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Apple's Rumored 12-Inch MacBook Could Be Pro Model With M2 Pro and M2 Max

1Peace said:
12-inch is way too small for professional usage when you need to spend long hours in front of it.
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Not all professionals seek to have a huge display all of the time.
Some connect their small laptops to big screens.

Or some just have a bigger screen laptop for some work and enjoy a small one for the go (as my case).
I work many things on the cloud, so it is easy to swap between one and the other.

I even bought my MacBook Retina 12" and absolutely love it. I even bought it new, in eBay, when it was already was discontinued and was at a high price.

Yes, I also have the new MacBook 14, but although I did got to the old calibration panel in this one, still the colors of the the MB 12 for everyday use are much more rich and saturated than the new Liquid Retina XDR display of this MacBooks (although they can be brighter), no matter what setting I fiddle with.

So I have much to love of the MB12 and look forward for buying a the New MacBook Pro 12 with an M2Max!
 
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still rocking the 12" intel mb, best form factor as a full powered fanless portable computer, would be amazing if it had a m[any] chip in it instead

hope they don't make it as thick as the pros or put a fan in it
 
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I still have two of these, both 1.5 Ghz 2005, last edition, one with 512mb of ram and 60 Gb/5400rpm of hdd and one with 1,256 Gb of ram and 100 Gb/7200rpm of hdd, both with Leopard, both used until 2015 as the only Macs for everyday use, in use today for old app like Final Cut Express/Studio with fw400 hdds.

Then in 2015 a 12” 1.1Ghz silver MacBook and then in 2020 a 12” 1.3Ghz 2018 gold MacBook, also currently in use, also for video editing with 8Tb of usb3/eSata/fw800 hdds.

Solid machines, machines designed by Ive.

We'll see if a successor comes, for me the Macs are only 12”.
 
Here is what it may look like. MacBook Pro 12"

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If your use case is just taking your laptop between one desk and another e.g. home to office and back with the occasional stop-off someplace exotic like the kitchen table or the local coffee shop, it almost doesn't matter what size you get as at that point it is just a matter of personal preference. Once you find yourself needing to use a computer on the go, you quickly find out your physical environment often presents more constraints than you realize. As a 6'4" well-fed American who has spent years traveling in places like Southeast Asia where planes seats are design for people that make the basketball team at 5', there are places that only something the size of a 12" MacBook is practical to use. Not even an 11" iPad Pro with a Magic Keyboard is usable when balanced on your lap or may require more vertical room than you have available on a flight, the back of a mini-bus, or even in a taxi. I can't count how many proposals and presentations I polished up while sitting in the back of an Uber on the way to the airport on my 12" MacBook.
 
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1Peace said:
12-inch is way too small for professional usage when you need to spend long hours in front of it.
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I don't know around you, but from mine to work we use screens of at least 24”, connected to towers and laptops.

I’ve always done video editing for TV stations on 12-inch Macs, when I was on the go, and on Mac Pros (even on Mac mini servers) when I was in the studio.

This thing about having it big is getting out of hand.
 
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I sincerely doubt it will happen, but a 12” M2 Max laptop would be an instant buy for me almost regardless of price.

I’d finally be able to have one machine for both content creation (when docked to a monitor) and for playing around on vacation, in bed, etc. Bye bye desktop and iPad.
 
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Coreymac84 said:
12" on a pro device.... ehhh. Productivity becomes limited with that screen size.
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I got old reading this nonsense and they still circulate. But wouldn’t it be appropriate, before saying something like this, to look at how many Macs for professionals Apple has produced and sold with that screen? Decades go by but I see that men continue to confuse what they have between their legs with what they have in their hands, it’s the only reason we produce abnormal, unhandy products, from phones to SUVs. And women, unfortunately, follow the same path, fortunately not all of them.
 
lazyrighteye said:
aving 12/13/14” & 16” ‘pro’ laptops still seems overkill.
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The 13" needs to go. I'm surprised it was given the M2 treatment this go round. It must have been an easy manufacturing change to get a compatible M2 onto the motherboard. I think we will be super surprised if the same 13" form factor gets any more updates in the future. That should make a 12/14/16 Pro lineup much less overkill. I'm skeptical we will se a 12" MBP but never say never, I suppose. A 12" Air seems much more likely.
 
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TheYayAreaLiving 🎗 said:
Are you referring to that 18% increase? That’s it? It was a minimal effort, to be honest with you. Apple should have waited. If this was in MacBook Pro 14" and 16" line up. It wouldn't be worth the upgrade.

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The diamond mine analogy works here.

If you own a diamond mine, you don’t deplete it all at once and sell everything. You maximize profit by mining slowly to increase demand for a smaller supply.

The same applies to CPU architectures. Apple is currently testing chips probably two or three times faster than the M1. They would be missing out on a lot of money by giving us ultra fast M-series chips now. Incremental improvements guarantee steady sales over time.
 
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MajorFubar said:
This seems so ridiculously unlikely I don't even know why MR has bothered giving it credence. What precedence is there of Apple ever putting their most hi-tech hardware into a 12" Macbook? I'll give you some help: never.
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Never?!
Hey young man, wake up: all 12” PowerBooks have always had as much technology available as possible.
 
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There's conflicting logic to these latest rumours. On one hand they say Apple's making a larger iPad Pro 'cause some pros need a even bigger screen. Yet they're also gonna make a smaller MacBook Pro because...? A smaller machines advantage is portability and thus the ability to work out & about away from a power point as long as possible. Battery capacity is already limited by less internal space and thus battery life would be greatly compromised by an overkill Pro/Max chip. If Apple had a clue they'd make a <1kg MacBook 12"+ screen w/ notched webcam toolbar. If they had true "courage" they'd eliminate the trackpad (more battery space) and have it be touch screen. The "reachability" argument is moot on a device where ones fingers are barely an inch from the screen when typing. Plus have a cellular option as I'm sure most out in a remote location would want an internet connection over the ability to encode video a lil faster.
 
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