Where's the touch screen??? The rumors promised touch!!!

Why would you want greasy fingerprints all over your display and gorilla arm syndrome when there's a perfectly fine keyboard and touchpad attached to the display for free?

No reason for gorilla-arm when touch is an alternative interaction mode and not a required one. You still have trackpad and keyboard. You can dynamically switch modes depending on the action.

Gorilla-arm was a fear based on the naive idea that if you had touch, you would be required to only use touch for every action.

Is apple going to be so restrained to keep the design of the OS as a mouse first experience or are they going to cripple information density so I might be able to close a window with my elbow?

People act as if Chromebooks with touch screens aren't already considered a huge UX upgrade over Chromebooks without. Use your finger where it makes sense and the mouse where it doesn't. Literally nobody gets tripped up over this in practice.

I have a surface laptop with touchscreen, and i can on my hand how many times i have used it this year. Mostly to check if it's still working.

Never understand the appeal of touchscreen on laptop.

Chromebooks run Android apps natively, so you can flip the screen around and use them as pure tablets or just use tablet apps in laptop mode just fine. For math, you can just write directly on the screen. In schools, kids playing Blooket/Gimkit/Kahoot on touchscreen devices crush those using a touchpad.

I don't actually want a MacBook at all, I was just joking.

mmmmm....grease

This is only the base model MBP. The high-end touch one will be later this week.

the rumors were about a supposed Macbook Ultra that would have a screen like the ipad pros. Still to come (or not)

Linux and Mac could never

Dystopian shit.

This gave me warm fuzzy feelings of nostalgia. Jailbreaking my iPod touch back in the day was so fun before there was anything serious on these devices.

You can use autohotkey (which you shouldn't have to but here we are)

No, because in a group chat people feel the pressure to reply.

Love this idea! One of the rare tech products nowadays that induce optimism. Eagerly waiting for the Android release.

Who do they want to shoot in space?

other satellites

Isn't it easier to shoot them from the ground when they pass over? In space, the orbit must be adjusted to at least come close enough to the target, wait for the rendezvous, fire, then adjust orbit again for the next target...

I believe that attribution is more difficult in strictly on-orbit activities. I would imagine that these weaponized satellites use radar stealth approaches similar to modern fighter aircraft. AFAIK, ground radar is basically what we have for space awareness.

I would imagine that every new intelligence-related satellite will have more sensors to be situationally aware, and make attribution possible.

If you pay attention to space-nerd podcasts like MECO, "Space Domain Awareness" is getting a lot of investment. I believe that's because we are relatively blind at the moment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_domain_awareness

Not if you want to hit your target before the other side can react and respond. Also if you expect your target to potentially shoot back, a rocket attempting to reach orbital velocity is a vulnerable target to any space based weapons or lasers because it has very limited ability to maneuver from its flight path and still reach orbital velocity.

Not in space, from space.

Probably intended, because usually Mac is not very enjoyable

Okay, that is nasty.