Lovely. Thanks for letting me know. I hope this hasn't wasted too much of your time?
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I'll break you out of it, by going offline and not replying again. Sound fair? Your sanity will benefit
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Upcoming Ultra-Thin 12-Inch MacBook Air Design Imagined in New Renderings
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Lovely. Thanks for letting me know. I hope this hasn't wasted too much of your time?
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You seem to be stuck in a "while(1)"...
I'll break you out of it, by going offline and not replying again. Sound fair? Your sanity will benefit
I'm young compared to an 80 yr old, at 39
Yep, I'm clueless about everything, ever. If you'd please sit down and type up a summary of every aspect of life, and every possible combination of encounters and scenarios I am likely to face, I'll try and pop back in a year or 10, after I've got on doing life, whilst you're trying to teach me it, and see how you're getting on with it.
Cheerio
A defensive answer with no information or points, so I agree, judging from all your posts CLUELESS!
Write some specific answers with researched information instead of generic drivel. At 39 one should be able to do that.
Thankfully, angry strangers online do not define me or my worth. I've learnt that many years ago. If I didn't have that peace of mind, you may have got to me, but since I know my created worth in life, from God as my creator, your opinion is merely that, and not much more to me.
Views don't change fundamental truths, they just change your view of the subject (me). You may or may not think what you wish - with respect, I have zero opinion about you (not that I do not care if I am intentionally nasty or offensive, not the case here, I am hoping), because I am not one for making sweeping, superfluous judgements of people, based upon my brief, and only interactions with them - a block of text on a screen.
Have a nice day, person represented by ascii. I hope you won't think too much more about me - I won't about you, as I have to work
Cheerio, old bean.
That is a nice looking laptop. In fact just about all the new laptops at CES were very nice.
Understood, but this is *not* an Apple product.
It is an artist's mock-up (or as MacRumors put it, "Upcoming Ultra-Thin 12-Inch MacBook Air Design Imagined in New Renderings", and is indeed like your imagined car, it is not worth getting your knickers in a twist.
That's what the renderer's dream says. I say that's a fantasy. The power button stays right where it is now in the upper right-hand corner of the Mac's body, but it becomes a TouchID sensor, just like on your shiny new iPhone or iPad.
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Agree. I want more keyboard space, too. But as I indicated in other threads, I find an 13" screen to be about my lower limit.
I will say, though, that if Apple can keep the full-sized keyboard intact by relocating the speakers and can get "more" screen space by reducing the bevel, I might just bite. My five-year-old MBP is getting annoyingly big and heavy on my heart. So I really do want to see a desirable smaller solution in 2015.
I've been thinking very much the same way, but haven't bothered to post it. I think some kind of a Mac/Pad Duo is indeed very intriguing, although I have to admit that I do still remember how much of an epic failure the MacBook Duo was. If I had ever been fool enough to have bought one, I would turn it into the book for my two Mac Cube "bookends" (which sit proudly at both ends of my mantle/shrine).
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Apple may not have talked about it, but people certainly did. The moment 64 bit parity between iOS and OS X was public, I figured an A-series chip was bound for a MacBook Air. There's a record of it on the interweb somewhere....
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Renditions of renders aren't particularly useful, either, but that won't stop poor editing!
Wait why are we hearing so much about this 12 inch macbook Air? What is wrong with Apples 11" and 13"...did you guys see how nice Dell made their XPS 13..."the smallest 13" on the market" with almost edge to edge display....
So I'm sure Apple can pull off a 13" Macbook Air with retina display if Dell can do what they did with that XPS....because lets face it, Apple is way deeper in the thinness field than any other laptop maker out there.
I think the 11" has value for what its worth for many people who need the most portable but still a fully capable computer, 12" doesn't make sense to be in between unless apple stopped selling the 11" and 13"....which I can't see them doing....unless they will discontinue the 13" macbook pro retina and replace it with 13" macbook Air retina...but these two laptops cater to two different classes on their own....and apparetenly there is going to be iPad Air Pro....thats also suppose to be 12"....so its the rise of 12" maybe call it Macbook 1-Foot...?
well that is whole lot so ill wait and see if I'm right or these rumors lol.
So I'm sure Apple can pull off a 13" Macbook Air with retina display if Dell can do what they did with that XPS....because lets face it, Apple is way deeper in the thinness field than any other laptop maker out there.
