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Kuo: Two Redesigned MacBook Pros in 2021 and New MacBook Air in 2022, All With Apple Silicon and Mini-LED Displays
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My wishes: 14.1” with rounded inner display corners similar to iPad Pro inner display radius and M1X-type processor with 4 high-efficiency cores capable of at least the 20 hours of battery life the base pro models have, and 6 or preferably 8 high-powered cores.
My guess is that these MacBook Pros get the M1X or whatever it's called, and in 2022 we see the M2. The iPad Pro chips (which these are clearly the basis for) dont get updated every single year. It's likely the Macs will follow a similar pattern.
Is it? Timeline can be scrubbed faster on screen. "Build, run, test & compile" all faster with key shortcuts on screen as well.
If you prefer to have a finger bar with colors that's fine, but get real about work efficiency.
It’s 2020 dude. Get an MacBook Air if the Touch Bar is so offensive. From everyone.
Let me guess. Still using a VCR at home?
funtion keys are an old tech...like numpads are now...
And FN keys are even different on the macbook air with spotlight search, DND and so on...like a touchbar just more limited since you cannot change those buttons into anything else
I guess you are a person who is not using better touch tools, thats why you still like that old fn keys
He doesn’t have supply chain info though, and is just making an educated guess just like any other rumors guy.
A perfect example to highlight this is when the iPhone 10 release was delayed by a few weeks, and the rumors of an under display fingerprint sensor had really really really gained a lot of rumor press.
Macrumors reposted a Ming article saying that the delay was from low yield rates from the LCD/Fingerprint sensor combo. Annnd three weeks later Apple surprised everyone with FaceID.
Edit: I will say his notoriety has risen a lot since then and he may very well be privy to inside info now.
I just always giggle a little from the “low yield” iPhone X fingerprint display prediction. 😁
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i think those people...never used touchbar at its full potential...
I’d go for a mini-LED touchbar as well.
Touchbar is not progressive. Its poorly implemented and kinda useless. Your comparison is only provocative but not adequate. Touchbar is slower on any account and. Anyone can do anything faster than touchbar by default. Thats not assumption thats a fact that can be proven.
With keyboard, you don't look at the keys because not only you have physical tactile feel but you also kinda know where everything is.
With touchbar, you have to look down from the screen to check the touchbar and THEN you remove the hand from the keyboard and press the right tool or choice. Those actions alone are way slower than if you do it on screen or with keyboard shortcuts. However you want to spin this nonsensical VCR comment the fact is that touchbar is slower.
The idea behind touchbar wasn't necessarily bad but the implementation is. The first admission from Apple came with physical ESC key. That itself was the first step to recognise that everything touch is not that great. It was the first step and it was right one. Physical ESC beats touchbar ESC and Apple realised it.
If you don't see that then you might continue with some VCR nonsense but if you do then you will take the VCR back.
Touch vs Physical = all have purpose and usage. Not everything can be applied everywhere.
Just like physical keyboard will always beat touch keyboard even if the size etc. is identical, physical wins.
So no, we are not using VCR
With keyboard, you don't look at the keys because not only you have physical tactile feel but you also kinda know where everything is.
With touchbar, you have to look down from the screen to check the touchbar and THEN you remove the hand from the keyboard and press the right tool or choice. Those actions alone are way slower than if you do it on screen or with keyboard shortcuts. However you want to spin this nonsensical VCR comment the fact is that touchbar is slower.
The idea behind touchbar wasn't necessarily bad but the implementation is. The first admission from Apple came with physical ESC key. That itself was the first step to recognise that everything touch is not that great. It was the first step and it was right one. Physical ESC beats touchbar ESC and Apple realised it.
If you don't see that then you might continue with some VCR nonsense but if you do then you will take the VCR back.
Touch vs Physical = all have purpose and usage. Not everything can be applied everywhere.
Just like physical keyboard will always beat touch keyboard even if the size etc. is identical, physical wins.
So no, we are not using VCR
If they laminate the display of the Touch-Bar and add haptic feedback I will like it better. I still do prefer the current model to the function keys but want Apple to do something more.
At the moment they are not (except the entry level Air which has "only" 7 GPU cores).
The only difference - at the moment - is that the Air is passively cooled (like the iPads) and the Pro (and Mac Mini) has a fan, for active cooling, allowing it to run at "full speed" for longer.
Indeed.Well, you need to use those chips for more than one generation, and they typically fall i price over time...
And - hopefully - maximum one generation gap, please...
There needs to be some more ways to differentiate the "Pro" and "Air" with the same size, CPU, RAM, hard drive screen size, etc.
My mother loves the touch bar. I'd rather have function keys. My mother users her MacBook Pro for email, YouTube, and Netflix. I use my iMac to make money. I use my '15 13" MBP for email, YouTube, and spreadsheets. I don't care either way on the touch bar for my "play" computer, but for crying out loud, why'd they get rid of MagSafe on the new machines? My pets felled my 2004 PowerBook multiple times tripping on the cord and the last time the power pin broke off inside the machine. My MBP's had MagSafe unplugged multiple times. Apple even had a hilarious commercial about Windows laptops falling down after the cord got yanked.
Enough ranting, all I want is an M2 CPU and 32GB of RAM.
Hello,
1. I love the touchbar of my 15", i really use it and embrace it.
2. is the imac 24" released in MArch 2021 getting M1 or M1X? Will it get mini-led?
1. I love the touchbar of my 15", i really use it and embrace it.
2. is the imac 24" released in MArch 2021 getting M1 or M1X? Will it get mini-led?
That and improved local dimming (each LED is .2mm or smaller). Basically a different way of trying to achieve what OLED does - deep blacks, rich colors, but Mini-LED will be able to produce brighter peak brightness levels. Mini-LED also won't be susceptible to permanent burn-in like OLED. And it's not as expensive to implement as OLED.
Apple not always going with the latest generation processors across the board is nothing new, the MacBook Pro 16 inch was never updated to 10th generation Intel. I know that’s probably because of the Apple Silicon replacement on the horizon but they have been that way for years. If a year from now, Apple announces a new M series chip while still using the M1 in low cost hardware, like a $499 Mac mini or a $699 MacBook they would have a killer lineup.
Aren't the current four iterations of the iPhone 12 powered by roughly the same chip? I'd look for Apple to follow this pattern in other products with their silicon.
Remember, this is not MicroLED. MicroLED is very different and a huge leap.
I think the point is that you can scrub with the touchbar while still having control of the trackpad with the other hand as they work as two independent controls that work simultaneously. Not something everyone needs, but it's powerful if you do (similar to having the "jog dials" for moving back & forward with video or audio).
You'd have to imagine if it's just the M1 they would have already released it... unless it's an M1 in a new body. Mmm... Nah, M1X with revised body is my guess.
