14" Retina MBP

Now that they have discontinued the 17" MBP, I wonder if we are going to see a 14" Retina MBP? I was thinking more like 14.4 or 14.5 inch because it is the middle between 13.3 and 15.4 inches. I think they should just drop the 13" Airbook because it is not IPS and not retina.

 

According to market analysis this won't generate enough interest and profit

So no

 

Or you know? They could give the MB air a retina display which they'll probably do soon.

 

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Why get rid of the MBA line all together? Apple's least expensive notebook would then be the overpriced 13" MBP at $1200. Then again, since those aren't IPS or Retina, Apple should get rid of those too. That would make their least expensive option the 13" RMBP at $1400. They would be shooting themselves if they got rid of the MBA as it now occupies the lower price range. The 13" model starts at the same price as the 13" MBP but is actually priced competitively with other aluminum ultrabooks and has much more to offer over the 13" MBP (higher resolution display, thinner, faster out-of-the-box, thinner, lighter, etc.).

Either way Apple isn't going to get rid of the MBA in favor of a more expensive 14.5" RMBP. That type of notebook seems absolutely pointless as it would be only 1" bigger than the 13" RMBP and 1" smaller than the 15" RMBP. There needs to be a bigger gap in screen size between all of their notebooks, not just 1" increments. A 14" RMBP would come in somewhere around $1800-$2000 (i.e. between the 13" and 15" models), that's way too expensive for a 14" notebook.

 

are you posting this here as well? yeah sure thats not going to happen

 

Highly doubt that a 14" Mac would be made since the market doesn't care about 14" laptops as much as 13.3" or 15.6", as Mobius 1 stated. Actually, display makers wouldn't make such a display for the very same reasons, so Apple couldn't buy said displays anyway.

Besides, if you sit down and think about it, why would Apple do such a thing, given that the 13.3" rMBP and 15.6" rMBP already exist. Why? And why drop the MBA? That's Apple's entry level laptop and I suppose a "gateway" to OSX and the Apple culture (ignoring iProducts). There's no sense in it.

 

14.1" is the standard size for business class notebooks and has been so for years.

I prefer 13.3" to 14.1" and 16x10 over 16x9, so I'm happy with the current sizes.

 

those kind of arguments have been already made in this thread

14" Retina MBP - MacRumors Forums

and forwarded in the same logic, it doesnt make sense, in terms of size, rentability, line up, and so forth. The difference is the intention to kill the rmbp 13 in that one, instead of the mba 13

depends on the market

 

There, now its fixed. There isn't a single standard size for business notebooks as many manufacturers make 13.3, 14.1, and 15.4" business models. I've even come across 12.1" and 11.6" business notebooks.

 

Ah, I see.

Anyway, slightly off-topic. I'm guessing that "cMBP" refers to the non-retina laptops, but what does the c stand for?

 

it stands for classic mbp, I dont like this, I cmbp for the pre unibody models and umbp for the aforementioned

 

there already is a 14" one... but Apple is so nice they throw in an extra 1.4" for free!

 

Thanks for the clarification.

 

Im so glad that they are that nice, but not way nice, imagine if theyd throw 1.5'' more

 

I would love to see Apple make a 14 inch retina Macbook Pro. The 13 inch looks kind of small while the 15 inch looks kind of big. I am glad they discontinued their 17 inch as that is way too big to be defined as a laptop anyways. Just visit any public or university library and you will rarely see anyone with a 17 inch. Most of the time, that 17 inch will end up mostly used as a desktop sitting in your home anyways. Apple should just drop their 13 inch Macbook Air because the gap in weight difference between the 13 inch Macbook Air and the 13 inch non-retina Macbook Pro used to be about 1.5 pounds. The gap has narrowed to .5 pounds with the 13 inch retina MBP. In addition, I feel that the design of the 13 inch retina MBP is simply just more attractive than the 13 inch Macbook Air as well as the fact that the speakers sound much clearer and louder to (I tested this while I was at the Apple store). If Apple wants to keep their 13 inch Macbook Air, they could reduce the weight even further but I personally wouldn’t buy it because I don’t like a product that is too light. They also need to put an IPS retina display too. A 14 inch retina MBP would look just perfect and beautiful as it does not look too small or too big from a third party viewpoint. Given that the 13 inch retina MBP is 3.57 pounds and the 15 inch retina MBP is 4.5 pounds, I would suspect that a 14 inch retina MBP would be approximately 4 pounds. The actual size of the 13 inch retina MBP is 13.3 inches and for the 15 inch retina MBP, it is 15.4 inches measured diagonally so I would suspect a 14 inch retina MBP would have the actual size of 14.5 or 14.4 inches. A 14 inch retina MBP would be awesome because I suspect it would resemble very close to the 15 inch retina MBP in terms of technical specifications like perhaps utilizing a quad-core processor, having an excellent high-end brightness distribution and the usual quality reviews done by notebookcheck reviewers. Unlike the 13 inch retina MBP where the speakers are located outside, I prefer to have the speakers located inside and a 14 inch retina MBP would most likely have the location of speakers on the inside. Furthermore, a 14 inch retina MBP would most likely have a scaled resolution resembling the framework of 1920 by 1200 because I like to use a computer screen with lots of space and to cram as many pixels as one can possibly imagine.

While I can certainly understand from a marketing viewpoint why it would not be a good idea to make a 14 inch retina MBP, I would have to disagree with this because I am looking at this issue from an average ordinary individual who would like to see more variety. A 14 inch size laptop isn’t really that extraordinary rare as exemplified by the 14 inch HP Envy Series and even the 14 inch Sony Vaio laptops on the Sony website where you can get a full HD 1920 by 1080 native resolution display.

 

If Apple believed there was a market, they would make it. They don't, so they're not. End of story.

 

the envy 14 is POS system, it only sold well because of unknown aspects, and 2 known aspects:

1) it added the much missed ODD

2) It was cheaper than the envy 15

And into the unknown aspects enters that in terms of design, weight and raw power, the envy 15 was just miles and miles ahead. It was unfortunately a pc beyond its time.

I completely agree with saturnotaku. Not going to happen, no market for it, no gains in terms of cost

 

I read somewhere that 14 inch was preferred over in japan. it would not appeal to me though in the usa. I most definitely hope they dont screw with the air to much. its their cheapest notebook and best bang for the buck. even if they add retina i hope they still offer the baseline for cheap.