How about the other way (that offers revenue & profit maximization for Apple too, which means it could be much more likely)?
Imagine bottom half of an existing MB... a "no-lid" MB... like a modern cut at the old Commodore 64-type computer. Since the bottom half of all MBs already hold an M SOC, RAM, SSD, etc (aka "the whole computer"), this doesn't even seem to be a big stretch. There's even some
YouTube videos showing some guys who have purchased MBs with broken/damaged lids, removed the lids, and linking the remaining, functional half to ANY monitor, to have a working Mac again. Long story short: it works! Here's a pic of one...
Now, what else is rumored for this event? Goggles... apparently capable of displaying a virtual reality that looks like reality. It seems to me that the
simplest (most fundamental) application of Goggles would be to display a screen, so one could watch a movie while wearing Goggles.
What if Goggles also make it possible to display a computer screen(s)? Now bring those 2 concepts together. 🤯 To me, this is a potential new form-factor "laptop" with the bottom half of a MB almost "as is" with the lid portion now available
inside of Goggles.
If that can work, a monitor in VR would not be limited to any fixed size... unlike choosing either a laptop or desktop monitor now (or tablet or phone too). So maybe this lid-less MB + Goggles combo can present ANY size monitor to use with that "half" of a MB.
Someone needs a desktop-sized screen or maybe an ultra-wide because that is the best size to get something done? Goggles delivers it anywhere they are. Someone wants to do some computing on an iPhone-sized screen? Goggles could conceptually present that too. And everything in between. Or 2 screens. Or 4 screens. Etc.
Right now, all across the competitive landscape, players are trying to innovate folding screens & rolling screens to find some way to deliver a BIGGER screen device that is still in a portable package. This is not only happening in phones but also in larger screen devices like laptops...
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What if Apple's cut at that
same objective is by virtualizing the screen vs. adding all that weight beyond about a 16" form factor now? Besides keeping the overall package small and mobile, virtualized screens could be designed and "manufactured" in Cupertino cutting those costs of new physical screen types out of the supply chain entirely (potentially yielding lower prices for us... OR more profit for Apple: hard to imagine which way
THAT would go
).
Modify your idea just a bit and this seems to deliver it... in a way that may motivate some to pay for that new kind of MB (base) + Goggles, which Apple is wanting people to buy anyway. And unlike your idea which would likely be much more affordable at the expense of Apple profitability (already getting you pushback from others because Apple won't create something to cut their revenue & profit), here's a variation of the
same idea that maximizes revenue & profit for Apple too.
Is this for everyone? Of course not. Nothing is for everyone. But it SEEMS to be a way to scratch a
LOT of "bigger" screen product itches while clinging to a smallish, mobile tech package.
ONE new heavily-rumored, portable product could possibly deliver on iMac 27", iMac 30", iMac 32", iMac Ultra Wide, MBpro 17", MBpro 18", MBpro 20", MB Ultra Wide, even bigger screen iPhone, bigger screen iPads, etc.
