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doingitwrong posted:They tried to drop Air. That got us the 12" MB. And then they brought it back because Air is the most successful laptop brand they've ever had. Even if they did the simplification you want, it's probably be an Air and a Pro. Which sucks because I don't like the Air wedge shape or name. It's all fantasy, remember?
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My fantasy is they only have two Macbook lines 12" Macbook Air 14" Macbook Pro 16" Powerbook That's right, bring back the motherfucker P-P-P-Powerbook
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Nov 23, 2020 20:39
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doingitwrong posted:They tried to drop Air. That got us the 12" MB. And then they brought it back because Air is the most successful laptop brand they've ever had. Even if they did the simplification you want, it's probably be an Air and a Pro. That’s because the 12” MB was a worse product than the Air in many ways at the time. It’s not the branding, it’s that the Air was more powerful, more versatile for an average user, and $300 cheaper. The MB had a Retina display and a sleeker look, but otherwise it had a much worse keyboard, one weird port that nobody at the time used, and the performance of an at-the-time four year old Air. It’s fanless, but the Intel CPU in it gets HOT. Blame it being a poo poo product, not the name.
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Nov 23, 2020 20:44
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Ok Comboomer posted:That’s because the 12” MB was a worse product than the Air in many ways at the time. It’s not the branding, it’s that the Air was more powerful, more versatile for an average user, and $300 cheaper. Would have been awesome to bring it back with M1 though
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Penisaurus Sex posted:In my fantasy world the 13" ceases to be and the new smaller MacBook has the equivalent case of the old 12" and has a 13.5" diagonal screen with small bezels. but that would be a 14-inch laptop, of course. i had to run into staples very quickly recently and happened to walk past the microsoft surfacebook go 12-inch. wish i could have justified being in the store for more than two minutes because it looks awesome. i’d never buy one but it does make me hope that apple brings the 12-inch model back with actual performance
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Nov 23, 2020 20:49
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Bob Morales posted:Would have been awesome to bring it back with M1 though Nah, just rename the Air and then I will have my Space Gray Son-Of-Polycarb-BlackBook and it will be twice as powerful as my rMBP, and I will have my ür-MacBook. (Also make the space gray a little darker pls, more like the Watch Space Gray than the iPhone Space Gray)
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Nov 23, 2020 20:51
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i love small laptops but on the complete other hand I have barely left my house in 8 months & almost everyone I know who chose thin/light/low power now regrets it. I just really, really hated the 12" Macbook though, because people had expectations for how <a mac of any type> should perform & it didn't meet them.
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Nov 23, 2020 20:53
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With the M1 and a good keyboard the 12 will be great though
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Nov 23, 2020 20:59
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while we're all pie-in-the-sky let's see Apple bring back mac colors, like iPad Air--meets--G3 iMac
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Nov 23, 2020 20:59
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Ok Comboomer posted:while we're all pie-in-the-sky let's see Apple bring back mac colors, like iPad Air--meets--G3 iMac They've clearly shown they can do it, gimme that iPhone 12/iPad Air green.
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Nov 23, 2020 21:01
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bus hustler posted:i love small laptops but on the complete other hand I have barely left my house in 8 months & almost everyone I know who chose thin/light/low power now regrets it. I like my tiny Mac. Fits great on my desk next to my WFH setup.
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Nov 23, 2020 21:05
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https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/1330719158334578692
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Nov 23, 2020 21:08
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Bring back the rainbow logo
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Nov 23, 2020 21:10
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Mu Zeta posted:With the M1 and a good keyboard the 12 will be great though oh yeah dont get me wrong i love the form factor, if they release one that will actually work i'd have no issues with it. i just hated it because people bought it expecting to USE it, and they couldn't. a silent one that would happily drive an ultrawide monitor at home & then pick up and still be functional with 12-20 battery hours & charge off a usb-c antec power brick? 
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Nov 23, 2020 21:13
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Data Graham posted:Bring back the rainbow logo vaguely surprised they don’t do this for pride
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Nov 23, 2020 21:18
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mediaphage posted:vaguely surprised they don’t do this for pride I thought they usually do at the Apple Stores with the store logos?
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SourKraut posted:I thought they usually do at the Apple Stores with the store logos? couldn’t tell you but i mostly mean as a product
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Nov 23, 2020 21:42
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OneDrive sync, just idling, is using like 700mb on my M1 (Air, entry level). Uses 65mb on wife's 2019 13" Pro. I understand it's not a native M1 app yet (Office beta is though) but that's kind of...excessive, no? This machine is ridiculous, though. $899 for the future, today? Yes please. vv edit: RAM hotsauce fucked around with this message at 22:31 on Nov 23, 2020 |
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Nov 23, 2020 21:45
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hotsauce posted:OneDrive sync, just idling, is using like 700mb on my M1 (Air, entry level). 700mb of what? Ram? Disk Space?
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Nov 23, 2020 22:10
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I just wish you could get a 15/16" screen with entry level components.
