Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

I do video and 8tb internal seems mad. We use braw, prores raw, arri raw, redcode - usually 4k dci, some 6-8k redcode - all this stuff for a sane workflow is segmented. Why would you risk having it all on a local drive?

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New 16 incher looks perfect. Glad they fixed the keyboard and made it a bit thicker for the cooling to have something to work with.

Also, base spec having 6 core i7, 16GB ram / 512GB SSD is decent.

Glad they fixed the keyboard

..did they though? The mystery continues..

Yeah that’s legit.

update: 2013 imac

so so so much better with an external ssd, absolute game changer, i still might get 16gb more ram (for 24 total) but not sure it actually needs it

Always more ram

Surprised by the lack of enthusiasm regarding the new 16".
Seriously thought this whole thread would go completely nuts when it launches.

I'd love to be excited about it but for me it's too many £££ so I'll just leave it be for another couple of years

It's the design they should have brought out in 2016. An apology computer.

It still has the pointless touch bar, and the awkward ports, and the low res screen, and the rest of their lineup still has the shit keyboard with no end in sight.

Low res screen?! Are you on drugs?
I’m assuming you’re comparing it to 4K screens on some android phones, 4K is pointless and a waste on small screens and destroys performance and battery.

It ships with the screen res set to 1792x1120@2x, or 3584x2240.

The LCD is 3072x1920. It shouldn't be scaling pixels out of the box.

An apology computer.

Ha! Apple don't do "apology".
Keyboards being a nice example, yet my favourite is actually when they changed the antenna design on the iPhone and people all over the globe were complaining about shit reception with the new phones they were not admitting the obvious design fault, but telling everybody they're "holding the phone wrong".
Gotta love these guys.

they were not admitting the obvious design fault

they gave everyone a free case to ameliorate?

Do you have a link to that info? Maybe I need to do some more reading...

Sounds very odd if Apple ships a screen that isn't tack sharp

This is quoted from https://sixcolors.com/post/2019/11/macbook-pro-16/

The display of the 16-inch MacBook Pro—well, it’s right in the name,
isn’t it? This laptop has a 16-inch diagonal screen that’s 3072 by
1920 pixels, up from 2880 by 1800 on the 15-inch model. Pixel density
has increased from 220 pixels per inch to 226 ppi, so this is a higher
resolution screen, not just a bigger one. Still, Apple has set this
laptop to default to a scaled size that’s the retina equivalent of
1792 by 1120. I don’t mind the scaling and think the display looks
fantastic, complete with the same P3 wide color gamut and 500 nits of
brightness found on the previous 15-inch model. But I can see people
who desire pixel-perfect accuracy being disappointed that this isn’t a
“true 2x” display at 3584 by 2240.

That's as negative as people who still want to be invited to product previews allow themselves to be.

Apple pulled the same shit with the 15-inch retina, setting it one notch above its hardware resolution, so it's nothing new.

But is it a real world problem?

Definitely a problem on the 15-inch - you're stuck with either running at native resolution with everything far too big, or running at Apple's suggested resolution with noticeably soft display and visible artefacts from the scaling - at least to me.

(I ran mine at maximum 1920x1200@2x, because if you're going to have scaling artefacts you might as well get the screen space in return)

any free apps that give you menu bar play/pause buttons ? used to use ByteController but can't seem to find a download link that works.

Which gen 15" is this? I have a 2015 one and can't see any artefacts or scaling issues.

Are there hard and fast rules as to how far you can upgrade/mod an older macbook? On the advice I've recieved on this thread it's starting to look more and more appealing. Also, I realised that we still have my wife's 2010 13" Macbook Pro knocking around that has be usurped from her use by a Surface laptop which she loves. I'm thinking as the Pro was a higher spec machine than my plastic Unibody, it might make a more suitable candidate for upgrades.

..it always depends what you want to do but I guess putting money towards an almost 10 year old computer does not make much sense.
Just sum up the cost of a SSD and the maximum RAM your machine can take and decide whether you want to throw that at this old computer or rather towards a new one.

I have a dead 17 MBP that I upgraded by installing a SSD and maxing the RAM. I squeezed a few years of very good life out of (it’s now unused because of the graphics card problem that hits this vintage of ‘book). That was the third MacBook I’ve done it to and the performance difference before/after is night/day.

The first unibody was, IIRC, a little tricky because it lacked Firewire and was a crapshoot as to whether you could ‘see’ all the RAM installed.
Later models were fine, I think?

You’re going to hit problems with the hardware not being ‘officially’ supported by newer OSs. But you can always work around that.

I get your point and it's something that I'm wrestling with. Specifically though, is there a way of finding out what the max amount of RAM etc I can upgrade the machine by?

Obviously, I'd rather start with a new machine but $1600 plus tax for a new base model macbook or a few hundred for a new Crucial 500gb SSD and RAM seems to be pretty tempting if it can be done and gives me a few more years of service.