One thought I just had is that it’s very good news that Apple kept the power consumption tight on these new models. I really hope they run nice and cool under normal workloads as a result.
There is a chance however that the M1 Max could be a poor choice is this regard. For example if it turns out that the GPU eats up battery and drives up the thermals, it could be something you don’t want in a music focused portable computer.
I’m no GPU expert, but I’m assuming they scale with the demand already, so there is no need for “efficiency GPU cores”. If so, then it should run cool for regular tasks.
Music production software is probably in the “moderately demanding” category, so having a system that can easily handle it without getting hot is what I want.
they go into this on the launch video. they seem to continue to be efficient … they do a comparison with high spec pc’s (which I’m typically suspicious of … they chose the laptops that help their own cause).
in general i think whatever they’re doing is more energy efficient than anything i’m currently using , which is all 10+ years old.
Anyone who has a new MacBook Pro coming, I believe it comes with the new macOS Monterey - not sure what, if any, of our music software is Monterey ready. I’m sure Overbridge isn’t.
I like the notch design on the new MBPs, and I’ll tell you why.
The first thing is the aesthetics of having a rounded display corner. I think that looks nice, and it preserves a perfect rectangle for applications (with square corners) below it.
But the big reason I’m a fan is that full screen apps will no longer jump down when your cursor accidentally touches the top of the screen. This is something I really dislike with the current design in Big Sur.
I run Bitwig Studio full screen, and I use an external mouse. When I go to click on a button in the top toolbar and I brush the top edge, the main menu pops up, and pushes the app down, and it’s very annoying. So if the notch bar fixes that, I’ll be thrilled
I hate both the idea of the notch and the screen jump alternative. This may be enough for me to prefer the Mac Mini for home-studio use and only tolerate the MBPs when work buys them for me.
Screen real estate is sacred. I’ve never liked Apple’s tendency to round screen corners. Snipping some pixels out for a camera is maddening.
BRB, investigating slide-rule based music production.
Btw the first real life benchmarks coming to youtube … e.g. Peter McKinnon
Spoiler: He exported his timeline in Adobe Premiere for youtube … and it was almost 4 times faster than with his other Mac Pro 2019 (I guess not the slowest / cheapest Mac Pro you can buy as I know that guy ) … and now the most important part: The fans weren’t audible during export. Nice!
The notch isn’t taking away screen real estate, it’s expanding it. It’s getting all the menu bar icons up where the bezel used to be and off the main screen area
Judging by my use of the cameras on my last 2 macbookpro’s over the last 13 years… I will never use that camera…
maybe they should offer a 50€ cheaper version without the notch/camera because I can’t live with that irritating black blob especially for something that I don’t even want or need on the machine!!
I disagree. The entire area to the left and to the right of the notch would be bezel before. You’ve gained all that new screen real estate. The fact that a third party app like iStat Menus hasn’t updated their software too reflect the new MacBook layout is irrelevant.
I don’t understand everything you tried to say. How should iStats handle this? It was no problem before because the side bezel didn’t occupy any pixelspace in the center.
Fact is: There is a black hole in the center. And I know a lot of apps that have many many many menu bar items (Adobe, Autodesk etc. pp.). It’s disruptive. And I’m eager to see how it’s being solved.
He’s quite excitable… what’s he on ?
Just so I can avoid other people on the same stuff.
It looks annoying but can you imagine his reaction on something that ultimately matters ?
Is that how you need to react to things to become a successful influencer ? ( no idea if he is one to be fair )
It’ll get solved
I totally disagree. I had a look through all of my existing Macos apps and most of them plonk a menu item where the notch is situated. Of course there’s a workaround - drop the screen in full screen mode but frankly it’s a mess and was entirely avoidable. Presumably Apple feel that making sure that you are you at all times is a price worth paying - its going to be like having the Eye of Sauron watching you at all times. :)))
Must admit to finding the notch reactions amusing. Personally, I like the arrangement. From my understanding, there’d be no pixel loss vs my 2018 MBP. The ratio of the screen under the “notch zone” is 16:10 and obviously a little off when including that top notch band. I gain space for toolbar.
Like others have mentioned, the toolbar dropping down from the top on my current Mac can be annoying in certain apps and the new MBPs remove that as an issue. I know I can adjust things in macOS to limit the toolbar impact but I like having it disappear 90% of the time.
The new MBP’s seem like a nice, tidy solution to me. I’d much rather go nuclear on them ditching the Touch Bar! Bring that back to the MBP and I’ll be happy but appreciate that’s a pure pipe dream on my part now. That experiment wont be repeated.
) … and now the most important part: The fans weren’t audible during export. Nice!