No. I want Apple to make a product that doesn't suck.
Funny you should say that, they just got us some Lenovo laptops at work - talk about sucks!!! The track pads are crap on these machines.
I don't know about Apples convertible intentions but they would be successful if they addressed the sucks issue seen in the Windows world. Personally if Apple where to offer an ARM based design I'd rather see it in the mold of an Mac Book AIR. That is a plain old laptop form factor targeting mobility. Oh it must run regular Mac OS with the same access we have now.
There has been much negativity about the performance of an A7 derived laptop but people need to realize that the current chip is targeting a cell phone. Up the clock rate and add more cores and you would get very good laptop performance. We don't know where the current design tops out at clock wise and adding more cores won't be a significant problem for the ARM cores. Apple could easily throw 4-6 more cores on to the A7 to effectively beat Intel in many apps, especially the heavily threaded apps. At this clock rate the cores would be far less than a watt each and likely would stay under a watt at 2GHz, so they would still beat Intel power wise. The cache would be a power problem but in the end I could see Apple with six to eight cores on the chip running at less than ten watts.
I don't know about you guys but a laptop that has eight cores and is less than ten watts of power is very appealing. Especially if I can leverage those cores with UNIX and things like XCode.
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Funny you should say that, they just got us some Lenovo laptops at work - talk about sucks!!! The track pads are crap on these machines.
I don't know about Apples convertible intentions but they would be successful if they addressed the sucks issue seen in the Windows world. Personally if Apple where to offer an ARM based design I'd rather see it in the mold of an Mac Book AIR. That is a plain old laptop form factor targeting mobility. Oh it must run regular Mac OS with the same access we have now.
There has been much negativity about the performance of an A7 derived laptop but people need to realize that the current chip is targeting a cell phone. Up the clock rate and add more cores and you would get very good laptop performance. We don't know where the current design tops out at clock wise and adding more cores won't be a significant problem for the ARM cores. Apple could easily throw 4-6 more cores on to the A7 to effectively beat Intel in many apps, especially the heavily threaded apps. At this clock rate the cores would be far less than a watt each and likely would stay under a watt at 2GHz, so they would still beat Intel power wise. The cache would be a power problem but in the end I could see Apple with six to eight cores on the chip running at less than ten watts.
I don't know about you guys but a laptop that has eight cores and is less than ten watts of power is very appealing. Especially if I can leverage those cores with UNIX and things like XCode.
Ah interesting. Just found out that iOS 7 added a bunch of new keyboard shortcuts:
http://www.macstories.net/tutorials/a-list-of-new-ios-7-keyboard-shortcuts/
There's also these from iOS 6:
http://www.logitech.com/en-us/articles/8694
They might be working on a 12" design based on the latest rumor. Re-making the MBA since the MBP is achieving MBA-class lightness.