Can't wait for what weird thing they'll do this time and reverse later. We had butterfly keyboards, touchbar, USB-only dongle-fest, the notch (hopefully going away this time), ...
And thinner? Why? There's no practical need to be much thinner, and if they are, you start to get into the realm of the iPads that were easy to bend because they were so thin.
I wonder if an under-display camera[0] would be good enough for a laptop? If Apple truly is pivoting to OLED, this option becomes available, and it's been proven to be pretty OK by various phones.
Obviously this won't provide amazing footage, but if you're making high-quality footage for e.g. YouTube you probably want to buy a dedicated camera anyway.
I think Macbook Pros should be quite advanced machines with slightly out-there features, so I would love to see the touchbar back as a power user option but above function keys. I absolutely loved it on my 2019 MBP and it represented a bunch of new ways of doing things, but it was gone too soon to really mature. Most Mac users clearly don't need it, but there's a certain group of obsessive users that will hack on stuff like this.
I'd much prefer a display underneath the trackpad. It would be so much more flexible in terms of which UI you can implement, and it would not necessitate any extra real estate.
If they could add the tactile feedback of the mousepad maybe. But the touchbar in its last incarnation as just a screen was absolutely awful for function buttons.
It was no substitute for function keys, but being able to get close to the screen while editing pictures and using the touch bar to adjust sliders with my finger without looking at the control on screen was A+, so much nicer than cursor keys.
Having a secondary display that was context-sensitive (thanks Better Touch Tool) was super cool.
My point was that power user hackers will find interesting ways to use interfaces and controls. I’m not really interested in the people who tell me it’s useless for them or don’t need it, that’s fine, but I do want to see stuff that isn’t immediately understood or with a predefined purpose, just because it’s cool.
The touchbar was and will always be useless. Chromebooks have shown that touchscreens are good for productivity, for everybody but especially for mobile application developers, while simultaneously doing away with any need for a tablet.
I see no real reason to redesign the MBP. Only place I think they could push further is the camera and maybe even the speakers. The keyboard, trackpad, display and ports are a okay.
Apple logic dictates that they found a way to shrink the notch years ago but have been waiting for a redesign to roll it out so they don't upset the current design language of the Mac.
Sure do love the form over function reality we live in, today. Yessiree.
Sorry I must be out of the loop. Side loading on Mac seems like it's already possible? Just download with browser, Option-Click the app and open, right?
I ran into the same error while trying to install QMK Toolbox the other day. Apple's control-freak policy over what you can and can't install is sickening.
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I do not understand this quest for thinness.
Outside of that the Macbooks are pretty much perfect already.
Obviously this won't provide amazing footage, but if you're making high-quality footage for e.g. YouTube you probably want to buy a dedicated camera anyway.
[0]: For example, see https://www.tomsguide.com/news/the-battle-of-the-under-displ...
Another option is an angled camera from the main body. Apple can already track faces digitally.
Come on, you need more imagination. NFC, folding screen, face id, eye tracking, touchscreen, co2 sensor, presence detection, titanium.
Having a secondary display that was context-sensitive (thanks Better Touch Tool) was super cool.
My point was that power user hackers will find interesting ways to use interfaces and controls. I’m not really interested in the people who tell me it’s useless for them or don’t need it, that’s fine, but I do want to see stuff that isn’t immediately understood or with a predefined purpose, just because it’s cool.
Sure do love the form over function reality we live in, today. Yessiree.
1980—nearly half a century ago—is calling [1].
[1] https://www.techjunkie.com/apple-iii-drop/
If the answer is no, then thank goodness for Asahi Linux.
Not for much longer: https://lunduke.locals.com/post/6304352/apple-removes-abilit...
I ran into the same error while trying to install QMK Toolbox the other day. Apple's control-freak policy over what you can and can't install is sickening.