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It looks like Apple is trending back to ports and I think that will continue in the future. It looks like the 13" MacBook Pro will be phased out in the near fu
by mdasen 5y ago
It looks like Apple is trending back to ports and I think that will continue in the future.
It looks like the 13" MacBook Pro will be phased out in the near future (over the next 6-12 months) and I'd guess that the next MacBook Air will become the replacement. There wasn't a lot of difference between the M1 MacBook Air and MacBook Pro before. I think Apple can nicely introduce a replacement MacBook Air with an M1 processor (or M1 Air) with an HDMI port and SD Card slot and it will be quite differentiated from the MacBook Pro with its M1 Pro/Max processors, miniLED displays, additional memory bandwidth, additional CPU cores, additional graphics capabilities, etc.
While this announcement doesn't introduce the product you're looking for, it does signal that Apple is going in the direction you're interested in and it shows that Apple can offer so much for pro users that it doesn't have to worry about a consumer machine cannibalizing their pro line. Apple can literally offer twice the number of performance cores to give pro users a huge incentive to pay $2,000+ instead of $1,000. Apple has miniLED displays with 1,000 nits of brightness (compared to 500 nits on the old MBP and 400 nits on the Air). With their own silicon, they're able to really differentiate the Air/Pro lineup (which didn't really happy last year) and offer compelling reasons to pay more without withholding basic features.
Yes, a MacBook Air with HDMI and SD Card slot doesn't exist yet. However, given how many bells and whistles Apple has given the MacBook Pro lineup, they can give a redesigned MacBook Air those ports and not have to worry that pro users won't buy their pro versions. I'm hopeful that a new MacBook Air will arrive in the Spring with the ports you're seeking.
- nextos 5y agoWhat can we expect from the new Air? Will this model replace the current Air or will it be an additional more expensive offering?
- zitterbewegung 5y agoProbably MagSafe 3 , a notch at 1080p with a screen with thinner bezels, SD card reader, faster SSD, LPDDR5 but still up to 16gb , maybe a hdmi port and Thunderbolt 4.
- justincormack 5y agoI don't think the Air is thick enough for HDMI. The Air now is more like the old MacBook, the cheap fanless ultra portable, and wouldn't be surprised if it stays like that, previously it was much less differntiated from the MacBook Pro lines.
- bduerst 5y agoYou can still do mini- and micro-hdmi, but by that point you may as well do more usb-c.
- Gigachad 5y agoMini and micro hdmi are almost non existent in the wild. USB-C is the correct choice for the airs.
- fomine3 5y agoThe thin MacBook(2015-2019) is latest "MacBook" so it's not old but latest.
- raydev 5y ago> It looks like the 13" MacBook Pro will be phased out in the near future (over the next 6-12 months) Knowing Apple, they will keep it around for a couple years just to have the price point with the Pro name. They love keeping around older models for price anchoring/upsell.
- billyhoffman 5y agoApple does like to keep models at certain price points. Just look at the 2nd generation MacBook Air, which stayed with us, un-retina screen and all, from years after the MBP and MacBook, to hit to $999 price point. A 13" M1 MBP allows them to hit a $1299 price point and say "starting at $1299" when speaking about their pro laptop line.