Calamander

Punultimate said:

Looks awkward to wear and interact with.

Also they need to spend some money on marketing; a stilted demo in an echo filled room with lackluster record and no background music is not a great introduction to a new product.

Interesting ideas with the hand projection and interaction but 100% a skip for me.

Nah that was pretty smart. In today's world, you spend your money on development - make better products rather than better ads - and you need to be authentic, which is why the founders speak about their device, which is spot on. 

comcastsucks said:

"Any time the microphone or camera is in use, a "trust light" is turned on for people to see"

How long until someone figures out how to turn that off?

I doubt anyone will bother. It's baked into the hardware so to turn that off is going to be hard - probably easiest to put a colored sticker over it. 

Physical brightness and volume control keys are way better than the touch bar. 

No one has time to have customized features for each app on the touch bar - even apps I use most often, I end up learning the 2 or 3 most important keyboard shortcuts to become super efficient - the touch bar can't compete with that, it's always going to be slower, because it requires me to look down from whatever I am looking at on the screen, to the bar, then figure out what to push, carefully, so I don't miss, then look up again. 

Add to that a slight delay on the touch bar that was surprising but never went away.... touch bar for some reason was slower than an iPhone screen (no delay). 

In the end it wasn't useful for anything I was doing, when I tried using it it was very slow and error-prone. 

One of the few failures in product design Apple made - why anyone thought this would be useful is beyond me. 

All of which could maybe be forgiven if it didn't _replace_ useful functions I use every day, like brightness and volume buttons ... I just counted besides brightness, volume, escape, and power/touch, there's 7 more buttons I never use - replacing those with a touch bar would be OK, since I don't use them anyway. 

These use "lightning" like older iPhones? Strange. 

14 or 16 cores and black and 22 hours of battery life????

I am getting that thing. 

Take my money. 

One of the few product releases in recent history where I am going - hell yes, this is it! No ifs and buts, just some awesome hardware. 

It looks badass in black. I need all the cores I can get my hands on. 

Apple is finding its stride with the M class processors - this makes much more sense than releasing a low end model with M3 and having to wait for 6 months until pro and max get upgraded. Features, prices, specs, and performance now neatly line up, like they did in Intel times - or even better really.