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New Slim 12" MacBook and MacBook Air Updates Soon
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I could see Apple going 12", 14", and 16" rmbps and dumping all of the rest, then renaming the product line to simply MacBooks. The long term plan, with Intel's improvements alongside, is to get them all on quad-core, no fans, no dgpu. Using extra space to slim the machines down or boost battery life (it would be especially nice if they also switched to sapphire glass).
Wow, such innovation! No fan because it doesn't need it, and no mechanical button cuts down on costs!
Next I bet they'll come out with non-mechanical keys you can just tap... or better yet, just integrate the keys and the trackpad into the screen itself! *gasp* Then you would have no need for the bottom half of the laptop! You could have just a giant... a giant... pad!
Oh, wait, that's the iPad. And I just realized, I don't want an iPad. I want a light laptop with a real button for clicking on stuff and a real keyboard and a REAL web browser, not some half-assed Microsoft Surface laptop/tablet abortion ripoff!!!
GOD, ALL OF MY HATE!!!!!!
Dear Apple,
All I want is a replacement for my 2009 Macbook. Something lighter, with lots of speed, a lot of storage, and can allow me to write a news story when I'm away from my iMac. I do NOT need you to remove a feature as basic and important as the button on a trackpad because THIS IS A PORTABLE COMPUTER FOR WORK ON THE GO, NOT A TABLET TOY! If I wanted a tablet or one of those garbage phablets, I would have bought one along with all the other computer-illiterate fools who don't know HTML from an STD!
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Why would Apple use ARM based laptops? The OS would have to be ported over and then they would have to go through the same hassle they did when they went from Power PC chips to Intel. I doubt Apple is going to do that.
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Wow, such innovation! No fan because it doesn't need it, and no mechanical button cuts down on costs!
Next I bet they'll come out with non-mechanical keys you can just tap... or better yet, just integrate the keys and the trackpad into the screen itself! *gasp* Then you would have no need for the bottom half of the laptop! You could have just a giant... a giant... pad!
Oh, wait, that's the iPad. And I just realized, I don't want an iPad. I want a light laptop with a real button for clicking on stuff and a real keyboard and a REAL web browser, not some half-assed Microsoft Surface laptop/tablet abortion ripoff!!!
GOD, ALL OF MY HATE!!!!!!
Did someone just piss on your Cheerios? Calm down, this is just a BS rumor. We'll all find out when Apple releases a finished product. I stopped taking many of these rumor sites seriously unless the information is about a week before the product launch.
Wow, such innovation! No fan because it doesn't need it, and no mechanical button cuts down on costs!
Next I bet they'll come out with non-mechanical keys you can just tap... or better yet, just integrate the keys and the trackpad into the screen itself! *gasp* Then you would have no need for the bottom half of the laptop! You could have just a giant... a giant... pad!
Oh, wait, that's the iPad. And I just realized, I don't want an iPad. I want a light laptop with a real button for clicking on stuff and a real keyboard and a REAL web browser, not some half-assed Microsoft Surface laptop/tablet abortion ripoff!!!
GOD, ALL OF MY HATE!!!!!!
Yeah, Apple should stop killing kittens too. It would be frightening to be in front of you in line at the coffee shop when you're running late.
This sounds like exactly what I'm looking for.
My current devices are:
iPhone 4S
2010 Macbook Pro 13"
I was recently thinking about getting an iPad mini to fill that middle void between these two and give me something with a decent size screen for when I travel, but now with these rumors and the rumors of a 5" iphone coming in the fall, I think I can get along with 2 devices if I have the larger iphone and a smaller and lighter macbook.
My current devices are:
iPhone 4S
2010 Macbook Pro 13"
I was recently thinking about getting an iPad mini to fill that middle void between these two and give me something with a decent size screen for when I travel, but now with these rumors and the rumors of a 5" iphone coming in the fall, I think I can get along with 2 devices if I have the larger iphone and a smaller and lighter macbook.
I just bought a 2009 Macbook for $100. I need to add more RAM, and swap out the HDD for an SSD, but by the time it's all said and done, I'll have a laptop as useful as my Macbook Air, for under $200.
And you know something? It has a physical mouse button, keys with honest to goodness travel, an optical drive, an IR port, and the only tradeoff is a little heft.
I wish Apple would release something I could like, too.
Sorry, can you tell me how to do the 3 finger drag? I'm putting three fingers on the trackpad and sliding them while on a window but nothing's happening.. Excuse my ignorance.
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Wow, such innovation! No fan because it doesn't need it, and no mechanical button cuts down on costs!
Next I bet they'll come out with non-mechanical keys you can just tap... or better yet, just integrate the keys and the trackpad into the screen itself! *gasp* Then you would have no need for the bottom half of the laptop! You could have just a giant... a giant... pad!
Oh, wait, that's the iPad. And I just realized, I don't want an iPad. I want a light laptop with a real button for clicking on stuff and a real keyboard and a REAL web browser, not some half-assed Microsoft Surface laptop/tablet abortion ripoff!!!
GOD, ALL OF MY HATE!!!!!!
