![]() To compensate, you do feel the sharp-ish edges of the side air intakes when picking up the machine, but that’s a minor thing (the back vents are a tad unsightly, though).The second thing was that the heel of my hand was not coming up against a razor sharp edge when resting my hand on the trackpad, which is a welcome change from the old models.However, that extra thickness vanishes when using the machine as an actual laptop. The first thing I noticed (flat on a desk) was the increased thickness, which made it higher than I expected when I placed my hands on it.ErgonomicsĪlthough its primary use is on my desk, hooked up to my LG ultra-wide and with an external Bluetooth keyboard and trackpad, I am also using it around the house, so here are a few impressions of it as an actual laptop: I suspect that Apple will go and do a white (or tinted) version for consumer laptops, and that it will actually look great. The round screen corners at the top are also unremarkable (the screen is gorgeous, so you’re not going to be gazing at the bezels) and I don’t mind the black keyboard backplate at all. What notch? Seriously, I barely notice it (although to be fair I’m mostly using the machine with an external display, so I’m not staring at the internal one all the time).īut to be honest I’ve already tuned it out, although I did chuckle at the way the default wallpaper has a very dark band crossing the screen… Well, at least this time around we got more dynamic wallpapers. ![]() It soon dawned on me that this thing is insanely fast. Well, this time that didn’t happen–everything I had open moved instantaneously to the big screen, and I pulled Remote Desktop off the App Store, set up my Bluetooth keyboard and trackpad, and carried on using it as the world’s (second) most expensive thin client without missing a beat. Remember when you used to plug in a machine to a monitor and they would both hem and haw and have this elaborate little dance flashing displays and moving windows about? ![]() What I did the day I got it was pretty trivial–unpacked it, set up an admin account, set up my own account, waited 30 minutes for iCloud to do its thing while I went on a conference call, and then unplugged the Thunderbolt cable hooking up my 2016 MacBook to my LG ultra-wide and replaced it with the M1 Pro. Still, don’t leave your holiday shopping for the last minute, it’s getting really weird out there. This was actually around a week before the original estimate if my memory serves me correctly, so global logistics haven’t packed up yet. A week or so before my birthday I decided to bite the bullet, take some of the money I’ve been putting aside and just order one, and it arrived a few days ago.
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