It's very much an appliance-like computer, and it's something very different from any laptop Apple has ever done before. Everything else is meant to be done wirelessly, and there's certainly no room for user upgrades or repairs. It has a port for charging and for interfacing with other devices via adapters, and a port for your headphones. This new MacBook reminds me a lot of the iPad. Apple specifies that the scaled resolutions available are 1440x900, 1280x800, and 1024圆00, although it remains to be seen how well Intel's HD 5300 will keep up when rendering at 2880x1800 offscreen for the 1440x900 scaled mode.
Assuming that Apple does the same 2x scaling that they've used in all of their other products, users will be given a desktop with the same area as a 1152x720 display which is actually slightly lower than the 11" MacBook Air. While this new MacBook is not a MacBook Air, it's good to see the thin and light laptop in Apple's line finally moving both to a high resolution display as well as to an IPS panel. This is a 12" 2304x1440 IPS display, which equates to 226 pixels per inch. Like all of Apple's recent products, the new MacBook comes with a Retina display. All models come with 8GB of LPDDR3 memory standard.
The 1.2GHz Core M-5Y71 is available in the $1599 model, and a 1.3GHz version is available as a build to order option on Apple's online store. The starting configuration at $1299 uses Core M-5Y70 which has a base frequency of 1.1GHz and a turbo frequency of 2.9GHz. In order to do so, the new MacBook utilizes Intel's new Core M processors. It will be interesting to see how consumers react to these changes.Īpple's other goal seems to have been making the new MacBook fanless. Key travel distance has certainly been reduced, and the new trackpad won't have the clickiness of the old ones. Both of these changes are interesting, but they do make large changes to the feel of the keyboard and trackpad. It can also determine the force of a press to perform gestures or other actions. which allows the user to press anywhere on the trackpad to click, and gives a haptic response to presses. The trackpad has also been redesigned to use Apple's Force Touch technology from the Apple Watch. This new switch is 40% thinner than the scissor switches used on older MacBooks, and it eliminates the wobble that occurs when pressing on the edges of scissor switches. In order to make the keyboard on the new MacBook, Apple designed a new type of key switch which they are calling a Butterfly Switch. With a slimmer chassis comes less space for the key switches underneath the key caps. It's a huge departure from the current MacBooks and laptops in general, and only time will tell how well consumers respond to this change.Īpple's pursuit of thinness also necessitated changes to the input devices when compared to other MacBooks. Instead, the MacBook has a single USB Type-C port on the left side, and this port is the only method of connecting with other devices, as well as charging. The new MacBook goes in a completely different direction, ditching every single legacy port with the exception of the 3.5mm jack. Macs currently come with a couple of USB ports, a couple of Thunderbolt 2 ports, a 3.5mm jack for audio, and some connector for power. The biggest change is to physical connectivity. They've certainly succeeded, but in order to get there the MacBook makes some big changes to what is currently thought of as a notebook. Apple's goal was clearly to make something thin, light, and almost appliance like. It's certainly a departure from even the existing MacBook Air, and in many ways it seems more fitting of the Air name than the current Air does. This new MacBook was recently rumored, and there have been many different reactions from Apple fans and tech press alike.
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It eventually absorbed that category of Apple's laptops, while the Pro line remained for users who needed something with more processing power. When the MacBook Air was introduced, consumers overwhelmingly chose it over the original MacBook line. This new laptop doesn't fall under Apple's existing MacBook Pro and MacBook Air categories, but is instead simply called the MacBook. In truth, this is actually more like the return of an old name that hasn't been seen in some time, rather than the creation of a new product line. Today Apple announced a brand new MacBook laptop.
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