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Kuo: Redesigned MacBooks With Apple Silicon to Launch in Second Half of 2021

People requesting a touchscreen mac always gets the problem wrong. People do not feel the need to reach out and touch the screen, people hardly have the strength to reach for the touch bar. This is why leap motion failed, this is why the surface is a failure and why minority report interfaces will never be successful and why everyone hates the touch bar.

What IS interesting is to have a dockable iPad into a laptop just to reduce the number of devices you need to carry. So you have your MacBook set up at your work desk and you have to run for a meeting you just pick up the screen from the base and go, hand-off is seamless and the os switches to "portable/iPadOS" mode. Once you dock it you are back into macOS. Now that would make sense, but if you cannot get people to use the touch bar how on earth would you make them use the whole screen?
 
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businessnumbersmoneypeopl said:
I'd assume Apple has little interest in its ego. However, typicaly companies are interested in not pissing off their customers. Providing something new is a better way to keep existing customers happy than returning to the previous iteration.
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Agreed, and while of course some around here complain about it, removing the Touch Bar would no doubt piss off a lot of customers.

Individual LCD displays would be interesting, but if you’ve seen the way pros use the Touch Bar with Final Cut Pro or Logic Pro (for instance) I don’t think it would end up being a very good replacement for the TB.
 
PickUrPoison said:
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.
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Shouldn't there be some linkage though, in terms of a consistent design language, like e.g. when they moved from white plastic to aluminium unibody? The Mac lineup is a mashup of old and new, with the odd addition of something that doesn't even look like it got designed by the same company (Mac Pro).
 
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PickUrPoison said:
Agreed, and while of course some around here complain about it, removing the Touch Bar would no doubt piss off a lot of customers.

Individual LCD displays would be interesting, but if you’ve seen the way pros use the Touch Bar with Final Cut Pro or Logic Pro (for instance) I don’t think it would end up being a very good replacement for the TB.
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Make the TouchBar optional BTO and everyone is happy.
 
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People requesting a touchscreen mac always gets the problem wrong. People do not feel the need to reach out and touch the screen, people hardly have the strength to reach for the touch bar. This is why leap motion failed, this is why the surface is a failure and why minority report interfaces will never be successful and why everyone hates the touch bar.

What IS interesting is to have a dockable iPad into a laptop just to reduce the number of devices you need to carry. So you have your MacBook set up at your work desk and you have to run for a meeting you just pick up the screen from the base and go, hand-off is seamless and the os switches to "portable/iPadOS" mode. Once you dock it you are back into macOS. Now that would make sense, but if you cannot get people to use the touch bar how on earth would you make them use the whole screen?
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I rather have a Touch Bar than Touch Screen.
 
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KPOM said:
I disagree. I want Macs to stay non-touch oriented. Granted, they’ll eventually probably have to add it, but I don’t want a Mac to be a Surface.
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Agreed. The clamour for adding a touchscreen to the Mac seems to me to like the similar cry for adding Siri to macOS. When it happened everyone promptly forgot about it.

Apple already make an amazing modular hybrid computer - the iPad Air / Pro with the Magic Keyboard & pencil.

On the Mac, I’d rather iPad apps had the catalyst additions to become true Mac apps.

Let the Mac become the best modern truck that it can be & and the iPad keep on being the best car that it can be. There’s room for both.
 
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Hexley said:
Let's see by a Tuesday within March 2021 (~80% certainty it will be that month between Jan-Apr 2021)
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Hexley said:
I am 100% certain that the following Macs will be updated with Apple Silicon chips on a Tuesday between January-April 2021.
  • MBP 16"
  • MBP 13" with four ports
  • Mac mini with four ports
  • iMac 21.5" & 27"
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So, now from 100 you are down for 80%? Stop making presumptions, is just your opinion and thats all
Kuo has at least almost every time real leaks
 
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KPOM said:
I disagree. I want Macs to stay non-touch oriented. Granted, they’ll eventually probably have to add it, but I don’t want a Mac to be a Surface.
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There’s always talk of macOS going touch to match the surface, what about iPad Running macOS, surely with the A series chip and Mac software going ARM, this is more and more a possibility?
 
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otternonsense said:
Tim is delivering products directly designed for maximum Genius Bar revenue. Just look at all the charger nonsense for the iPhone 12 with the various cables, bricks, and wattage irregularities.
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i really didnt mind the situation of this charger nonsense IF the iphone 12 under Tim was a revolutionary product...to charge from the light/sun or other kind of thing...but again, its clear Apple wants to go portless, thats for sure...i think next year at least 1 iphone will be like that
 
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Serban55 said:
So, now from 100 you are down for 80%? Stop making presumptions, is just your opinion and thats all
Kuo has at least almost every time real leaks
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I'm 100% certain it will occur between January-April 2021
  • ~80% on March
  • ~19% on January/April
  • <1% on February
 
Serban55 said:
i really didnt mind the situation of this charger nonsense IF the iphone 12 under Tim was a revolutionary product...to charge from the light/sun or other kind of thing...but again, its clear Apple wants to go portless, thats for sure...i think next year at least 1 iphone will be like that
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Looking at the current state of MagSafe, the iPhone doesn't look nearly ready to go full portless. It feels more like they're beta testing on their customers.
 
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otternonsense said:
Looking at the current state of MagSafe, it doesn't look nearly ready to go portless. It feels more like they're beta testing on their customers.
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Hey, if my iPhone 13 will charge from the sun and from Qi charging, i dont mind go port-less :))
I will hold my iPhone 13 against the Sun to charge
 
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