The flat lid is terrible and doesn't look uniform or chamfered like the iPhone design.
So it's a NO-GO decision.
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Kuo: New MacBook Pro Models to Feature Flat-Edged Design, MagSafe, No Touch Bar and More Ports
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So it's a NO-GO decision.
If this is true it makes me slightly regret buying in November - should have waited!
ARM, no touch bar, and Magsafe coming back really would make this my ideal laptop.
ARM, no touch bar, and Magsafe coming back really would make this my ideal laptop.
No need for more ports, I have USB-docks where I needs. If they add ports which is ok, I just want the same design, I carry my MacBook 6 times a day, it needs to be slim. I’m the minority who loves the Touch Bar, fixed keys are pretty useless to me, instead Touch Bar is customizable.
I doubt they’ll bring back useful things like USB A, ethernet, HDMI or SD card, we can but hope. Maybe more USB-C ports?
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maybe a dongle in the box?! (Okay, I know this is never gonna happen on a £2500 laptop to keep the price down by a fiver)
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maybe a dongle in the box?! (Okay, I know this is never gonna happen on a £2500 laptop to keep the price down by a fiver)
Well...improvements 1-3 and 5-6 sound very well to me.
Number 4 - removal of the Touch Bar - would in my opinion be a huge downgrade from a currently very well-working Keyboard improvement, but that is just if reverting to conventional F-Keys (like in the current MBA and external Magic Keyboards).
But that would not be the way Apple usually handles things, so my guess is that moving back to "dumb keys" is completely off the table anyway.
If instead a smart successor of the already well-working Touch Bar is in the making - something like adaptive keys or so - then of course I'm quite curious what to expect here.
Nevertheless, glad that my M1 MBP turns out to be the most perfected iteration of the "old" MBP design, with a very-well working and durable keyboard with Touch Bar. So I can lean back and see how the new design looks like, and maybe in a few years when the childhoods diseases of the new generation are resolved (...which took more than 3 years for the keyboard of the current generation, remember!) switch to the new generation.
Number 4 - removal of the Touch Bar - would in my opinion be a huge downgrade from a currently very well-working Keyboard improvement, but that is just if reverting to conventional F-Keys (like in the current MBA and external Magic Keyboards).
But that would not be the way Apple usually handles things, so my guess is that moving back to "dumb keys" is completely off the table anyway.
If instead a smart successor of the already well-working Touch Bar is in the making - something like adaptive keys or so - then of course I'm quite curious what to expect here.
Nevertheless, glad that my M1 MBP turns out to be the most perfected iteration of the "old" MBP design, with a very-well working and durable keyboard with Touch Bar. So I can lean back and see how the new design looks like, and maybe in a few years when the childhoods diseases of the new generation are resolved (...which took more than 3 years for the keyboard of the current generation, remember!) switch to the new generation.
No mention of a Pro Motion screen? I just want smaller bezels and a promotion screen 
Hopefully nonsense. I don’t want function keys back over a bar i can program advanced macros to and label.
I really really don’t want magsafe back either, not having the charger fall out all the time during use since 2016 has been a godsend.
Just seen the port thing too, he better be trolling, I’ll have 6 Thunderbolt 4 ports but why on earth would I want a step back to legacy ports now. This sounds horrific.
I really really don’t want magsafe back either, not having the charger fall out all the time during use since 2016 has been a godsend.
Just seen the port thing too, he better be trolling, I’ll have 6 Thunderbolt 4 ports but why on earth would I want a step back to legacy ports now. This sounds horrific.
When the SD Card slot was on the laptop, pro photographers where using CF cards. SD was always for consumer cameras and added to consumer laptops as a convince.
Same. I have advanced macros programmed on them. I prefer adjusting the volume and brightness with a slider. I hope this is nonsense because it’s a big step backwards
I’m a bit worried they’re going to needlessly give the screen rounded corners, the way the phone screens are now. If I run terminal windows all the way out to the edge, losong characters in the corners is unworkable... which means ending up with an unused margin around the screen.
I have mixed feelings. I never had problems with normal charging connectors on other brands, so I never became the fan of magsafe. I hope it means we can still use usb-c to charge and data transfer at the same time, I have a usb-c display with charging and built-in hub. Not being able to use it would be a dealbreaker.
No touchbar, finally the pros are back on the menu! Which means more waiting.
I've never really missed other ports, maybe an emergency hdmi and usb-a would be welcome. Just keep roughly the same dimensions, I need a portable machine. And multiple external display support is a must.
No touchbar, finally the pros are back on the menu! Which means more waiting.
I've never really missed other ports, maybe an emergency hdmi and usb-a would be welcome. Just keep roughly the same dimensions, I need a portable machine. And multiple external display support is a must.
I have literally never wished this hard for another rumor to come true.
Apart from the fully flat-edge design (I can take it or leave it), every other item on this list is exactly what Apple should have been doing for a long, long, long time.
This will be the glorious, uncompromising return to form that the MacBook line-up has needed since 2016.
Beyond excited, especially since this is straight from the man Kuo himself and not from a Prosser or Mac Otakara
All aboard the hype train!! 🚂 🥳 🎉
Apart from the fully flat-edge design (I can take it or leave it), every other item on this list is exactly what Apple should have been doing for a long, long, long time.
This will be the glorious, uncompromising return to form that the MacBook line-up has needed since 2016.
Beyond excited, especially since this is straight from the man Kuo himself and not from a Prosser or Mac Otakara
All aboard the hype train!! 🚂 🥳 🎉
$50 says it'd still be hung off a USB2 bus internally too, and that anyone doing serious photography isn't likely to use it. But it lets the "**** your adaptive ports bring back the single use dog-slow port I want" keyboard warriors feel like they won something.
Ports and the expected power will make this a real pro machine. They could have made the new pros a bit thinner with Apple Silicon, but assuming with a variety of ports this means they have to keep it the same (with the bottom curve going away to square it off and give space for port cutouts). Maybe an edge treatment like the iPad Pros (which unifies the design language and would look purrty).
Wouldn't suck if they could drop the weight to < 4lbs on the 16, but if the volume stays the same they're not going to remove battery capacity... that's fine, would be great to get insane battery life even when doing "real pro" tasks.
Oh yeah and &@!& the Touch Bar
Wouldn't suck if they could drop the weight to < 4lbs on the 16, but if the volume stays the same they're not going to remove battery capacity... that's fine, would be great to get insane battery life even when doing "real pro" tasks.
Oh yeah and &@!& the Touch Bar