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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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Thanks! Yeah most of my work is cloud based, and the most I ever stress my hardware is light Photoshop/Lightroom use. May branch out into some basic video editing, but I assume that would be possible on base MBA.
Mostly what I would be concerned with is if the mini-LED is vastly superior in display capabilities and/or dramatically (10-15%+) improved battery life. Not sure if that could be determined based on this info though.
That’s not normal. Apple usually uses a Mac chassis design for about three generations. The current M1 MacBook Air design was introduced in 2018. The “butterfly keyboard” MacBook Pro ran for three generations. The 15” MacBook Pro before the Touch Bar ran from 2012 through 2015. The 12” MacBook was 2015-2017.
There was a new 16” MacBook Pro design in 2019. Even the M1 13” MacBook Pro reuses the exact same design (and the exact fan model, lookup iFixIt’s disassembly) as the Intel one that came before it. AFAIK the M1 counts as “second generation” of the 13” MBP chassis.
Thus, Air re-design in 2022, yes likely (the M1 is already 3rd generation Air chassis from 2018). Pro re-design in 2021, not likely – there would likely be two more iterations on the current 16” chassis.
Although would be interesting how they would offer upgradability, expansion, and maybe eGPU for an Apple Silicon Mac Pro.
Cloud-based work? Sounds like a Chromebook would be a more cost-effective option.
The issue is the touch bar requires enormous buy in and investment by developers to become useful and valued. Apple has long felt that the only way to do this is to force EVERYONE to have a HW feature first (even if it initially isn't so useful), so the SW developers have an incentive to use it. (The clearest example of this is when Apple dropped USB 3.0 ports from laptops to force people to use USB 3.1 and thereby create a HW market for makers of USB 3.1)
What I'd MOST like is for Apple to restore the row of real function keys as well. Then the touch bar only adds functionality - it doesn't take away.
I refuse to believe that anyone uses keyboard word suggestions (especially when using an actual keyboard). As if reading 3 words and evaluating whether one of them - if any - is the word you’re looking is any better then just typing it in.
Not just F keys; piles of modifier key combos too. So many for Logic are burned into my brain for intuitive use, sometimes I cant tell someone what the actual key combo is as its automatic.
I paid less and ordered the Air (instead of the ProOr, at least make it BTO.
I'll pay extra NOT to have it...
Although the 16" could be a bit thinner/lighter, I would honestly prefer better battery life and the better cooling that comes with a bigger chassis in the MacBook Pros
Most developers I know work at a desk, using MacBook Pros, with external monitors, and sometimes external keyboards (I run my work MBP in clamshell mode). None of the developers I know use Mac Pros. I’d love to see Mac Pros at WWDC, but I suspect it’s more likely for WWDC 2022 - they have a whole lot of pieces to get right for it, and that would finish out the two-year transition window.
Well, so did I...abandoning a 15 month old 13" MacBook Pro (2 TB-ports).I paid less and ordered the Air (instead of the Pro
Chromebooks cannot run the Adobe products I need, unfortunately. Plus I just prefer macOS. Also the build quality on Chromebooks is so hit/miss. I prefer to buy something that doesn't feel quite so disposable.
Bettertouchtool along with GolderChaos preset does this already. I have my dock and tool bar tools on the touchbar and get hepatic feedback set to what pulses and strength I prefer. I do think that physical buttons are faster for app switching but it’s also nice to have tools on the bar so that I can get more screen by hiding the dock and tool bar.
I had work-supplied 15” MBPs for many years. Now using a 13” MBP in clamshell with external monitors. The extra screen space on the 16” would be nice, but the big draw would be the additional ports (for more monitors and such) and beefier hardware. The 13” M1 MBP is replacing the low-end 13” MBP. The next ones, whether 14” or 16” (or both), will have more ports.
Exactly.
What would folk say about a touch bar added on in addition to the function keys?
I have not yet worked/lived with the touch bar but believe it would be fantastic for things like scrubbing audio/video in Logic and video-editing programs. But just the same I love the discrete function keys for quick access to tools/functions used daily and w/o having to look down often. But it touches upon perhaps the most maddening thing about Apple, where, when offering something radically new, they frequently make a unilateral decision across the board to also take something away at the same time, seemingly completely ignoring the loss in productivity/function to many that is not replaced at all by the new thing that was introduced.
They don’t need to scrap it, but they should move it. Place it below the screen. We all learned to touch type so we wouldn’t have to look down at our keyboard. Put the dynamic Touch Bar where my eyes are already trained to look.
This would also leave room to put traditional function keys back. And for those that don’t want a Touch Bar, provide an option to turn it off.
Narrarator: In fact, they did not both use IOS, nor did they use the same processor.
*End Scene*
Maybe they should offer it as optional, 300 € for the "Pro" users
OOOhhhhh you’re tempting the wrath and lashing out from the Radical Zero-Bezel Movement !!!!!