Big Sur has a lot of hint for touch screen. Bigger buttons. Larger spaces. All for no reasons except preparing to accommodate touch input.
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Kuo: Redesigned MacBooks With Apple Silicon to Launch in Second Half of 2021
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I think what they should do is to return the function keys and equip each individual key with a led screen. This would give Apple an honorable way to backtrack from its touchbar adventure, while retaining some of its functionality.
Redesign of iMac is completely decoupled from the redesign of MacBooks, there is no linkage.
iMac will certainly get a redesign at some point, whether that’s four months or four years from now, but more than 80% of Mac customers buy notebooks. iMac is something like 10% of Mac sales. So redesign of iMac is an extremely low priority.
I used a Lenovo Flex 3 14 inch for a while and the touch screen wasn't a great addition. Having something that heavy didn't work as a tablet but tent mode was okay.
Apple would have to re-design the computers for touch screen and it would be more of a burden than it is just to get a typical re-design.
I'd just like to see good applications that work with the trackpad or mouse + keyboard.
“honorable way to backtrack from its touchbar adventure” 🤣
Why do people insist on casting Apple as having some fragile ego that must be handled delicately lol. When they give up on a technology, it’s done. Cancelled.
3D Touch might be the most recent example, maybe not. Didn’t gain enough traction, which likely had something to do with having a crappy UI/UX.
After 3 or 4 years they unceremoniously dumped it. No pathetic, insecure, self-centered, fragile, narcissistic ego that must be massaged and placated; just boom, done, gone.
As a US citizen, I must say I find that behavior quite refreshing.
Here is a good example: https://www.macrumors.com/2020/06/12/arm-based-macs-12-inch-macbook-revival/
Announced, sure. The newest silicon (A15-based) won’t be ready until later that year though, I would think.
March 25th most likely? Maybe, but to my mind “most likely” would mean closer to November. That would be in sync with the prior iPad Pro releases.
I think they'll redesign the Watch to match the current iPad and iPhone design (squared-off edges).
Mostly weight, plus so few use fn keys, probably. But that would be my preference. As long as it’s positioned so it can’t be as easily activated (unintentionally) as it is now.
I mention the iMac as a product that has an older body design to any Macbook.
It will get it by 2022.
No thanks. I don’t want crap all over my screen which I use to edit and watch movies on.
It is believed that the redesign 16” model will be back to a more reasonable price at $1799 with Apple SoC as opposed to the $2399 with Intel CPU.
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we know you are a better leaker than this Kuo
We already wait for January -March for apple new arm to come and at WWDC Mac Pro
Maybe. But then again, everyone here was so sure the 16” was going to be $500 or $1,000 more than the 15”. Then Apple announces it, and what do you know? Nope, no $1,000 or $1,500 price increase, no siree. Instead, how about, effectively, a price cut from Apple! 🤯🤯🤯
Maybe even next year when the first Apple silicon iMacs are released, but who knows? It has been a long time since the last design refresh, however. No doubt about that. (Though the iMac Pro is a newer design.)
Even "only" adding pen support would be great. Yes, I'm aware of Sidecar etc. - however, being able to annotate PDFs etc. right on a MacBook would be great.
Doubtful if iMac would get a new body in 2021.
Apple wants you to be focused on the Apple Silicon chip and not the new body.
Separating the redesigned body with the change of chip allows for better marketing for 2021 and 2022 or later Macs.
From November to June 2021 - Apple Chips
From 2H 2021-onwards - redesigned bodies
Does anybody else just wish guys like Kuo would take a few weeks off* and give us a break from the constant recycled rumours about LED screens and what quarter Apple are going to introduce re-designed computers? Maybe just wait until they have something concrete and let us all enjoy the current tech we have!?
* I know its his job, but I do wonder sometimes who is paying-for and benefitting from much of the vague stuff we get told about.
* I know its his job, but I do wonder sometimes who is paying-for and benefitting from much of the vague stuff we get told about.
I didn’t get any of that from the article I read.
Please, I'm a fan of the TouchBar. Why everybody just hates it? Using the F keys feels like tortune and I can't go back.
You are right that the M1 chip will be usable in all size of Apple MacBook
Tim Cook understand that it is no longer make sense to charge extra $700-$800 for adding 2-inches.
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