I do not know who is driving this ridiculous obsession with "thinness" but there are so many more important things they should be focusing on than this nonsense. 5.4 mm vs 5.1 mm? Is this a joke? And then a huge courageous leap to 4.9 mm? Yay?
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This lol. HDMI is not necessary. An extra TB port is way more praftical.
It sucks that the average user is not able to understand that USB-C to HDMI or DP cables have existed for years.
Thinner may be aesthetically pleasing, but I would say it’s less ergonomic. I’m fairly certain I got carpal tunnel from playing too many games on what’s already a relatively thin iPhone. Making it thinner is not something I would personally want. As others have mentioned, keeping it the same thickness or even a slight increase to add more battery power would be preferred.
Carrying around adapters and/or spare cables sucks more than using the already available HDMi cable in most every meeting room in every company in the US.
Agree on Laptop. Not entirely sure on iPhone. I actually want both Thinner AND more battery. But that is pushing the limit.
Airplay has replaced HDMI cables in almost every company ive visited
I guess it makes sense for schools or gov settings where they're 10-15 years behind on tech
The thick bezels on the iPad Pro is a dealbreaker for me though. It's ridiculous how Apple have yet to evolve and go edge to edge on an iPad.
AirPlay is only in Apple-dominated businesses. The only Apple devices my company (healthcare) has is the iPhone. Everything else is PC, and it's like that in every hospital in my region.
Once Windows has native AirPlay, perhaps. How am I going to AirPlay my Excel sheet from my Dell to a projector?
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Perhaps in the advent of thicker devices recently, we could anticipate thinner consumer devices and denser pro devices. I’m for thin if it doesn’t sacrifice or bottleneck performance. Mmmaybe we could see pro devices lose the camera bump in favor of thicker batteries - or maybe we’ll get thicker battery and thicker camera with no reduction in bump 😵💫😂😭
Maybe they're making them thinner now, so they're not too thick when they're folded in half in future.
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Totally agree... did a design exercise with some ID friends and you can fit a 13" display into a 12" MBA case with a 720p camera... and have 2 usb-c ports... with Apple silicon and would have ~11 hours runtime (based on 15 hours with the M1 MBA and the fact the 12" MB had 75% of the MBA battery capacity)...
But when I bring up this form factor I get several "disagrees"... along with the iPhone mini form factor (some people are really against the idea of folks having the option of a smaller, lighter form factor device... WTF?)
It is truly mind-boggling, almost as if people wanted to carry extra unnecessary weight with them.
For some people here in the comments, a lighter machine means a stove in a backpack or computing power from 2010. As if computer development were to stop in 2024 and as if creating a more powerful, lighter machine is at least a mission as difficult as flying to Mars (even though we have a ton of lighter machines on the PC front).
Then buy a MacBook Air. There’s already a computer built for you.
If you’re getting “days” of battery life on a MacBook Pro, you’re not really using what it has to offer.
iPhone - even though the part away from the camera modules becomes thinner, the camera bumps get thicker so it's moot. Just even out the body and camera bump by making the body thicker.
MacBooks - I rather they keep the current thickness and focus on making them easier to repair (parts not glued in)
MacBooks - I rather they keep the current thickness and focus on making them easier to repair (parts not glued in)
I have never said it. Read it again with better comprehension.
That's a lack of imagination thinking that the 2021 MBP chassis is peak Apple and they cannot improve on it and be able to come up with something better, lighter, and thinner again even just by swapping aluminum for lighter materials like titanium and magnesium in chassis.
If Apple can engineer a way to give me a laptop that does what I need with less weight I'll totally take it — but it has to be a usable laptop. If they pull that Jony Ive **** like putting in an unusable keyboard or taking away all the ports, I'm not interested.
God. I don’t need the phone to be more thin. I need a better battery. I’m sick of the race to the bottom in the smartphone industry placing form over function and making sure the feature set in a “professional” device caters to the lowest common denominator.
