New MacBook Pro Features Breakdown: Everything Rumors Say We Can Expect

[darngooddesign]

The same people defending having only USB-C ports on Macs don't seem to be saying anything about USB-C on iPhones and all iPads because they claim that Lightning is superior to USB-C. If iPad Pro is the highest end, most superior iPad, then why would have a USB-C port instead of the "superior" Lightning port? If Apple lovers are all about having the most superior ports, why aren't they asking to replace all USB-C ports on Macs with Lightning?

I don't think that's true at all. Most people don't have strong feelings about lightning vs USB-C on their phones except for whether they would have to replace a lot of cables or accessories. The same arguments and trolling happened back when Apple went from 30-pin to Lightning; I had to replace a couple of cables and a 30-pin speaker dock because the adapter made my iPhone unstable on it, but now the speaker I use is BT so the change to USB-C would not affect that at all. Magnetic charging and cloud sync/streaming has made the port type largely irrelevant for most people compared to the 30-pin transition ten years ago.

But thumbs up for your scare quotes and pejorative use of 'Apple lovers'. Solid work there.

 

[ipedro]

While not a popular opinion, I‘ve liked the idea of the Touch Bar but acknowledge that it interfered with common “no-look” tasks like volume control, screen brightness and previously ‘ESC’ use.

Rather than giving up on the idea, I suspect that Apple is going back to the drawing board with this redesigned MacBookPro and relocating and rethinking the idea of visual touch controls on the surface perpendicular to the screen.

Given the rumours of an all black surface, I believe that we’ll see a screen and touch controls under an expanded glass touch pad. It’ll double as cursor and gesture control while also displaying an area with modifiable controls custom to the app in use.

Rather than a fully lit screen, it would remain dark with icons and controls isolated over the black like in watchOS. Given enough of an expansion of the touch surface, I would not be surprised if it were also Apple Pencil compatible.

 

[cdbob]

I really don't miss MagSafe at all. While MagSafe had some advantages, I went through three sockets and chargers on my unibody MacBook. USB-C being universal for all my devices save for the iPhone is just a better experience in general.

I don't want to have different chargers for different devices, I want everything to go to USB-C.

The same thing can be said for HDMI ports or card readers. With the bandwidth USB-C offers, it's a versatile port that can do anything.

The only features I would like to see over the MacBook Air are: The ability to run more than 2 Displays, Promotion, and HDR.

But I guess Apple will do what Apple does, I just hope we move away from proprietary cables in general when we can.

 

[jlc1978]

they are legacy ports on a 2021 laptop ... USB-C is far more versatile

I think SD Card is still useful since it allows for always available separate backup. I have such as a setup using CCC and an adapter, but really liked my MiniSD adapter taht used a microSD card and was flush with the Mac. Could just leave it in without worrying it'd get damaged.

I am hoping they call it the N1, just to mess with everyone. Even better, call it the N17.

I suspect the 14 and the 16 will come with the same options.

Better yet: New Computer Chip, Version 17 Rev 01, i.e. NCC 1701

I hope they add 5 zero profile LED’s to act as a visual indication that the MacBook is receiving charge (even with lid closed). This was in every MacBook Pro many moons ago and when they stopped, I was wondering why they would ever remove such a useful feature.

Anyone out there even remember those tiny LED’s?

They can put an LED on the charging cable instead of the machine to save MB space.

Getting rid of Magsafe was one of the dumbest decisions apple made on their laptops.

They should have designed a MagSafe style USB-C cable.

Absolutely! Why they stopped making Wi-Fi routers is something I find hard to imagine. I mean really - Why stop making Airports?

Profit margin. Too many cheap routers for people to justify an Apple one.

 

[BuddyTronic]

I really don't miss MagSafe at all. While MagSafe had some advantages, I went through three sockets and chargers on my unibody MacBook. USB-C being universal for all my devices save for the iPhone is just a better experience in general.

I don't want to have different chargers for different devices, I want everything to go to USB-C.

The same thing can be said for HDMI ports or card readers. With the bandwidth USB-C offers, it's a versatile port that can do anything.

The only features I would like to see over the MacBook Air are: The ability to run more than 2 Displays, Promotion, and HDR.

But I guess Apple will do what Apple does, I just hope we move away from proprietary cables in general when we can.

Well - the future is large and rectangle. But yah USB-C thunder wire or whatever - we had it for 4 years or so. Give it another few years and maybe everything will be USB-C - but I don't think what they did really worked. It just brought us to dongle world. I'd rather have large and rectangle, and also some of the old ports back - and it looks like they are listening and doing it - hopefully! I'm excited to see the new machines. Certain to be large and rectangle