Future Apple iPhones, iPads may have internal fans - Page 2

Originally Posted by Apple ][  

I'm sure that the newer Airs are fine.

I was referring to my older Macbook which I was using.

When my Macbook dies, my next laptop will be a Macbook Air, the small one.

Originally Posted by jnjnjn 


With retina display, yes.
The battery of my MacBook died ...
J.
P.S. did you see the "]["?

Originally Posted by jpadhiyar 

Judging by how powerful these things are getting, this one doesn't come as a surprise. A decade from now, you'll be holding a server computer that's also a 4-inch smartphone. They're getting all too powerful.

Originally Posted by Apple ][ 

Air with retina display? Maybe in the next model. 

 

I'll be getting the one without though, as my laptop often sits on the floor and I just hook it up to a large external monitor and use a bluetooth Apple keyboard and Magic Trackpad, which is currently how I have my Macbook hooked up.

 

As for the ][, yes, I assume you fixed the code, as this forum doesn't like my name.

Originally Posted by ankleskater 

If they upgrade Air to Retina Display, what will distinguish MBA-13" from rMBP-13"? They will both have SSD and RP. The 13"-rMBP is already 0.75" thin, less than 1 lb heavier

Originally Posted by Apple II 

I agree, what will distinguish them apart? Perhaps they will merge in the future?

Originally Posted by brutus009 

 

Here, allow me to paraphrase your statement:

 

That's dumb.  We're lucky that video games exist as they do, aggressively pushing the bleeding edge forward due to an insatiable thirst for raw computational power, else we wouldn't have nice things like iPhones that are so very far from being unusable.

 

While video games may be in a particularly advantageous position to make the greatest use of gains in raw computational power, and while this may not be your particular use case for your iPhone, this does not preclude the practical use of said gains in power by any other application that you may or may not use.  Many of the most elegantly simple apps that we love and use every day have terribly complex algorithms that utilize increasingly elaborate frameworks to provide immersive UI environments and they, too, regularly find a need for more power.  For example, the Facebook app is looking pretty slick these days with a very simple interface that was entirely rewritten in native code for optimum performance and it still lags sometimes.

 

It is critical to Apple's success (and every other company's as Apple continues to raise the bar) that the countless swipes, fades, transitions, or other graphical executions are smooth and responsive.  The iPhone isn't about being usable, it's about being the best possible solution to a problem.  In fact, a number of problems.

 

P.S. While Samsung races to a powerful spec to improve performance (to catch up), Apple races to improve the scope of application (to make new things possible).

Originally Posted by Apple ][ 

I agree, what will distinguish them apart? Perhaps they will merge in the future?

Originally Posted by JeffDM 


Either a merging, or keeping them segmented by performance, being the Air is more of a long lasting power sipper, Pro being more of a performance machine with more clocks, cores, ports and bytes.