or new iPad Pro. 

Don’t see a marker for a MacBook Air that size. 

Why do you doubt it? I would have bought it just right away. So some other people. The question is if there is a market for this and how much would it canibalize other sales.

I doubt it because it doesn’t fit right in the product matrix. 

You have MacBook Air at the low end. A thin and light with just enough of everything. Then you have the 14 inch pro as a step up. Then you have the 16 inch at the high end. A nice trifecta. Perhaps the 15.5 inches will be the rebirth of the MacBook. But even that is strange as the pro has a 14 inch version. A 15.5 inch air doesn’t have a hole to fill or a reason to be. 

There have been rumblings of a larger iPad in the works. This screen could be it - unless Apple plans to increase the screen sizes of the Pro models further with a 15.5 inch low end and a 17” inch high end. That would be logical. Yet the new models are only a little over a year old. 

I’m going to stick with the iPad idea. Especially as Apple will likely leverage its pro apps on am series iPads in the near future. More real estate is better for video editing, etc. 

a MacBook Air with a little bit more screen just seems like an exercise in no point. 

dewme said:

My experience with “super apps” or what I’d call “kitchen sink” or “dog’s breakfast” apps has never been a pleasant one. Lotus Notes, Microsoft Outlook, and (sorry Apple) iTunes are prime examples of kitchen sink apps that I found and still find to be particularly wretched. 

I was so happy when Apple finally broke up iTunes into separate apps. Obviously Apple learned their lesson and fixed what had to be fixed. 

Unfortunately Microsoft seems incapable of learning from its mistakes. 

Lotus Notes … what can you really say about a “super app” that required Dante’s 9 circles of hell to be expanded from 9 circles to 10 circles. 

Thank you Apple for not being Microsoft, IBM, or any other software company that wants to inflict super apps on its customers at the current stage of computer and human evolution.