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I've always thought the trackpads on the "large" Mac portables looked huge. Looking at Apple's product website, if you scroll down far enough[1], you can see th
by rconti 5y ago
I've always thought the trackpads on the "large" Mac portables looked huge. Looking at Apple's product website, if you scroll down far enough[1], you can see the trackpad on the 16" extends as far left as the middle of the 'S' key, and as far right as the middle of the semicolon. On the 2020 13" M1 Air I'm typing this on, the trackpad only goes as far as the left edge of the "C" key (sorry, non-EN-US-UK keyboard users), and as far right as the right edge of the "," key. I'd like a better side-by-side of the 14" vs 16", but it looks like my employer is going 16"-only so my next machine will have this huger-than-ever trackpad. I don't have stray input issues (yet), but would prefer the trackpad stay the same size or even shrink slightly.
1. What's with Apple's fetish for photos taken only at the perfect geometric extreme angle? Virtually all of their photos refuse to show the laptop except from perfectly perpendicular to the front edge of the case. It's hard to see ANYTHING useful. I ran into this problem where I bought the 'wrong' thunderbolt adapter, because the product pages DON'T SHOW THE CONNECTOR ON THE DEVICE YOU'RE BUYING, just the top-down photo of a white box.
- sirn 5y agoFor a(n easier?) comparison, the size of trackpad on MacBook Pro 16" (2021) is larger than iPhone 13 Pro Max (iPhone is few millimetre taller) and slightly smaller than Kindle Paperwhite (2019) or a Nintendo Switch non-OLED sans JoyCon. It's huge enough that they could almost fit the display of an old iPad mini on it.
- b3morales 5y ago> Virtually all of their photos refuse to show the laptop except from perfectly perpendicular to the front edge... The tech spec pages (e.g. https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro-14-and-16/specs/ https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro-14-and-16/specs/) show side shots and have done so essentially forever. The splash pages (https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro-14-and-16/ https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro-14-and-16/) have multiple shots -- these days that includes animating/rotating as you scroll, and the "gallery" (https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro/14-inch-space-gray-10-core-cpu-16-core-gpu-1tb# https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro/14-inch-space...) (admittedly somewhat buried since I think it's only accessible once you're in the buying phase) also has side shots: https://store.storeimages.cdn-apple.com/4982/as-images.apple.com/is/mbp14-spacegray-gallery3-202110?wid=4000&hei=3072&fmt=jpeg&qlt=80&.v=1632796173000 https://store.storeimages.cdn-apple.com/4982/as-images.apple...