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New 'Ultra-Thin' MacBooks Launching in Second Half of 2016 May Sport Metal Injection Mold-Made Hinges
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I have a high-end colour laser printer with fax and scanner. Since you're obviously filthy rich, would you mind buying me a new one so I can get to (your) 2016 standards?
I've given up tilting against the "thinness" windmill. Apple gonna do Apple. Apple does thinner. As long as JIve is running the show, thinner will be a priority. The one shinning light in this, ironically, comes from outside Apple. HP is that light. Apple can't introduce a thinner laptop with minimal ports and claim thinness is the cause. HP showed thin is possible without port deprecation. If Apple intros and MB, Air, or MBP with one USB-C port...The masters of design wouldn't want to be shown up by HP.
The new HP looks to be one killer machine. If only it did not come with an HP support.
Don't worry, if Apple does indeed uses similar design for the hinges, it will be the best design ever, in a word.. MAGIC!
And people here will be saying they are the best looking hinges ever!!
I'm probably alone in this desire, but I would love a tablet/laptop hybrid. Pull off the tablet, it uses iOS. Put it on the macbook base and it uses MacOS. It would provide a way to declutter for me. AND, worth a premium, IMHO.
Even if you got a 2015 MBP 13" you'd reduce that to 3.48 lbs..
I was looking at the Yoga 900 and the XPS (and even the 12" Macbook) and they're awfully "bendy", and somehow I can't imagine bending the thing is very healthy for their long-term life. Compare them to the 13" MBA or 13" rMBP and they all look pretty flimsy in comparison.
Give me a bit more solidity rather than just thin..
Sorry, that's not what you want or need. You want something as thin as possible and need it to run only curated dumbed-down App Store apps.
So sayeth Cupertino. The days of Apple making an actual by-the-books computer (not tablet/smart device/disposable thing) are not long for this world.
+1
And I would go one step further: why not simplify the MacBook lineup?
The MacBook Retina would replace the old Air, as it is already much lighter and the MacBook Pro would slim down because technology has advanced to allow for a slimmer design.
Get the Macbook 12 a more powerful CPU and make another model with a 14" screen. That won't be the way to recreate the Air with Retina.
The MacBook Pro would drop the weight (like the Dell Precision) but have the latest CPU/GPU combos in two models 13" and 15".
So 4 MacBooks would suffice: 2 New MacBook, and 2 slimmer MacBook Pros. All with 8Gb Ram and SSDs standard. All with 2 or 3 USB-C / TB3 power/ports.
One can dream.
I have been waiting for this full redesign for years already.
Last years we had the same rumours. All new Macbook air coming. And despite the new-new Macbook, I´d say we didnt get anything.
This alumnium design is now eight years old. Thats OLD if you ask me. Even though its nice, its outdated. Is this how the Macbooks are going to look for ever? What can replace aluminum?
I certainly want something new.
Last years we had the same rumours. All new Macbook air coming. And despite the new-new Macbook, I´d say we didnt get anything.
This alumnium design is now eight years old. Thats OLD if you ask me. Even though its nice, its outdated. Is this how the Macbooks are going to look for ever? What can replace aluminum?
I certainly want something new.
latest news...apple seems they will remove the HDMI and put only thunderbolt 3 usb-c ports in both sides. It will be a bit lighter and thinner, the lid will also will be a bit thinner thanks to the macbook display technology and it seems they will adopt the gamut and 500 nits so more brighter display, from ipad pro 9.7". Also all metal design without the back plastic. Ram will be DDR4 standard for all MBP 16 gb. Both will get like the ipads pro and the 12" Macbook, much better internal speakers.The latest news but not so strong is about the front camera will be updated but we dont know how much.
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For the heavy users that refuse to go desktop (iMac, Mac Pro) may be Apple could pull an iPhone SE: revive the classic 17" with all the power that you can fit in a larger frame.
Go 32Gb Ram, 8 core, dual GPU ! And enjoy!
Don't forget, they will add a Lightning port if they remove the 3.5mm Jack from the iPhone 7, and likely remove it from any Mac that doesn't have enough room for both ports.
Thats what I'm saying. People seem to want a thinner laptop at the cost of ports etc - thats essentially a Macbook Air with better performance and a retina display....
not until the next redesign...iphone will be the first...ipad in 2017, and the mac probably with the 12" Macbook pro but in 2018 and followed by MBP in 2019...so until then the world will adapt there is a lot of time...3-4 years is a lot in tehnology
I think Apple's problem is that they don't want to drop the Air line yet, because then the entry level MacBook is $1299. I could see them maybe dropping the Air, dropping the MacBook price to $999, then updating the rMBP line, so then you get a 12", 13" and 15" (Or hopefully 14" and 16".) They are likely going to add USB-C to the new rMBP, but I doubt they will drop full size USB ports. My guess is full size USB stays, the other HDMI and MDP-sized thunderbolt ports get dropped in favor of two or three USB-C ports that support the new thunderbolt spec. Then you shave off space from the hinge and get a much thinner display enclosure like the 12" MB. Shave a little of the chub off the bottom and reduce display bezels and you have the 2016 rMBP.
We have a fully loaded rMBP 2012 and an 2010 MBA in the house so I am completely out of the laptop market as both are super machines. Between them there is no software we can't use and the battery life on the rMBP is immense.
I struggle to wonder why we need thinner and lighter, even more than that faster.
Progress on the new range of MacBooks is slow but I think its because they have already peaked in design.
Four years ago you could get a macbook that would do everything you needed if what you needed was a technical machine.
If it was portability you were after then you probably didn't need to do technical stuff, just office things, your machine was still plenty delicious for the job in hand. I am assuming that people who want to do technical stuff don't necessarily go for 11" screens.
As for ports, its 2016, get with the wireless age.
I struggle to wonder why we need thinner and lighter, even more than that faster.
Progress on the new range of MacBooks is slow but I think its because they have already peaked in design.
Four years ago you could get a macbook that would do everything you needed if what you needed was a technical machine.
If it was portability you were after then you probably didn't need to do technical stuff, just office things, your machine was still plenty delicious for the job in hand. I am assuming that people who want to do technical stuff don't necessarily go for 11" screens.
As for ports, its 2016, get with the wireless age.
But then people will stop buying current gen and hold onto their cash until the new one comes. Lost sales.
Please. I remember my first portable VCR. It weighed 22 lbs, but it had a handle. The tuner was in a separate box. It was portable so you could use it with a video camera. The camera weighed another ten pounds, and only worked if you plugged it into a huger port on the side of the VCR.
I remember when portable computers were even larger than this.
Heh. You said "paperthin laptop". There was a time when you'd get raked over the coals for calling something that was small enough to place on an airline seat-back tray a "laptop". Laptops are so big and heavy that you have to rest them on your lap. Thinner and lighter computers are "notebooks".