MacBook Ultra's New Design Won't Stay Exclusive for Long
Apple is reportedly planning a significant redesign for its upcoming high-end MacBook, featuring a thinner chassis and a hole-punch camera. These design elements are expected to be integrated into more affordable MacBook models within two years.
Why it matters
Apple's hardware design cycles often set industry standards for laptop aesthetics and functionality, influencing the broader consumer electronics market.
The touchscreen and the OLED panel have dominated discussion about Apple's next high-end laptop, but the redesign wrapped around them may prove to be an equally consequential change, largely because it is not expected to stay unique to the machine for long.
Bloomberg 's Mark Gurman last week laid out Apple's plan to refresh every Mac it sells over the next two years. In the report, he mentioned that the entry-level 14-inch MacBook Pro due in 2027, reportedly code-named K104, is said to resemble the design of the high-end K114 and K116 machines while using a standard M7 chip. The design debuting on the rumored " MacBook Ultra " would therefore reach a considerably cheaper Mac within roughly a year of launch, a pattern first reported at the start of July .
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