Technology @lemmy.world schizoidman @lemmy.ml 1y ago

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

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

A report out of South Korea says that Apple is working on a 20.5-inch foldable MacBook Pro that would be followed by an iPhone Fold.

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Aren’t laptops already foldable?
- Not iFoldable.
  
  I stopped being foldable years ago.
- 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.
- It looks like the screen will be foldable.
- They've been for like 8 years but... This one has a picture of a fruit on the cover
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.
- 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
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
- As someone who works in design, it’s something I’ve been hoping for for years. Still a bit salty about them discontinuing 17”.

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