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Apple Said to Ship New 'Ultra-Thin' 13" and 15" MacBooks by June-July
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I'd love to see Apple simply cram the macbook pro 15 into the body of a macbook air 13" LOL and I'd love to see the macbook pro 13" stuffed into the 11" macbook air frame!
I hope the new thinner notebooks are pros and not airs.
What about you guys?
For me the ergonomics of the pro line bothers my wrists, yet the Air line is super ergonomic.
I hope the new thinner notebooks are pros and not airs.
What about you guys?
For me the ergonomics of the pro line bothers my wrists, yet the Air line is super ergonomic.
Yup, one of the reasons I bought an Air and not a Pro is that I spend a lot of time typing and Air is fantastic for that when I sit on the sofa and have it in my lap.
(Before anybody really smart and funny chimes in, I also do other things with the Macbook.)
(Before anybody really smart and funny chimes in, I also do other things with the Macbook.)
Just wondering, because my time of buying a new (or used) laptop is coming;
Would anybody here prefer having 2TB for c. $300 = fusion drive, compared to 1TB for $1k (the option now)?
Fusion drive would mean a little more weight & volume, but I'd like it. Maybe too cost effective for Apple?
Would anybody here prefer having 2TB for c. $300 = fusion drive, compared to 1TB for $1k (the option now)?
Fusion drive would mean a little more weight & volume, but I'd like it. Maybe too cost effective for Apple?
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Wishlist for MacBook Pro 2016
And remove the Airs from the line completely! So you have MacBook 12' and 14' (new), and MacBook Pro 13' and 15'.
- Touch ID
- iPad pro style quad speakers
- 2x USB-C
- 2x Thunderbolt 3
- 2x USB 2.0
- dedicated Magsafe port
- SD card slot and MicroSD
- Facetime and rear cameras with two tone flash
And remove the Airs from the line completely! So you have MacBook 12' and 14' (new), and MacBook Pro 13' and 15'.
Wishlist for pro 2016:
That there is a pro 2016
That there is a pro 2016
I'm still waiting for a worthy successor to my 17" MacBook Pro Late 2011 2.5 GHz 16 GB Ram and 1TB SSD drive! I find all the subsequent "pro" offerings to be sorely lacking in expansion capability and offer little appreciable gain in processing power. Apple, when are you going to step up to the plate and offer something substantial for us professionals that don't mind spending the extra $$$$ for a laptop with lots of expansion capabilities and power to go with it? I don't care for a ridiculously thin machine, I want power and expansion possibilities!! Am I going to have to buy a Lenovo or HP and hack OSX to work on it???
What will actually happen:
- The thinnest Macbook Pro ever
- Available in Space Gray, Silver, Gold and Rose Gold
- 2x USB-C, no headphones jack
- iPad Pro style speakers
- iPad Pro screen without touch capabilities
- "We got rid of the last mechanical parts. That's right. For the first time, we introduce a fanless Macbook Pro..."
- ...with Intel's latest throttling Skylake mobile processors.
- POSSIBLY some sort of SD card slot but I expect them to phase it out as SD cards get faster not to kill off their own super-expensive SSD updates.
My current 17" mbp has cheap 2TB fusion drive. Sadly my next will miss it...
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I would be happy with Air if it just gets display from this decade. More contrast and gamut and resolution. I guess matte is too hard to accomplish for a small garage company...
Just slim the bezels. The goal might be the screen is 99% of the laptop's footprint. What if webcam just pops out of the lid when it's used? (How often you see laptops with tape on top of the camera...?)
14" mb with more usbC-ports might be fine, if it has enough horepower and ram. And less than 50% expensive than Air...
Starting from last year or two, the only selling point of Mac and iOS devices has been the two OS's, both of which are going downhill in terms of reliability. For example, simple things such as copying and pasting in Message.app have started fail me.
I love the flexibility of a UNIX. But I don't see myself using OSX in 3 years with the way Mac hardware and software are going.
Interesting, what m(other)b(oard) did you use? Is it easy to compare different mb's cap quality?
The VAIO Z Flip looks pretty enticing, but I still have faith that Apple will knock it out of the park with the next MacBook Pro update... I hope!
Shame the new VAIOs aren't yet available in the UK, so it'd have to be an import job. More and more, I'm considering switching to Studio One full-time for music production with Pro Tools as the 'other' DAW, because it's still the industry standard alongside Logic. I'd keep my current Mac around for Logic X and MainStage, both of which run perfectly now it has an SSD and additional RAM.
It's just making that jump, y'know? iMessage going multi-platform would certainly help.
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This is surely sarcasm?
Shame the new VAIOs aren't yet available in the UK, so it'd have to be an import job. More and more, I'm considering switching to Studio One full-time for music production with Pro Tools as the 'other' DAW, because it's still the industry standard alongside Logic. I'd keep my current Mac around for Logic X and MainStage, both of which run perfectly now it has an SSD and additional RAM.
It's just making that jump, y'know? iMessage going multi-platform would certainly help.
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This is surely sarcasm?
ASUS do the tuf line but most manufactures use quality parts on their high end boards. Ones over £200 do for sure, they use it as a selling point now as PC users, especially overclockers want highly ratted capacitors, chokes etc...
http://www.asus.com/Microsite/mb/Tuf/
Also with a 5 year warranty.
Stuff like 10K Black Metallic Capacitors are supposed to last 5x longer than standard ones, and work in greater temp extremes.
Apple dont even use decent thermal paste.
About time, the screen is a joke, I meant I had a Retina Screen on my iPad 3
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Oh it's new,something to LEARN, some just can't handle any change. I say bring it on, if it isn't your cup of tea, get out of the way for us 68 year old progressives
that makes no sense. By your logic all change is good. Change without improvement is change I can do without.
Be interesting to see what happens to the keys on the new macs if these are true. I have heard more complaints than positives about the the rmb keyboard. Maybe Mr Ives will ignore all that especially if the new models are substantially thinner.
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Ugh.... I REALLY hope you're wrong, but I fear with the Tim & Jony Show running things it could actually happen that way.
Basically a bigger MacBook. My current MBP would regrettfully be the last of many Apple laptops I have owned over the years.
If that happens I'll probably buy a 1TB OEM SSD from eBay and use my current one till it dies. Or get a Surface Book. Undecided.
I was going to start a website about Apple – something like a Polish version of Daring Fireball – and it never happened, but if it does, it will be called timandjonyshow.pl – amazing.
The rMB keyboard is one of the reasons I bought an Air. I write a lot. Air's keyboard satisfies me 100%, and so does Microsoft Sculpt next to my iMac. Perhaps the butterfly is the future and resistance is futile, but I'm going to resist as long as I can.
It took 8 years for Apple to get stylus after SJ said no. Who knows, maybe osX with touch-UI is in the works and biggest surprise in wwdc...