M6 MacBook Pro could have four innovations new to the Mac

M6 MacBook Pro could have four innovations new to the Mac(9to5mac.com)

20 points by blacktulip 73 days ago | 12 comments

rayiner 73 days ago |

A few people have been predicting touch screen macs every year forever and they’re always wrong. Apple won’t do a touch screen mac. You can’t look cool using a touch screen on a laptop.

awakeasleep 73 days ago |

In the past when Apple had really well designed software, this would’ve been such an exciting announcement.

Now I feel confident that it will be half integrated, poor user experience nonsense.

karmakaze 73 days ago |

Of all the features only the M6 processor and maybe C2 modem interest me.

Because it's my 'dev machine' an OLED display only raises the price.

marssaxman 73 days ago |

I sure hope there's a way to disable the touchscreen. My ThinkPad has one, and I hate it. I never want to touch the screen on purpose, so its only function is to unexpectedly move my cursor when my sleeve or something brushes too close.

znpy 73 days ago | |

I first had the touchscreen on my current x13 gen1 amd, which is overall a shitty laptop with crappy linux support.

It’s… okay-ish. I occasionally use it as it’s comfortable to scroll with my finger when I’m using my laptop on the couch.

HOWEVER: i rarely do that but the touchscreen is drawing power all the time.

I’d have preferred a non-touch display…

alwillis 73 days ago | |

> I sure hope there's a way to disable the touchscreen

Apple is usually good at letting users turn off most features.

The article suggests the touchscreen will be a secondary input mode and the keyboard + trackpad (or mouse) will still be the primary mode of interaction.

xattt 73 days ago | | |

That’s adding a secondary feature to turn off to the BOM.

mobilio 73 days ago | |

I have Chromebook with touchscreen. It's great to mix trackpad and touchscreen.

But after heavy use display became dirty because of human fat that remain on screen. I didn't notice similar things in iPhone/iPad however.

simonh 73 days ago | | |

I suspect it's that phone and iPad screens do get dirty that way, but they're very easy to regularly wipe clean compared to a laptop screen, to the extent that it's not as noticeable that we're doing it.

WalterGR 72 days ago | | |

iPhones and iPads have oleophobic coatings. Does your Chromebook?

Archit3ch 73 days ago | |

> I never want to touch the screen on purpose

VCV modular would be fun with touch screen. :D

Sloppy 73 days ago |

I have owned two high end OLED TVs both got horrible burn-in within a year. I'll never get another. This will only be worse on a computer screen with permanent areas like menu bars and docks to ruin the OLEDs. I've heard all the "we have fixed this..." and most of these are demonstrably marketers spouting, well dare I say, lies.