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20-Inch MacBook With Nearly 'Crease-Free' Foldable Screen Rumored
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HobeSoundDarryl
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Only until Apple rolls out something that folds... and then we'll suddenly see use cases and we'll magically recognize ideal uses for it, etc. Same with technology that Apple does not yet offer:
- Before they do, we hate it/see no use for it/call it a gimmick/etc.
- After they roll out an Apple version of it, "shut up and take my money."
I'd like to see foldable screen tech become the default. Not for foldability sake, but for damage resistance in common rigid displays.
If it runs macOS I will buy it, it will be more useful for me than the Vision Pro.
HobeSoundDarryl
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Folding laptops already exist. Do a search and you'll see how others deliver 2 screens that stack up vertically (basically a trifold laptop) and 2 screens that spread out into something like a mobile ultra-wide. Here's only a few variants...
Presumably, Apple will just fold it better (or we'll argue that upon the big reveal, gripe about the insane price and then buy anyway and post our unboxing pictures).
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I would expect the MacBook Pro ultra with magic Super Retina HDR pro plus display featuring ProFolio and Extra Pro Motion
HobeSoundDarryl
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I've actually seen this in public: walked into a local McDonalds one day and a guy has a 27" set up in a booth near a socket. The 27" was apparently his "mobile" Mac... or mobile McMac in that particular venue.
Also, every single electronic device on Earth is foldable. Just most of them only once.
It’s like the comments everywhere just go to trolls now.
The path to success would be:
- Launch a new iPad that runs MacOS (already possible since the M-series)
- Integrate the Apple Pencil in this version of MacOS
- Market it showing Apple Pencil magic with the desktop version of Photoshop, Autodesk framework and so on
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- THEN consider making it a foldable device
- Launch a new iPad that runs MacOS (already possible since the M-series)
- Integrate the Apple Pencil in this version of MacOS
- Market it showing Apple Pencil magic with the desktop version of Photoshop, Autodesk framework and so on
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- THEN consider making it a foldable device
That price is going to be…up there with the AVP and probably will have 8GBs of ram as base.
Nearly crease-free is something that Apple definitely will not sell. Samsung and other companies ship products that are "nearly".
But the "nearly" kills the whole thing.
HobeSoundDarryl
macrumors G5
These kinds of rumors all point to the same concept: the market wants BIGGER mobile screens. Why are phones always trying to grow? Why are tablets always trying to grow? Here's a rumor about laptops trying to grow above existing norms. Why? Apparently the market wants BIGGER, not smaller. Where's the rumors about shrinking screen devices? There's hardly any. Why? Because the market doesn't seem to actually want smaller.
How do you deal with the apparent conflict of bigger vs. mobility? Screen must fold or roll or project or be virtualized. Apple just rolled out a pretty great version of the latter and there are many others that can do the same at lower resolutions. Others are experimenting with folds & rolls on phones, tablets and laptops already. Still others build in a projector to make a wall or other surfaces become the big monitor. Do searches to see examples.
In general, more screen R.E. is more desirable than less screen R.E. I type this on a 40" 5K2K ultra-wide instead of a 27" or 32" near-square screen from the One above all others. Why did I choose ultra-wide? One big reason was to have more screen R.E. than the old iMac 27" could offer. Now that I have it, there's no going back to 16:10/4:3 or only 27" screens.
Every foldable iPhone thread fills with the usual mix of "solution in search of a problem", "gimmicky", "what's the point of it?", "why would anyone want", etc but iPhone fold will eventually arrive... and a huge benefit in it will be easy access to a much bigger screen when on the go without losing the pocket-ability when not in use. IMO: pretty much ALL apps are better on a bigger screen. We hate the concept now because Apple doesn't offer it yet... but- for YEARS- we hated phones with screens bigger than 3.5" and then 4" while Apple only sold those "perfect" screen sizes too. What's in your pocket now?
Personally, I'd like to see a mobile Mac with some kind of much larger screen option. I think my favorite crack at it would be a screen-less MB to pair with Vpro (and share battery too) for a giant virtual screen at any size... but it would be good to see Apple's cut at a physical fold/roll option too. I'm sure they would do it well. And I suspect we would suddenly be able to see problems in search of exactly that solution/the point of it/use cases galore/etc. overnight.
How do you deal with the apparent conflict of bigger vs. mobility? Screen must fold or roll or project or be virtualized. Apple just rolled out a pretty great version of the latter and there are many others that can do the same at lower resolutions. Others are experimenting with folds & rolls on phones, tablets and laptops already. Still others build in a projector to make a wall or other surfaces become the big monitor. Do searches to see examples.
In general, more screen R.E. is more desirable than less screen R.E. I type this on a 40" 5K2K ultra-wide instead of a 27" or 32" near-square screen from the One above all others. Why did I choose ultra-wide? One big reason was to have more screen R.E. than the old iMac 27" could offer. Now that I have it, there's no going back to 16:10/4:3 or only 27" screens.
Every foldable iPhone thread fills with the usual mix of "solution in search of a problem", "gimmicky", "what's the point of it?", "why would anyone want", etc but iPhone fold will eventually arrive... and a huge benefit in it will be easy access to a much bigger screen when on the go without losing the pocket-ability when not in use. IMO: pretty much ALL apps are better on a bigger screen. We hate the concept now because Apple doesn't offer it yet... but- for YEARS- we hated phones with screens bigger than 3.5" and then 4" while Apple only sold those "perfect" screen sizes too. What's in your pocket now?
Personally, I'd like to see a mobile Mac with some kind of much larger screen option. I think my favorite crack at it would be a screen-less MB to pair with Vpro (and share battery too) for a giant virtual screen at any size... but it would be good to see Apple's cut at a physical fold/roll option too. I'm sure they would do it well. And I suspect we would suddenly be able to see problems in search of exactly that solution/the point of it/use cases galore/etc. overnight.
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Oh good! What we need is for them to further decrease the distance between the screen and keyboard. It's not like the current keyboard scratches the display or anything.
It won't be real thin, Most likely, there will be a gap and it won't fold completely flat. If you ever saw the very first Microsoft Surface Book.
Here's an idea: take the 20" screen and turn it to landscape. Then add a magic keyboard and mouse.
Now it's an iMac at twice the price!
Now it's an iMac at twice the price!
This sounds like an product Steve would've killed after he saw the prototype.
Its probably a confused rumor left over from the AppleCar project that some how involved putting screens into each wheelI suspect this is in development in their labs, but I'm skeptical of such a release by 2026.
Think harder.
HobeSoundDarryl
macrumors G5
There's a stock version of MBpro that already starts at exactly $3499.
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That is the laptop that I was thinking about when I made my post, this design would keep the screen from having a crease but I am not sure how they would get 20 inches out of that direction id that makes sense.