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MacBook With Foldable Display Will Actually Have 18.8-Inch Screen, Analyst Says
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I'll take a Vision Pro and BT keyboard/trackpad, please.
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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Have you seen iPad sales figures lately? Nobody cares about what Cook wants - nobody wants hobbled iPadOS anymore.
That's very iffy to me. You're talking about part of the screen that will be flat on the surface of your desk/lap. Looking down at that will be awkward.
Meanwhile haptics still don't replace the feeling of an actual keyboard. Can you remember why, for example, we have those two bumps on the F and J keys...?
Who is the target customer for this?
For 3.5K one can currently get a MacBook Pro 14” (1.6K) and an iPad Pro 13” (1.3K), getting the best MacBook and iPad out there and still have about 600 currency units left to spare.
I am getting worried that Apple are starting to lose their vision somehow, trying to blend “old” things together, rather than coming up with something revolutionary, as it was with iPhone or colourful all in one Macs. Meantime, Jony Ive is working on something much more interesting:
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For 3.5K one can currently get a MacBook Pro 14” (1.6K) and an iPad Pro 13” (1.3K), getting the best MacBook and iPad out there and still have about 600 currency units left to spare.
I am getting worried that Apple are starting to lose their vision somehow, trying to blend “old” things together, rather than coming up with something revolutionary, as it was with iPhone or colourful all in one Macs. Meantime, Jony Ive is working on something much more interesting:
Jony Ive and OpenAI's Sam Altman Seeking Funding for Personal AI Device
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and former Apple design chief Jony Ive have officially teamed up to design an AI-powered personal device and are seeking...
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Let me help you out — I hate it.
the M4 pro/max/ultra will likely have vastly higher op/s on that end of things, so maybe premature to need M5 to beat it
Also possible the M4s in the iPads are binned compared to the chips for Macs, the base M4 in macs may have higher op/s, we'll see
sitting at a bigger screen as opposed to a handheld mobile device is a different UX problem, there's a reason they sell the magic keyboard for ipads. For one thing when heavily typing and looking at a bigger screen most of us dont look at our hands, it's harder to do that on a touchscreen without the haptics of actually having physical keys (Apple does have patents on generating that kind of haptics on a touchscreen, so maybe they'll make that work though)
This is awful. Looks like something Microsoft would do. It has no purpose.
“Apple’s new __ is so boring”
“Spec bump”
Then when there’s something radically different
“No killer app”
“Solution in search of a problem”
Can’t please those who choose misery
regarding possible virtual keyboard, I can imagine it could work better than expected. thinking of my watch or the touchscreen haptics in my car, you actually think and feel there are real physical buttons and keys. the 3D Touch on the iPhone also worked well with different pressure feedback. a pity they removed that. imagine you could turn haptic feedback for all buttons and icons on your phone, optional of course, the experience would be nice to me as I am used to it on other devices and my car. who if not Apple could come up with a haptic keyboard. even key press/hold and key travel can be simulated by sloped haptic curves and vibration signature for simulating kind of resistance while holding finger down on key as on a real one.
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Just being "something different" but not having a killer App or obviously great use case or problem being solved IS a legitimate problem.
That's not people unfairly complaining
Those folks are correct
Not with Mac OS.
I will get a AVP, if it has to be external keyboard. 18.2 foldable MacBook probably won’t be cheap.
Yeah, they're fine. Right where they've always been. It's a $40 billion a year product. Wildly successful. Nobody cares what internet dorks think Apple should do with iPad.
iPad sales have been down after the first year where they didnt update a single ipad, in a market where China is heavily pushing folks to products from domestic companies, and after a year of massive inflation? shocker
. Also even down they're not far from the same general average they've been hovering at over the past decade, and chances are they'll jump this year with the new updates. As much as I would love a beefier OS on iPads that's not the reason they're down, lack of updates, the economy, China, and the fact that it's a maturing market where the products last longer (same with cell phones) and people update less frequently are why
Agree. I can see the ad now for the "more magical Magic Keyboard" that will go with this beast!