“A few reports earlier this year said that Apple is developing a 16-inch MacBook Pro design that might be introduced in a couple of years,” Chris Smith writes for BGR. “An insider accurate with his previous Apple prediction also said at the time that Apple was working on new iPad models as well, hardly a surprising revelation considering that Apple launches new tablets every year. A new report from Korea now says that Samsung has been in talks with Apple about supplying OLED screens for both these products.”
“According to The Elec, Samsung might supply OLED screens for both a future 16-inch MacBook Pro computer as well as future 11-inch iPad Pro models,” Smith writes. “it’s likely that a 16-inch OLED MacBook Pro would likely be about the same size as the current 15.6-inch model, so we’re likely looking at an updated all-screen design.”
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And you don’t even have to imagine what it would look like. Just look up the Alienware M15, color the case silver, and there you go.
Knowing Apple it will be thinner.
At this point, that would be a major mistake. Apple needs to find a more meaningful parameter on which to complete.
woo hoo, more money for Samsung OLED division. Does the Macbook really need an OLED screen, the retina screen is fantastic as it is.
Is is part of Apple wading into the waters of ultra-premium products. I have no problem with that, as some people want the best computing products possible, and no one is forcing anyone to buy anything — as long as Apple doesn’t give up the lower end, which they show no signs of doing, it seems like a winning strategy. Besides, I bet it’s more fun for Apple’s employees to design the bleeding edge state-of-the-art. Not to mention the halo of awesomeness that surrounds the entire company when their flagship devices are jaw-dropingly stellar.
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Da fuq?! The average price of a Windows laptop is $700. Apple has no low end at all, they sell shiny underpowered netbooks starting at $1200!
This is going to be priced out of the Apple Park, Starting 3500, lol, with an i3. One thunderbolt port running at 10 gigabits.
Cool maybe a $4000 Macbook Pro (basic model)!
How they would avoid the screen burn-in problem?