vantt1
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I believe MacBooks also make use of the aluminum unibody as part of the cooling system. The area between the top of the keyboard and the screen hinge gets pretty hot under load. The battery is on the opposite end of the unibody, so it's not a big deal. They might even be passively cooled by the unibody as well.
Since Mac displays are calibrated and macOSsupports per-pixel color correctionhas built-in color management, wouldn't AdobeRGB be a few clicks away?
For what it's worth, the Touch Bar is more ergonomic than any touchscreen Windows machine out there.
According to DetroitBorg, the palm rejection should be excellent. Which is no surprise. I think it's adaptive and more aggressive when you're typing, because the mouse cursor disappears when you type. I've never seen it move when I intentionally brush my palms across it, and it doesn't click either. Apple has nailed their trackpad for about a decade now. What I am concerned about is possibly spotty three-finger drag operation.
It's not exactly intentional; it's just the nature of aluminum as well as the proximity of the heat generating components to the aluminum. They don't want to use the aluminum as a heatsink because it would make surface temperatures quite uncomfortable (they already get pretty high) but it's not like they put an insulating layer on the panel either. Besides from what I can see the thermal mass on their heatsinks are usually higher than most other laptops of the same size class (part of that is due to the fact that they use the 28W part while most other people use 15W counterparts. In fact the only other laptop with the 28W parts are the VAIO Z laptops last time I checked).
The panels themselves to my knowledge can't display AdobeRGB colors. Just because the option is there doesn't guarantee the hardware supports it (Ex. running a game at 120fps when you have a 60Hz monitor, putting on an AdobeRGB color profile while using an sRGB monitor). You can only display 77% of AdobeRGB to my knowledge. I checked Notebookcheck's reviews of the 13" and 15" 2016's and from the looks of it that's the largest color space the panel supports (the colorimeter software usually checks the very limits of the monitor instead of what it's set to as far as I understand but take that with a grain of salt).
Yeah but they're not really convenient considering it breaks your attention every time you have to look down at the bar. I can't imagine constantly having to swap between two screens to perform one function on just one screen is a very efficient way of doing things. At least with full touchscreens (ex. tablets) you interact with the screen that you see the immediate changes on. I want to love the touchbar; I was down with the idea of it when Lenovo first tried it on the ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 2 but it's just never going to be a great solution unless some heavy constraints are put into place. There's no haptic feedback (which is already a huge blow to its usability because at least with haptic feedback you can develop muscle memory much faster and with much higher confidence) and there's no consistency between applications and how they take advantage of the touch bar. There's no standardized template from what I can tell as how to lay out the touch bar. That's free for developers to do and since it's going to be used almost every imaginable way possible as far as layout goes it makes it quite strenuous to have to try to subconciously remember the button placement of each application you use in the long rung. I hope the rumors of their acquisition of Sonder goes through because that's a better solution than having a Touchbar (but keep TouchID, that's useful). As of now, keyboard shortcuts have a much higher learning curve for more advanced programs but are really efficient if you take the time to learn them. I think using something like Sonder's e-ink adaptive keyboard it can lower the learning curve for keyboard shortcuts while still maintaining the haptic feedback and consistency advantage of a regular keyboard.
But people are still complaining about it so it's not perfect; it's instead a step back because beforehand there were 0 issues with the trackpad. Now they've introduced more by making it unnecessarily large. I think larger than before would have been okay but not to this scale. At this size it might as well be a small drawing tablet built into the keyboard deck.
So it's just correlation and not causation.
You're right, sRGB is about 77% of AdobeRGB, which is what the old rMBPs could do. The 2016 rMBPs can supposedly display 25% more colors than sRGB, but AdobeRGB is about 32% more. 125% sRGB is about 95% AdobeRGB.
It's like a combo of a function key substitute and a small secondary complementary display that accepts touch input. It's adding more functionality as opposed to relocating it.
"You're resting your palms wrong."
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