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It’s the return of the Mac(book rumour that keeps coming back)
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(Image credit: Asus)
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CouldApplebe planning a foldingMacBook Proalong the lines of theAsus Zenbook 17 Fold OLEDpictured above? A new report says it is, and that Apple’s first folding product won’t be a folding iPhone: it’ll be a Mac laptop.
If you’re thinking that a folding MacBook is hardly news because they all fold, this Mac thinks different: the folding bit is the display, not the laptop lid. It would be more like an enormous foldingiPad: unfolded, it would be a huge tablet display; fold it a bit and the lower section becomes your keyboard and trackpad.
We know a folding-screen laptop is possible, becauseAsusand Lenovo have made them. But the question of whether Apple will do it keeps coming up, and I’m starting to feel it’s a bit like jetpacks and flying cars: every so often a new report says they’re five years away but they never quite arrive. With the folding Apple device it’s usually a promise of three years, and we’ve been hearing that for about six years already; for example, Applepatented a folding dual-screen device back in 2021.
So what’s this new report saying?
Apple knows when to hold ‘em, knows when to fold ‘em
The new report comes fromBusiness Korea, quoting sources within the display industry who claim that Apple is “in talks with display suppliers to launch a foldable MacBook model.” Those talks apparently have a launch date of 2025 in mind with a ship date of early 2026.
The report does fit with multiple rumours that Apple is more focused on a folding iPad than a foldingiPhone. But there are even more issues with folding-display laptops than there are with folding phones: they’re heavier because they need to incorporate a much bigger display; they tend to have fairly mediocre innards because the displays already push the cost into orbit; that extra display sucks battery life; and typing on glass still isn’t a lot of fun compared to a physical keyboard.
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