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TheRealAlex

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So I keep waiting and waiting and the 16”MBP would have been ideal but 2 Deal Breakers No WiFi 6 and a 5 Year old CPU Architecture which is full of security vulnerabilities that are unacceptable.

Which inspired me, to make of list of Features the Ideal MAcBook Pro would have please share your Own Config.

#1. 120Hz Pro Motion Display (if my iPad Pro has it my laptop should too)
#2. 99% P3 Wide Color Gamut with HDR (bruh)
#3. 14” or 16” don’t care
#4. WiFi 6 it’s a must have (iPhone 11 ProMax has it)
#5. Next Gen 5nm AMD GPU 16GB DDR6 RAM (yeah it’s gonna be expensive)
#6. Intel Alder-Lake or a true 10nm+ Sucesor to the 9980HK just with a 10nm+ Die and hardware security solutions.
#7. PCI Express 4.0 to run the 2TB M.2 nVme hard drive.
#8. 32GB LPDDR4 RAM at 3200Mhz (thanks to new CPU and chipset support)
#9. Dual Wide TouchBar
#10. New Darker Color Dark Matte Bronze or Matte Black
#11. Nano-Texture Matte Display inspired by the XDR Display
 
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ugahairydawgs said:
I want no part of a display where the manufacturer recommendation for cleaning says that it should only be done with a special cloth that you can only buy from Apple.
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Agreed Glossy should be an option for $500 less than Nano-texture.
 
Mine would be a 20” that would fold into 16ths so I could put it in my pocket and always keep it with me. It would come with a waterproof pouch called the iWaterProofPouch and would have a battery with perpetual life. It would be called an iPerpetualLifeBattery.
 
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I actually think the 16" is pretty close, but for the new 13.3/14" I want:

- wifi 6 (802.11ax) - not only for better/faster connections, but also because it consumes less power
- av1 hardware decoding in the gpu for future proofing. This should come with intel gen 12 (xe) graphics, which are also supposed to be quite a jump in performance
- should run cool with quiet fans
- no touchbar - I want physical keys for changing volume and screen brightness

Not really that picky on the screen - I don't do anything that's that color sensitive. OLED/other stuff might be nice, but I'd rather the price be lower than pay for that given how expensive these are getting.
 
Wow, so may request for OLED. If they glue it in place like the current displays, then that's a big 'no thank you' form me.

But seriously, I just want then to start using plain ole NVMe SSDs. My MacBook crashed today working on a long paper for night school and then it took longer than usual to re-boot - I was sweating bullets!!!
 
My ideal MacBook pro would be made of a palladium unibody chassis, with 1 TB of DDR7 10000 MHz RAM, an AMD Ryzen 7950X 256 core/512 thread processor built on 1 NM+, with a 65 inch OLED NANO TEXTURE, MORE COLORS THAN THE HUMAN EYE CAN PERCEIVE WITH DOLBY VISION HDR10000 DISPLAY, AN ESPRESSO MACHINE BUILT IN, WITH MILITARY GRADE INGRESS PROTECTION THAT CAN FOLD 65 TIMES TO FIT ON MY WRIST AS A WATCH AND SIRI REPLACED WITH A STEVE JOBS AI THAT WILL ACT AS MY DOMME AND VERBALLY PUNISH ME.

it's not like I'm asking for too much.
 
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I can't afford what I'd like, but I think an 18" 4K screen would be nice. Could fit in the old 17" chassis, but probably thinner and lighter.

A discount for not having a touch bar would be OK too. I know it's great for some, but I personally don't get much advantage from it, mainly skipping through YouTube ads.
 
TheRealAlex said:
So I keep waiting and waiting and the 16”MBP would have been ideal but 2 Deal Breakers No WiFi 6 and a 5 Year old CPU Architecture which is full of security vulnerabilities that are unacceptable.

Which inspired me, to make of list of Features the Ideal MAcBook Pro would have please share your Own Config.

#1. 120Hz Pro Motion Display (if my iPad Pro has it my laptop should too)
#2. 99% P3 Wide Color Gamut with HDR (bruh)
#3. 14” or 16” don’t care
#4. WiFi 6 it’s a must have (iPhone 11 ProMax has it)
#5. Next Gen 5nm AMD GPU 16GB DDR6 RAM (yeah it’s gonna be expensive)
#6. Intel Alder-Lake or a true 10nm+ Sucesor to the 9980HK just with a 10nm+ Die and hardware security solutions.
#7. PCI Express 4.0 to run the 2TB M.2 nVme hard drive.
#8. 32GB LPDDR4 RAM at 3200Mhz (thanks to new CPU and chipset support)
#9. Dual Wide TouchBar
#10. New Darker Color Dark Matte Bronze or Matte Black
#11. Nano-Texture Matte Display inspired by the XDR Display
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It is a given that performance can always be improved, hardware and software can always have improvements in all concerning aspects, but that said, would you also list out personal use cases you face hindrances to that said ideal configuration would resolve for you, especially when you are on the move, since we are speaking of MBPs?
 
1. 16" screen. It's a good size. Yay, that came this year.
2. Mag-safe power connector.
3. Touch Bar gone and back to keys up there.
4. SD card slot comes back.
5. 5k screen.

Everything else seems fine.
 
