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20-Inch MacBook With Nearly 'Crease-Free' Foldable Screen Rumored
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But it isn’t going to happen. The best you can get in glasses is going to be more like the Ray-Ban Meta than the Vision.
That’s more possible and probably what Apple should have done.
to be fair, there’s nothing in the original rumor about what OS it will be running, and it's unlikely even Apple knows exactly how they're going to market this thing.
Personally, just going off of the Vision Pro, I fully expect this 20 inch folding screen with touch to run iPadOS and be marketed as an iPad.
that's probably something that won't be known until very close to the Announcement though.
2026 is still three macOS and iPadOS versions away.
Seems to me that Apple would love to dump MacOS in as many scenarios as possible. A laptop that runs iOS? The prospect probably makes Tim Cook drool.
I mean we can be pedantic I guess and point to that if we want.
But common sense tells us if this product is indeed called a MacBook, it'll run macOS or whatever macOS is called at the time.
Well if someone could come up with even one reason why such a product should even exist, there wouldn't be as many.
It doesn't exist right now...but not going to happen? There are already a dozen image projecting glasses on the market, and they've been around for years. It's not a matter of if but when.
Eventually it'll happen. Just like someone would've said in the past there's no way you'll have the power of a computer in your pocket.
It's literally what Apple is doing. Vision Pro is a developer device for an OS intended for more than just that one device. There's a reason there is no "virtual reality" mode in a Vision Pro. It's augmented reality or a simple blackout setting with a background.
Nah, Amazon and Best Buy links are simply still embargoed...
Except we don’t know that it will be called a MacBook.
all reports about this product so far have come from the supply chain, who knows nothing at this point about marketing names.
And it’s unlikely the software being designed for a 2026 product is anywhere close to being final, wouldn’t be surprised if, assuming this product is real, and actually is going to be released, they are still having internal debates right now on How it should be marketed in which operating system it should run.
The report is just calling it a folding MacBook because that’s simply the easiest way to describe it. They could just as easily say a folding iPad.
There was a rumor weeks ago that Apple was working on a foldable 20.3" iPad. This rumor is 20.2" MacBook.
Both sound incredible especially if the size can fold to be small or large functional footprint, meaning you want just half of the screen with keyboard while say on a flight and the whole screen when at a desk.
Hopefully the ecosystem is incorporated into the Vision Pro, MacBook's keyboard connects to Vision Pro.
So, that would require the OS to be a touch OS, so either iPadOS or make macOS “touchy”.
In either case, who would want this? Sure I can see a niche market, but very niche…
I think a foldable iPhone would end up with much higher market share than this one would ever get
In either case, who would want this? Sure I can see a niche market, but very niche…
I think a foldable iPhone would end up with much higher market share than this one would ever get
It's smaller than it sounds when you factor in the keyboard side of the clamshell as part of the display.
Pretty sure that I am the target market segment here 😂
No it isn’t. It’s a consumer device. A consumer VR device. It doesn’t do actual AR.
You like big screens and you cannot lie.
Here we go again... "Spatial" in their term for spatial computing refers to the space around you, not the space inside the device. Because it's AR. Why do you think it has LIDAR? What purpose does that have for anything but AR?
People have been trying to get rid of the QWERTY keyboard for decades now. I remember trying the one handed Frogpad.
Would be neat if they put magnets on the back of a MacBook's display that you could then attach a 11/13" iPad Pro to the screen using a similar magnet design as the Magic keyboard. An attached sidecar like this but with one charger.
Apulat Portable Magnetic Side Mount, Strong Holder to Attach Your iPhone, iPad or Second Screen to Your Laptop or Desktop Computer Monitor, Expand Your MacBook with a Mobile Display
Apulat Portable Magnetic Side Mount, Strong Holder to Attach Your iPhone, iPad or Second Screen to Your Laptop or Desktop Computer Monitor, Expand Your MacBook with a Mobile Display
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AR does not mean you have to be able to see through. It means that what you're seeing has to be the actual world around you. VR is strictly NOT the world around you. Meta/Occulus call it AR as well...guess everyone's wrong but you. Thankfully, it doesn't matter, because the same computations are required whether it's a lens or a screen.