Apple executives share behind-the-scenes details: building a 15-inch MacBook Air to overcome many engineering challenges

CTOnews.com June 14 news, Apple hardware Engineering Vice President Kate Bergeron and Apple Mac product marketing team Laura Metz, two Apple executives, recently accepted the Tom's Guide media Mark Spoonauer interview.

According to media reports, CTOnews.com summarizes the main contents of the interview as follows:

How did Apple decide to launch a 15-inch MacBook Air? Laura Metz response:

Our research results show that the 15-inch model is also very popular with consumers in the mainstream PC notebook market.

Our research results show that some of our customers want a larger screen, but do not necessarily need MacBook Pro-level performance. The maturity of Apple Silicon chips brings great opportunities.

With regard to thickness, Kate Bergeron said the initial goal was to make the 15-inch MacBook Air as thick as the 13-inch MacBook Air, but eventually 11.5mm due to various factors.

He says one of the big things the team really needs to focus on is the reliability and durability of large screen sizes. LCD needs a display that is truly structurally sound. Therefore, we use a structural adhesive to connect the panel to the chassis we call the monitor housing.

Durability: Bergeron says there are many challenges in building the thinnest 15-inch laptop in the world.

The engineering challenge is much more difficult than most people think. We make sure it is hard and durable and really shows the level of apple quality that everyone expects from us.

CTOnews.com attaches a full interview link here, which can be read by interested users.