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Yeah I’m pretty impressed by this, even though it’s essentially a rejigged iPad running MacOS. Touch ID is nice but I’m fairly sure if you have an Apple Watch
by gizajob 8mo ago
Yeah I’m pretty impressed by this, even though it’s essentially a rejigged iPad running MacOS.
Touch ID is nice but I’m fairly sure if you have an Apple Watch then you don’t need Touch ID - the MacBook will unlock if you’re in proximity. I even have an 11inch MacBook Air 2011 that unlocks with the Apple Watch and that doesn’t have Touch ID either.
As someone who started on a PowerBook G4 which was like some kind of unreachable holy grail with a base price of about £2500 (2002 pounds mind) this does make me happy.
Would be nice to have a 12GB or a 16GB ram option even though typing Arts essays and talking to ChatGPT in a browser is never going to need that, and this is Apple’s new first step on their infernal pricing ladder.
Citrus looks cute. Might treat myself.
The pink “Blush” colour is going to sell like hot cakes to the Legally Blonde crowd this upcoming fall semester.
- adolph 8mo ago> if you have an Apple Watch then you don’t need Touch ID Yeah, the move to Watch auth reopened the Macbook to the good old PowerBook System 7 days as far as effortless use goes. Touch is still great for escalation, 1Password, etc, but being able to be logged in by the time the screen is open is significant.
- noname120 8mo agoMy experience with the Apple Watch is that Touch ID is faster to unlock my Mac. The “unlocking with Apple Watch…” thing takes too much time and by the time it would have completed my finger already reached the Touch ID and unlocked it.
- gizajob 8mo agoDepends if you can win the race between it unlocking with the Apple Watch and you typing in your password.
- adolph 8mo agoBetween touch and watch for machine login and 1Password everywhere else, it is a rare day that I actually type in a password. On those rare occasions, I feel some gratitude to be forced to type it so that I don't forget it entirely.
- adolph 8mo agoYes, Touch ID is faster to unlock in a desktop context. Watch auth works fast enough to unlock a Macbook by the time I open it in order to place a finger on Touch ID. Ymmv, this is me on reasonably updated and stock Air M1 and Pro M3 units.
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- bombcar 8mo agoApple Watch costs half this thing, but then again maybe there's a large percentage of phone/watch only users.
- e12e 8mo agoIt's nice to be able to authenticate sudo via biometric id with the help of Pam, or unlock your password manager like bitwarden. I don't think an apple watch would help there?
- swiftcoder 8mo agoWait, one can wire up sudo to touch ID? I don't know how I never learned that before
- ZenDroid 8mo agoYeap, it's possible starting from Sonoma: https://sixcolors.com/post/2020/11/quick-tip-enable-touch-id-for-sudo/ https://sixcolors.com/post/2020/11/quick-tip-enable-touch-id...
- handstitched 8mo agoIt's been possible since Big Sur at least, the method for enabling it just changed woth Sonoma
- strus 8mo ago> I don't think an apple watch would help there? You can authorize via Apple Watch everything you can authorize via Touch ID. You get the notification on the Watch, and you need to press the button twice to auth. I don't remember if it works every time, or only when MacBook is closed and connected to external display/keyboard.
- beeflet 8mo agoI've got this functionality in linux with the framework laptop, and it really isn't much faster than typing in a password.
- e12e 8mo agoIt can be, if your typing is impaired.