Won't a notch on the laptop just blend seamlessly into the menu bar at the top? Middle of the menu bar is generally pretty dead space anyway. I've got a lot of things that load but the most used stuff is the menus on the left and the notifications on the right. So I think a notch will (A) be something you get used to and (B) be less noticeable if it is white.
A white notch will blend into the screen with light wallpapers like the black one does with dark wallpapers. But Apple might put a thicker top bezel instead of a notch on the Air.
They had Intel Core i7's in 13 inch MacBook Pro's years ago. I also think the redesigned MacBook Air will be a similar design and they could likely offer three models. Just as my M1 2020 MacBook Pro has a fan, they could do the same for this MacBook Air with the M1 Pro. Besides, its not gonna be an M1 Pro that's as powerful as what you would find in the 14 inch, but just something in the middle ground to fill that 1,599 space.
One of the few people that get it. The entire MBA line has its own market and it is not intended for the maximum performance.
But those were the UL variants and still required fans. Furthermore, the MBP's design allowed more thermal capacity than what an MBA's thermal design does.
Yeah everyone was complaining about the notches on iPhones and MBP, yet it still sale. Lots of sale.
Honestly, and from experience, I think the price is pretty much a priority for many customers.
White on white is harder to get „right“ and look seamless. Due to the brighter colours. And the fact that there will - inevitably - be a small „gap“ of unlit display between the notch and the white pixels. Computer displays are - more or less - black when and where they’re not lit.
I wouldn’t be surprised if - as on the iMac - they reverted to black/grey being an „upsell“ to the more expensive Pro models.
While MacBook Air did receive performance upgrades in previous generations, it never was a performance-focused product.
The issue is the negative perception that it's just a simple superficial fresh coat of paint over an old product.
Certainly beats having nothing to show up before back to school season (or until end of the year) and only having an almost two-year old model for sale, doesn't it?
And you never got the full performance out of those computers because as soon as you did anything that required the CPUs performance it throttled with the fans roaring. Might as well have had a less powerful and cooler running chip. Even the final Intel 16" didn't give you the full turbo-boost speeds due to throttling.
Good point. People want to buy new and better stuff, but if it's the same two-year old product on the inside, you're going to make people pause and go "I'm spending money on two-year old stuff".
I was going to post the very same thing.
I also was ready to charge him with hypocrisy, especially for stating this.
“The much-reported idea of the new MacBook Air coming in a range of “several colors” is probably exaggerated.”
I thought, “What nonsense! What chutzpah!” His statement applies to his own sweeping predictions.
Then, I paused and realized that with all rumor-mongers around, I should check and see just what Gurman reported. Couldn't find him predicting a gamut of colors mirroring the iMac's or his displaying colorful renders.
That was Jon Prosser! See, e.g.,
Prosser: Next MacBook Air Could Come in Colors Similar to iMac
According to Apple leaker Jon Prosser, Apple's upcoming release of the MacBook Air will feature various colors, similar to the colors in the...www.macrumors.com
Do you have a source where Gurman states the MBA is coming in colors? If so, it's pretty funny for him to now say such a notion is “probably exaggerated”. However, it seems he might not have said that!
In any event, count me among those disappointed if it's a bland palette rather than a greatly *expanded* one, with many choices mirroring the iMac's.
However, it's the loss of the wedge shape that would be the biggest disappointment to me — it's so much more comfortable to type with a sloping palm rest than the harsh right-angle edge — unless you have Munchkin hands!
That is a good point. But still does that outweigh that the menu bar in typical light mode is a white strip? I'm not sure that it does.
I keep seeing this and I have to ask, do people *really* care that much about magsafe? The magsafe cable that came with my 16” MBP sits in a drawer… somewhere….
Absolutely.
I would be very interested in a blue that
