MacBook Thinness Critique
Comments criticize Apple's obsession with ultra-thin MacBook designs, which compromise repairability, ports, batteries, cameras, and other features, often comparing favorably to thicker laptops like ThinkPads or Dell XPS.
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My dell xps is super thin and it still has easily replaceable ram and battery. The massive use of glue, rivets, proprietary screws and cryptographic verification in macbooks is not for slimness but for planed obsolescence
They should at least factor in how thin the MacBook Pro has gotten.
Why not have a bump in the MacBook screen with a small penalty in trackpad size?
What laptop do you have? Macbook Pro's are so thin now even a RJ45 hole is too tall. I can forgive them for not having a replaceable battery for size/weight and noise reduction having everything so tightly integrated.
Macbooks have large batteries. Wouldn't make sense to have one in this if you're going for as small as possible form factor.
I'd take an ever so slightly thicker laptop that avoided this (never seen this on a Thinkpad for example) but Apple seems to be obsessed with the thinnest of everything possible
An iPhone is much deeper than a laptop lid. Perhaps they'll have to redesign the lid not to taper at the edge to provide more space for a better camera.
Maybe. Macbooks have more room for ports too, but they only put one port on those.
I mean, Apple gets to decide how thick the laptop is, so they could make it work if they wanted to. Didn't the original Macbook Air have a USB-A port?Also, HDMI ports are approximately the same height as USB Type-A ports, so presumably it would fit in this design.
Form factor? Could a MBP in its current form factor actually fit all that?