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Re:Apple Said to Plan First Pro Laptop Overhaul in Years by jon-wood on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @10:00AM (#12261760)
Especially in a pro Macbook I could see it being really useful - think of all the people developing iOS applications on them. They can now run the simulator on the laptop display and have it pass touch events through to the simulated device.
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Re:Apple Said to Plan First Pro Laptop Overhaul in Years by w0utert on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @10:17AM (#12261904)
And in addition to that, they should add an accelerometer for even more fun when testing shake and tilt gestures. ;-)
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Re:Apple Said to Plan First Pro Laptop Overhaul in Years by evan_ on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @11:06AM (#12262300)
MacBooks have always had accelerometers, originally it was called the "sudden motion sensor" and was ostensibly used to park the hard drives in the event of a dropped computer.

I'm pretty sure they're still in the modern MacBooks, though Google seems to be mixed on the matter.

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Re:Apple Said to Plan First Pro Laptop Overhaul in Years by mikestew on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @11:47AM (#12262615)
That sensor was taken out with the SSD MBPs: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201666 (under Note at the top of the page.
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Re:Apple Said to Plan First Pro Laptop Overhaul in Years by intoverflow2 on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @11:36AM (#12262515)
It is not because there is no need to park the HD
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