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I love how they wrote an entire article fawning about how awesome this process is before showing that it doesn't actually work at resisting fingerprints. Apple'
by fsh 3y ago
I love how they wrote an entire article fawning about how awesome this process is before showing that it doesn't actually work at resisting fingerprints. Apple's reality distortion field at work.
- huytersd 3y agoIt seems to have less of a print than the current space grey. An improvement over the status quo lines up with Apple’s claim of “more resistance” to fingerprints.
- fsh 3y agoThe article says that "[...] the blotch is unquestionably more noticeable on the black frame". It also looks more noticeable to me on the picture.
- mort96 3y agoIt may look more noticeable on the black frame than on the silver frame, but why do you think it wouldn't have looked even more noticeable on a black frame that wasn't given the fingerprint resistance treatment? Should we not compare this "space black" finish with something like the MacBook Air's "midnight black" finish? I also doubt whether a finger covered in Cheetos dust is representative here. Seeing a comparison with just normal finger oil fingerprints would be interesting.
- eviks 3y agowhich part is distorted here? > A-for-effort and partial credit for the outcome
- threeseed 3y agoIf you compare Apple's effort to PC laptops you see what they are on about. It does leave fingerprints which are noticeably worse than Space Grey but it's easily 10x better than the dozen other black laptops I tried at the store today. Clearly there's a lot of engineering just to achieve that level of improvement.
- lofaszvanitt 3y agoYeah, they went to the specialist shop or asked a few experts how to do it, applied it, done.
- averageRoyalty 3y agoBut... It is an awesome process? And it does look cool and is 'more black'?
- ricc 3y agoHow much more black could this be?
- ch_sm 3y agoThe answer is: some. Some more.
- Tempest1981 3y agoVantaBlack or MIT-carbon-nanotubes black? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21093784 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21093784