Kuo: Apple Planning 20-Inch MacBook With Foldable Screen

[breenmask]

I think you got this the wrong way around!

nope. I'm certain I got it the right way

 

[HackMacDaddy]

View attachment 2356877You‘re all wrong!

This is what the future looks like:

 

[DestructoTim]

Folding MacBook means you are typing on a glass keyboard and have TouchBar-like controls on the bottom half of the screen. Doesn't sound like a good idea at all.

Depends on how they implement a folding screen. Could just be a normal MacBook keyboard base, but the screen folds out to duplicate a double vertical monitor setup. So far Apple still hasn’t shown any indication MacOS is moving to a touch screen.

If it is a touchscreen, it is very possible there could be a physical keyboard that magnetically attaches.

 

[joecomo]

I'm not aiming an iPad to be a laptop. iPad excels in other areas like drawing. a bigger screen you can take around certainly makes sense.

Not sure we are talking about the same thing: article was about a laptop - a foldable iPad would make more sense to me

 

[The Cappy]

"...suggesting that a foldable iPhone or iPad are not coming any time soon."

According to this article, neither is the 20" MacBook.

 

[alexonline]

this is where folding screens makes sense.

not stupid folding phones.

I’m an iPhone person since the start, but I also have a Galaxy Z Flip 3, and there’s no question it is cool. If it ran iOS 17.4, I’d use it happily as a primary iPhone.

Sure, there’s a crease, which has decreased a lot over the last two generations, but it’s hardly the end of the world.

I hope Apple makes a range of folding devices and Macs one day.

 

[alexonline]

Give it two hinges and split it into thirds. The top two thirds form a screen that folds on itself for storage and just snaps to form a 20” flat screen (no option for leaving it partially folded). The bottom third is the same as the bottom half of a normal laptop, and it just folds on-top of the already folded screen.

No need to make it touch sensitive or really do anything else to make it special - just the fact that it’s such a large screen on a laptop that manages to fold down to a practical size for moving around seems like plenty to me.

That would be quite a thick device though. Even though it would be cool!

 

[alexonline]

20 inches will be just the beginning. Can't wait till we can all unfold 27" or 30" screens at cafes, on airplanes, etc!

Unless you’re in business class, though, you won’t have the table space to accommodate such a large screen in economy.

But then you will probably need to be a business class person to be able to afford this folding MacBook

 

[alexonline]

You mean like, say, MacBook Pro?

I have 24gb on my M2 MBA and am very happy.

 

[alexonline]

Yes please. I used to own a 16 inch Mac, then went to 13 inch M1, now back to 16 inch and it makes a big difference. Another four inches would presumably be even better.

It’s not the size that counts, it’s what you do with it that does… 😂🤣

But yes, bigger CAN be better

 

[breenmask]

Not sure we are talking about the same thing: article was about a laptop - a foldable iPad would make more sense to me

you're right I thought it was about iPad

but a vertically unfolding MacBook screen solves plenty of problem. no more neck pain.

 

[joecomo]

you're right I thought it was about iPad

but a vertically unfolding MacBook screen solves plenty of problem. no more neck pain.

but only if you look exclusively on the upper panel

 

[breenmask]

but only if you look exclusively on the upper panel

I already do this on my desktop, put my main apps on the primary panel, occasionally check the other monitors. no neck pain.

 

[bushman4]

Tim Cook looking to leave on a high note in the future. A creaseless foldable device perhaps but not likely as it would cut into sales of the regular device it’s replacing
Perhaps a type of Apple Glasses based on the Vision Pro
Time will tell