The 12-inch MacBook was an unexpected surprise at Apple’s spring conference. Many people are already eager to move, and they can’t wait to get rid of the MacBook Air at hand. Let’s first follow the foreign media to see how the new 12-inch MacBook performs.

The overall body of the 12-inch MacBook still adopts the classic wedge design on the Air, but the transition of the body is smoother. The thickest part is 13.1 mm and the weight is only 920 grams. From the data alone, it is difficult for us to intuitively feel how thin this product will be. The Verge reporter said after getting started that the 12-inch MacBook is much thinner than you think, and after the screen is turned on, the overall body will feel lighter.

In order to match the size of the whole machine, Apple redesigned the motherboard. The onboard memory jumped from 8GB, and the hard disk space was 256GB and 512GB. The workmanship of the whole machine is apple’s consistent standard, with a solid body and a solid feel.

However, there are two obvious changes in appearance besides thinness. One is that the Apple logo on the top of the fuselage is no longer the previous hollow light-transmitting design, but adopts a design similar to that on the iPhone and iPad. The second is that the 12-inch MacBook uses the same three colors as the iPhone, namely silver, gold and deep gray.

The redesigned keyboard adopts butterfly structure, the area of key cap is increased, the key spacing is shortened, but the key stroke is also shorter:

When typing on this keyboard, you will wonder if you are really typing. The overall input experience is similar to typing on a touch screen.

However, ArsTechnica’s evaluation of the keyboard is more conservative, thinking that as a writer who often deals with the keyboard, he has a strong subjective judgment on the keyboard. However, from the design point of view, the keyboard of the 12-inch MacBook seems to have a certain gap with the previous Mac products, but it does not rule out that after several days of use, the newly designed keyboard may change many people’s preconceived judgments.

For Apple’s newly designed Force Touch function, ArsTechnica said after getting started:

After pressing the touchpad, the built-in pressure feedback device will give a slight vibration. At the same time, the strength and sensitivity of feedback can be set in the system. This makes it very close to the traditional touch pad, and the only difference is that Force Touch can simulate the touch of pressing at any position on the touch pad.

In addition to the 3.5mm headphone jack on the right side of the fuselage, the USB-C interface on the left side has almost become the only outlet for data transmission inside and outside the 12-inch MacBook, which supports HDMI, VGA and Mini DisplayPort video output, and even shoulders the power supply for the notebook itself.

Paranoia, like Apple, will be so radical to adopt a single interface design. As mentioned in the previous 12-inch MacBook review article, such an advanced design requires a keen sense of smell and sufficient courage for new technologies, which is also in line with Apple’s consistent style. Previously, it was the first in the industry to abandon floppy drives, optical drives and mechanical hard disks.

Considering the need of fuselage expansion, Apple officially provided a multi-purpose adapter with a price of $79, which supports HDMI, standard USB and USB-C, and USB-C connects standard USB wires. What is certain is that in the future, Apple or third-party peripheral manufacturers will provide more types of patch cords.

Core M processors have appeared in many PC products. The 12-inch MacBook is also equipped with a 14nm Broadwell architecture Core M processor, which has two models, namely 1.1GHz (2.4GHz Turbo) Core M-5Y31 and 1.2GHz (2.9GHz Turbo) Core M-5Y71. According to ArsTechnica’s calculation, the performance of Core M is equivalent to that of Core i5 and i7 installed on MacBook Air in 2012. The biggest advantage of Core M lies in its excellent power control, with the highest power consumption of only 5W.

The 12-inch MacBook is equipped with a display screen with a resolution of 2304×1440, which is about 226ppi. Many people may have concerns about Core M driving such a high-resolution screen. ArsTechnica gives a comparison:

The GPU driving the first generation of 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro is the HD 4000 built in Ivy Bridge, while the HD 5300 graphics card is used on the 12-inch MacBook. It is not a problem to drive the screen with 2304×1440 resolution with its performance. There was no delay in the on-site demo, and the system animation effect of OS X was also very smooth.

Engadget also talked about the possible performance problems of the 12-inch MacBook when he started this new product, and thought that there were many good choices for Windows products at similar price points, such as the latest Dell XPS 13. The starting price of the 12-inch MacBook is 9288 RMB. Apple China official website has not given a clear delivery time yet, and the global delivery time is April 10th.

　

　

The pictures and illustrations are from The Verge.

