Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
16-Inch MacBook Pro Possibly Referenced in macOS Catalina 10.15.1 Beta
- Thread starter MacRumors
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
You are quite optimistic, it's probably going to start with a 128 GB SSD.“Starting at $2999 with a 256 SSD - soldered on and non-user upgradeable”.
That ship has sailed, been lost at sea and cannot be salvaged.
[automerge]1571418385[/automerge]
The 15” Retina MacBook Pro from 2012-2019 has never shipped with anything less than a 256GB SSD as the base storage. Take your trolling elsewhere.You are quite optimistic, it's probably starting with a 128 GB SSD.
Maybe - maybe not - this machine is likely to be the first of the “oh ***, we f*** up - let’s revert some decisions to please a certain audience”.
I think you’re probably right - but things can change and something is always the first thing to showcase changes - could be right here - never know..
If you think video editors don’t work on just a 15” screen on the go or in the back of the station van without a larger display than you would be wrong. There are no new Apple Displays incoming, other than the XDR Pro.I think if you are a graphics or video professional you are not working on a 15in or 16in screen you are working on a much larger monitor. Hint!!!! like the new Apple Display coming soon
An opportunity to abolish the silly Touchbar
I hate the Touch Bar… But I think it’ll be on this machine
Everybody hates it - but Jobs is no longer here to make it right
They’re going to have to go back to the thicker chassis to get SO-DIMM slots and the proprietary Flash Storage connector in there. I’m thinking Apple is content with soldered DRAM and Flash as the failure rates for those two items in the 2016-2019 have been nil, compared to the battery and the keyboard. In their mind, if they fix those two items, give it a larger battery and possibly a bit better cooling since Intel’s TDP specs are like farts in the wind, they will say, “It’s done, ship it!”, put on their Teflon marketing jackets and call it a day.
EDIT: When the next chassis redesign happens, there is the slim possibility that they make it a bit thicker and add those back in, at least one of them, probably DRAM, but not storage, similar to the reversal from the 2014 Mac mini to the 2018 Mac mini.
There aren't any Intel 10th generation CPU's available yet that are designed for the 16" MBP class processors. Those won't be out until 2H of 2020.
I will never understand the bezel fettish? Can't wait for a bezel-less display so that people can start clamoring for larger bezels to help block out background distractions!
I think what is most likely is that this product, along with ANC AirPods, will be announced through a press release...
I just don't see how these products, along with the Mac Pro, warrants a separate Oct event...
In addition, with the tariffs looming over Apple's head, I don't think even Apple has a concrete idea of what to charge for the Mac Pro's upgrades...
I just don't see how these products, along with the Mac Pro, warrants a separate Oct event...
In addition, with the tariffs looming over Apple's head, I don't think even Apple has a concrete idea of what to charge for the Mac Pro's upgrades...
Introducing the new Professional-focused MacBook Pro Pro. So you can be Pro while on your Pro being Pro.
I wouldn't discount this idea, but your information is a bit off on the processor. The E-2176M is 12 threads, and from last year. The E-2276 and E-2286M came out this year, offering up 6 core and 8 core designs. And they are all 45W TDP designs, like the chips used in the MBP today. But right now there are no mobile chips with more than 8 cores available that Apple could use.
The other problem is that the extra 11W of power isn't going just to the CPU, but the larger screen as well. It also buys them headroom for Navi dGPUs if they need it. They could have stuck with an 85W charger in a 15" chassis if they just wanted to go to Xeon processors.
They could certainly do this, but really all they gain is the general changes that Xeon brings over the i7/i9 series. No extra cores or anything like that.
That’s what I’m looking for - everything else is gravy
When mentioning a source is “hit or miss”, it would make sense to site specific references that lend credibility to such assertions.
Tim says stop screaming. Also he canceled your event because you never paid the facility fee... you were supposed to wire $1,500,000, remember? But he never received it.
You are not a very good event planner!!
The “power” button is symmetrical to “escape”, i.e. elongated at least to the degree of MBA2018. My guess would be that it isn’t a Touch ID sensor. Perhaps a more traditional (think 2015) power “key” and faceID combo? Huh.
"That ship has sailed, been lost at sea and cannot be salvaged. "
MS' new Surface Pro X & Surface Laptop 3 have user-replaceable SSD drives on a chassis that is smaller & thinner than the 16" MBP. It isn't out of the realm of possibility.
A reliable keyboard would make this an instant classic.
Will it have proper cooling so you can use all that power finally? Will all the T2 chip BS and HASSLE be fixed?
Thank you, it would be 3440x1440p at Ultra (attempting) at 60 FPS or above (hopefully 80-100), so the 2080ti shouldn't be a bottleneck in that case. It sounds like NVIDIA would be the better option then for the Macbook (with Bootcamp)
Most likely, or if not a Xeon/ECC/1TB beauty starting at $4,999 and whatever horrific multiplier that gets slapped on for forex countries 😵😁“Starting at $2999 with a 256 SSD - soldered on and non-user upgradeable”.