#Latest apple laptop 2016 convertable upgrade#
So if you love the planet, Apple, you’ll offer the ability to upgrade the storage in your new laptop. A simple swap of the SSD in 2018 would extend the life of the computer.Īpple, however, has long used permanently soldered storage, which limits future upgrade options.
Think of a 2012-era MacBook with a 128GB SSD, which gets dumped because it doesn’t have enough space.
That’s because one of the limiting factors in a laptop for the long haul is storage. It’s very rare for consumers to upgrade the SSD in a laptop, but we think adopting industry-standard M.2 SSDs goes a long way toward helping keep the planet green. Here are the seven features we’d start with. We remain hopeful that Apple’s new generation of laptops will copy some key Windows features they still lack, even if it takes some courage to do so. Whether it was the GPU and battery problems with the 2016-era MacBook Pros, the long-reviled MacBook Butterfly keyboard that finally died, or the slow uptake of new Intel processors, Apple has fallen far, far behind in laptop technology over the last few years. It wasn’t that long ago that Apple’s innovative MacBooks made Windows-based laptops look clunky and slow. We expect Apple to unwrap its new MacBooks (or maybe PowerBooks?) on Tuesday, and we at PCWorld are as excited as anyone else-to see if Apple can finally catch up to all the things we already enjoy on Windows laptops. The article below was written before Apple’s “One more thing” event, but everything we published this morning remains true. Apple just announced its new MacBooks, and as expected, they don’t include any of modern features that would give their computers parity with PC laptops.