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Not sure if I am that excited with this overhaul. I guess Touch ID is a nice addition.
by perseusprime11 10y ago
Not sure if I am that excited with this overhaul. I guess Touch ID is a nice addition.
- coldtea 10y agoAfter ~2 years with no update, the mere addition of a newer Intel CPU will be a nice addition (even if the speed bump is marginal, even across 2 or 3 previous generations).
- kirkdouglas 10y agoIt's great on smartphone, but useless on laptop. PC laptops have had fingerprint scanners since forever.
- dingo_bat 10y agoLaptops have always had the shitty kind of "slide" fingerprint sensors. Hopefully apple will do it right and include the kind found in smartphones.
- shinratdr 10y agoThat's ridiculous, it's not useless anywhere. What's useless is how shitty fingerprint readers were before TouchID. TouchID isn't just a reimplementation, it's a massive technological improvement that elevates consumer fingerprint readers from gimmicky afterthoughts to a core part of UX. "PC laptops had it and it never took off" is a horrible metric to judge anything. If the technology and implementation is trash, then of course it's not going to take off. That's why being first to do anything is a meaningless milestone. Be first to do it well, and you might as well have invented it.