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'MacBook Ultra' Coming Soon With Touchscreen and 5 Other Changes
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VisceralRealist
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This is going to be sooo expensive...
I have a 2021 16" M1 Max MBP. Upgrading every five years is reasonable, but it's not too likely I will be buying this on release.
I really do want a thinner, lighter-weight form-factor though. Traveling with this laptop a lot over the past few years has made me very aware of how heavy and bulky it is.
I have a 2021 16" M1 Max MBP. Upgrading every five years is reasonable, but it's not too likely I will be buying this on release.
I really do want a thinner, lighter-weight form-factor though. Traveling with this laptop a lot over the past few years has made me very aware of how heavy and bulky it is.
SnowCrocodile
macrumors 6502a
Touchscreen on a laptop?
WOW that’s revolutionary and is absolutely worth $3000. It’s amazing how Apple always comes up with great new tech decades before everyone and their mother have it.
WOW that’s revolutionary and is absolutely worth $3000. It’s amazing how Apple always comes up with great new tech decades before everyone and their mother have it.
SnowCrocodile
macrumors 6502a
And you don’t have to understand it. People are different and that’s perfectly fine.
I used 2-in-1 Windows laptops exclusively before getting an MBA for my personal use. Still have a Surface Pro at work. There’s a lot of utility in them, from being able to quickly sketch something up while typing notes or having a meeting, to tapping on a control or moving the screen around with my fingers rather than the mouse or especially the trackpad (sometimes it’s just faster and more convenient).
A 2-in-1 won’t replace a tablet for 100% of tasks, but could easily do that for 30%-50%. It’s a matter of convenience.
It’s like the software keyboard on the first smartphones that Crackberry diehards claimed would never be as useful as the real keyboard.
That said, I would not pay a premium for it.
True, we will see how this new screen holds up, one thing is for certain is the rumoured Ultra screen will be a stunning screen like all of Apple's OLED screens are.
transpo1
macrumors 68000
All you need to understand is that Apple sells plenty of Magic Keyboards for iPads, and that means people are getting used to using touch on a laptop-like device.
Vincent Hanna
macrumors 6502
Emphasis added.
I still think this is wrong, and Gurman has never stated it plainly as fact.
There's no way that Apple can have an Ultra tier above the existing M5 Pro and M5 Max MacBook Pros with the same chips if the only difference is the Touch Screen OLED, the Dynamic Island and a (slightly) slimmer design. There would have to be at a least a $500 surcharge, and that would make the M5 Pro Ultra start at $3000 for only three additional features that a lot of buyers will view as neutral at best, or even as downgrades.
Apple may well make a marketing change and call these new touchscreen M5 Pro and M5 Max laptops "MacBook Ultras" instead of "MacBook Pros", but there will only be one high-end product tier.
SnowCrocodile
macrumors 6502a
lovehateapple
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groove-agent
macrumors 68020
Why not tether to your phone since it’s already with you? I don’t see the point with built in cellular as it seems redundant.
groove-agent
macrumors 68020
The MacBook Ultra has been “coming soon” for almost a year - rumoured to come out this fall, then disappeared. Now it’s rumoured to be coming soon again which really means very little.
Because it's not reliable, it's annoying to do, my phone becomes super hot, it's a huge drain on the battery, etc.
loby
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loby
macrumors 68020
You can fill in the blanks...
It is not about adding new features to products, of course that usually increases cost. That's Biz.
But currently, with the additional costs added for memory and SSD's (Apple may or may not had a choice about) MacBook Pro just had an increase, but not as drastic as lets say Mac Studio. So, Tim probably balanced the price hit so customers get use to it before another increase when the touch comes out (opinion). Mac mini got another $100 on base and Studio got another increase, but with no really new features (unless you consider accelerated cores etc. new features) but performance increases as usual when the next update comes out. Touch screen will increase MPro prices again, which would be another big jump over the last few months.
"If" it is a new product like an Ultra, then no problem with touch screen (you seem to just select my comments without reviewing everything that was stated to make your points - I mentioned "no problem"with touch screen earlier). If the touch screen is only on a new Ultra fine (giving buyers a choice), but like a 16" MacBook Pro Max, probably the costs will be more than assumed and it seems the Pros I have talked to really don't care for it. Windows cross-overs seem to desire it (and that is ok).
Unless you are "beta testing" the new Ultra or touch screen Mac, no one really knows if Apple "might" have a separate modified OS for touch. You can educate me on it if you are testing it or maybe I missed some article or two about it (I do on occasion). 🤔
Vincent Hanna
macrumors 6502
A 15" M5 MacBook Air will beat that M1 Max at most metrics, starting with being significantly faster at single core. And it's significantly thinner, lighter, and cheaper than any MacBook Pro/Ultra you could get as a replacement instead.
VisceralRealist
macrumors 65816
I would, but I'm too accustomed to ProMotion and HDR. After using this MacBook for 5 years, I can't go back to 60Hz and no HDR support. (And Apple knows there are people like me whom they can upsell, hence why the Air probably won't get ProMotion until 2045).