The Touchscreen MacBook Pro Might Be… Light
Gurman claims in his latest anonymously sourced column that it will likely be “significantly lighter” (emphasis Gurman’s) than current models. Gurman doesn’t say how much lighter, however, just that as part of an extensive reengineering of the device, Apple has apparently been “miniaturizing parts and rearranging components to make the computer much easier to carry.” And the most recent crop of MacBook Pros are pretty big. As our reviewer, Kyle Barr, noted, if you bought the 14-inch M5 Max version, it’s 3.56 pounds, with that added bulk coming largely from advanced cooling.
- ▪Gurman claims in his latest anonymously sourced column that it will likely be “significantly lighter” (emphasis Gurman’s) than current models.
- ▪Gurman doesn’t say how much lighter, however, just that as part of an extensive reengineering of the device, Apple has apparently been “miniaturizing parts and rearranging components to make the computer much easier to carry.” And the most
- ▪As our reviewer, Kyle Barr, noted, if you bought the 14-inch M5 Max version, it’s 3.56 pounds, with that added bulk coming largely from advanced cooling.
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Past rumors from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman about the rumored MacBook Pro with an OLED touch-screen have made the device sound a little confusing—it will apparently come with an iPhone-like Dynamic Island, but will allow the user to opt-out of features that make the experience resemble mobile computing.cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"92b7b46b-43ed-4e0e-b21b-2c999302d9d7","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.gizmodo.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"2000821401","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"tech","SECTION":"gadgets","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"gadgets","TAGS":"apple,macbook-pro","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); But here comes one more attribute that may make your next MacBook Pro a bit more mobile: the weight.
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