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Kuo: Folding All-Screen MacBook Delayed Until Late 2027 At the Earliest
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iMac The Knife
macrumors 65816
How is having an additional screen that isn't remotely ergonomic to look at attractive to anyone? I would truly like to get some insight on this.
An atrociously ridiculous looking concept, so you may rely on these rumors as accurate.
contacos
macrumors 604
Love my Fold. Never going back to a regular phone but I guess Apple needs to tell people before they believe it haha my iPad is collecting dust now.
Dont get why they would start with a foldable laptop though. A laptop is already a portable computer...
Dont get why they would start with a foldable laptop though. A laptop is already a portable computer...
iMac The Knife
macrumors 65816
After I bought my first foldable, I gave my wife my iPad Mini and on top of that my laptop collects dust now as well. I wish more people who use a smartphone and a mini tablet often would give foldables a try. They don't don't know what they are missing. I was skeptical as hell at first too, trust me. But yeah, a foldable laptop would be stupid on all fronts.
“Sketching on Zenbook Pro Duo” on Youtube brings up many examples.
Not being for everybody doesn’t mean not being for many.
iMac The Knife
macrumors 65816
Sketching on a screen over paper, no thanks. To each their own though. Hey, if people like that device, more power to them.
What a stupid idea. So you basically have a folding iPad. Let’s just call it the Nintendo Macbook DS
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- a line where two pieces of material are joined together in a garment or foldable electronic item.
Why would I want to pay extra for a foldable display, where the bottom half was used for an on-screen keyboard? Let’s hope this rumor has the details wrong.
The use case I am seeing is a foldable desktop machine. I currently have my work macbook pro hooked up to an external monitor, and external mouse and keyboard. The laptop's screen serves as a smaller second screen. The laptop's keyboard goes unused.
I move the machine between home and work and have the same setup in both places. It means that I only use the laptop keyboard in rare occurrences when I'm not working at a desk. Travelling. Sitting in the sofa. Rather rare compared to the daily use.
I can easily see this foldable work well for professional use. A full display when at a desk, and with an on-screen keyboard when not at a desk.
Meaning it's not for working full time at a café. It would be for hybrid workers. It's not a laptop. It's an itop or airtop (ugh, a new category of products at least).
It could potentially provide a very clean setup if they sold a magnetic desk arm to attach it to, which provided charging and USB-C connectivity to external accessories. Less cables. And more $$$ for Apple. I'd of course need to buy two of those arms too (office and home).
I move the machine between home and work and have the same setup in both places. It means that I only use the laptop keyboard in rare occurrences when I'm not working at a desk. Travelling. Sitting in the sofa. Rather rare compared to the daily use.
I can easily see this foldable work well for professional use. A full display when at a desk, and with an on-screen keyboard when not at a desk.
Meaning it's not for working full time at a café. It would be for hybrid workers. It's not a laptop. It's an itop or airtop (ugh, a new category of products at least).
It could potentially provide a very clean setup if they sold a magnetic desk arm to attach it to, which provided charging and USB-C connectivity to external accessories. Less cables. And more $$$ for Apple. I'd of course need to buy two of those arms too (office and home).
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Rogifan
macrumors Penryn
Isn’t this the trick of the rumor mill? Throw something out there and then keep saying it’s delayed so you can never be wrong about it’s existence.
iMac The Knife
macrumors 65816
If they can include pencil support and make a convincing haptic virtual keyboard then this would be an incredible product. I’m sure once the haptic tech is mature enough this will be made, just a question of when
scrapesleon
macrumors 68000
what's the purpose of a folding iPad the MacBook. I understand but the folding iPad doesn't solve anything
macduke
macrumors G5
I wouldn’t buy this unless it has a removable physical keyboard. Even then I probably wouldn’t because it’s probably too expensive while being too thin to power the large display for that long, while having a lower end chip than an equivalently priced regular MacBook Pro. I just don’t see any reality where this thing makes sense for me.
Just a quick reminder that we're all critiquing a random rendering someone made off nothing more than a sketchy rumor. I wouldn't buy an abomination like this myself, hypothetically, but it's also just a fantasy at this point.
DrJR
macrumors 6502a
This is a terrible idea. Folding iPad or phone, yes. Form/function OS/hardware etc. There is a reason MacOS isn’t on the iPad. The only feasible way I see that as helpful is with external monitor/dual boot, for example, with keyboard and mouse. I would rather have devices that are superlative at the given determined role than mediocre at trying to be all things to all people. First step, put this new M4 iPad screen on my 13” MacBook Air.
Is this really a MacBook or is it an iPad Pro Fold? Oh wait, can't use Fold.. already taken. Collapse is too much of a mouthful. Quick someone come up with another synonym.
Simply not buying this rumor at all. Why? Because this is not Apple-like design, period.