I had a surface book at work about a decade ago. Honestly if apple came out with something like that I would maybe consider it. But compared to an iPad this will just feel bulky. And compared to a MacBook does the touchscreen even add anything?
Reminds me of shitty Windows 8 laptops back in the day. I don’t want to touch the screen—it has a keyboard and a trackpad.
And the trackpads on MacBooks are arguably better than touchscreens anyway.
This doesn’t make sense to me. Apple spent the last few years blurring the MacBook and iPad range, they’re even sticking the same SoCs in both and now this? What’s the killer feature here, the OLED?
They brought back the glowing Apple logo, though, just as everyone got used to not having it.
Edit: Just thought of the biggest problem I have with my MacBook; the fucking screen is so fucking hard to clean! I swear this move is a ploy to get people to buy their proprietary screen cloth.
There is no killer feature here, theyre just building up to assimilating one line into another so they can stop selling macbooks entirely in a few release cycles
You can buy regular cheap glass wipe individual packets and clean with, shouldnt be an issue at all if youre not sticking god knows what on the screen?
I’ve found that grease and dirt sticks the anti-glare coating almost like glue and honestly, I’m afraid of using anything more than distilled water to clean it because I’ve seen too many MacBook screens with horrible blotchy coatings caused by incorrect cleaning…
Anything you use to clean glasses with should be safe on your screen, products like that works for plastic glasses as well, so your screen would be safe
That screenshot legit looks like the screen is broken to hell
This wasn’t already a thing?
It’s been a thing with other manufacturers for years. Unless you’re Apple marketing, then no… you’ve never seen it before. It’s the first time anybody’s done it, and you’re gonna love it.
No, apple has never made the main monitor a touchscreen, only that stupid bar.
I definitely am a fan of NOT having a touchscreen. It was one of the pluses of the Macs, IMHO. When my parents or kids accidentally tap the screen pointing something on their touchscreen ThinkPad, it tends to screw things up and cause me to have to fix things for them.
I am also really worried they’re going to start making things “touch friendly” now… And we’re going to end up with the MacOS equivalent of Windows 8.
I am also really worried they’re going to start making things “touch friendly” now… And we’re going to end up with the MacOS equivalent of Windows 8.
You mean iPadOS?
Ooh greasy screens and gorilla arms!
What a joke
An iPadBook, huh? Its a bold move, Cotton…
I had a work laptop with a touchscreen and used that functionality exactly 0 times (after trying it out). If it had the ability to fold back into a Lenovo Yoga-style tablet form factor, it would have been a completely different story, though.
No, no. You don’t two in one with apple. You get one, and you will be thankful.
Make a 10" MacPad Pro that runs full desktop OS docked and properly runs iPad apps when in tablet mode and I’m in.
Lighter is helpful. The bigger screen models are great until you slip it in a bag and it morphs into lead.
Lit Apple logo is back to basics.
Touch screen - I guess enough degrees of separation between this team and Steve Jobs; I heard he was the reason it never happened. I have a touch laptop for work and never use it. It just gets manky with fingerprints. I’m sorta moderate on the greasy fingers scale, but I’ve see what happens if the user is a hand lotion type of person. Eww
I’m the same. Never use the touchscreen on my laptop. Much easier to use the trackpad, especially on macs where it is so well implemented.
Seems like Apple is hitting its downfall era.
Hell, I remember my colleague’s non-touch CRT monitor that was just caked with grease from him touching it over the years to “point” out things to other people. Also, it was set for 59.9 Hz refresh and flickered insanely (until I changed it to 85Hz when they weren’t looking, and they noticed it didn’t look so “strange” anymore).
When Apple was teasing the iPad back in 2009 I was REALLY hoping that they were going to announce a MacBook with a touchscreen. I had the black MacBook from 2007 and was ready to replace it for a touchscreen MacBook… but, they announced the iPad instead. I still have my 2007 MacBook, and it still works pretty well… I don’t think I’ll be replacing it at this point.
I still have my 2007 MacBook, and it still works pretty well…
With Linux, maybe. But that thing was a, what, Core2Duo? That’s just a glorified space heater at this point.
The glowing Apple logo is the true upgrade! And touchscreen? That will be interesting to see how it works on macOS
It’s like a MacBook but like an iPad! Apple innovation!
Can you fold it back all the way and have a tablet? That would be pretty cool. A MacBook Pro powered iPad.
At my work all the laptops are touchscreen.
The majority of users dont know this. With a few rare exception those that do know still never use it.
Its was sometimes used by IT for doing certain bulk procedure on multiple laptops at once. This procedure is rarely required anymore since a year ago.
