16-Inch MacBook Pro Possibly Referenced in macOS Catalina 10.15.1 Beta

[0134168]

Just please, no touch bar. Not much to ask for.

 

[NJRonbo]

I think Tuesday is our last hope for an event announcement.

And I highly, highly doubt the touchbar is going away. It was introduced this year into the 13" MBP. Personally, I love the touchbar. I think it has its benefits. I know that is not a popular opinion.

 

[0134168]

I think Tuesday is our last hope for an event announcement.

And I highly, highly doubt the touchbar is going away. It was introduced this year into the 13" MBP. Personally, I love the touchbar. I think it has its benefits. I know that is not a popular opinion.

Not introduced in last Macbook Air. And could be easily.

 

[MBX]

I no likey. Looks very much like the old.

 

[groove-agent]

It’s just a graphic. They don’t always use accurate graphics for every model. It may get updated later if necessary.

But look below, it's actually labeled as "16" in the icon file name.
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It's the new MacBook Pro Pro. Prices starting at $6000.

 

[femike]

I predict $3199 for the base model 16in.

 

[Falhófnir]

^I fear that's true. They were able to update the webcam in the iMac Pro because it's a desktop. But somehow I don't think the webcam in the MBP will ever be updated unless webcam/FaceID technology changes so that such a camera module could fit it in thin lid of the MBP.

If they put it in, the tradeoff will be that it will look boxier, more like the Razer Blade. The screen assembly will probably look more like an iPad Pro, it won't necessarily be thicker overall, but it will lose the taper towards the edges so it will look thicker. I guess we will see how far back towards function over form Apple are willing to swing...

Accidental leak or rather expectations management?

I wonder if they didn't see all the more radical concepts floating around and decide to set the record straight before the announcement...

 

[aaronhead14]

I just hope it has an SD card slot, the 2015 MBP keyboard, no TouchBar, and retains the headphone jack. That would be the dream!

 

[Mythos99]

Hmm, looks kinda the same, doesn't it?
I saw this pic somewhere, and it kinda got me excited.

https://imgur.com/YqSFP0y

 

[davester]

Very old wallpaper background.

 

[Tech198]

wow.. the french are that good..

You lot will easily be taken over, if Apple places clues inside the OS for developers (and the public) to find these icons/images/ release notes, then says at the end "We're not doing any of it"'

Unlikely, but could happen.

 

[richinaus]

I just hope it has an SD card slot, the 2015 MBP keyboard, no TouchBar, and retains the headphone jack. That would be the dream!

no SFD slot, same keyboard but no faults, Touch Bar and no headphone jack. Would be happy with this.
this is why they can‘t win

 

[psingh01]

But look below, it's actually labeled as "16" in the icon file name.
[automerge]1571469031[/automerge]
It's the new MacBook Pro Pro. Prices starting at $6000.

My point was the graphic might not be exactly what the thing looks like. I have a 2010 17” MBP and the icon for it used in the About This Mac dialog does not look like the actual device.

 

[AnonMac50]

I think it's funny that they still use the Tiger wallpaper for the mac display. Almost 14 years later, and what's really funny is that image of the machine was only introduced in Lion, 6 years after Tiger.

Came in Leopard actually, probably because of Quick Look. I remember how some Macs that did not support Leopard, if forced to run Leopard also showed proper icons.😁

 

[Glockworkorange]

You know better than that!. My bet is a new display type, and this is as close as they could get to being the same size as the old one.
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Im still hopeful this is a branch off the macbook tree, rather than a replacement for the existing one.

And i think it is more a Macbook Sans pro. Just because the display is 16" doesnt mean it is a better display!

(The hint of no touch bar has me all excited! I am probably tricking myself, so i guess i will try to enjoy the delusion as long as possible!)

I'm willing to bet you a steak dinner the screen is improved and Apple calls it an XDR Display.

Not saying it will be OLED, but I can see them driving the nits up from 500 to however many and trying to make the LCD display HDR.

Apple will tout it as a great way to watch the HDR content on the Apple TV app--content FROM Apple.

 

[chucker23n1]

Fingers crossed for: FaceID,

Maybe (probably not).

Better Keyboard,

Almost certainly. (Bring on the pitchforks?)

90hz or faster screen,

Good question. iPad Pro and Watch now have adaptive frame rate stuff. It will trickle down to the Mac eventually. Maybe not this year, though.

new AMD Navi GPU,

Is there such a thing as a mobile Navi part shipping in quantity?

10th gen intel CPU.

Almost certainly not.

