I don’t think a charging mat is necessarily the route they’d choose. Wireless charging doesn’t work well through aluminum, for starters. Something similar to the iPad Smart Connector seems more probable. That’s not too far off from what MagSafe was, only now it would be flush and integrated into the form of the product.
A completely sealed MacBook, with three dots on the side where you attach a magnetic power cable, seems simple enough. I don’t think there would be any learning curve for users, the way there might be with a charging mat. The cable would align itself.
Eliminating the ingress points from the sides might make it easier to make a spill resistant MacBook, too. That would be a big step forward in making the MacBook work well in real people’s lives.
and i guess i've known it all along / the truth is, you have to be soft to be strong
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