They ain't no gonna fool me this time around like they did 3 years ago with their faulty first-gen MBP Touch Bar for $3k. I'm sittin' this one out.
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16-Inch MacBook Pro Said to Launch in September With LCD and 3072x1920 Resolution
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Keep 15.6" and make it 3360x2100 and stop the uneven scaling already........dot..dotdot......dot.
And if it comes with rounded corners, you can forget it.
And if it comes with rounded corners, you can forget it.
If it has a full travel keyboard, OLED display and USB-A, SD and HDMI ports, this will sell like hotcakes. Of course, it won't have any of that. They'll talk about how "impossibly thin" it is
now picking what you want ah? if it were 5 months than you asked "...less than 5 months" and so on
The thing is , this is not new and its irrelevant. The relevant thing here is to make a good reliable mac
I'm curious if these will be just a different form factor with upgraded internals like the iMac Pro is or it will target an entire new segment of "Pro" users similarly how the Mac Pro did.
When they made the 17” it was something like less than 5% of MacBooks sold. There just isn’t enough market for them. A 16” screen in the same body size as a 15” is a decent enough compromise. Hopefully intel will get their 10nm CPU’s out the door because I’m not buying another MacBook until that happens.
How else are they going to push you to upgrade next year.
Now, it should be a 20". The 17" was just a limitation of the technology.
Why stop there? 34" or bust.
And this tired old rhetoric continues from but a few voices. Please bring yourself into the present. Those ports on any Apple laptop are history, and that’s the right decision. Only you and a dozen other people want them. The rest of us (millions) really, really don’t. This will sell like hot cakes without them.
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Because at this physical size, resulting in the same 218ppi used in every retina Mac so far (and the new Pro 6K display), no normal person can see the difference and pushing more pixels will only unnecessarily hinder performance.
Windows machines need more pixels because Windows’ scaling technology sucks. Apple’s resolution independence is nothing short of amazing.
The question is why on earth would they do this with a 4K display? What possible benefit is there?
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Disappointed there’s no OLED, unless this can do true HDR with some of the local dimming tech their new pro display has.
250k/year suggests it will be super expensive.
Real screen size will be close to the old 17 inch, 15 inch might get slightly smaller with next update.
Real screen size will be close to the old 17 inch, 15 inch might get slightly smaller with next update.
Yeah...it'll be so thin they won't even fit in the proper battery size on top of that it probably won't cool down very well either.
But hey, it'll have a keyboard that travels about 1/2 a millimeter, only USB-C, 500 nits and thin thin thin.
None of which anyone ever asked for. Certainly NOT the pros.
But if Apple says it's cool it's gotta be beyond amazing.
Indeed. I do really hope they have a non-touch-bar option. That gimmick works nicely for some people so by all means have at it for them, but some of us, developers especially, could really do with the physical function keys.
I’ve emailed Tim (tcook@apple.com) outlining that case and imploring him to give this thing and all future Mac laptops the option of foregoing the Touch Bar for normal function keys (but still with Touch ID on the right like the MBA, unless they replace that with Face ID). I’ve found he listens in the past. Might be worth a few more people emailing him the same request. (That’s probably more productive than people sitting around here whining about it).
Haha and you get 3% off Apple products with it. Plays right into their hands.That's why they are coming out with a new credit card.
We’re not asking for 500 nits? Speak for yourself. I’ll take brighter if they make it.
And “only USB-C” is exactly what I and at least some others asked for and I’m glad they did it. So again, speak for yourself.
I only hope this one has 3 channels / 6 ports instead of the current 2 / 4.
Agreed though that it needs to be thick enough to have proper cooling. Although everyone whining about the throttling of the 2018 i9 still seems to ignore the fact that Apple fixed that with software. But some people just like whining.
The current 2019 kicks ass
Those numbers mostly check out, with the exception of the RAM. Base model will come with 8GB (expandable to 128GB, as you say). Not user serviceable, upgrade to 32gb for just $3500.
I have a feeling this will drop the Touch Bar. I personally love it, but only with the use of third party utilities that let me set up a bunch of macros for running complicated keyboard shortcuts and scripts, though I wish Apple would implement that themselves. Since Catalina showed no signs of Touch Bar development, it’s probably goodnight.
It must be more to the machine than this , if it exists. 0.4inch increase in screen size and no really new CPU/GPU to use compared to current MBP.
XDR screen? A downscaled afterburner processor? Thicker with better thermals but no weight increase?
XDR screen? A downscaled afterburner processor? Thicker with better thermals but no weight increase?