Umm, no? Notebook 9 has HDMI, and usb 3.0.
MacBook pros have only usb-c!!
Which ones are you comparing?
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Umm, no? Notebook 9 has HDMI, and usb 3.0.
MacBook pros have only usb-c!!
Which ones are you comparing?
Looking forward to furthering news!
For a movable second laptop to use with iMac for me, the FHD screen would be quite enough.
Don't think I'll need Retina in the business trip now.
For a movable second laptop to use with iMac for me, the FHD screen would be quite enough.
Don't think I'll need Retina in the business trip now.
Low cost notebook from apple?
Sooo Intel Pentium Silver, 4GB of DDR3 soldered, 64GB soldered SSD, 1 usb type C port, 1366x768 resolution 11" screen.
-999$
Sooo Intel Pentium Silver, 4GB of DDR3 soldered, 64GB soldered SSD, 1 usb type C port, 1366x768 resolution 11" screen.
-999$
Actually Air could have gotten a very significant upgrade years ago. As for hitting a performance wall, it is more a question of Intel not trying. Apple hasn't hit such a wall and neither has AMD,
AMD actually is in the drivers seat again (just barely but there).
We all know how well Apples A series is doing performance per watt but AMD has made significant strides with its chips one of which is the Threadripper series just updated today. Sadly I think Intel lost its way.
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Apple should be able to easily hit the $700 mark and keep quality up. They would need to use an A series processor but performance would be better that todays Mac Book. If they went AMD they might have to bump up the price into the $800 range.
Ouch that's indeed quite an inexpensive Mac...actually possible though given its "low cost"....
Sorry to break it to you, but Dell's "non-retina" 13" 1080p screen offers a higher native resolution and more screen real estate than Apple's 13" MBP.
Not sure the coming budget laptop can replace a mbp, even if it's a 2017 version. After all, being inexpensive would mean less better hardware than mbp 2017.
If push came to shove and i had to buy a Macbook today, I'd be buying the Macbook Air (because of the keyboard - i know it will still work in 6-12 months, jury is out on the 2018s, and the 2016-2017 machines are definitely flawed).
That's pretty sad, given it would be a downgrade from the machine i bought 3 years ago.
It doesn't matter how Apple's copy writers try to spin it - retina or not, a TN display panel looks like crap compared to an IPS panel. A premium laptop manufacturer still selling laptops with TN screens is disgraceful. Maybe they will try to spin it as "integrated privacy screen"?
TN panels have GARBAGE color replication. Slightest angle change and you get wildly screwed up colors (reds in whites, weird desaturations, etc.)
I will not buy a craptop with a TN panel.
That upgradable RAM part would need just undoing the boneheaded decision of soldering it down in the 2014 downgrade. It was upgradable in the previous iterations of the same case design, so there’s plenty of room for that.
I suspect that by the October, Apple’s ‘laptop’ lineup will look like this (and in order of price, ascending):
College students and those that just want a new clamshell will be directed to this new Air.
Yes, it’ll start with an i5 processor 8GB/128SDD to achieve its starting price, but believe me there’s loads of people around who just want to do some light productivity tasks and to edit a few photos and family videos & (with iCloud Drive), they are never going to fill up that 128SSD.
Btw, this machine will never be cheaper than the iPad Pro w/ keyboard & trackpad though.
The current 12 MB will be discontinued as the intel Y chips will continue to be expensive with bad price performance ratio. Besides, you’ll be directed to the iPad Pro or new MB 13.
MBP escape will go. Those who want a 13 inch laptop for light business productivity tasks will be directed to the new 13 MB 256 SSD.
This then will open up a pricing gulf forcing those that definitely need mobile pro performance computers onto the MBP.
Already this lineup is feeling more sane than Apple’s current line up.
- Ipad Pro w/ Smart Keyboard w/ *drumroll* trackpad
- This new 13 ‘Air’ replacement
- MB 12 - discontinued
- MBP escape - discontinued
- MBP 13 & 15 TB - as currently
College students and those that just want a new clamshell will be directed to this new Air.
Yes, it’ll start with an i5 processor 8GB/128SDD to achieve its starting price, but believe me there’s loads of people around who just want to do some light productivity tasks and to edit a few photos and family videos & (with iCloud Drive), they are never going to fill up that 128SSD.
Btw, this machine will never be cheaper than the iPad Pro w/ keyboard & trackpad though.
The current 12 MB will be discontinued as the intel Y chips will continue to be expensive with bad price performance ratio. Besides, you’ll be directed to the iPad Pro or new MB 13.
