It doesn't matter how Apple changes their iPad hardware. Unless they improve the software, this permutation also will not make a difference.
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MacBook With Foldable Display Will Actually Have 18.8-Inch Screen, Analyst Says
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Apple has non-Pros well covered on the low end with the best MacBook Airs ever made available starting at $999 (and lower from 3rd-parties) and iPads from $349. While they don't have the latest and greatest features or specs. they are some of the best deals in technology ever. I have been computing since the 1980's and the kind of performance and features we have today represent bang for buck I could only have dreamed of just a few years ago.
As for keeping the lights on, as of the end of 2023 Apple had $73 billion (..billion!) in cash reserves, so I don't think they will be worrying about that any time soon.
It's not for me, I'll tell you that. Apple (and other companies) make plenty of things I have no interest in. The only issue for me would be if they tried to stop making laptops with normal keyboards.
I’m sure they’ll include haptic response to make it feel like real keys. It’s actually very cool to have virtual keyboard. The screen can be put to better use when a keyboard isn’t needed.
But for the price of Vision Pro… it’s like Apple can’t create anything new at a sane price point anymore.
Apple is king of haptics (nothing on the market remotely equivalent to their haptic trackpads), but I have serious doubts that they can pull off a haptic keyboard. Plus, even with keyboard avoiding view, this would take up a huge amount of real estate on the device when visible ...kinda defeats the purpose.
More like they aren't interested in creating anything new at sane price points. Tim Cook's entire reign has been about running social experiments to see what they can convince people to pay for things.
If true, this would negate any hope of:
- macOS brought to the iPad (as a dual boot optional solution),
- or any "pro" features/improvements brought to iPadOS,
- or any touch capacity for the Mac.
This device would do it all.
As usual with Apple, they hear chatter and then decide to their own thing. They scarcely listen directly to customers' wishes.
- macOS brought to the iPad (as a dual boot optional solution),
- or any "pro" features/improvements brought to iPadOS,
- or any touch capacity for the Mac.
This device would do it all.
As usual with Apple, they hear chatter and then decide to their own thing. They scarcely listen directly to customers' wishes.
If it was a regular MacBook with physical keyboard and the screen just folded out or scrolled out or something to 18" or 20", that would be something I'd be interested in. Not interested in typing on glass.
We need a touch screen Mac, at all?
Seriously you don't just make a Mac with a touch screen. Apple has doubled down on this repeatedly, as recently as this month.
The last time Apple set out to make a touch screen Mac, what they made was iPadOS. Because iPadOS is more than just the neutered, baby operating system that old heads think it is. It's an operating system that was designed for TOUCH from the start. Whether some people want to accept it or not, that's how different it is. That's how different designing for Touch is. Touch is not something that gets bolted on to macOS.
There isn't any hope of those 3 things with or without this product. Because those 3 things are absurd, and ridiculously terrible product ideas. Except maybe #2, because that one is more of a sarcastic comment than an idea, since #2 already exists and is growing all the time.
Less than two hours after Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said a MacBook with either an 18.8-inch or 20.2-inch foldable screen would launch in 2026, display industry expert Ross Young has said the device will indeed feature around an 18.8-inch screen.
In a post on social media platform X, limited to his paying subscribers, Young said he expects the device to be equipped with an 18.76-inch display instead of a 20.25-inch display for "cost reasons." In a folded position, Kuo said an 18.8-inch MacBook would be similar in size to a traditional 13-inch or 14-inch MacBook.
It is expected that a MacBook with a foldable screen would feature an all-screen design with a virtual keyboard, but exact design details have yet to be rumored.
Kuo said Apple is aiming to make the foldable screen "as crease-free as possible," and he said this could result in the device being nearly as expensive as Apple's Vision Pro headset, which starts at $3,499. He also said the foldable-screen MacBook will be equipped with Apple's next-generation M5 chip, which has yet to be announced.
It seems like a foldable-screen MacBook is still a few years away, and Apple will firm up its plans for the device as its launch gets closer.
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Because making just the function key row into an adaptable touch screen worked out SO WELL!
As tired and false as that statement is ...quite obviously the software would have to "change" pretty significantly for a product like this to exist at all.
LOL, right? Apple couldn't even get away with the most useless row of the keyboard being turned into display. It was loathed, and eventually needed to be walked back. Even haptics or retina quality could not have saved the touch bar. So the lesson they learned was that they didn't turn enough of it into a display? Lol.
Those specs are only for the AI accelerator; buying a laptop based on AI accelerator specs is... fairly insane.
The yet-to-be-released Snapdragon is roughly the speed of a M2 for regular single-threaded tasks and about the speed of an M3-Pro for multi-threaded tasks while using three times the power. The M4 handily beats the upcoming Snapdragon https://nanoreview.net/en/cpu-compare/apple-m4-vs-apple-m3-pro
Who was asking for this? Anyone? This is 1000% an answer in search of a problem.
Sounds like a monstrosity. Hopefully they they run just a small batch because this is instant E-Waste that is DESTINED to mega flop.
What a stupid idea. I’m sure this will go hand-in-hand with the further destruction of macOS.
Can't we just have a Space Gray MacBook Pro without a notch? Asking for a friend.
Let's hope this rendering is wrong. I can't think of a product I would want to have less than the one represented by this rendering.