Dear Apple,
All I want is a replacement for my 2009 Macbook. Something lighter, with lots of speed, a lot of storage, and can allow me to write a news story when I'm away from my iMac. I do NOT need you to remove a feature as basic and important as the button on a trackpad because THIS IS A PORTABLE COMPUTER FOR WORK ON THE GO, NOT A TABLET TOY! If I wanted a tablet or one of those garbage phablets, I would have bought one along with all the other computer-illiterate fools who don't know HTML from an STD!
I don't get why anyone actually clicks to click something, tapping is so much easier and less straining over time.
Fanless implies less powerful; e.g. that the new Air would be less capable of rendering a long video. I'm also wondering if the click less trackpad might be less functional? Since Steve Jobs has been gone there's been a trend at Apple to reduce hardware and software functionality while at the same time making them more complex and less intuitive - even if customers scream in protest - look at how the iMovie 10.0.2 program, for example, was made less functional and yet more difficult to learn and use than the previous iMovie 9.0.9.
Aside from these concerns, a 12' retina MBA sounds like a home run product.
Aside from these concerns, a 12' retina MBA sounds like a home run product.
Oh snap, I just bought a new 11" MacBook Air today.
I have two weeks to return it. What do you think I should do?
It's not absolutely urgent so I could wait if it was worth it. Hmmm This sounds like it would be a June release.
I have two weeks to return it. What do you think I should do?
It's not absolutely urgent so I could wait if it was worth it. Hmmm This sounds like it would be a June release.
I doubt that. I think they use a piezoelectric fan, which is smaller, requires less power and maintenance.
Nice....
an Apple minilaptop.....yay.....!.....
If they can build them and sell it for under $ 1000.00 I can see a demand.Hopefully first batch dont have quality issues....
an Apple minilaptop.....yay.....!.....
If they can build them and sell it for under $ 1000.00 I can see a demand.Hopefully first batch dont have quality issues....
One "MacBook" Lineup
It would make a lot of sense for Apple to consolidate their 11" and 13" MacBook Airs to one 12" model. With retina it's better than the 13". Trim down the bezel and it's as portable as the 11".
A thinner bezel could also allow a 14" screen to be used on a MacBook Pro chassis about as large as the existing 13". That would allow Apple to get rid of the 15".
To summate the best lineup as I see it:
One "MacBook" lineup: 12", 14", and 17".
Small, medium, and large. All powerful. All thin. All retina.
No more "Air". No more "Pro".
That'll simplify things for Apple too – manufacturing 3 sizes vs 5 and marketing all their laptops at the same time.
I would think such a big change – and thinner bezels – would warrant a design language shift (sorry.. been reading Leander Kahney's Jony Ive book) that would carry over to a new Retina iMac lineup and a new Retina Display lineup.
Everything retina across all their products.
It would make a lot of sense for Apple to consolidate their 11" and 13" MacBook Airs to one 12" model. With retina it's better than the 13". Trim down the bezel and it's as portable as the 11".
A thinner bezel could also allow a 14" screen to be used on a MacBook Pro chassis about as large as the existing 13". That would allow Apple to get rid of the 15".
To summate the best lineup as I see it:
One "MacBook" lineup: 12", 14", and 17".
Small, medium, and large. All powerful. All thin. All retina.
No more "Air". No more "Pro".
That'll simplify things for Apple too – manufacturing 3 sizes vs 5 and marketing all their laptops at the same time.
I would think such a big change – and thinner bezels – would warrant a design language shift (sorry.. been reading Leander Kahney's Jony Ive book) that would carry over to a new Retina iMac lineup and a new Retina Display lineup.
Everything retina across all their products.
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The 13" air is at least where I am based the one professional to go computer for 50+ in the boardroom and between sites, if you downsize the screensize it will not work as well and sell as well due to declining eyesight and the big poster sale to big wigs will fall.
The 13" air is perfect as is! Don't mess with it!
The 13" air is perfect as is! Don't mess with it!
Unless the 17" can fit in the 15" chassis it's too big. I say 16" with trimmed bezels.
I'd disagree about iMovie. The new layout is simple as can be. And it depends what you be by functionality, I'd say instant imports in the new iMovie as a huge functional addition. The old iMovie took like 5 minutes to import a short clip.
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The rumors said nothing about either.
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Screen size is the only thing that matters to you? What about better resolution/display quality, specs, lighter design, etc? It would take all of a week to adjust to a smaller screen anyways.
The iPod touch at one point was an iPhone with out the phone... The iPod nano was once just a small iPod Classic... A Padbook sounds like a possibility.
Uh oh. That didn't even occur to me until I read this. If so, are we looking at goodbye forever to windows compatibility through bootcamp and fast windows emulation through virtualization? While not a deal-killer, that would certainly be a huge disappointment - and make me want to go out and get a current model version that can be my 'do anything' computer.
The idea of one "type" of MacBook still holds up
I do worry about the photographer/designer out in the field who doesn't have an attached display getting a smaller screen (which is why I figured they'd leave the 17", but in a smaller chassis) Overall my message is that Apple really only needs 3 sizes across one line of laptops. 12, 14, 17(or 16) sounds great.
I do worry about the photographer/designer out in the field who doesn't have an attached display getting a smaller screen (which is why I figured they'd leave the 17", but in a smaller chassis) Overall my message is that Apple really only needs 3 sizes across one line of laptops. 12, 14, 17(or 16) sounds great.
