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Next MacBook Air to Feature Off-White Bezels and Keyboard, M2 Chip, USB-C Ports Only, MagSafe, and iMac-Like Colors
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Tell em to create a hairy notch to connect eyebrows, too. ?My company is making notch stickers of all sizes so those who love them can put them on their TVs, Windows, Car Windows, Microwave and Over Windows, any existing Macs without a notch now, etc.
We're also workin on "duo" (top & bottom notch stickers for all of that) and "quad" (notches on all 4 sides). Those spinning love for the notch will hopefully make us rich. Notches for all windows! Notches for all rectangles!
“They said they wanted colors but no white bezels. Got it!”
Somehow people were happy buying laptops from Apple with non-black bezels for... a decade before they switched? I think people will get over it.
They won't do this for the same reason they didn't make the bezels on the iMacs an intense color.
I've been hoping for something like an update of that old 12" Retina MacBook, but with Apple Silicon and a good keyboard this time.
I don’t expect a notch… why? Because of the white bezels… that in itself will firstly look awful as a notch design and secondly provides enough brand recognition for apple as they are.
Exactly...this will be the consumer laptop. Just like the iMac is the consumer desktop.
Couldn't agree more!
Make mine a base model in pink I'll be a happy bunny, and it'll likely last me years and years...
I got the 24" iMac with light bezels and frankly I forget they're there because I'm looking at what's on the screen instead of fixating on the space around it.
The g-d notch though, intrudes on the screen and looks like it's gonna be pretty hard to ignore, especially on a smaller display. I was just using Numbers and noticed on my M1 Air that the menus reach right to the middle. So, I guess they're going to edit down the menus on apps now? And how will older software react to this? Maybe I'll be wrong, but it seems like it stirs up a bunch of UI **** for basically no good reason other than "people are now offended by a strip of metal/glass along the top of the display."
The g-d notch though, intrudes on the screen and looks like it's gonna be pretty hard to ignore, especially on a smaller display. I was just using Numbers and noticed on my M1 Air that the menus reach right to the middle. So, I guess they're going to edit down the menus on apps now? And how will older software react to this? Maybe I'll be wrong, but it seems like it stirs up a bunch of UI **** for basically no good reason other than "people are now offended by a strip of metal/glass along the top of the display."
Another +1 vote for this comment! This is exactly it....as reported (remember these are just rumors people) this machine will be the consumer laptop. Colors of the machine are more important than the color of the bezel to most people.
Remember: if you are reading MacRumors AND commenting, you are immediately in a demographic group that Apple is not targeting with this machine. Buy the 14" Pro, buy a used 13" MBP, something....but realize that you are not the target market for this computer. And in the end, it's still a rumor, lest we forget....
It's only been 11 years ago since we had a white MacBook...and many loved the look of it.
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Apparently, they will say make the menu bar the same white or "off white" color and the notch will disappear.
But there will be no hiding the dark "hole punch" camera in that strip of white. Make the menu bar off-white with black polka-dots ever so many pixels so the camera seems to be one of dots?
Maybe it won’t have a notch (the leaker isn’t sure). Or maybe it will also be white, and Apple will use a white background in full-screen mode.
I'm excited for these. Apple had a good 15 year run of black, white, and silver products. It's nice that they're bringing back the colors.
That would be fantastic. Selling what we now call in the Air in two sizes, like a 12 and 14/15, would be perfect. I have a feeling we’ll get a machine about the same size as the current one, though. And that’s a good size, but a tad bigger and heavier than I prefer. The 12” MB had great dimensions.
Photoshop the keyboard of the 14" onto it and make it white.
And ports, and, and
Zero reason not to make Pro-Motion standard if they are going Mini-LED
No, not liking the sounds of this. The wedge shape is the best part about the Air design, IMO of course.
What about the part where they will cost more and NOT replace the old MacBook airs? Apple could do what they do with iPads and iPhones to increase the price on all new models by calling them something else and keeping the old models around as the low price models. They will not make a refresh to the line, add new things to it and keep it at the low price of $900. No way. The only reason the M1 air was kept at the same price was to get more people to adopt an OS that only had a handful of native apps. Now that there are more native apps, Apple is going full steam ahead to do the Mac like it did the iPhones and tablets. Look at how much the real iPad an real iPhone (the ones that get the latest tech) cost. The price is sky high. These models will take them in that direction. I would be shocked if they didn't do this when it seems so obvious.
I was thinking the same thing, I liked the one I had, and then in a year, all the other manufacturers will copy and do white.It's only been 11 years ago since we had a white MacBook...and many loved the look of it.