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How Would a MacBook With a Foldable Display Work?
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Something like that.
That one with the physical keyboard would bother me even more than the notch!
As for a fully foldable laptop, Others have already beat them to it.
Thinkpad X1 Fold.
This is a decide that might work in a touch interface, which iPadOS has but macOS does not. This won't happen for macOS machines unless Apple makes that change. Whether it happens or not for iPadOS depends a lot on how much Apple keeps wanting to hold back their iPads. We'll see. I'd likely buy an iPad like this.
Those Samsung foldable OLED screens are a lot tougher than you realize, and they don't exactly fold like you'd fold a piece of paper and put a crease in it.
I don't want a foldable PC, as I don't like on screen keyboards, but I wouldn't worry about the durability any more than any other laptop.
About as well as a butterfly keyboard. Extra cost without real benefit.
Why do you need to imagine what it could be like when Lenovo already released a folding screen laptop.
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I always trust Apple to implement ridiculous concept in a way which are useful and not ridiculous at all (looking at you Samsung). But on the other hand I have to say that foldable tech (phones, tablets, laptops???) are one of the stupidest things ever and I hope Apple will never follow this trend.
The fold seems crazy to me. Not sure how to get past it. Also, this particular device looks like somebody took the much reviled Touch Bar and spread it across the whole keyboard area. I can't for the life of me see a use case.
I can't wait for when the time comes that everyone stops trying to make everything like a smartphone.
Believe it or not... not everything needs to be a touchscreen.
Believe it or not... not everything needs to be a touchscreen.
What would it accomplish? So far this just hasn't proved to be a very useful idea, and the aesthetics are terrible - the screens have kinks in them, ugly plastic sheeting, etc.
Well, for one, it would enable graphic artists to fit an even bigger iPad into their backpack. (I'm working on the assumption that we're actually talking about a next-gen iPad, and not a folding screen MacBook.)
If Apple were to make a dual screen device, wouldn't it make more sense to replace the track pad with a touch screen (preferably extending all the way to the edge of the device.) This seems much more useful.
The newer versions are better and don't break easily but I don't think they're quite up to the standard for an Apple product.
Yeah and it's so popular.... This idea is a case of "Wow that's so cool someone should build it" crashing against "Well it doesn't really work well. I wouldn't buy it"
Great idea for an iPad Pro -- horrible idea for a MacBook. Hasn't the TouchBar fiasco taught them yet that people just want a great PHYSICAL keyboard???
I'm with you... and yet, fact is that here we are, commenting on a post that we claim not to care about
So should apple accept only crypto currency to buy it? And AppleCare as SmartContract, Apple Sticker as NFT
Your engineers were too preoccupied about if they could engineer it that they forgot to think if they should engineer it.
As a product design and materials selection engineer with decades of product development experience, the science says absolutely not. The reversing stresses endurance limits all known materials more than suggest that it isn't postsible now and isn't likely in the future. I would posit that we are as equally likely to develop faster than light space travel or Start Trek transporter technology. Moreover, there is little economic need for such a display and, therefor, little incentive to develop the materials or product designs that would define the need that would be the mother for inventing them.
I would expect VR eye-wear tech that follows your eye and head movements and that simulates a supersized display that is used in conjunction with a physical keyboard or even a more innovative virtual touch or gesture interface.
I would expect VR eye-wear tech that follows your eye and head movements and that simulates a supersized display that is used in conjunction with a physical keyboard or even a more innovative virtual touch or gesture interface.
Actually Intel came out with a foldable display spec for devices coming out this year. One of them shows a magnetic detachable keyboard that can live on the lower portion of the screen and can be removed for full screen.
Intel says foldable screen laptop PCs are coming to market in 2022
Foldable PCs are about to hit the market in a big way.
www.windowscentral.com
But since Apple refuses to put touch on a Mac I don't know that we would see this running MacOS
Are you suggesting that... Apple shouldn't even explore this stuff in their R&D labs?