Mark Gurman from Bloomberg mentioned that Apple had been working on a new battery design what would of offered better battery life but it failed a key test with a prototype so they reverted back to an old design. We 'may' see this new battery next year. Fingers crossed!
Yes.... but why did they need the sculpted battery? Because they keep shaving off millimeters no one will actually notice when their macbook is in use.
Beyond that, why do all their products keep getting delayed because of Intel's delays? Because of their absurd obsession that everything they have to do has to be incredibly thin. And absolutely silent. And shaped in a way they can't properly ventilate. Intel has plenty of CPUs everyone else uses, they just don't fit Apple's incredibly stringent design criteria that is a self-imposed penalty.
USB? Ethernet? Audio jacks? Can't have them, we must be thinner.
Upgradeable memory? Of course not, we can't fit an SO-DIMM in our laptops.
Battery life? Nope, you aren't deserving of it, we can't be the Chris Christie of laptops
Heck... who asked for a touch pad so big that people run into palm rejection issues?? They could have put a normal size track pad and larger batteries.
I agree with the movie to USB-C as it is where the industry will be, but everything else? Common, I used to lug around 15lb Dells. I don't care about an extra couple of millimeters. I care about my screen being bright and accurate, my graphics being powerful enough to run applications and games, and my CPU being powerful enough to do anything I can do on the competitor's product.
I'm undecided on Cook, but I think he is listening too much to Ive and Ive has to go. I mean seriously, all product design happening out of his office based on looks, then going back to California to get them to cram the innards in? How many rounded rectangles of glass can he design that are fundamentally different? His obsession with thinness is killing the company. I absolutely hate the new AppleTV remote its thin and has no sense of direction when you pick it up. I constantly hold it backwards to try to use it or trigger the trackpad while just holding it. Every other remote ever invented is built for function, just look at them, usually they have a rounded underside that fits your grip so without looking at it you can tell which direction is front or back.
I used to look up to Ive and respect him, now I think he needs to be tossed aside for the dustbin (or throw him into a Mac Pro)