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tejinderss | 5 months ago

I dont know whats apple obsessions with thinness, instead they should focus on usability and battery life.

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I've been a PC guy my whole live, and was forced onto a MacBook Pro this year for work.

The battery life is insane. The idea of charging my laptop has become this weird ritual now, only known of in lore and legend, that I partake of only when there is a blood moon.

rplnt|5 months ago

Now if you look at the smart watches, they are by far the worst on the market.

ayaros|5 months ago

Meanwhile my 2019 i9 16" MacBook Pro gets battery life on par with the MacBook Wheel (as seen in this classic from The Onion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BnLbv6QYcA) I kid you not, the hummingbird battery is real.

At least I have something to look forward to when I upgrade.

amluto|5 months ago

The battery life while in use is amazing. The battery life while closed and apparently asleep is abysmal and probably the worst of any laptop I’ve used in the last 20 years.

I think the problem is that Safari allows tabs to ask to be periodically woken while the laptop is asleep, and there is no obvious way to turn this off. And it will keep doing this until the battery is so low that the laptop needs to hibernate.

kridsdale1|5 months ago

They did that too, in the other products. Longest battery ever.

gizajob|5 months ago

I’d really love an inch-thick iPhone Dad which has a battery that lasts for days on end. Even a week.

nicce|5 months ago

They could make it thicker and give longer battery?

apparent|5 months ago

I assume they're getting ready for a folding iPhone, so the thinness tech is being developed largely for that. They're releasing this thin iPhone to test the market and to make use of it in the meantime.

atommclain|5 months ago

I don’t see it; to my mind the last great Apple thin product was the 12” MacBook from 2015.

JumpCrisscross|5 months ago

> dont know whats apple obsessions with thinness

It forces them to the forefront of miniaturisation and efficiency. It's also something they're unusually good at, which creates differentiation.

hulitu|5 months ago

> they should focus on usability

usability is so '00. Nowadays the focus is on ads.