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Mike Wuerthele said:

slurpy said:

Anyone who had a shred of common sense suspected this. Makes the previous AI kneejerk piece looks pretty idiotic now. 

... and there are many holes, allowing for the keycap to be attached to the keyboard.

According to the patent, there’s a hole in the membrane to allows air to exit and enter the membrane as the key is pressed and released.

We’ll never know the truth about backdoors because they usually come with gag orders.

Folio said:

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Maps has gotten way better than it used to be. However, I still can't believe there's no bicycle option. Does it still kick you back on a car route if you cycle on a pedestrian route at over 10mph?

That's so annoying!

Do you mean real-time directions while biking? Is there a way to do that safely? It seems that could be pretty dangerous in a noisy busy city environment. Most cyclers are local and know their area. But as for planning bike trips in new areas, I hope AppleMaps makes it a priority to put down dedicated bike paths, and designated lanes. Seems they could enlist local bike groups for enthusiastic help.

In Virginia we have great bicycle trails that rarely merge with roads. The only way to ride those trails with Maps, is to select a walking path. But as soon as you exceed 10mph Maps will automatically switch your path to roads. That's why I am forced to use Google Maps.

Maps has gotten way better than it used to be. However, I still can't believe there's no bicycle option. Does it still kick you back on a car route if you cycle on a pedestrian route at over 10mph?

That's so annoying!

Soli said:

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Soli said:

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macxpress said:

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Soli said:

tundraboy said:

Does dark mode mean that MacBooks will soon be sporting OLED or microLED screens?

..There's no net loss for setting it up for LCDs at this time.

Except for battery life.

Unless Apple is switching its displays to OLED (Which I highly doubt for cost reasons) then a dark interface wouldn't save any battery life. Only OLED turns off the pixels to make black which is what makes the blacks blacker on an OLED screen. LED screens used on Macs today don't do this. Maybe you're thinking it uses less power to make black? I still don't see any significant gains in battery life there if this happened to be true. 

I might be wrong but I think he was referring to microLED displays, which work the same as OLED.

If you're referring to me, I thought my comment was clear. There's no net loss for Apple setting up Dark Mode today for microLED in some future release. Your comment, which says "except for battery life" reads that there is a net loss in battery life for having Dark Mode enabled on a LCD display.

haha, yes I was. LCD displays do use more power when displaying dark colors, which in turn uses more battery cycles thus reducing battery life.

I thought the major power draw with LCD displays is the backlight. What's the power usage range for a pixels to display colors between white and black?

ireland said:

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Soli said:

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macxpress said:

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Soli said:

tundraboy said:

Does dark mode mean that MacBooks will soon be sporting OLED or microLED screens?

..There's no net loss for setting it up for LCDs at this time.

Except for battery life.

Unless Apple is switching its displays to OLED (Which I highly doubt for cost reasons) then a dark interface wouldn't save any battery life. Only OLED turns off the pixels to make black which is what makes the blacks blacker on an OLED screen. LED screens used on Macs today don't do this. Maybe you're thinking it uses less power to make black? I still don't see any significant gains in battery life there if this happened to be true. 

I might be wrong but I think he was referring to microLED displays, which work the same as OLED.

If you're referring to me, I thought my comment was clear. There's no net loss for Apple setting up Dark Mode today for microLED in some future release. Your comment, which says "except for battery life" reads that there is a net loss in battery life for having Dark Mode enabled on a LCD display.

haha, yes I was. LCD displays do use more power when displaying dark colors, which in turn uses more battery cycles thus reducing battery life.

This is not clear. Depending on the kind of LCD display (not including area dimming displays) an LCD computer monitor may use slightly less or more power when showing black. It’s not clear here, but it’s not significant either way. We will have to wait for micro-LED notebook displays to consume less power—while spending more money ;-)

The draw comes from supplying power to the electrodes that block the light. The stronger the polarizing crystals, the darker the blacks. As Ireland has noted, the power draw from the polarizing process is not as significant, between 5 and 10% of the total display draw. On TVs it is even lower between 3 and 4%.

Having said that, some LCD TVs do draw more power when displaying whites, but that's only because they dynamically increase the brightness for effect, or sometimes the brightness sensor is too close to the screen