I think the 11" has value for what its worth for many people who need the most portable but still a fully capable computer, 12" doesn't make sense to be in between unless apple stopped selling the 11" and 13"....which I can't see them doing....unless they will discontinue the 13" macbook pro retina and replace it with 13" macbook Air retina...but these two laptops cater to two different classes on their own....and apparetenly there is going to be iPad Air Pro....thats also suppose to be 12"....so its the rise of 12" maybe call it Macbook 1-Foot...?
well that is whole lot so ill wait and see if I'm right or these rumors lol.
The dimensions of this product are about as deep as the people the products are intended to cater to.
considering apples 11 inch air is actually 11.6 inches. jumping to 12 seems a little pointless to me. is it really worth a .4 inch increase.
Will it bend? Probably. Will Apple replace it? Probably not. Will anyone (except the obsessives), care about a fraction of a mm? Nope, not on your nelly.
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I think we have to be realistic about this (and I actually got "engrossed" in a USB Type-C conversation *before* I dove into MacRumors this evening):
It is unreasonable IMNSHO to think that the host computer, portable as it may be, will be *charged* through a single Type-C port, *but* in much the same way as the Type A port bearer (host device) sends its *information* to the Type B port bearer (peripheral), it makes sense for the new MacBook (that is proposed/rendered/imaged/imagined/conceived/contorted/distorted/etc) to take *in* power in a differnet way than from the Type C port. The Type C port would then allow the proposed MacBook to *deliver* power to an (appropriately) limited number of peripherals.
Personally, I would like to be able to go on vacation with my MacBook, my iPhone, and my iPad, and simply plug the MacBook into the wall/adapter/port, and my iPhone into the MacBook and my iPad into the MacBook.
But in truth, I usually plug my iPhone into the wall, because I let it sing me to sleep on a nightstand, be that at home or in a hotel, and frequently when traveling to family or friends.
Main point: The laptop takes power from the wall, but it can feed a few minions while on vacation.
Agreed - surely we are ready for edge to edge screens?
If not, a black bezel at least.
Yeah. That'd be a neat trick, wouldn't it. A truly dockable portable.
I will admit that I think my Dell, provided to me by MegaCorporate Hell, is a singular, hideous, ugly piece of **** (MR will not let me me sugar-coat it, not even in leet-speak), weighted down by a metric ton of corporate/security bloat-ware (read BS-wear), and truly against all my principles of free thinking, but ...
If my corporate job would allow me to use a BYOD Mac for work (even using Parellels/etc), I would be a more motivated employee and I *would* work more on my "off hours*.
If Apple can deliver that, that's a win/win/win (for Apple/MyEmployer/ME).
I apologize for saying "win" three times in succession. I think that's Cthulu knocking on my front doo
This is *not* the drawing board that you are looking for.
It is a rendering by an imagineer who does not work for Apple.
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Will it be waterproof?
I'm young compared to an 80 yr old, at 39
Yep, I'm clueless about everything, ever. If you'd please sit down and type up a summary of every aspect of life, and every possible combination of encounters and scenarios I am likely to face, I'll try and pop back in a year or 10, after I've got on doing life, whilst you're trying to teach me it, and see how you're getting on with it.
Cheerio
I think anyone who works in high tech manufacturing could reasonably claim that the performance that you have put forth in this conversation thread shows gross ignorance with respect to how things actually happen in manufacturing.
(The reality of your existence may be quite different, but we all do have to respond to what you present in public.)
I will freely admit that I believe that you are using hyperbole to try to bring home a point, but I think (based on what I have read today) that you are too dull to understand the true point that is being redirected at you.
Cheerio.
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Likely true to some degree. However Apple is often living too far in the future with some things (yet still have or had 16GB, slow hard drives etc...) that they forgot about what people use in the present. And other companies often have more options. Apple dropped the floppy drive before I even had a computer. I had to use that horrible system for years after they dropped it. (cost reasons, floppies were horrible and unstable)
Of course I am aware there are just a lot of features people are not using as much anymore. Up until a couple years ago I wanted a dvd or blu-ray drive in all laptops, computers yet that is not something a ton of people need anymore. (I have not required a dvd in over a year as I do everything online and or with flash drives.)
Things change. However Apple can be a bit too quick to remove useful features.
I wonder if it's one of those details that Apple deliberately inserts in documentation so if it leaks, they can track down which department or third party it came from.