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Nov 24, 2020 00:03
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Data Graham posted:Bring back the rainbow logo it never left  (slickwraps retro wrap)
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Nov 24, 2020 00:14
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Ok Comboomer posted:while we're all pie-in-the-sky let's see Apple bring back mac colors, like iPad Air--meets--G3 iMac 
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Nov 24, 2020 00:17
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I wish Apple would make a 15 inch Air. Something with a big screen with a lot of real estate but as light as possible. The M1 would mean not giving up a lot of power for that.
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Nov 24, 2020 00:39
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TACD posted:I'd like them to stop being all coy about it and just make every product available in all the colours they had for the 4th gen iPod nano If you’ve never seen a group shot of every iPod color ever produced, it’s kind of amazing just how many different shades of lime green and turquoise and red and so forth Apple produced. There are like three generations of Mk4 iPod Shuffle that are all the same rough complement of candy colors, but each set is subtly different from the others and you wouldn’t notice unless you had them all in front of you to compare.
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Nov 24, 2020 00:44
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kefkafloyd posted:I wish Apple would make a 15 inch Air. Something with a big screen with a lot of real estate but as light as possible. The M1 would mean not giving up a lot of power for that. have you ever picked up one of those laptops made with a magnesium alloy? it honestly feels like picking up a dummy prop
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Nov 24, 2020 01:12
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I got my mom one of those new blue iPad airs and it’s a pretty nice color in person, very subtle. I’d definitely like it if the new MacBooks came in similar colors
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Nov 24, 2020 02:09
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the talent deficit posted:among us is a weird example to keep coming back to as it took a pc release for it to make any kind of impact. it was an abject failure until twitch picked it up Tangent from Apple gaming discussion - That seems very unfair to Among Us. It was a tiny indie team working on next to no budget. No money equals no marketing equals a tough time getting noticed and making sales, despite which they were doing well enough to make plans for Among Us 2 even before the twitch popularity explosion. And once it took off on Twitch, well, there's your marketing department.
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Nov 24, 2020 02:13
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BobHoward posted:Tangent from Apple gaming discussion - That seems very unfair to Among Us. It was a tiny indie team working on next to no budget. No money equals no marketing equals a tough time getting noticed and making sales, despite which they were doing well enough to make plans for Among Us 2 even before the twitch popularity explosion. And once it took off on Twitch, well, there's your marketing department. i'm not throwing shade on the team or the game. it's a great game and their success is well deserved. i'm just saying apple had absolutely nothing to do with it so it's weird to hold it up as an apple gaming success
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Nov 24, 2020 02:37
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the talent deficit posted:i'm not throwing shade on the team or the game. it's a great game and their success is well deserved. you can understand why some might take “abject failure” as criticism of the game and/or team, I’m sure (hi!)
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Nov 24, 2020 03:10
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Noticed that my local Apple Store was going to have the M1 MBP 16GB/1TB combo in stock tomorrow, so ordered it and planning to pick it up on Wednesday. I'm really excited to be a beta tester!
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Nov 24, 2020 04:02
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Came close to selling my 16" for $1600 and doing a straight swap for a m1 13" pro. Resisted the urge, I'm sure the M2 models will blow these out of the water. Though my resale value is sure to drop like a ton of bricks it might be smarter to wait.
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Nov 24, 2020 04:24
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hatty posted:Came close to selling my 16" for $1600 and doing a straight swap for a m1 13" pro. Resisted the urge, I'm sure the M2 models will blow these out of the water. Though my resale value is sure to drop like a ton of bricks it might be smarter to wait. I will say, a really underrated feature of the 16" are the speakers. They're so good. It's crazy how much I notice that using the Air (which doesn't even have bad speakers for its size).
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Nov 24, 2020 05:45
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the m1 air is my favorite games console cause openemu is the best.... its actually really good at n64 stuff now, when did that happen..
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Nov 24, 2020 06:34
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I’d love it so much if I could have openemu on an AppleTV with icloud storage of saves and ROMs.
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Nov 24, 2020 06:36
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for all those people who want m1 macs but cant live without simultaneously watching all six seasons of anime star trek death porn 9, here is a possible solution https://9to5mac.com/2020/11/24/m1-mac-external-display-workaround/
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Nov 24, 2020 17:23
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oh wow display link if only people in this thread could bring that up without getting poo poo on by people who read about it on reddit srsly tho these days displaylink is totally fine if you aren’t basically gaming
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Nov 24, 2020 17:29
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It does still interfere with HDCP though, I think.
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Nov 24, 2020 18:14
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mediaphage posted:srsly tho these days displaylink is totally fine if you aren’t basically gaming displaylink didn't work for ~6 months when catalina came out. it's also a terrible experience even when it works source: i use a displaylink dock with my work laptop
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Nov 24, 2020 18:28
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Subjunctive posted:you can understand why some might take “abject failure” as criticism of the game and/or team, I’m sure sure, i should have qualified it with *commercial* probably
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the talent deficit posted:displaylink didn't work for ~6 months when catalina came out. it's also a terrible experience even when it works cool, i can do anecdata, too: the usb displayport adapter i have works great while incompatibility issues with new revisions are a pain, the only time it should matter is if you buy a machine with the new os. rare is it a requirement to update the day of, especially in a corporate setting where they have dock issues like yours.
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