It's not about the horsepower it's about the significant cost of going from 6" to over double that with a high refresh. I'm sure Apple will gladly sell you one but it'll be very expensive as well as have impact on battery. It's not nearly as "easy" (for a lack of better words) to get variable refresh to work when you can have a static image on spot that would be great for 10 Hz but then a game right next to it in motion. It would have to be 120 Hz the entire time at that point and that's an impact on battery life; something I don't think Apple will be willing to budge on.
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What I truly hope is that the new Magsafe cable (if this rumor is true) will plug into an existing USB-C power brick.
The Achilles' heel of prior versions of Magsafe on MacBooks was that the cord was integrated into the charger instead of being modular and replacable. Inevitably that cord would die and you'd have to chuck the whole thing. Huge waste.
See something new? It is not fashion item, but consumer electronics. In addition, Apple has been switching back and forth between flat edges and rounded edges in the iPhone for years without this tendency affecting the Mac. I think each product should feel unique and has its own charm and not making everything with the same pattern and design aesthetics.
Maybe charging is possible over MagSafe and usb-c. So charging over MagSafe means 2 free USB-C ports, better than a third charging-only usb-c port.
Sadly, Apple itself thinks too much about fashion/form than function nowadays. Apple used to be the company with supremely functional-minded designs that happened to also look and feel fantastic. Now there’s too much emphasis on looks and feels IMHO, and way too much unnecessary tinkering, especially in the software. Once you hone in on decades-refined interface elements, it makes zero sense to completely overhaul them overnight, as if human nature itself changed overnight (cough, cough, iOS7 and Yosemite, I’m talking about you).
Absolutely unbelievable the next M1 MacBook Airs won't be available until this time (or later) next year (2022) ! WOW ! Who screwed up at Apple ? (And don't blame suppliers)
You might want that but clearly apple doesn't, thus, my explanation for why the macs will need a refresh. Thats the reason why even the os on mac and on the iphones has started looking similar in design (much more than before), consistency throughout the board.
I actually like the white bezels and keyboards, provided the body colors are light shades. Darker shades would give off too much of that $199 HP Chromebook vibe.
After the last round of predictions. I wouldn't believe this until Apple says it. Leakers are full of it and are only interested in the Conversations of there channels to get the views they need ,
Makes sense they'd want to redesign the Air to take advantage of AS's lower TDP and make it thinner. But they've known about the AS for a long time. So why wasn't the first AS Air introduced with a thinner design? I.e., why didn't they co-design a thinner Air alongside the M1?
Maybe the difference in thinness isn't significant, and the main difference with the new design is the LED display.
Or maybe Apple wants, for marketing reasons, to always (if possible) introduce something strikingly new, and waiting a year for the new Air design gets them to have two striking changes over the 2021-2022 time period (M1 in 2021; case redesign + LED in 2022) rather than one striking change and one less striking change (case redesign+M1 in 2021, LED in 2022).
[The idea being that the change to AS by itself was striking, while a display change w/o a case redesign might not be.]
Maybe the difference in thinness isn't significant, and the main difference with the new design is the LED display.
Or maybe Apple wants, for marketing reasons, to always (if possible) introduce something strikingly new, and waiting a year for the new Air design gets them to have two striking changes over the 2021-2022 time period (M1 in 2021; case redesign + LED in 2022) rather than one striking change and one less striking change (case redesign+M1 in 2021, LED in 2022).
[The idea being that the change to AS by itself was striking, while a display change w/o a case redesign might not be.]
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I assume he’s taking about 899 pricing plus deducting AirPods education deal (the inclusion of them) from the price, which is an option for Apple Credit Card disciples.
Internals need more updating than exterior. Only one overdue exterior change is convertible two-in-one.
So you can charge your computer’s battery faster than through a USB-C connection. Maybe, just, maybe the “MagSafe connection” will be wireless, assuming Apple can increase the charging efficiency and rate-of-charge.
I wouldn't expect that, for the reasons you mention (charging efficiency and rate), plus one other:
Laptops spend a lot of their time sitting at a desk under continuous charge while in use. If the charging were wireless, a significant portion of the heat generated by the charging pad would go into the laptop, which is the last thing Apple (or its customers) would want, since that would require higher fan speeds, and also result in a lower TDP ceiling for the processor. Plus the footprint would be pretty big (it would need to extend out to the sides of the laptop to ensure precise alignment of the charger with the laptop; otherwise efficiency is poor).
He knows. What he was suggesting is that the "safe" connection would be not be like the old MagSafe, but wireless instead. [That's why he put "MagSafe" in quotes.]
I.e., the purpose of MagSafe was to keep the computer from being pulled off the desk when someone accidentally trips over/yanks on the power cord. That's the "safe" part. So a wireless connection would also achieve this safety.
Unfortunately, as I explain in my post, a wireless connection isn't currently practical for laptops, for various reasons.
It's definitely worth it. I came from a decently fast 2017 but this computer smokes it.
Nope. There is no way Apple will go back to a 12in. screen. It would be ridiculous. The new MBA will be 13 or maybe even 14 inch.
Just out of curiosity, what OS are you using? I've got a 2014 MBP. It's a 15" (vs. your 13"), so it probably has a faster processor. But, with High Sierra (which I've stuck with for graphics rendering reasons), aside from how laggy it is with Office (which was the case when it was new) (and was also the case with my 2011 MPB when it was new), it runs decently. Then again, you give up security.
