16-inch MacBook Pro Announcement Expected by Tomorrow

[Schizoid]

Remember, it won’t be $3000 it’ll be a beautiful, Apple marketing price of “only twenty nine ninety five”

 

[Zdigital2015]

We need a new laptop for our shipping office. I am tempted to give them my current 2018 MBP, then pick up one of these for myself. Sooner the better.

On a random note that will probably get me banned from this site, I like the touch bar.

I like the Touch Bar too, BTT really helps make it way more useful.

 

[thevault]

Not according to the subject of this thread. Did you read it?

The header has the word "expected" that is not the same as "is" being released. Maybe you should read again and if it is released similar to MP June event then we'll be able to purchase sometime next year.

 

[Vanilla35]

Brownie points if we have a NO touchbar option!

 

[SDJim]

You can get more money by going to sites like SellYourMac

I sell my laptop every year for a new one

I had never heard of this site before and decided to check it out. They just offered me $510 for my 2015 15". I checked and Apple Trade-in is $680. Not sure what their deal is, but no thank you?

 

[Salty Pirate]

I had never heard of this site before and decided to check it out. They just offered me $510 for my 2015 15". I checked and Apple Trade-in is $680. Not sure what their deal is, but no thank you?

I would just keep it for that money.

My 2015 just keeps running. legacy ports and mag safe rock.

 

[decypher44]

Priced at somewhere between an arm and a leg.

Im hoping it’s somewhat reasonable. I want to get one for my daughter when she graduates HS this school year. She’s been using her late-2013. It’s working fine, but I’d like to get her a nice, new one to use for college.

 

[ObsidianIce]

The real question....will cooling be any better with the slightly larger form factor.....

 

[Whackman]

2.3GHz Core i9-9880H
32GB DRAM
1TB SSD
Radeon Pro Vega 20

$3749 USD

It always helps to doublecheck your math, seems like you carried over the one an extra place to the left. Honest mistake, I’m sure, but accuracy counts, FUD doesn’t.

4.500 Euro for me where i live..... 2,4 Ghz 8 core i9 though.

 

[Mainsail]

I know folks are assuming that the scissor mechanism will trickle down to the lower priced MacBooks, but I would not be so sure in every case. The MBA has been out for one year, and Apple might stick with the current design for a few more years. It is Apple's thinnest and least expensive notebook and redesign/retooling might work against how the MBA is marketed and priced in their line-up. Also, Apple may be trying to work the MBA price back down to the magic $999 for regular customers (none students), and redesign/retooling costs won't help.

I guess it depends on how the latest butterfly keyboard is working out. If the 2019 butterfly keyboard has significantly fewer failures than the predecessor keyboard, Apple might stick it out until the normal update cycle....say three more years. Time will tell.

 

[Kabeyun]

Maybe also a one-more-thing iPad Pro update? 😬

 

[Stephen.R]

Apple marketing price of “only twenty nine ninety five”

Seriously? It’s a very well known marketing tactic that practically every consumer industry uses.

Of all the things to complain about.

 

[Salty Pirate]

I would be all over a 14 inch screen in a 13s body.

10nm quad core, all day battery.

 

[MacInDawg]

I have the right to delete.

 

[alexandero]

I've come to appreciate it's usefulness – really varies from application to application – and ok with keeping it as long as there's a separate ESC key.

I don't like that it increases the price of a MBP by approximately $200.

 

[Glockworkorange]

I thas been rumored as a $3k starting price

$2,999.00 for the 256 base model.
$3,299.00 for the 512 model.

 

[Zdigital2015]

Maybe also a one-more-thing iPad Pro update? 😬

March...they don’t refreshed the iPad Pros on an annual basis.

The only one more thing that I can see is a refresh of the 2017 iMac Pro to the new Xeon W-22xx Series CPUs and maybe an updated GPU (Vega II) and Titan Ridge TB3 controllers, although March of 2020 is more likely.

 

[Kendo]

Is this a legit refresh or just a minor update the way cars might change the styling ever so slightly?

 

[Gaprofitt]

Yawn, are people still buying Apple laptops?

 

[NJRonbo]

Yawn, are people still buying Apple laptops?

Yes, and why are you here?

 

[Rojaaemon]

Will it have the old late 20th Century headphone jack?

 

[NJRonbo]

Is this a legit refresh or just a minor update the way cars might change the styling ever so slightly?

Signs pointing to a minor update hence no event but rather a press release as far as what is known today.

 

[misterguyyy]

I still don't see the new 16" providing 3-4 times as much value as a mid-2015 15", which goes for about $1k refurbished.

NTM Dell is providing touchscreens and OLEDs, and has been doing a bezel as thin as the 16" for years.

I believe in the early '10s Apple justified the premium pricing, but I don't know if it's true anymore.

 

[1146331]

Has Mark Gurman heard of the boy who cried wolf?

 

[davidec]

My 2018 MacBook Pro TouchBar died again this weekend. Went completely blank. No escape key, nothing. Killing the Touch Bar agent and control strip did nothing. Had to reboot to get it back. It's going on 4 years with this damn thing and we're still dealing with this awesomsauce.

Combine that with the 2x I've had my laptop in for service for both the keyboard and the display being defective, and I'm reaching the end of my rope.

Escape key. Functioning keyboard. Arrow keys that can actually be distinguished from one another. It's not like we're asking for a miracle here.

Mine has been perfect and I'm sorry to hear about yours, exacerbated by your math no doubt!