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13-Inch MacBook Pro With Scissor Keyboard Expected in First Half of 2020
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I wouldn’t be so sure. They may slim down the footprint of the 13” instead. The 13” models, at 15/28W, have never had the heat issues of the 75+ Watt 15” model.
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This may be a 13" worth buying.. if it has the same physical escape key as the 16". My 2011 MacBook Pro isn't going to last forever.
Have the 2018 MBA and I really enjoy it, but I hate the feeling that the keyboard is a ticking time bomb. Will look to get one of these once released. WiFi 6 would be nice, I try to keep tech for a good few years, so I’d rather have it now then wait far longer for my next purchase beyond.
13 inch form factor is very comfortable, if they could do the same as 15->16 it would be a very attractive notebook.
13 inch form factor is very comfortable, if they could do the same as 15->16 it would be a very attractive notebook.
I can't see the 15 coming back unless it's not a macbook pro at all (maybe a 15" macbook air?). It'd be too similar to the 16.
Pretty sure they won't be able to find 0.7" of extra screen space from the bezels, if they couldn't find that much with the 15" model.
That said, I hope they don't increase the weight of the pro or the air models when updated with the scissor keyboard. I don't care about thickness if they need to increase that, just don't increase the weight.
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Surely the take-home lesson from the butterfly keyboard disaster should be "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" (with the corollary "if it is broke, fix it ASAP")....?
Even if the "problems" with the butterfly keyboard were a complete fake-news fabrication (not that I believe that), it is a total PR failure. Apple's release of the 16" who's main selling point is the new old keyboard effectively concedes the point and hammers the nail into that coffin. So priority #1 will now probably be to drop the butterfly keyboard like hot garbage.
Any complete redesign would be better if it waited for major new technology - at the least a new generation of Intel chips, maybe OLED or Micro LED displays, maybe ARM CPUs (qv. ad nauseum elsewhere). However, the keyboard swap could be seen as an 'emergency decision' and doesn't necessarily signify in the longer term.
13", 15", 16" make sense.
14" is simply too big for many on-the-go professionals.
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A redesign for the sake of a redesign?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think Intel has released a 10th gen CPU that fits the 15" MBP yet.
Intel has released one that fits the 13" though (around same TDP as previous 13" CPUs).
And that one supports Wifi 6, TB3 (built-in = better eGPU performance), 6 cores and 64 GB RAM, up from 16 GB for 9th gen.
Intel Launches 10th Generation 'Comet Lake' Mobility Processors With Up To 6 Core / 12 Threads and 4.9 GHz Turbo Boost
Intel today announced their 10th generation mobility processors dubbed "Comet Lake" which scale up to 6 cores / 12 threads and a massive 4.9GHz turbo (a very impressive number in the mobility world). For those that followed our Intel 10th generation "Ice Lake" coverage a while back, you could...
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Same old iGPU though, so .. Navi-GPU would be nice. My guess is we'll see 6 core, 32 GB, with no Navi.
If they increase to 6 cores and 32 GB, I'm buying day one.
If not, I don't know... I really don't like 15-16" size laptops.
I may be wrong but I don't ever see apple making a 15" MacBook Air. The MacBook Air was designed to be an ultra portable, and having the 15" size kinda contradicts that.
Agreed, but wow you guys remember Ming-Chi Kuo’s report from February where he predicted Apple’s releases this year? I’m waiting for another one of those.
Apple in 2019: 16-inch MacBook, new display, iPhones, more - 9to5Mac
Reliable Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo is out with a wide-reaching new investor note this evening. Kuo says that Apple will...
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I sure wish Apple would offer the opportunity to upgrade the keyboards from the 2018 models to the new keyboard. I be happy to pay for the privilege. I had a chance to play with the new one this weekend, and it's much better feeling than the pounding-on-concrete version I have.
Only if Apple moves to an Intel CPU that supports LPDDR4/x as the 13” model is too small to get a much larger battery to deal with regular DDR4 DRAM power consumption and only if that CPU supports Intel’s Gen 11 ”Iris Plus” iGPUs.
Whether that ends up being 10nm Ice Lake CPUs is dubious at best, given the lack of real substantive speed increases, low yields and abysmal clock speeds relative to the 9th Gen 28w TDP U-Series currently in use with the 2019 13” MacBook Pros.
Wouldn't that require re-machining the aluminum case? The inverted "T" arrow keys if noting else.
The problem is, no credible supply chain analyst thinks so.
Reminds me of the SE2 rumors from 2018. Many people were dreaming about a thin-bezel SE with Face ID when none of that was in the cards.
I completely agree. It would be very desirable too if they implemented WiFI-6, moved the entire MBP line to Gen 10 processors implemented FaceID and incorporated an HD video camera. A USB-4 implementation would also be a good idea, assuming the tech is mature enough.
Yes the new intel chips have wifi 6 but the processor is slower than the current i9 processor because they are i7 processors.
hope they also make it 14" and add a physical escape key.
and i hope my air holds out long enough)
and i hope my air holds out long enough)
When will the 16" Macbook Pro be refreshed? It's days old now!