Sanpete said:
I can't afford what I'd like, but I think an 18" 4K screen would be nice. Could fit in the old 17" chassis, but probably thinner and lighter.
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  1. What’s in the quote above. I like the move to 16” now, but I still would want a full 17” model. If you give that small bezel treatment, it could be 18”.
  2. The above screen size in a 5 lb chassis. I imagine this will be difficult, but achievable seeing as the 16” is 4.3 lbs.
  3. A 4K resolution should be about perfect with 2 times scaling at that size.
  4. A 120 Hz “ProMotion” refresh-rate, though I have my doubts about Apple bringing this to other product lines since they didn’t include it on the Pro Display XDR.
  5. OLED, or really darn good miniLED (microLED is 5-10 years off). I have my doubts that miniLED will actually be that good though, so OLED I’d prefer.
  6. An aspect ratio of 3:2 like Microsoft’s Surface line, though I’m okay with the current 16:10 too.
  7. A touchscreen instead of a touchbar. I know this one’s controversial, but I’ve come to appreciate having multiple inputs, and it would be nice to be able to just reach out and tap something on the screen occasionally. Cost should be similar if you ditch the touchbar for it. I know Apple was trying to innovate with the touchbar instead of just sticking in a touchscreen, but I don’t think it worked out too well.
  8. A FaceID sensor. Again, I have my doubts about Apple’s goals with this since they didn’t put it on the Pro Display XDR. With ProMotion, I can understand that maybe there were bandwidth or panel limitations. But FaceID should have been a very easy inclusion.
  9. A more efficient processor, be it Intel 10nm or AMD Zen 2 or Apple’s custom ARM silicon. I’m tired of Intel 14nm+++++ (I’m not even exaggerating).
  10. An Nvidia X060 level GPU. I want the MacBook Pro to keep up with Nvidia’s “60” level GPU for the current generation. In 2016 that would have been the 1060. Now it’s the 2060. I don’t care if they achieve this by AMD getting its game together, or through custom Apple ARM silicon, or by just making up with Nvidia and using their components. I just want that level of graphics power.
  11. A more “mechanical” keyboard. This is probably the most difficult thing to explain in this entire list, but let’s just say I don’t like scissor membrane switches. I never have. Now, more and more gaming laptops have been using low profile mechanical switches that feel excellent to me, and don’t need to be any bigger than the 2012-2015 era MBP keyboards. I’d love something like that in the MBP. Butterfly actually felt quite close to me. I really liked it, but the durability issues made Apple abandon it. I still hope they risk moving away from scissor in the future.
 
  • LTE/5G capability
  • FaceID
  • MicroLED display (high nits but keep 60hz for battery life reasons)
  • Nvidia GPU option
  • Bootcamp drivers which allow graphic switching between iGPU/DGPU
  • Touchbar separate to F keys (make trackpad smaller and bring keyboard down to make space)
 
  • 17"-20" screen, Adobe RGB or better
  • keyboard with numpad, no touchbar, fuction keys, same travel-distance as 2012-2015
  • magsafe power connector
  • 2x USB-C/HDMI/USB/3.5mm audio jack
  • UTP Network connection

    nice to have
  • swap-able battery
  • hardware switch for wifi/bluetooth/camera/mic
 
  • 12" PowerBook dimensions
  • F keys + Touch ID
  • i7
  • 32 GB ram
  • 1 TB ssd
  • glossy display, 4K resolution, tiny bezels
  • 4x TB3 + 3.5mm audio
  • Nvidia GPU
 
  • User upgradeable components like a Thinkpad P1
  • 17” screen
  • The rest of the specs can stay the same for all I care
 
-15 inch (instead of 15.4) and extremely thin bezel, in order to get it smaller.
-Lighter
-No need too powerful processor, but instead a cooler processor. To make it comfortable when put it in our thighs
-And the most: Instead of the current sharply design like this ]
change to a roundly shape like this )
Just same as iPhone or iPad
It might sound ridiculous for some of you, but I think it would be nice if our hands touch roughly shape. Don't let your mind fills all of advances or features of the product but forgot what our tactile, our sence of touch should be treated.
 
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arminvanbuuren said:
-15 inch (instead of 15.4) and extremely thin bezel, in order to get it smaller.
-Lighter
-No need too powerful processor, but instead a cooler processor. To make it comfortable when put it in our thighs
-And the most: Instead of the current sharply design like this ]
change to a roundly shape like this )
Just same as iPhone or iPad
It might sound ridiculous for some of you, but I think it would be nice if our hands touch roughly sharp. Don't let your mind fills all of advances or features of the product but forgot what our tactile, our sence of touch should be treated.
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You're obviously looking for a macbook (air), wrong thread.
 
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You're obviously looking for a macbook (air), wrong thread.
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For many people it would be really great to get something like MacBook Air, but with 15-16 inch display.
I want a big screen, but i don't really need so powerful (and hot) CPU & GPU along with heavy battery, noisy fans etc. like 16" Pro has now. And i hope it would be cheaper:)
 
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Dovahkiing said:
Wow, so may request for OLED. If they glue it in place like the current displays, then that's a big 'no thank you' form me.

But seriously, I just want then to start using plain ole NVMe SSDs. My MacBook crashed today working on a long paper for night school and then it took longer than usual to re-boot - I was sweating bullets!!!
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This is why you should have all of your files on an extenral and not on the internal drive.
 
For me the current 16" is nearly perfect for my needs. I"m gutted FaceID didn't make it as using an iPad Pro with FaceID and a keyboard attached is an incredibly seamless experience for authentication.

My only real suggestion would be a laptop which could change size from 12" up to 16" depending on use case needs!
 
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