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  • Flexible glass displays could replace MacBook Pro keyboards

    shaminoshamino
    fastasleep said:

    Not sure why you'd think Apple doesn't eat its own dogfood, it's pretty clear they do. You see Schiller and Federighi walking around with Lenovos, do ya?
    Walking around in public, they're going to use what they want the public to see them using.

    When in their offices, I doubt they're using their laptops' built-in keyboards.  They're almost certainly attached to a dock of some kind.  Or they have desktop systems there (iMacs, minis, Pros) where they get to use large monitors and external keyboards and pointing devices.  Assuming they only use Apple parts (which may be likely), they're going to be Bluetooth Magic keyboards and mice/trackpads.

    Even more for the developers and writers who spend nearly all their time every day typing.

    It's also worth noting that Apple has not (yet?) introduced these no-travel keyswitches to their external keyboard products.

    I'd love to know how many of them actually use laptops at their desks and how many of those actually use the built-in keyboards at their desks.
    muthuk_vanalingam

  • Flexible glass displays could replace MacBook Pro keyboards

    shaminoshamino
    So, in summary, Apple admits that their latest keyboard design is bad.  And in response, they're going to introduce one that's even worse.  That's a great way to make customers want to buy your product.

    The low-travel keyboards Apple introduced in the MacBook Air are minimally acceptable.  The butterfly keyboards of the current laptops are terrible for anyone who touch-types, because the key travel is almost non-existent.  A glass keyboard?  Reducing key travel to zero?  Absolutely not.

    I tried the idea of touch-typing on glass years ago when the iPad was introduced.  It was terrible then, and sticking it in the body of a laptop isn't going to make it any better.

    What's the solution?  Very simple.  Force every Apple employee (designers, developers, marketing, sales and especially executives) to use nothing but Apple equipment for their jobs.  No third-party parts of any kind.  If they hate their keyboards then maybe they'll start to realize how bad the design really is.  If they find that the latest software deletes all the features they rely on to do their jobs, then they'll tell the developers to put them back.
    henrybaymuthuk_vanalingam

  • How to make new T2-secured Macs boot from external drives

    shaminoshamino
    Old news - Apple talked about this when the T2 was first introduced (in the iMac Pro).  But it's good to remind people of it.

    Worse is that even with external booting enabled, you can't boot Mojave from an external encrypted APFS volume.  So bootable backups must either be un-encrypted or on HFS+ formatted media.  I hope Apple fixes this soon.
    FlaSheridn

  • A future 13-inch iPad Pro or MacBook Pro could have this newly-developed 8K OLED panel

    shaminoshamino
    Anyone who thinks 1,062ppi (or even 663ppi) in a display is important needs to think again.

    Go and test some laser printers (go to a store that has demonstrator models if you don't have access to any) and print a B&W text test page on a 1200dpi printer, a 600dpi printer and a 300dpi printer.

    While many people may be able to see differences between 300dpi and 600dpi, most will have to hold the paper a few inches from their eyes in order to notice.  I doubt very many (if any) people will be able to see any significant difference between 600dpi and 1200dpi without using a magnifying glass.

    And that's with sharp black-on-white text.  When you're dealing with a computer screen, where there are all kinds of shades of color and anti-aliasing algorithms, those differences are going to become even harder to see.

    Once the pixels are smaller than your eye can discern, additional resolution only adds cost and power consumption - it doesn't make the image look any better.
    rcfa

  • Mac mini 2018 Review: Apple's mightiest mini yet

    shaminoshamino
    sirozha said:
    I believe that the quad-core i3 CPU in this Mac Mini has only four threads instead of eight threads; that is there’s only one thread per core. Please confirm that.

    If this is the case, the multi-threading performance of this i3 CPU should be inferior to the multithreading performance of the 2012 Mac Mini’s quad-core i7, which has eight threads (two threads per core). 
    You are correct.  The i3 and i5 models are not hyperthreaded so their 4 and 6 cores, respectively, translate to 4 and 6 threads.  The i7 model is hyperthreaded, so those 6 cores give you 12 threads.

    But comparing it against previous generation minis is not reasonable, because you're looking at many generations of CPU evolution.  The new mini uses 8th-gen processors.  The previous minis (2014) use 4th-gen processors.  And the 2012 model uses a 3rd-gen processor.  Even with half the number of threads, I would expect that 8th-gen i3 to outperform a 3rd-gen i7.
    MisterKitnetmage