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New MacBook Pro Nears Mass Production, But Four Bigger Upgrades Expected Next Year
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I barely used the touchscreen on my iPad Pro, it just sits on the keyboard.
Not sure if i will ever use the touch interface, like most people I finger prints. I wipe down my iPhone nearly 5 times a day.
However the new design, new display & better chips, will be a welcome change from my 16” macbook pro m1 max.
I might this time round go with the 14” as the 16” is just too big for me.
However the new design, new display & better chips, will be a welcome change from my 16” macbook pro m1 max.
I might this time round go with the 14” as the 16” is just too big for me.
Because:
1. It drains my iPhone’s battery, probably 2-3 times faster than normal. (It also becomes super hot.)
2. It is super unreliable, regularly disconnects, etc. It’s better if I put the phone right next to the laptop, but it’s really annoying to have to do that in a café.
3. I just don’t want to have to think about it, really. I just always want to have internet on my computer.
As others have said; oh what a dream come true it would be to be able to upgrade the RAM/SSD, have more ports (including USB A) and have a swappable battery. If only.
I am curious how much the future redesigned MBP 16 will weigh. The lightest Windows gaming laptop with an OLED display weighs about 4.2 pounds. Surely Apple can do better, but it will need to strip off over half a pound from the current MBP 16 chassis without sacrificing battery life.
*I use a gaming laptop for comparison for performance reasons.
*I use a gaming laptop for comparison for performance reasons.
It's funny how Apple's most popular devices have touchscreens... smartphone, tablet, smartwatch...
But a touchscreen laptop is just one step too far...
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But a touchscreen laptop is just one step too far...
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I doubt we’ll ever see that brcause:
- Apple is moving to more integration in their chip designs. I think we are more likely to see chips where RAM and SSD are all part of one chip rather than separate components. I could even see Apple moving to a single design where only the ram/SSD configuration purchased is enabled and the excessive turned od; perhaps with the ability to turn it on in the future. For a price, of course.
- USB-A is dead as a connector. Too big and limited; and a small dongle enables it use anyway.
- Apple’s drive for power efficiency makes that unlikely, IMHO. once battery life is “all day” for most use cases there is no need to make them replaceable. Even when we could, i’d bet the percentage of users that actual had a spare and swapped was in the low single digits.
Form factor and use cases. External keyboards make no sense on watches and phones. Even tablets have evolved to the point where keyboards are better for some use cases and are more common, especially in the larger form factors.
Making a touch screen Mac would, IMHO, require a significant redesign of MacOS and result in an OS that does neither as well as one designed for one or the other. Developers would have to upgrade programs as well to incorporate touch features. I think such an OS would wind up a confusing mess and most users would only use touch to scroll through web pages, perhaps the most useful addition to a Mac. Apple should do that by making the side bezels touch sensitive and not the screen.
Disagree. Mark is a journalist and he is held to a higher standard. He just makes random guesses. He’s often wrong as of late
Definitely wait for the M5. The M5 is going to bring some huge advancements in GPU performance with your usual efficiency and 10-15% performance gains.
If you do a lot of GPU intensive tasks, the M5 will be a game changer. I personally wish I had waited on picking up my Mac Mini M4 for an M5.
You can see people in this thread asking for it. And besides that: it’s a bad idea to guide product design just based on what people ask for. Yes, it’s a professional machine, it’s good that it’s thicker than others, but there needs to be a middle ground. That’s why we don’t have MBP with floppy disks. And in the end, professionals care about weight just like everybody else.
I honestly do not understand why people are wanting a touch screen so badly. Why people think its a game changer on a laptop. It is not. I had a better experience with Windows 8 and touch screens on my Surface Pro than I did with Windows 10 and 11. Even in the Windows 8 days, I barely used the touch screen after the "cool touch screen yay". 5 minutes later I just use my mouse.
Especially for a pro device, it makes zero sense for a touch screen. I constantly need to wipe down my iPad screen and I do not even eat or drink or do anything while I use it, but it still results in a mess. I do not want that on a high quality display that I need to do my work.
I might be at the end of my Apple laptops if this becomes the norm (adding touch screen will increase the cost of the device). I guess I should get the M5 system as my last laptop from Apple.
Especially for a pro device, it makes zero sense for a touch screen. I constantly need to wipe down my iPad screen and I do not even eat or drink or do anything while I use it, but it still results in a mess. I do not want that on a high quality display that I need to do my work.
I might be at the end of my Apple laptops if this becomes the norm (adding touch screen will increase the cost of the device). I guess I should get the M5 system as my last laptop from Apple.
A laptop is supposed to be portable not luggable. The heavy weight, port rich, machines requiring a fan to operate is in essence a desktop. A laptop tied to 5-10 cables is not exactly easy to pickup and move. A dongle is better as it is only one port to deattach.
The mini is nearly pocketable and has a network port which is a key pro port. The studio has all the ports you need for 2.74 kg.
The mini is nearly pocketable and has a network port which is a key pro port. The studio has all the ports you need for 2.74 kg.
If you don’t want a laptop it seems a bit silly to advise them on how to adapt their pro line up, no?
Maybe go for a mini? Very portable, very powerful.
Ah, just re read, by workstation you mean laptop!!!!
I guess in that case, most pro users DON’T want all those ports making it much thicker. We don’t need to connect to thousands of peripherals, our world is more digital than that.
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Using Macs since 91 I used to know how to do that. Now without a bootable external drive I am not sure how to safely reinstall the OS.
And no, I can’t use Tahoe as my version of Archicad won’t be stable.
I have never had to do that in 20 years of using OSX. Reinstall OS, yes. Set up as new? What is this, Windows?
I’m in more or less the same situation (2017 MBP) mine getting long in the tooth. M4 already a year old. They launch M5 I’ll bite. Another year is too long. Also I believe in buy when you have to upgrade and not worry about « Mac Rumors » Lol
I would love to have the 14" form factor in a thinner design. Since it's unlikely that Apple would release a third size option for Air, I would gladly welcome (and buy) a thinner pro version.
I don't even want to imagine the price of this MacBook Pro "Ultra". Probably another 300 EUR+ extra for the mobile connectivity option.
