Dynamic Island

It's got Adobe RGB support now.

So that's pretty good for a lot of creators and you know, people that are working in video and graphic space and need the colors to be accurate, which is important and, uh dynamic island that's something that we need to talk about how do you feel about that i personally think it looks so much better than the notch um i agree i think it looks great

and it's it's a nice narrow island like the iphone 18 pro obviously there's no face id in there that's why it's narrow it was never going to look like it you know it did on uh the iphone 17 or older um so that's really nice and it will be it will be good to get things like um you know airpods automatic switching there we're just so used to it from the iphone so i think that's that's positive it does make the front of the device look more up to date and they've even rounded out the um corners of the display now as well as the bottom as well as the top um so it it just looks just a little bit more refined i mean this is definitely overall less of perhaps a radical redesign than we were expecting Yeah, it still looks exactly the

same from

There's plenty of small changes going on here.

For sure.

The dynamic island, the apparently slightly slimmer bezels, although not on the 14-inch model, which I'm slightly confused about.

So you've got a slightly larger display on the 16-inch, but not on the 14-inch.

And then we've gone from the notch at the top of the screen to support the display.

FaceTime camera to a dynamic Island, similar to the iPhone.

And that changes how the interface works.

Um, this is one of those nice to haves, um, but it's pretty cool.

But that's cool with the touch where you're like, Oh, I'm used to on my phone, swiping down from the top.

It, to access Siri or typical dynamic Island, things like music controls.

Now it's just like that.

Like you can just wipe down from the top of your Mac book screen and you've got Siri.

Oh, and you get the

dynamic island.

Right.

So you get the dynamic island and the touchscreen.

yeah

right and so um i saw this was interesting that um what engadget put on their live stream to max out um one of these machines say if you want to max out the 16 inch it's going to cost you almost fifteen thousand dollars to max out this pro lead and i was like are you kidding me that is insane so let me let me get the the correct number it'll be fourteen thousand five hundred and forty nine dollars if you max out a 16 inch uh macbook pro uh pro lead so um that being said uh we talked about the prices we talked about the sizes um it's starting i don't think you can pre-order it yet I think you can.

Um, and apparently a bunch of apps, it's, they already working with it.

You don't have to really do anything.

Beyond the touchscreen and the OLED, is there anything else that's new with this new MacBook? There is also

a dynamic island now.

as well, which is kind of cool.

I mean, cool is like a stretch, I think, but I'm using a MacBook Air with a huge notch right now, which I would much rather the Dynamic Island than the notch.

And then you see your live activities as well.

For instance, if I was to set a timer for... something it would show up at the top of the screen there as well.

So I think that, uh, dynamic islands, I mean, I've used them on my iPhone.

I've, I've, I've found them useful.

It's an OLED display.

It has thinner bezels, has a dynamic island instead of the notch.

Screen

sizes are 14.2 inches.

But I think if you just curve all four corners, it just looks more symmetric.

So that's fine.

But the bigger thing for me is the dynamic island because I hate...

Probably my worst...

The 14-inch and 16-inch models feature Apple's ProLED XDR display featuring offering 10 million to one contrast and up to 2000 nits brightness and 120 hertz pro motion.

A dynamic island replaces the notch.

It's got a lighter design.

The redesigned MacBook Pros are thinner and significantly lighter with 14-inch model weighing just three pounds and the 16-inch model just four pounds.

It's just a real shame that this couldn't be on a MacBook Air because I think they're I think it would be a smash hit.

I think it's just a fun thing, and the OLED display would look amazing.

And the other stuff, which to me is much more consumer-focused as well, is the, we haven't talked about it yet, but the Dynamic Island and Live Activities.

And that stuff, I think, is not really particularly useful for pros, because to me, the Dynamic Island and Live Activities is more of a lifestyle thing, isn't it? It's like...

Kind of like how...

when Apple made the dynamic Island smaller on the iPhone, they added like a tiny little speaker gap along the top rather than like the full speaker grill.

It looks like that, except a little bigger.

I

And we all know that touch support isn't going to be a $3,500 feature forever.

This will come to, I imagine, the rest of the Mac line whenever each of those models are redesigned or significantly updated.

It has the dynamic island for the first time.

So previously they had the notch, which I think always looked pretty stupid on a Mac.