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psmith2.0
Mr. Vieira
 
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Tennessee
 
2021-01-15, 15:05

I actually love the idea of a new 2021 M1-based 14" and 16" MacBook Pro looking more like a Titanium PowerBook G4 than anything since. Just a solid, unapologetically squared-off chunk of aluminum without the slope or bevel or any tapering around the edges. I know those things can help give the illusion of (false) thinness, but that's all it is...false thinness (like the 2012 iMac redesign where, when viewed from a specific angle, the iMac looks about 4mm thick. But as soon as you cough or shift your weight, you see it bulge out the back like any other expected all-in-one would have to do. So what's the point, big picture? A few hollow seconds of bragging rights and product photography that only really works from a certain angle?

Get cute and design-y with the $999 consumer-focused Air if you must. There's already no fan, so you've got some room to work with among a crowd who isn't looking to demand more than it's designed/priced to do.

But own the bulk if you're going to put out a no-apology "professional" notebook. Have it be a squared-off chunk of aluminum, as sleek, light and thin as possible, of course; but it needn't be absurd, Ive-levels of such. Not to the point where performance, battery or thermal issues are affected. Not for a machine costing $1,799-and-up, and squarely aimed at a specific user category.

Because, once that happens, what's the point? Who are you truly pleasing then? Not that customer/user. You're just lunging for design awards and accolades. And that shouldn't be the main goal. And it feels like that has been the case in recent years.

We all know this, it's okay to say/agree. He's gone. He's currently hard at work on a vibranium-encrusted waffle maker that weighs less than a cloud. He's happy, and Mac users are better off for it.
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