If the screen is even half as good as the OLED iPad Pro has been, Mac users are in for a treat.
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M6 MacBook Pro: Release Date, Pricing, and What to Expect
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I think the current design is awesome, so it'll be hard to improve.
Faster Chip, OLED, touch screen, and punch-hole camera would be good.
Maybe slightly thinner and lighter, so long as battery's not compromised.
I've got the 14 inch M1 Pro I bought on the release date. Will definitely get the 16 incher next time and would like to see maybe a 17-18 inch one, but that seems unlikely.
Might wait till the M8 or 9 to upgrade.
Faster Chip, OLED, touch screen, and punch-hole camera would be good.
Maybe slightly thinner and lighter, so long as battery's not compromised.
I've got the 14 inch M1 Pro I bought on the release date. Will definitely get the 16 incher next time and would like to see maybe a 17-18 inch one, but that seems unlikely.
Might wait till the M8 or 9 to upgrade.
Yea, but why pay for one in the first place??
Agreed. I’ve got a phone my Mac can connect to it don’t want to pay for more data when I can get it from my phone.
will have a hole-punch camera at the top of the display, rather than the notch.
translation: if you don't like something, we'll make it worse.
a camera floating about on my display would be so ugly, I'd happily punch a hole through just to get rid of it.
Please, NO touch screen! I don't want fingerprints on my screen!
Please offer without touch screen nobody asked for.
Please offer without touch screen nobody asked for.
There's more having cell connectivity on a laptop unlocks new security concerns like fake cell towers.
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The more expensive apple makes its products the longer the upgrade cycle will be for its customers.
I'll be interested to see how precise the touch screen is?
I'll be interested to see how precise the touch screen is?
It would be nice if the touchscreen was a BTO option (like Nanotexture displays) so for those of us who don't see a need for it have to pay a higher price for it being present, however with a new hinge said to be also part of the update, this sounds like it is going to be a standard feature.
My hope is these displays are just larger versions of the touch-capable OLEDs in the iPad Pro so economies of scale are in effect and the unit price will not be high so the MSRP increase will be "reasonable".
My hope is these displays are just larger versions of the touch-capable OLEDs in the iPad Pro so economies of scale are in effect and the unit price will not be high so the MSRP increase will be "reasonable".
If they make it touch and give it proper convertible laptop features, like full close tablet mode and/or separability like the Surface Book, this would be the first time I've been interested in Apple hardware since Lion! Of course they'd also need to shrink that trackpad to a reasonable size and ideally bring back Boot Camp, but it's certainly a rumour that interests me ... So I guess Mac Rumors is doing its job lol.
At one point I was using two Microsoft Surface devices (the small ones) with touch screen, and multiple non-touch Windows machines.
The problem I had was psychological. Found that I was forever trying to use touch on the devices without, but not using touch when it was available.
This was particularly self-confusing when I was using a touch device to remotely access other machines. But touching the local machine's screen did not make anything happen on the remote machine.
Ended up absolutely hating touch due to this inconsistency.
And touch on a larger screen can be ridiculously tiring. Moving your hand up/down/left/right, by possibly a couple of feet (600 mm) or more, is not a pleasant experience. You are forced to sit in a position from which you can reach the whole screen surface.
At the same time, I used iPads and phones - which were touch devices. That was fine because I never even slightly confused using the IOS/iPadOS/Android with non-touch Windows or macOS.
Please do not push towards touch on macOS. Though I do appreciate that for some people, touch might improve accessibility - we are all different and each of us has our own difficulties, limitations, preferences.
I'd most particularly reject touch if it ramps up the price - which is what we'd expect. If it were effectively free, fine, I can switch it off.
I actually carry round a mouse and a bit of plywood because I cannot get on with touch pads either! Much practice would help, but I'm happy enough with my current arrangements.
The problem I had was psychological. Found that I was forever trying to use touch on the devices without, but not using touch when it was available.
This was particularly self-confusing when I was using a touch device to remotely access other machines. But touching the local machine's screen did not make anything happen on the remote machine.
Ended up absolutely hating touch due to this inconsistency.
And touch on a larger screen can be ridiculously tiring. Moving your hand up/down/left/right, by possibly a couple of feet (600 mm) or more, is not a pleasant experience. You are forced to sit in a position from which you can reach the whole screen surface.
At the same time, I used iPads and phones - which were touch devices. That was fine because I never even slightly confused using the IOS/iPadOS/Android with non-touch Windows or macOS.
Please do not push towards touch on macOS. Though I do appreciate that for some people, touch might improve accessibility - we are all different and each of us has our own difficulties, limitations, preferences.
I'd most particularly reject touch if it ramps up the price - which is what we'd expect. If it were effectively free, fine, I can switch it off.
I actually carry round a mouse and a bit of plywood because I cannot get on with touch pads either! Much practice would help, but I'm happy enough with my current arrangements.
I've done the same on the few Windows systems I had for work years back, disable touch, didn't make sense, to me.
As for the MacBook, said this before, if you can fold it all the way back and use it as a tablet, just run iPadOS on it and I think you'll have a dood solution, but I can't see Apple doing that...
Come on Apple...release the Macbook Studio, or at least give us multiple colored Apple Cards
I mean, no - just no. There's no part of me that ever wants to reach out and touch a laptop screen in front of me. This is the one things that Jobs 100% right on and should never ever been rolled back.
We're now starting to see the actual loss of Apple design - we're run out of Jobs and Jony's input and we're into fresh territory of throwing out most of that good work.
I'm still pissed that i've lost a Thunderbolt 5 port that can do anything for a HDMI port i'm never going to use. They could have at least made the 4th port a choice. ONE Thunderbolt 5 port on the right is an absolute pain, especially if I need to charge from that side too.
People on here seem to like the current MacBook Pros but for me it just feels like something designed by committee. A bit of everything thrown together and not something that brutally sticks to a vision like Apple used to do. The new one sounds like it might be even worse.