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I use the third-gen butterfly keyboard on a MacBook Pro.

I hate nearly everything about it. The Touchbar remains an absolute gimmick. I thought I'd get used to the key travel, but nope. Something about the keys being super low makes me typo way more often than on any other keyboard I've ever used. The up/down arrow keys being half-height makes them harder to touch type and serves no purpose other than making it look somewhat more symmetrical.

And it's just straight-up missing the escape key, which seems like just an additional insult–it has a key on the other side of the keyboard, for Touch ID, so that makes it less symmetrical (they finally fixed that in the newest 16", which doesn't do me any good).

Touch ID is nice, if weirdly slow, when it works.

Cook was COO, not CFO.

Anyone who's familiar with Teams should be well aware that, though Microsoft surely could build a decent chat application, they certainly don't seem motivated to.

Since you seem to have been involved with this in some way: thanks! You've earned at least one customer who had never heard of your company before.

Apple has only ever shipped single-button mice with their computers, so turning the whole trackpad into that button on their laptops was a pretty simple evolution. Gestures came much later.

According to that map download speeds are nearly twice as fast in the US as they are in South Korea? I don't know where their data is coming from but that sounds awfully suspect.

You can on an iPad Pro?

It's only mentioned in one line, at the very bottom of the page, but Jason Snell also is doing this series as a podcast:

https://www.relay.fm/20macs

It has a lot of brief interviews with other long-time Mac users on their experiences with each machine.

Ah, but did any of them have a subwoofer built in to the tower, like the Performa 6400?

(Beleaguered, desperate, mid-90s Apple did some really weird stuff).

https://lowendmac.com/1996/power-mac-6400-performa-6400/

Website layout is confusing, but this just appears to be a stub linking to this article: https://www.techinsights.com/blog/two-new-apple-socs-two-mar...

Discussed earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25547151

Show me a projector made in the last five years that isn't capable of inputting VGA?

I mean, don't actually, they do exist (mostly in the realm of inexpensive portable mini-projectors). They're the exception, though, not the norm.

VGA is most certainly still around (and, I agree, shouldn't be, as it is also still terrible), just not in the market that spends $800 on GPUs.

The Washington Post says "about $30":

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/12/15/covid-home-...

Just the AirPods Pro, not the regular AirPods.

This, please. Every time they run down to ten percent it's like being stabbed in the eardrum.

I bought a pair of Sony WH-1000XM4s on sale a month or two ago in large part for the 30-hour battery life (yes I could use wired headphones and have an infinite-hour runtime; I have a very nice pair of Sennheisers for that. I don't always want to).

They work fine on older Apple hardware, as well. The older versions of iOS just don't auto-pair, can't support spatial audio, etc.

How about compiling WebKit?

https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/webkit-com...

The SSDs are faster, but only by ~20%: https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/BlackMagic...

From the TechCrunch review, which is pretty breathless but also contains a lot of good data: https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/17/yeah-apples-m1-macbook-pro...

A 30% improvement to the 865+ starts getting close to A13 single-threaded performance, on 7nm from a year ago.

So Qualcomm won't be quite so far behind Apple, but it's still pretty significant.

There are two lines of 13" MacBook Pro, the two-port and four-port versions. The two-port always lagged behind the four-port, with older CPUs, less RAM, etc. The four-port (which has not yet been replaced) is configurable to 32GB of RAM.

The two-port and four-port 13" MacBook Pros have been separate product lines since their introduction. This new A1 MBP only replaces the two-port version. Presumably the higher-end one will share an upgraded processor with the 16".

Note also that Bentley is part of VW.

It's actually way worse than that. About a quarter of eligible voters voted for each. Half the population sat and watched the last four years, and still couldn't be bothered.

The 12 Pro does Night Mode on all three lenses. The 11 Pro only does it on the "regular" wide.

The 12 Pro's "regular" wide also has a larger aperture to improve low light capture, so Night Mode can stack fewer / shorter exposures for the final image.

It gives full manual control, live histograms, and a nice one-handed interface. I'm not sure what you get for free, and obviously whether the upgrade is worth it is up to you, but I bought the full unlock when it first came out and haven't regretted it.

We said the same thing about Perl for a couple decades.

I get ~100mbps at home over LTE, which is the same as my cable connection.

Edit: In the US.

They are definitely cutting costs, though, in storage and shipping. Which is fine. Amazon doesn't even ship a cable with the Kindle, which is much more annoying as my Paperwhite has been the last micro USB device I've owned for several years.

Didn't they disable the startup chime, like, three years ago? I remember people being very excited to discover the `defaults write` command to re-enable it.

Update: four years ago: https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/enable-classic-startup-chim...

The modern Mac can use two case-sensitive-capable file systems, HFS+ and APFS. Neither is case-sensitive by default and, at least for many years, formatting the system volume to be case-sensitive caused a lot of problems with applications.

Image in the article says TSMC 28nm.

https://www.cnx-software.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Pico...