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I agree this is very targeted towards the creative market (i.e. SD card port, etc), but I'm curious as a developer what you would have liked to see included tha

I agree this is very targeted towards the creative market (i.e. SD card port, etc), but I'm curious as a developer what you would have liked to see included that isn't in this release. I guess personally having better ML training support would be nice, since I suspect these M1 Max chips could be absolute monsters for some model training/fine-tuning workloads. But I can't think of anything design-wise really.

dmitriid 5y ago
As a developer and a power user, I'd love for them to stop iOS'ifying Mac OS. There's such a huge disconnect between what they do with hardware and what they do to MacOS.
- rpmisms 5y ago
  Honestly a MacOS "Pro Mode" would be great. Let me run the apps I want, not use my mouse, and be able to break things, but keep the non-power user experience smooth and easy.
  - smoldesu 5y ago
    Seconding this. If both iOS and MacOS had a "Pro Mode" that didn't treat me like a toddler, I'd be jumping into the Apple ecosystem head-first.
    - ece 5y ago
      Thirded.
cormacrelf 5y ago
The big ticket items: Hardware-accelerated VSCode cursor animation. Dedicated button for exiting vim. Additional twelve function keys, bringing the total to 24; further, vectorised function key operations, so you can execute up to 12 "nmap <f22> :set background=dark" statements in parallel. Dedicated encode and decode engines that support YAML, TOML and JWT <-> JSON. A neural engine that can approximate polynomial time register allocation almost instantly. The CPU recognises when you are running Autoconf `./configure` checks and fast-forwards to the end. I would also like a decent LSP implementation for Siri, but the question was about hardware.
- smoldesu 5y ago
  You could just say "I want Linux" and get the same point across.
  - cormacrelf 5y ago
    Linux has offered the Virtual Function Key System since at least 1998, but there isn't a driver that uses the native 8-lane AVF instruction set on my 230% mechanical keyboard yet.
- pram 5y ago
  Solid gold
  - smoldesu 5y ago
    Nope, just Silver and Space Grey.

dmitriid 5y ago

As a developer and a power user, I'd love for them to stop iOS'ifying Mac OS. There's such a huge disconnect between what they do with hardware and what they do to MacOS.

rpmisms 5y ago
Honestly a MacOS "Pro Mode" would be great. Let me run the apps I want, not use my mouse, and be able to break things, but keep the non-power user experience smooth and easy.
- smoldesu 5y ago
  Seconding this. If both iOS and MacOS had a "Pro Mode" that didn't treat me like a toddler, I'd be jumping into the Apple ecosystem head-first.
  - ece 5y ago
    Thirded.

cormacrelf 5y ago

The big ticket items: Hardware-accelerated VSCode cursor animation. Dedicated button for exiting vim. Additional twelve function keys, bringing the total to 24; further, vectorised function key operations, so you can execute up to 12 "nmap <f22> :set background=dark" statements in parallel. Dedicated encode and decode engines that support YAML, TOML and JWT <-> JSON. A neural engine that can approximate polynomial time register allocation almost instantly. The CPU recognises when you are running Autoconf `./configure` checks and fast-forwards to the end. I would also like a decent LSP implementation for Siri, but the question was about hardware.

smoldesu 5y ago
You could just say "I want Linux" and get the same point across.
- cormacrelf 5y ago
  Linux has offered the Virtual Function Key System since at least 1998, but there isn't a driver that uses the native 8-lane AVF instruction set on my 230% mechanical keyboard yet.
pram 5y ago
Solid gold
- smoldesu 5y ago
  Nope, just Silver and Space Grey.