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Warming-up for the all-new redesigned retina 2014 (2015?) MacBook Air

motrek said:
Indeed, Intel added USB 3 support to its chipset, but that's because the chipset has long included the logic for ports like that.

The CPU and/or chipset have nothing to do with how a battery is charged. Looking into this a bit more, it looks like Intel is supporting a wireless charging system called Rezence and is encouraging other companies to support it with Skylake but that's it. The two aren't tied technically and it's certainly not like Skylake is required for wireless charging or enables it somehow. The fact that Skylake reference platforms support Rezence gives basically no indication whether or not Apple will support it.
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Skylake is certainly not tied to wireless charging technology. I've taken a look at the Rezence website and it looks good. But it will probably also be used for cell phones and other devices, not only for laptops.

In fact, now that I think about it for more than 3 seconds, it's fairly obvious that Apple won't support wireless charging. You can't do wireless charging through metal so Apple would have to give up their aluminum chassis to support it. I can't imagine that happening.
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I am not sure whether wireless charging could be done through metal. Wouldn't it be possible to include some sort of port or something to allow the wireless charging to be done without giving up metal?

In any case, if wireless charging is the future, then Apple may not adopt it now, but it will eventually have to consider it in a few years.

Sorry that I appear (and am) snippy and impolite to Skaertus. Some context is required. He frequently misinterprets source material to make wildly inaccurate claims. We had basically the same go-around months ago about whether or not Broadwell laptops had to be fanless (and now we can see that most Broadwell laptops so far do have fans) and we also had a go-around about whether or not Intel purposefully delays the introduction of products to clear out old stock, which he supported with some links to news stories that said nothing of the sort. Anyway, I'm tired of it.
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Well, I don't consider my claims to be wildly innacurate. There are Broadwell laptops which are fanless; I never expected all of them to be. But fanless ultrabooks make sense to a certain degree, and there are some laptops now that are able to achieve this. As for the delay in the introduction of products, Intel will never admit it; however, you can see that Intel delayed the original release date of non-delayed products following delays in previous products. You may take your own conclusions on that.
 
Well nothing today...not that I think there would be. So I guess we can all assume it will be here in March or April?
 
PDFierro said:
Any reasoning behind that? I think many of us will be surprised if there isn't one. I'd be floored, actually.
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I agree with newellj. I don't think we will see MBA as "one more thing" at the Apple watch event. MBA and watch just don't seem like congruent things. I could see the watch being released during an iPhone event (like the original announcement).

I think MBA refresh will be held off until MBA r12 is ready, and released as one event, maybe nearer to WWDC.
 
PDFierro said:
Any reasoning behind that? I think many of us will be surprised if there isn't one. I'd be floored, actually.
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My WAG (which is no better than yours, maybe not even as good): development efforts going into the 12" rMBA and a _real_ upgrade of whichever MBAs survive the 12" introduction. In other words, too much genuinely new product probably coming to market too soon to permit Apple to amortize the various costs associated with even a relatively minor refresh that would have maybe a six month production run.

I could certainly be wrong.
 
Mba/ipad

I would really like to see a Mac book Air with an ipad for a screen that I can remove as well as enough ports to hook up to an external monitor when I want. This way I have the power of a real laptop the portability of an iPad w handoff and the ability to hook into a 27" led when I want to sit at my desk.
 
dsmedic10 said:
I would really like to see a Mac book Air with an ipad for a screen that I can remove
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So you want an Asus Transformer T100

...except one that runs OS X

...and that isn't built like a plastic toy...

The problem is that Apple would have to rewrite OS X to be "finger friendly". You saw how well that worked for Microsoft in win8.

I think Apple wants to continue selling you both a MBA/MBP and an iPad... not one device that does both things (poorly). The recent updates to OS X and iOS to allow hand-off of running sessions (like safari webpages) makes me think that we will see more cross platform integration efforts. Whenever you pick up your iPad, it is where you left-off with your MBA or iPhone...
 
