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Waiting for the Perfect MacBook Pro? 2026 Might Be the Year
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I agree… personally I put a dark wallpaper on my MacBook Pro and I don’t notice there is a notch lol 🤣 If it’s a hole then it will look like worse unless dark wallpaper can safe it.
My only complaint is the poor appearance of the keyboard, with shiny keys showing after just two weeks of use.
What's the current state-of-the-art on OLED burn-in/etc? Unlike a TV, the expected use case is a computer UI/UX with a fixed menubar and dock -- not to mention permanent/fixed UI/UX elements in many applications.
I realize OLED have been used on iPhones and iPads for some years now but I've seen older iPhones with impressed Instagram/Tiktok logos on their screen among other artifacts. Given that a typical Pro laptop is active for 8+ hours per day and expected to last at least 5+ years, these seem at greater risk. Any sort of burn-in on a "Pro" laptop would unacceptable to me. And on-going anxiety or responsibility to make conscience efforts to avoid burn-in might even be worse as far as experience.
Removing the notch would be the biggest achievement. I rather not have a webcam than having a notch.
Everyone dreams of this, but greedy Apple will never give up this cash cow, rather the prices for upgrades will be raised again.
But what I expect is a 1 TB SSD and 32gb RAM in the base model! Anything else would not be a pro MacBook!
The demands on the OS and AI are increasing! 512GB would simply be far too little!
At this point I fully expect base models to have 128GB memory to work with local LLMs, given how important AI/ML is now.
For once, the insane tariffs are only a problem in Trumpland. Here in Europe, the EU knows that tariffs only slow down the economy and cause prices to rise, because tariffs are always paid for by the consumer.
The mid-term elections are not until November, so perhaps Apple will postpone the new MacBook until 27 in the hope that Agent Orange's wings will have been clipped by then.
Yes, it looks like they wanted to be able to add FaceID later without FaceID getting the blame for making the notch. They did something similar when they dropped support for 32-bit apps in-advance of switching to Apple Silicon so that Apple Silicon didn’t take the heat for breaking compatibility with them.
FaceID seems dumb on a laptop. On a phone, the FaceID sensors maybe also help improve selfie photo quality. Hopefully no one is taking selfies on a laptop. And you don’t need FaceID when you have a keyboard right there. I wish iPhone would go back to TouchID too. Then I could unlock the phone as I picked it up instead of holding it in front of my face like I’m taking a selfie.
It’d be nice for the MacBook to have a nicer camera, but it’s not worth making the screen thicker, imo. The current camera is sufficient for video meetings, and professional streamers would probably want to get an external camera anyway.
In light of the price increase I'd get whatever Mac that I can afford today than wait for something that s 2-3x more expensive
Just took a look at the tear down for a Redmagic 7 Pro. Since the front camera is not flush with the front glass, They hide the depth of the front camera above the rear cameras in the “bump”, but they don’t have any decoration above the rear cameras so your eye kind of misses it. That could explain the full width camera bump shown in the Pro and Air mock ups going around 🤔
Kinda jumping the shark there a bit. Couple years out from this MBP seeing light of day. Lot can happen in that time.
Quite. I found the Aluminium 15" PowerBook G4 to be perfect for its time.
OLED not only degrades over time, it also uses PWM on iPads, which causes huge eye strain for me. I hope this won’t be the case for Macs.
In my opinion, OLED is never a good idea for a desktop or laptop computer, due to the risk of burn-in. Mini-LED, and eventually micro-LED, is more than enough for most users.
For sure it will be great, but already now MacBook Pro (and its display) is incredibile. I hope M5 improve 3D and raytracing performance, even a 10% boost in performance is already impressive for a notebook.
Me waiting for the Macbook No-Notch Pro