He wants the bezel to be used as a functional part of the display. In other words, an edge to edge screen.
Will it have DDR4 ram?
Battery life, that's the question. I'd hate to it see being worse than what we have now.
Because that's all we need. Open up Activity Monitor and tell us how much of your CPU is idling. I bet it's over 95%.What's the point in matching the more powerful graphics needed to drive a retina display with a sub 2Ghz dual core CPU, a pitiful amount of soldered RAM and a tiny SSD?
Battery life, that's the question. I'd hate to it see being worse than what we have now.
And, please, a 17" rMBP too!
Later in the year is when Apple launches every product now!
I'd trade some battery for a better screen. The 11 inch air is unusable with that screen.
Bezel being the piece of aluminum around the display/screen correct ?
You have a bezel around the 15" rMBP just that its the non functioning part of the display or screen itself.
Not arguing but what difference does it make if it's the aluminum or dark glass?
As for battery life the MBA I have is doing awesome on battery life, just my opinion
Except that it is 4x of that. With 1440p it's a 27-inch iMac to go. The rest is scaling.Note that the rumored display resolution of 2304x1440 is 4x of 1152x720. That's significantly below both the 1366x768 native resolution of the 11" MacBook Air and the 1440x900 native resolution of the 13" MacBook Air. It's even below the 1280x800 native resolution of the original MacBook Air.
Only if it's cheaper.Makes sence that they would but I think it will hurt MacBook Pro sales a lot.
End of the year? Okay, so the new iphone is EOY. The rumored iWatch & possibly Apple Television it at EOY.
Um...does Apple plan to release anything in the first half of the year??
That's an awfully long gap for any new products or updates. If they aren't gonna update the MacBook airs or pros, Hopefully they'll update the iMacs & Mac mini this spring at least. Something.
Seriously... you gotta stop saying that every time there's a article on the 12" macbook. We get it!
because that's all we need. Open up activity monitor and tell us how much of your cpu is idling. I bet it's over 95%.
I wonder what will happen to the 13" MBA and rMBP. At this point there's almost no difference between the two, and if the MBA goes retina then they will be virtually identical.
Seriously?
13" Air vs. 13" rPro
1.3GHz i5 vs. 2.4GHz i5
Intel HD Graphics 5000 vs. Intel Iris Graphics
Thunderbolt x1 vs. Thunderbolt 2 x2
No HDMI vs. Has HDMI
12hr Battery vs. 9hr Battery
End of the year? Okay, so the new iphone is EOY. The rumored iWatch & possibly Apple Television it at EOY.
Um...does Apple plan to release anything in the first half of the year??
That's an awfully long gap for any new products or updates. If they aren't gonna update the MacBook airs or pros, Hopefully they'll update the iMacs & Mac mini this spring at least. Something.
Pretty much what I was going to point out. The x1440 would really make it a no-go for me as this is essentially just x720, so even less than in the current 11" Air (768). And even that's too small these days. For any kind of non-movie-watching purposes, I'm in general not convinced that 16:10 or even 16:9 screens are a good idea...Retina screen means big battery means a retina 13" MacBook Air would be hardly distinguishable from a Retina 13" MacBook Pro. I'd be more inclined to believe that the rumored 12" MacBook is the supposed "Retina MacBook Air."
Note that the rumored display resolution of 2304x1440 is 4x of 1152x720. That's significantly below both the 1366x768 native resolution of the 11" MacBook Air and the 1440x900 native resolution of the 13" MacBook Air. It's even below the 1280x800 native resolution of the original MacBook Air.
It would make sense for Apple to drop the total number of (4x) pixels in this way so that it can still get by with a relatively smaller battery compared to the Retina 13" MacBook Pro, keeping it slim and light to justify the "Air" moniker.