Apple to Launch 'MacBook Ultra' With These Six New Features

[TVreporter]

They should make it that you can buy 6 Neos and they merge into the MacBook Ultra ala the Constructions in Transformers…


Knowing Apple they’ll sell additonal Apple ArmRest Supports - $500 for each arm device.

 

[Kylo83]

Say we don’t want the Dynamic Island, just the camera hole, I hope we can disable it

 

[vatter69]

Funny how i dont want any of this. Also they forgot to add feature 7 -> 30% more expensive 😉

 

[nt5672]

What do you mean by this? How does it not have this now?

My guess is that you don't use a laptop for anything requiring a real computer.

When I have to use my Mac laptop away from my desk, I get all of the energy efficient cores running at 100% and all of the performance cores running at near zero. This is because current Apple laptops cannot run all performance cores at 100% for very long because they cannot handle the heat. A portable workstation would not have this problem. And therefore I would not have to wait 2, 3 or 4 times as long for tasks to complete before I can move on to the next thing.

And yes, I have lots of RAM and have tuned the performance settings for power use.

 

[satchmo]

Why refer to it as a Dynamic Island if it's simply a hole punch?

 

[BeerDrinkerDan]

Lately I've found myself thinking, "Man, I wish there were more fingerprints and smudges on my Mac screen." and this solves that!

-bdd

 

[Bubble99]

I don't even dare to imagine the price of this thing

Well it be over $2,000

Apple may not sale many units because of high price.

 

[Eric_WVGG]

The Mac world needs a portable workstation, not lighter, thinner design. If you want that get an Air.

Otherwise bigger battery and bigger screen are needed.

They cite OLED as a possibility that the top lid could get thinner. Look at the dang thing, the most they could shave off would be a quarter of a millimeter, and there's also the extra hardware for touch (if that really happens).

So far “Ultra” means bigger, so IMO a portable workstation is probably closer to what this will actually be.

(takes me back to the 17" Macbook Pro “cafeteria tray” I used to lug around in 2009)

 

[poematik13]

touch screen laptop is so stupid.

I hope they dont discontinue the Pro for this crap

 

[Bubble99]

touch screen laptop is so stupid.

I hope they dont discontinue the Pro for this crap

I thought there was article where Apple did a study and said Mac OS touch was not user friendly.

 

[Icehawk]

Remember when they were simplifying the product line? Now its all Max, Pro, Ultra, Supers. Yeesh. Some cool stuff

 

[MaverickCC]

Why refer to it as a Dynamic Island if it's simply a hole punch?

Because it's not... physically yes, but it's 'dynamic' because they use the space around it dynamically to show information.

 

[ChrisA]

Someone gave me an older Microsoft Surface, 8GB RAM, and an older Intel i7 inside. It performs reasonably well. But it runs Windows. I am now installing Linux Elementary on it. https://elementary.io/ It will look and act like a Mac. The keyboard on a Surface is removable, with a powerful magnet holding it in place, but you can rip it loose.


I suspect I will like it with no keyboard or with a Mac Bluetooth keyboard and use it like I would if an iPad ran macOS.


Maybe I can come back and give an opinion of a Mac-like OS on a touch computer.

 

[Black_Mage]

Thinner Design​

This is an even worse idea than adding a touch screen. The MacBook Pro doesn't need to be thinner. How about using the freed-up space for a bigger battery instead?

 

[Bubble99]

Remember when they were simplifying the product line? Now its all Max, Pro, Ultra, Supers. Yeesh. Some cool stuff

Just more ways to increase the price of it to make more money.

 

[MaverickCC]

The addition of a cellular chip is the biggest leap here as it will practically need some major changes to the OS layer to prevent runaway bandwidth use when using it since computers have never even attempted to mitigate or throttle data use since they were invented.

 

[MacAttack2024]

That would be an instant buy. Cellular on a Mac makes perfect sense but only since we reached 5G speeds, I guess optimized with the in house modem. I can see cellular coming to the next Neo, since it’s the perfect light mobile office machine (like for doctors).

All the cellular companies are salivating at the potential additional revenue from getting more cellular subscriptions…Apple Watch all over again.

 

[Shustr]

Please, no touchscreen, horrible decision.

 

[WarmWinterHat]

Thinner Design​

This is an even worse idea than adding a touch screen. The MacBook Pro doesn't need to be thinner. How about using the freed-up space for a bigger battery instead?

Not thiner, but get rid of the horrible sharp stupid vents on the left and ride sides below the keyboard.

 

[sonicrobby]

I wonder if this is a stepping stone to making something like the Huawei matebook fold. I would buy that in a heartbeat if it ran macOS! I see this touchscreen MacBook as Apple testing the waters.

 

[Kriss_De_Valnor]

I think they are just transitioning to Neo and Ultra names, to ditch the Air and Pro monickers later.
They'll probably just leave the A chips for the cheap Neo ones, and use the M chips for the Ultra expensive ones (pun intended.) 😆

If they are it will make a huge gap between Neo and Ultra devices. Neo is too weak for me and on the other hand Ultra will be a price overkill. I need a MacBook Pro like it is now.

 

[jgdeschamps]

Naa. Air is their most popular laptop, and it's not even close. It's not going anywhere.

Problem is Neo is sold out in many places, and the Air was the only option instead of the Pros. But let's see what they do under Ternus.

 

[delsoul]

Gurman! Fool me 100 times, shame on me. Fool me 101 times...

I’d love if Apple released a new model of Gurman. This one’s getting old and outdated

 

[nikhsub1]

That would be an instant buy. Cellular on a Mac makes perfect sense but only since we reached 5G speeds, I guess optimized with the in house modem. I can see cellular coming to the next Neo, since it’s the perfect light mobile office machine (like for doctors).

Another thing that is useless IMO. Tethering from a phone is the same thing.

 

[ph001bi]

Yes we need the return of the 17" or make it 18" and native 4k resolution. I say 4k because that makes life easier for so many things in the production world.

It does not need to be thinner than it already is.

18 inch would probably be 5k to accommodate video tools.