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Apple Developing Thinner MacBook Pro, Apple Watch, and iPhone
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Apple: Our thinnest product ever.
Apple polishing cloth: WHAT AM I TO YOU?!?
Apple polishing cloth: WHAT AM I TO YOU?!?
So get a MacBook Air then. One way or another you'll be running into issues when pursuing a thinner MacBook Pro: loss of ports, heat production, throttling, etc. Maybe they'll be able to shave a bit off the current MacBook Pro, but not much if you wanna keep the ports.
I mostly agree! I agree that the iPads are thin enough. What I'd want for iPads is to be LIGHTER without using plastic and without removing features (e.g., ultra wide camera lens which no longer exists for iPad Pro).
I don't have a strong opinion about the Series 10 getting thinner. Fine. But don't compromise on battery and don't just have battery be the same as Series 9. It needs BETTER battery life.
What if I don't want a thinner product.....What if I like the dimensions of the current product and want that extra space to be used for battery capacity?
What you - or anyone - wants is immaterial. It’s what Apple thinks is good for it.
Seems weird that they wouldn't be trying to reduce the thickness and weight of the MacBook Air instead.
I want a thinner and lighter iPhone pro. It doesn't have to be too much thinner and too much lighter, but I would be willing to sacrifice battery life for it (personally) as long as thermal mgmt is under control with better vapor chamber materials.
For me, the Samsung S24 (normal) form factor is perfect in terms of weight and thickness.
For me, the Samsung S24 (normal) form factor is perfect in terms of weight and thickness.
Unfortunately, Apple uses battery life, RAM and storage for planned obsolescence. A device 3 to 5 years old must have a low enough battery life to make people buy a new device.
Agreed! At this point, most Apple products are thin enough. What they need is increased battery life.
They probably won't update the desktops till 2025 if Gurman is to be believed and I don't want to get a MacBook pro.
Jony Ive called. He’s done with LoveFrom. He wants his old job back.
If 4 pounds is too heavy for a computer people may want to hit the weights and toughen up a bit!
People are recycling the same arguments from 20, 15, and 10 years ago.
"You'll be running into issues when pursuing a professional machine that is thinner and lighter than 4 kgs: loss of ports, heat production, throttling, etc"
If the only thing you carry is a MacBook then weight is probably not an issue, but students, for example, can have several pounds of books and other things in addition to their computer.
Reducing the total weight of your bag is a nice thing if you travel with your Mac a lot.
Because in a pro creative/office environment, most users present and connect to shared displays like projectors or mobile monitors from laptops, not phones. I’m all for the world moving to USB-C/Thunderbolt 4 connections sooner than later, but until then, more pro users than not likely want to have more connection options for utility—not fewer for looks.
And it’s a decision they made, like my decision not to buy one until it’s round.
The Touch Bar generation of MacBook Pros, when compared to the prior generation, supports that argument. Chip-wise things aren't nearly as dire when it comes to the base M chips, but whatever body design they go with will also be used with the hotter running M-Max chips.
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