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Report says Apple is working on a 20.5-inch foldable MacBook Pro that might arrive in 2025
(www.phonearena.com)
Aren’t laptops already foldable?
this post was submitted on 23 Jul 2023
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Not iFoldable.
I stopped being foldable years ago.
Me too, sadly.
Exactly what went thru my head when I saw this lmao.
But can you fold them...twice [Dr Evil pinkie gesture]?
Why not a "scrunchable" laptop? You scrunch it into a small ball and put in in your pocket. Main problem will be remembering not to toss it in the bin.
Hate when that happens
They've been for like 8 years but... This one has a picture of a fruit on the cover
It looks like the screen will be foldable.
I'm having trouble conceptualizing what this would look like. Is it a giant monitor that can also be a laptop? Aren't all laptops/notebooks by definition foldable anyway?
I'm having the same trouble. Also, I really don't get the whole craze with folding devices. To me, it just seems like one more (expensive) point of failure on an already fragile device. Or maybe I am just old - So get off my lawn! 😆
I wouldn't mind a foldable phone once they get the kinks sorted out and the price comes down a bit.
Linux on the WAM show recently talked about how much he loved his foldable phone. I'd love to try one out myself but I'm with you on price. $1800 for a phone is way too much. That's a months rent for something I'd be terrified to drop or get stolen
Except Apple will just make it even more expensive than now, starting it all over again.
And I say that as an Apple user.
i think the keyboard/touchpad/armrest side would be all screen. if they include lidar then it could do goggle-less 3D spatial computing. harsher to type on though.
Sounds like an awesome portable big ass screen/computer, with a shitty laptop mode built-in
maybe they have some new tech to make a screen feel like a keyboard.. and maybe some killer apps would justify it. Media creation/editing software might be better without a keyboard and double workspace.
perhaps something like Lenovo's foldables, for example the Yoga Book 9i.
I have an old 2011 17” MBP (that still works great) and a new 15” MacBook Air. The 15” is a lot smaller than the 17”. A 20” with todays thin bezels would probably be close in size to that old 17”.
but why? 20 inch is no longer a mobile device imo, what laptop should be. am I wrong?
It's portable if it folds away into a 10" device
And if you fold it 7 times it becomes a convenient 0.15625" device
And a 1' thick device (I did not do the math)
As someone who works in design, it’s something I’ve been hoping for for years. Still a bit salty about them discontinuing 17”.