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Well not like the transformer. More like a MacBook air that uses the iPad as a screen when attached. Then u can detatch the screen and it fires up as an iPad. So you would still have both a MacBook and an iPad. Just together as one unit when connected. None of that windows 8 nonsense. Mac OS X as a Mac book and iOS when u yank off the screen with Continunity and Handoff making the move from computer to iPad seemless. That's just my idea.
 
dsmedic10 said:
Well not like the transformer. More like a MacBook air that uses the iPad as a screen when attached. Then u can detatch the screen and it fires up as an iPad. So you would still have both a MacBook and an iPad. Just together as one unit when connected. None of that windows 8 nonsense. Mac OS X as a Mac book and iOS when u yank off the screen with Continunity and Handoff making the move from computer to iPad seemless. That's just my idea.
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This is basically Microsoft's approach. You would want Apple to embrace it, if I am not mistaken. I think Apple is not going this way, though. At least for me, nothing seems to point to Apple doing it in the foreseeable future.
 
PDFierro said:
Any reasoning behind that? I think many of us will be surprised if there isn't one. I'd be floored, actually.
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As much as I want it to be announced, I'm starting to have doubts. The watch does warrant an event (they need to push it, and unveil all the details they haven't yet, the fall announcement was more like a teaser). The rMBA would warrant one too, although not a specific one. But can the Watch really share the stage at this point ?

There might be some more or less silent small refreshes - maybe one slide, maybe none. The rMBA would warrant more fanfare than that. Unfortunately, this close to an event, I would expect to see more leaks about anything new, including the rMBA. We haven't seen anything for a month.
 
pasadena said:
As much as I want it to be announced, I'm starting to have doubts. The watch does warrant an event (they need to push it, and unveil all the details they haven't yet, the fall announcement was more like a teaser). The rMBA would warrant one too, although not a specific one. But can the Watch really share the stage at this point ?

There might be some more or less silent small refreshes - maybe one slide, maybe none. The rMBA would warrant more fanfare than that. Unfortunately, this close to an event, I would expect to see more leaks about anything new, including the rMBA. We haven't seen anything for a month.
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I guess I feel the opposite, in that there's no way the Apple Watch can fill an entire event. Hence why I think an Apple Watch/rMBA event was always the plan.
 
really hoping for the 12 inch Air.. Then I can finally get a new mac. My current is on it´s seventh year! :cool:
 
PDFierro said:
I guess I feel the opposite, in that there's no way the Apple Watch can fill an entire event. Hence why I think an Apple Watch/rMBA event was always the plan.
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I'm would agree that a full event for something that has already been announced is weird, but the lack of any new info/leaks on the rMBA for a few weeks makes me wonder.
 
Those who are expecting the new rMBA announced at March 9th Watch event are setting themselves up for a disappointment. It's not going to happen.

At this point - I expect rMBA to be announced at WWDC.
 
ctyrider said:
At this point - I expect rMBA to be announced at WWDC.
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That is believable... getting back to the previous MBA announcement cycles. And I bet that would mean that we won't see a minor spec bump of the other MBA until then.

While some think the rMBA will replace the MBA 11 and MBA 13, I don't think so. No way Apple is going to be selling this for $800, and having an entry price MBA has gained Apple customers over the years.

Any bets on price for the rMBA? My guess is $1300, which is in-line with what the HD version of the Dell XPS13 is selling for (the QHD screen is a $300 option).
 
I could see it going either way. The interesting thing about this Watch event is how different it is from a normal Apple announcement. They've had to link in all sorts of other advertising such as the pop-up stores and magazine coverage, showing the involvement of a whole lot of new people used to jewellery/fashion and that kind of thing.

There will presumably be a stack of journos and other invited guests at this event who would never have gone to a normal Apple do. And so it will probably be run quite differently.

On the one hand, you could easily argue that that would be a reason not to show any "tech" stuff and concentrate entirely on the Watch.

On the other hand, if you have a stack of fashion types listening, maybe it wouldn't be a dumb idea to show a sexy new laptop and see whether you can tag that on to the back of the buzz about the watch...
 
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