Report says Apple is working on a 20.5-inch foldable MacBook Pro that might arrive in 2025

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Report says Apple is working on a 20.5-inch foldable MacBook Pro that might arrive in 2025
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Aren’t laptops already foldable?

They've been for like 8 years but... This one has a picture of a fruit on the cover

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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! πŸ˜†

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.

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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.

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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”.