And the soft screens. Most foldables still have screens that more or less feel like soft plastic even though they branded it ultra thin glass.
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Apple Working on 20.5-Inch All-Screen Foldable Notebook for 2025
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Yup...give me a dang ipad that when I connect a keyboard and pointing device it gives me full MacOS
Exactly this. People don’t even believe that Apple’s trackpads don’t have built-in physical buttons, but they don’t.They also made the Home Button on iPhone and the Trackpad for Mac which are absolute world-class examples of haptic buttons for which there are no remotely similar examples on the market.
I've been saying since before Touch Bar was introduced, that the MacBook was headed toward and all-screen device: where the traditional lid & base were each screens (think two iPads). I even think Touch Bar was an intentional toe-dip into that all-screen concept. The short-sighted, and weirdly passionate, uproar about losing static function keys (the horror!) delayed that concept. But I would not at all be surprised to see an all-screen MacBook at some point down the road. We'll see.
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Touch on Windows isn't always great - likewise in MacOS there are a lot of elements too small to use a finger on.
Oh boy.. not again.
God bless physical keys with proper feedback.
God bless physical keys with proper feedback.
That Zenbook actually looks pretty nice: you get three things in one: a small 12" laptop. a 20" laptop with external keyboard, and a 20" tablet. (Could you get a 12" tablet too?)
Getting the OS to make it all optimal is something I would probably only trust Apple to get right...
Getting the OS to make it all optimal is something I would probably only trust Apple to get right...
$. Design has gotten stale and sales are starting to stagnate. Time to design something nobody needs or asked for, then market and advertise it in such a way that makes consumers think they do want it and have asked for it.
Anyone who gets it should definitely get apple care because the track record with foldable screen is not good
...and we're calling it, iTaco.
With all the excellent decisions Apple has made recently, I’m starting to think the his may ring true. I hope not, but can’t take Apple out of the dumb decision games any longer.
will need larger pockets or have the foldable do a double fold to fit my pockets. do not need to buy more pants
Fine. Go ask any real human being if they want folding devices. No one does.
Not for real work they don't. Doesn't matter which breed of users it is. The devices don't have different capabilities depending on when you born.
Technically it can have that, and technically it can fail miserably because it needs far more than that to be usable.
You are a person. You are not people. Drawing is not what the iPad is mostly used for. It is mostly used for video, as Apple has said, and as users widely acknowledge. Games come in second. Productivity apps somewhere behind that. Drawing/writing are a niche use case.
People don't need paid apps to do what they do on iPad. Which is streaming video, for the most part. Followed by gaming, with producitivity and drawing lagging way way behind. This has been demonstrated many times. Come on. You can do a lot better than "I draw, therefor everyone draws on iPad". No. "Everyone" watches streaming video on iPad. That's like 90% of the devices use. The remaining 10% scrambles for the rest.