MBP escape will go. Those who want a 13 inch laptop for light business productivity tasks will be directed to the new 13 MB 256 SSD.
This then will open up a pricing gulf forcing those that definitely need mobile pro performance computers onto the MBP.
Already this lineup is feeling more sane than Apple’s current line up.
Whilst I agree.... i'd still have to buy an MBA today if i had to buy a new macbook :-\
No - the 13" MBP has a 2560x1600 screen, c.f. the 1920x1080 "FHD" you get in the lower-end (but still $1k+) XPS 13s. The more expensive XPSs have "4k" UHD (3840x2160) screens which is "better" than the MBP on the "bigger numbers are better" basis - but is a massive overkill on a 13" screen (People use a 40" screens at that resolution!!!).
The 1080p Dell is higher res than the current MacBook Air's 1440x900 - but then with a non-retina screen which pretty much has to run at native resolution, you have to consider how small you want the text and icons to be... The next step up (without going retina) would be 1680x1050, which might make things a bit small.
If Apple did manage to put a 2560x1600 screen in a < $1k laptop, that would be pretty good value c.f. competing "premium" PC ranges which usually start at 1080p.
It's strange, isn't it. They sell a few devices with screens with the best color replication (instead of making a high refresh rate a thing across the board) and devices with screens with the worst color replication.
Don't give them sales on a device you don't want. Send them a message.
I said "nonretina" not TN - they could still update the display without going retina. Oh, and TN displays have got a lot better - I've got a Dell S2817Q 4k TN display sat next to my iMac and while its obviously outclassed by the 5k iMac its a perfectly good general-use display and doesn't have a noticeable viewing-angle problem (or i'd find it useless as a secondary display).
Its because life changed, in 1996 computers was luxury, the whole WWW was invented in like 1993. Today computers are a requirement. You almost can't get work done or study without one. Some people own more than one computer! They also tend to be highly consumable, while you can still drive 10-15 year old cars, a similarly aged computer is unusable at all. In fact, it will have a hard time just displaying websites.
Win 10 is better, but it’s still an absolute mess with a combination of the newer Windows universal apps, .net & the classic Win32 applications all being able to run on it.
Not to mention a Windows application strategy that has changed every year ie first it was to use the new universal app framework, then it was to wait whilst MS revamped it to include fluid, now it’s ok to add fluid UI elemental to old Win32 and .net apps...
Yes, it means it means Windows 10 is super compatible but it also means that it has to carry loads of legacy APIs in order to do this - with the problems that this brings.
Compare with macOS where Apple have been ruthless about getting rid of older frameworks - with even OpenGL about to bite the dust soon.
Not to mention the unholy mess that is the windows 10 user experience with settings all over the place and apps like Mail and Calender seeing UX changes every few months but with obscure systems utilities seemingly unchanged from the Windows 7 days.
I do tend to think that MacOS is more stable whereas Windows 10 feels like living in a multi year renovation project.
Having said that, I’d love it if MS could make Windows so it all felt consistent with all apps switching to tablet modes seamlessly, as was promised. They just seem to be woefully unable to execute on that vision.
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Good thinking!
Here’s another idea: I wonder if the iBook name is going to be used for Apple’s first ARM Mac laptops?
It would be a way to differentiate them and convey the fact that these devices are not powerhouses but instead have long battery life and mobility as their key features.
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You are mistaken. Apple's 13" MBP with a 2560 x 1600 screen only provides the screen real estate of a 1280 x 800 screen. Apple's "retina" screens take lower resolution screens and double the pixels to provide better clarity at the same 1280x800 resolution. Thus any 1080 screen will provide more screen real estate but offer less sharpness.
Personally, at 13", I prefer the additional screen space [provided by the 1080p panel].
Great! To add to that: here’s a series of phones that you can use one handed, now here’s a collection of jumbo phones that are so heavy that you can kiss goodbye to them if you drop them.
It doesn't matter how Apple's copy writers try to spin it - retina or not, a TN display panel looks like crap compared to an IPS panel. A premium laptop manufacturer still selling laptops with TN screens is disgraceful. Maybe they will try to spin it as "integrated privacy screen"?
There is no excuse in 2018 for a 999+ laptop to ship with a sub 1080 panel that's not IPS.
Yup. I’ll add:
Great! To add to that: here’s a series of phones that you can use one handed, now here’s a collection of jumbo phones that are much more slippery to grip and so heavy that you can kiss your uncracked screen goodbye after the inevitable drops for the item you carry around more than the thoughts in your head since Apple’s genius designers continue to think only of how a phone looks for advertising than thinking about durability.