Apple could pull another MacBook Air and downgrade the CPU such that the 16-inch Pro is a Comet Lake-U but… let’s not give them ideas?

My guess is a slight Coffee Lake-HR speedbump, then Comet Lake-H with up to ten cores in early summer.

 

[Falhófnir]

no SFD slot, same keyboard but no faults, Touch Bar and no headphone jack. Would be happy with this.
this is why they can‘t win

Keyboard and TouchBar are of course personal preference, but when you say 'they can't win' are you saying you would actually object to the presence of an SD slot and headphone jack if they were included on this computer? I mean if you don't use them and would be satisfied with their absence that's fair enough, but to actively not want them on there is kinda... weird. They aren't otherwise detracting from your computer and will be useful to other people 🤔

 

[retta283]

Came in Leopard actually, probably because of Quick Look. I remember how some Macs that did not support Leopard, if forced to run Leopard also showed proper icons.😁

Wow, I never tried using Quick Look on the device, it actually does show the icon. Funny that I didn't know that was possible until today

 

[MrGuder]

Wow so it’s really coming out. Do you think Apple will allow trade in’s on my 2017 15” MBP?

 

[DHagan4755]

Very old wallpaper background.

Anyone that wants the old 10.4 "Tiger" background, see attached!

 

[jlocker]

Wow so it’s really coming out. Do you think Apple will allow trade in’s on my 2017 15” MBP?

Yes, think it will be soon to push up christmas sales and the quarter sales. Yep they do trade in for old Macbook Pro's and will give you some money for it.

 

[JimmyG]

Hmm, looks kinda the same, doesn't it?
I saw this pic somewhere, and it kinda got me excited.

https://imgur.com/YqSFP0y

Nice find! Pulling up the shadows in that image reveals 3xUSB ports on the side perhaps indicating a total of 6?

That the image is real, it seems that all things are pointing to XDR 1000-nit 10-bit monitor capabilities throughout their Pro lineup as being "the next big thing" for both video and gaming content creation and AppleTV consumption.

Hopefully the 16" will get a full 4K resolution screen (4096x2160 vs 3840x2160 UHD) and be able to monitor-out to the new 32" 6K arriving this fall...

Pro Display XDR - Apple:

Pro Display XDR

Pro Display XDR. A new 32-inch Retina 6K display with extreme brightness, contrast, color accuracy, and HDR that transforms the way you work.

www.apple.com

...thereby offering a seamless travel-to-workstation-and-back-again workflow!

My anticipation is that both iMac (Pro) and iPad Pro will offer XDR screens as well, shortly, finally differentiating the Pro lineup for content creators and higher-end consumption for 2020 forward (vision pun intended, courtesy of Apple).

Icing on the cake? 10-bit HEVC/HLG/PQ hardware (vs current software) video encoding is the current "big need" (...a fella can dream, can't he?!), though the new Metal API for FCPX seems to help solve this problem in the meantime...

A New Metal Engine in Final Cut Pro X 10.4.7 Gives A Big Boost

Final Cut Pro X with new Metal Engine

real world speed test results for performance minded Macintosh users

barefeats.com

That is all.

Edit: typo

 

[0-0]

Are we still expecting this in 2019? Whats the latest date for an announcement for an October event?

 

[Saturn1217]

Hmmm...Looks pretty similar to the old 15" MBP. Which is fine I guess. I'm happy that those who want it are getting a 16" MBP (with presumably some truly pro specs), but I must admit to feeling a bit anxious about losing the 15" MBP. The screen size to weight ratio of the current 15" MBP really hits the sweet spot for me (after coming from always using 13" laptops because the 15" version was too big).

 

[cult hero]

Sincerely this is the best keyboard ever, I sell Macs too for work, and I’m working with a lot of PROs and the paranoia is especially online, 90% of users are super happy with it.

Eh. I don’t buy this at all. I work in a dev shop and all but one of us is on a Mac. (One guy uses an XPS with Linux.) Not one likes the keyboard. Zero. I hate it more with time. I didn’t mind it early on—probably because I just dropped a bunch of cash on a new machine and hadn’t had to deal with the hand pain from using it yet—but I can’t stand it. I’m almost always plugged into a workstation so I rarely use it but... gross.

Oh yeah. And over half of us have replaced the keyboards over sticky keys. It’s amazing for me because I rarely even use the thing. I have a hard time believing my shop is somehow an outlier.

I like the keys themselves but the lack of travel is brutal.

Mind you I liked the keyboards on the PowerBooks better than the 2008+ chicklet keyboards.