I can't believe they're doubling down on the notch. The absolute best thing I can say about the iPhone notch is: I don't hate it enough to switch to Android. It's by far the thing that bothers me the most about the design. It's ugly and lacking harmony with the UI.
The cynic in me wants to dismiss the leaps and bounds of the M1 chips. The reality is I own one of these laptops and am constantly surprised at how much better it is than the intel chips. Its going to be hard not to turn my current M1 laptop in and upgrade to the newer M1 Max.
The M1 stuff is amazing but it's kind of a sad state of affairs when I'm unreasonably happy about having things (decent keyboard, connectivity) that should be table stakes for a professional level laptop.<p>Mostly just bummed that we appear to have traded one gimmick - the touchbar, for another - the notch.
Interesting to see them going back to human curated Apple Music playlists. They started that way when they rebranded Beats Music and it was amazing, but once they switched to ""AI"" recommendations their quality tanked massively and I cancelled my subscription few weeks later.<p>Might give them another chance now.
Speaking of Apple:<p>Hetzner is going live <i>tomorrow</i> with hosted M1 Mac Minis for 49€ excl. VAT (same added for setup) - available at <a href="https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/matrix-apple" rel="nofollow">https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/matrix-apple</a> (link is not live at the time of writing, probably either at midnight CEST or early morning tomorrow)<p>Quote from their forums: Get ready for Apple Mac mini M1 (2020) with 16 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD and optional 2x 1 TB NVMe SSD.
So, as far as I can tell, they listened to every single complaint people had about the last generation of pro Macs. These are in every meaning of the word pro machines. Now, they're so pro, I can't imagine why anyone would need one, unless they do multi-media professionally, or work exclusively in Xcode.<p>I can't even believe they compromised on size and weight in order to deliver something more pro. It's a complaint I've been hearing for years, how people would gladly accept a bigger laptop if it were a "true" pro machine. Well, wishes granted.<p>Edit: (quick comparison in thickness and weight)
Previous MB Pros were (respectively):<p>* 15.49mm/1.49kg<p>* 16.51mm/1.95kg<p>New M1 Pro Macs are:<p>* 15.49mm/1.65kg<p>* 16.67mm/2.1kg (or 2.2kg for the "max")
Looks like they are bringing back the HDMI port and sd card slot on the pro. Wonder if they got enough complaints about those I/Os being missing on a "pro" machine
The specs on the new MacBook Pro are incredible, especially considering people were already blown away by the performance of the first M1 MacBook. It’s a seriously powerful machine. And the additional ports are a <i>very</i> welcome change.
Am I the only one bothered by the thickness? I mean, the new macs are going to be amazing machines but....it's just so un-Apple, you know? Still, gonna pick one up as soon as I can :)
Oh, notch you again. I'd rather they had a camera slide up from behind but am not sure how a good idea that is either, moving parts are fragile..<p>Oh well, at least the machine is performant and they got rid of the fancy but useless touch bar.