MacPro

command_f said:

I bought the first MBP with a Touch Bar shortly after it was released. I assumed that Apple had a cunning plan for the Touch Bar that would more than compensate for its disadvantages - turned out that they didn't. Touch ID, on the other hand, is really valuable.

I could write a book on why the Touch Bar is a bad idea but some of the obvious ones are:

• You have to look at it to use its keys 'cos you can't feel them
• This is made worse by the fact they move around so the same key can be in different places
• It often needs an extra press just to use it since it times-out and goes blank (even on mains power)
• The bar has limited capacity so lists (eg of E-Mail addresses) are often incomplete compared to the version on the display
• And why wouldn't you use the display version anyway 'cos that's where you are looking?
• It adds cost to the computer
  
• It adds hardware complexity so, in principle, reduces reliability
• Heck, it probably even reduces battery life

In its favour, the utility for configuring it is really cool.

So I hope the new MBP loses the Touch Bar. I really hope it does include the extra port types though, to save carrying dongles or being embarrassed when you've forgotten them. My MBP before the Touch Bar was a real road warrior: you could connect it to almost everything in the real world without a dongle. Making things smaller and lighter by moving required functionality into separate units is not clever design (hey, look at the size of the new notebook - you'll need to remember to take along a battery though, and a display and keyboard and the really neat SSD... but look how small and light the notebook is!).

As to a notch, I'm not really sure I care. On the iPhone, Apple rearranged icons so the middle of the top of the display wasn't needed. As I write this on my current MBP, I see a big empty space in the middle of the Menu Bar and I happen to know that macOS already knows how to dump Menu Bar items should it be full so I doubt it would be a big issue. If it does come to pass, I also very much doubt it will be as big as the schematic seems to suggest.
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rob53 said:

dysamoria said:

mr lizard said:

rob53 said:

Limited article. Parallels can’t do anything with Windows 11 until Microsoft releases an ARM version. Apple moving away from Intel so VMWare seems to not care about non-Intel related virtualization. Parallels is trying but can’t make Microsoft do anything. Running Unix/Linux under virtualization on an M-series Mac might not have enough customers to keep Parallels in business long term. 

Um... Windows 10 has had an ARM version for a while now [...]

Not available to end users, though, is what I keep reading here on this forum.

Just checked the Windows Insider Preview website and it doesn't mention anything about Windows 11 anything. Is there a different previewer website?