alt Hacker NewsMacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch
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No Apple Pencil is a huge miss for consumers. I guess they don't want to cannibalize the iPad though.
I would probably never touch the screen with my fingers, but I would draw with it. Would also be really useful during calls.
You can find the steve jobs video showing where they wouldn't make a touch screen laptop. He is probably rolling over in his grave now.
I do like how they are brining back ports. I think they need to add back the Ethernet port.
The full spec is significantly more expensive in my local currency (Denmark, DKK) than in USD. Something like $7500 even after sales tax of 25% is added.
What gives?
The promo video looks like to be shot in Prague, but feels somehow 'off', does it have some ai edits?
I don't like touchscreens. I watch the people I work with who have them and none of them use theirs. How much of this was just Apple user FOMO?
Doesn't look like it folds back or does tent mode. Those are some good use cases for touchscreen PCs, being able to walk around in tablet mode in something like a warehouse, for example.
Dynamic island looks nice.
Funny how half the press release tries to hide the notch/island/whatever its called. I almost thought they gave up on that, then I finally saw it like 7 or 8 images in.
15% weight reduction over previous gen macbook pro is great.
No folding and no Apple Pencil support sadly, would've been a kickass 2-in-1. Would have to wait for ProCreate to be ported to macOS though
Curious to see if oled actually helps battery life. My experience with OLEDs are they absolutely drain power on white scenes. My oled monitor pulls ~90w on a white screen, you can feel it get hot like an old CRT.
Got the m5 pro like last month. Actually no FOMO this time. I wonder how the AMOLED looks irl, I bet it's sweet but the current pro motion is already top notch.
I think this is more for the generation that grew up on phones and tablets, who are now in the professional space and like that interaction model
As an iOS engineer I am actually pretty excited about how this will improve manual testing on simulator.
I want it for the OLED but not for the touch or glowing logo
"We've done tons of user testing on this, and it turns out, it doesn't work. Touch surfaces don't want to be vertical. It gives great demos. But after a short period of time, you start to fatigue, and after an extended period of time, your arm wants to fall off. It's ergonomically terrible." —Jobs
They're finally getting OLED, which is one thing that's kept me on competitor laptops. They're just so much easier on my eyes.
I guess they're testing the water before turning on native iPad app support? Not sure why they wouldn't ship it straight away.
This means they've figured out a way to keep the screen from wobbling when poked … let the theorizing commence!
Since you can configure it with a 16TB SSD, I wonder, is it QLC or did Apple manage to make it TLC?
I'm so perplexed that they chose this product name, while still retaining their existing Macbook Pro product line.
The touchscreen would make sense for a hybrid laptop convertible. But in this form factor I cannot understand.
The fancy OLED display would actually be a potential reason to finally upgrade from my M1 Pro but even if I could afford it, I find prices like that hard to swallow (and I couldn't care less about touch in a laptop fwiw). Guess I'll buy one used in a year or three, maybe.
Have they figured out how to fit an LTE modem into a 16” MacBook Pro?
Or does one still have to go to Dell for that?
It's sort of outrageous to launch a new product like that but not with M6, I am gonna wait for the M7 version
Just make a fast, sturdy laptop, don’t keep making it lighter, and touch??
looks like they brought back the glowing apple logo on the lid for the first time in a decade!
the older macbooks used the display's backlight to illuminate the logo, but since these new OLED displays light up individual pixels I wonder how they're lighting it up now...
Such an advanced OLED display only to be covered by fingerprints after a week of use.
I was hoping a 2-in-1 foldable that acts like an iPad too. I have been waiting decades for that.
I'm curious as to how the touch feature will work (if at all) with privacy screens.
so many complains on touch screen is how i know it will be a banger
I don't like it, it still will be a popular laptop and within 5 years - one of the best. I am moving away from Apple, thank you for a ride!
I like OLED screen but don't care at all for the touch screen.
The price is really high too.
Apple directions is going insane. there is no other explanation.
They refused for decades to put a touchscreen because they know very well it will eat on their ipad sales.
One less reason to get an ipad pro.
Does it support the Pencil?
I'm just excited the Apple logo glows again
Is there any reason this wouldn't work with an apple pencil too?
Jobs getting cooked in the grave...
how did they reduce the weight? the design looks the same
Touch screen could be nice for running ipad apps
Apple finally delivers what some users have been screaming about wanting for over a decade and now… people don’t want touchscreen Macs. lol
tandem OLED is one of those techniques that makes me think "why didn't we just do this in the first place?"
I literally cannot imagine touching my macbook's screen on purpose. Dual screen phone. Touchscreen macbook. Fairy princess UI. Apple used to lead the way in design language and functionality. They're absolutely rizzless nowadays.
It's ergonomically terrible.
It doesn't work.
Steve Jobs said this in October 2010 during Apple's "Back to the Mac" special event, where the company was previewing Mac OS X Lion.
Everything is going down the drain right in front of our eyes.
I can't make sense of any counterargument as anything but copium.
A touch screen MacBook is a mistake.
It's very unfortunate that there now isn't a single desktop operating system not ruined by touchscreen support.
No gorilla glass for gorilla arm?
Finger prints on my screen are a capital crime or at least family meeting time.