The comedy sci-fi movie Crazy Alien, directed by Ning Hao and starring super comedies Cass Bo Huang and Shen Teng, was officially released today. As the third part of the "Crazy Series" directed by Ning Hao, the film tells a cosmic absurd comedy story that happened in China. Shen Teng, Bo Huang, is pleasantly surprised, playing wits with the alien "Chica" skillfully, and the "grassroots counterattack" between the mysterious alien visitors and the ordinary people is expected. After the preview of the film was released, many netizens said, "I actually missed this immortal combination before", "Bo Huang and Shen Tengguang stood there and I wanted to laugh" and "I can’t see this lineup in the Spring Festival Evening now, but Bo Huang and Shen Teng must see it". Today, the film will return to the big screen to meet the audience, and an absurd and crazy journey of joy is about to appear. Let’s taste this "cosmic" hilarious story again and laugh together!

Bo Huang and Shen Teng join hands with aliens to go on a crazy trip. The "Circus" style poster is mysterious and eye-catching

The film surprises a poster released today, which depicts the crazy life of Bo Huang Shen Teng in a lively and grotesque circus style. Three striking colors, red, yellow and blue, are selected to collide in the color matching of the poster, which highlights the joyful and interesting overall style of the film. However, the two protagonists, Bo Huang and Shen Teng, sit side by side with scars on their faces and bandages on their heads. The seemingly stable mental state hides the "cry" that is about to break out, and the striking words on the poster are "2024 is tired, destroy it!" Echoing each other, we can’t help wondering what kind of crazy journey this pair of he is my brother has gone through. In addition, an alien’s hand is stretched out in the upper left corner of the poster, and the index finger seems to want to touch something, which seems to imply that the experiences of the two protagonists are related to the control of aliens. Many details revealed in the cheerful and contrasting poster attract the audience to go into the cinema to find out.

The film, starring Bo Huang and Shen Teng, can be called the "ceiling" of the "cosmic" comedy Cass. The "chemical reaction" produced by the combination of he is my brother played by the two people in the film makes netizens sigh that "I want to laugh when I stand there". In addition, the film also has a group of comedy comedians to join in the surprise, and Xú Zhēng specially starred in the foreign object "Chica" in the film; The appearance of Yu Hewei, Lei Jiayin and other national familiar actors makes people shine at the moment. The film was released in the Spring Festival in 2019, and became the mainland box office champion of comedy movies in 2019 with a box office of 2.213 billion. With the approach of 2025, the re-release of the film brings a happy atmosphere of "celebrating the New Year in advance" to the audience. After the release of the movie’s release, the audience sighed on social platforms, such as "I am looking forward to the release, and I feel that I will celebrate the New Year ahead of schedule when I see Bo Huang Shen Teng", "I missed the previous release, so I must make up this movie ticket this time" and "I want to brush it again", hoping to enter the theater again to witness the surprise combination of the two comedy masters. "Cosmic-level" super-card companies gathered together to stage a "Cosmic-level" joke suitable for decompression at the end of the year and open a comedy feast suitable for the whole family to watch movies!

Local elements and sci-fi themes surprise and collide, and the mental state is leading, making a year-end declaration for the current audience.

2024 is a special year. Looking back at the end of the year, it seems that history has come back once again. Many netizens exclaimed on social platforms that "I think it’s terrible, I seem to have traveled back to 2019" and "all this is too similar to 2019". The various details in the film are in one-to-one correspondence with the current reality. Shen Teng’s classic line "Destroy, Hurry, Tired" has once become a "high-frequency vocabulary" in recent years, and many viewers lamented that "the mental state of this film is really advanced, directly five years ahead of me" and "the original real prophet has already appeared". The film was released again at the end of 2024, and the advanced mental state of Bo Huang and Shen Teng, the two brothers, was also in line with the life creed that young people dare to say and go crazy, and became the "strongest excuse" for the declaration of contemporary young people at the end of the year.

As the third work of "Crazy Series" directed by Ning Hao, the film tells a hilarious sci-fi story with China local temperament. Geng Hao (Bo Huang) and Dafei (Shen Teng), brothers of "Niu Ma", who are struggling for their lives, accidentally meet Chica, a higher creature in the Milky Way, and encounter a series of incredible "mysterious forces", and stage a ridiculous journey. Geng Hao, played by Bo Huang, lives hard and insists on inheriting the intangible monkey drama, but it is despised. Dafei, played by Shen Teng, dreams of making a fortune, but has repeatedly fallen into the investment trap. The film also incorporates many traditional folk elements in China: intangible monkey drama, Chinese medicine massage, traditional opera, etc., which makes people feel strong Chinese local characteristics. Through the comedy expression of grounding gas, the film starts from the life of the little characters and blends into the unique Chinese fireworks. Under the surprise collision between the local and sci-fi, I hope to bring the audience a new experience of watching sci-fi movies.

The film Crazy Alien is directed by Ning Hao, starring Bo Huang and Shen Teng, and produced by Huanxi Media Group Co., Ltd., Bad Monkey Film and Beijing Light Film Co., Ltd. The film was released today, and an absurd and crazy hilarious journey was staged. Meet the audience and bid farewell to this year happily!