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  • 13-inch MacBook Pro with Apple Silicon M1 review: Unprecedented power and battery for the ...

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    melgross said:
    Dan_Dilger said:
    The people who hate Touch Bar are the same who think Macs need touch screens. They constantly talk about how great Surface is. They're PC people; they should buy PCs. If Touch Bar wasn't helping to sell Macs, the most data-driven marketing in the world would have figured that out by now. What Touch Bar does is differentiate Apple's machines from basic PCs. And if you haven't yet noticed, Surface isn't exactly selling on the same level as MacBooks. 
    What gives you the right to characterize people that way? I happen to like the touch bar—AND I think Apple should have a touchscreen, just like millions of other Mac users. I know how you follow the Apple line, but Apple is often wrong. This is one of those things where they’re wrong. And I’ll bet that at some point, we will have a touchscreen.
    You mean the 5 people in tech message forums that want a touchscreen Mac.  No one wants a touchscreen Mac.  Who wants dirty fingerprints on their screen?  So you want to bang on a keyboard, then have to reach up and touch the screen every time?  Talk about the most inefficient way to get work done.
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  • 13-inch MacBook Pro with Apple Silicon M1 review: Unprecedented power and battery for the ...

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    s.metcalf said:

     There are no conditions "required and imposed" by Apple, other than an embargo time and date.
    Interesting.  But still, you don't want to be too critical right?  Don't want to get on Apple's bad side lest you get dropped from their approved reviewers list?  I'm not suggesting there's an unspoken arrangement or unintentional bias, but I do believe there's the potential for both of those things.  And that's enough for me to not put too much into these launch-day reviews.

    I prefer post-launch reviews where there's no agreements with Apple for early access, as I find them generally to be far more open, plain-speaking and willing to be critical.  It's like, do you ever, when online shopping, jump to the most critical reviews and ratings to see if they're reasonable; affect you; or there's a common theme (because individual reviews can be spurious)?  I find them generally to be far more helpful in my purchasing decisions than the glowing/positive reviews.  That's why I like people to be critical, even overly so.  I see the role of reviews and reviewers (in part) to be devil's advocate.  So sorry if it seems I'm overly negative or critical, but I think that explains my position.

    I gather that AI doesn't consider it appropriate or necessary to show more than the same old benchmarks on launch day, and perhaps you didn't have much time to do otherwise.  I'm looking forward to seeing real-world performance for a variety of not yet ported or optimised apps.  I'm very enthusiastic about the potential in this switch.  It's really only day one of release today.  I bet Apple's upcoming 16" ARM MacBooks will be very tempting!
    You must be a real blast at parties.  They did point out all the flaws, but it is clear you did not read the article - 720p camera, limited external display support, limited external thunderbolt support.  Their review was accurate, many positives with some glaring negatives.  It doesn't matter if it is on the day of release or two weeks from now.  The review would be the same, because it is the same final product.  Funny that you would think there would be some type of legal agreement for a review.  Sad that you think a YouTube video from a blogger would be more in-depth.
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  • 13-inch MacBook Pro with Apple Silicon M1 review: Unprecedented power and battery for the ...

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    charlesn said:
    14" screen in the same case with narrower bezels
    1080p camera. HELLO? Even post-pandemic, Zoom meetings for business will be essential--honestly, how do you stick a 720p camera in a new 'Pro" laptop that you're essentially rolling out in 2021? Sure, the image processing may make it look "good for 720p," but the added cost to Apple for a better camera would have been miniscule. 
    Fast WiFi 6. I'm not even talking about 6E, although that level of future-proofing would have been fabulous. But this new Pro doesn't even have the antenna array needed to support the fastest data transfer rates of which WiFi 6 is capable. 
    5G Mobile Connectivity. How hard could this be to implement when even the most basic iPad offers cellular?
    Touch Bar: Really? Still? Stick a fork in it, Apple... it's done! This is one of those technologies, like 3-D Press on iPhone, that might have been a good idea, but was never widely implemented by the developer community. 
    1) 14" display is rumored for a future MacBook.  How do you plan on having a camera with narrow bezels?  I can't figure out why people have such a crazy fit over bezels.  Like it really affects the functionality of the MacBook, except to make the display much more fragile for damage.
    2) The review addressed the 720p camera.  These are low cost MacBooks, but it is embarrassing for Apple to ship them with lousy cameras.
    3) Perhaps the required antenna array does not fit in the smaller display of the 13", especially when you are demanding smaller bezels.
    4) No one wants cellular in a MacBook.  No one wants to pay for another data plan.  Everyone has their phone with them all the time and they do Personal Hotspot.  You don't need to pay for duplicate technology.  The Wi-Fi iPad is the most popular model sold, because people don't want to pay for another data plan in an iPad.
    5) TouchBar...yeah, that is a gimmick that never caught on.  The fact that you have to look at the TouchBar every time you use it because it is not tactile like keys on a keyboard, makes it more useless.

    You do realize these are first generation models.  Redesigns will come later.  Just like the first Intel Macs used the same case as the iMac G5 and PowerBook G4.
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  • Apple releases macOS Big Sur with redesign, Safari updates and more

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    mdriftmeyer said:
    I can't speak about non-availability, but it is a completely useless update for the next 6-9 months with all my music equipment and software plugins. The same thing happened with Catalina. It never ceases to amaze how badly the past two major system updates have been so piss poor with coordinating efforts with professional software music companies.

    Perhaps you should blame the developer of whatever programs you use for not updating their programs to be up to date and compatible with a new system release.  It is not Apple's fault the developer does not keep up to date when they should have been prepping their software since June.  It is not Apple's job to force developers to update their programs.
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  • Microsoft 365 and Office 2019 updates arrive with Apple Silicon and Big Sur support

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    lkrupp said:
    The version number is 16.43.20110804 for the four apps. I got the update notice last night.

    They’re “snappier”!  B)

    And why would anyone expect M1 code at this point? Patience.
    Microsoft also announced M1 native versions being released yesterday as part of their beta program.  Why would anyone expect M1 code at this point?  Because they had access to the development kit back in June and have been working on M1 native versions since then.  So if you are in their Beta Connect program, you can download M1 native beta versions now.
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