16-Inch MacBook Pro Said to Launch in September With LCD and 3072x1920 Resolution

[x-evil-x]

After releasing the 16” mbp will they introduce all new design in 2020?

New designs every year for the next 5 years. Better wait till you get the newest hardware to buy something

 

[DanBig]

Is there news on this? It would be a welcome change but I haven’t read that anywhere.

No audio issues! There have been a few T2 crash issues in the 2017/18 models which Apple has addressed.

I'm suspecting the person has overloaded his system running too much concurrently and/or does not have any free space the drive so the cleanup processes are stealing CPU cycles which then messes up the audio.

Frankly, I like what the T2 offers! What I'm hoping for is the option for additional internal PCIe/NVMe SSD blade drive support.

 

[alexandr]

as much as i loved my 17" mbp, i don't really want to go back to that size. we're getting steered in the direction of smaller devices, but i guess every device will find its audience.

 

[gugy]

If the new MPB follows Apple latest Pro prices we can expect this to start at $4k. With 256Gb and 32gb RAM.
Would not be surprised the top of line specs to go beyond $10k.
I guess this is the new normal.

 

[macduke]

Sounds boring and probably excessively expensive. I've given up on Apple's portable Macs. The best bang for your buck is a high-end 2019 5K iMac, which is what I ended up buying this year. It's as fast as my iMac Pro at work with more RAM that is upgradable and double the storage for almost $1000 less. For portability I still have a 2015 MBP at work—back when they had enough ports and no keyboard issues. But I'm moving more and more towards using my iPad Pro for a lot of portable tasks, especially for personal use. iOS 13 is going to go a long way towards making it feasible to run an iMac/iPad Pro setup, which is what I've been talking about for years as my ideal solution. I really love using both of them.

 

[coolkid93]

Bigger the more expensive

 

[HurtinMinorKey]

The real questions are: what type of GPU options will it have, and relatedly, will it compete with the Surface Book 3 along those lines.

 

[Quu]

Having owned two 17" models previously that I really enjoyed I am quite excited by this news.

However if it uses that same keyboard that the other Macs have suffered with I'll be really disappointed.

 

[punchwalk]

Apple's laptop landscape is turning into a real mess. Too many SKUs and not enough clarity around why each exists.

 

[theluggage]

Remember the PHC chip has the dedicated USB 3.1 interface already (4 ports) just un-used.

Last I looked the PHCs had a fixed number of universal i/o lines which had to be configured at build-time to provide one out of various permutations of PCIe lanes, SSD-optimised-PCIe lanes, The MBP has a dGPU, two TB3 controllers and the does-everything-else T2 chip all eating PCIe lanes - so I really wouldn't want to second-guess how it is configured.

Also, just because it looks like the edge of the MBP has space for a USB-A-sized hole doesn't mean that a USB-A connector could be added without significant re-engineering of the case and logic board. Chances are, if this is just a 'display size bump' the only bit they've re-engineered is the upper case. If it does turn out to be a true MacBook Pro Pro that has been substantially re-designed then that's another matter.

 

[The Cappy]

I don't get why Apple won't revive the 17" Macbook Pro instead. Even though this is probably their best Macbook yet, from a marketing stand point, it'll just seem too similar to the 15".

This, emphatically. The original rumor was "16 or 16.5" and I was REALLY hoping for 16.5".

 

[1050792]

$3499 base model with 128GB SSD.
Mark my words.

 

[ksec]

My Guess

Intel® Core™ i9-9880H Processor , that is the 8 Core Processor for Mobile. Max 128GB Memory. New Design for Thermals. ( Likely thicker ) T2 for Security, and TouchBar WITH Escape & Functions Keys below. I think the main distinguish point is that this MacBook Pro will have a mini Afterburner FPGA in it.

It will be a Mobile Workstation. The Touch Bar is useful for video editing and certain other professionals. But for majority of people using 15" MBP they just don't use it much at all.

I think going forward, with the introduction of iPadOS, Mac will simply be a prosumer / professional usage machine. Which means Apple will milk it for as long as they can. Which means MacBook Pro as we know today may some days be simply dropped to Macbook, leaving the Pro moniker for real "Pro".

 

[sparkie7]

I can’t wait for this 16” MBP. Wish it was a 17” but after an 11 year wait from my 17” MBP classic matte screen - I’m all for this 16”. I may not buy it cos it’s 1st gen, but if it’s impressive enough I might just eat white bread for 2 years in order to be able to afford it

 

[thadoggfather]

without more key travel, im not that excited about anything tbh but look forward to seeing what they come up with at the same time

i dont have an issue with the current resolution of the retina MBP's either

 

[kp98077]

and a decently specked 15" is 3000$ haha.
They need to drop the pro name from all the current pro's then.

Starting price is 3,999.

I agree with you I think the starting price will be somewhere between $3599-3999, still doesn't make sense to be that it is less than 1" from the 15"? and they just released new bump in models....likely will be a new design, that new design will follow the 'regular' line next year.....not sure I'd even want to own a totally new design TBH...

 

[bruno7]

Yeah, it's gonna have two TouchBars, Butterfly or Caterpillar keyboard with no travel at all & glossy-only display and a price tag of 3499 at least.

Plus you'll need 899 worth of dongles.

And no MagSafe.

Thanks, I'll pass.

Again.

 

[x-evil-x]

as much as i loved my 17" mbp, i don't really want to go back to that size. we're getting steered in the direction of smaller devices, but i guess every device will find its audience.

A 17” in today’s Apple terms will be very slim and not much bigger than a 15” now. Nothing like what the 17” was back then.

 

[mannyvel]

Finally, the season of the Mac is here. Too bad it took an iPhone slowdown to refocus Apple.

 

[DanBig]

as much as i loved my 17" mbp, i don't really want to go back to that size. we're getting steered in the direction of smaller devices, but i guess every device will find its audience.

I miss my 17" It was great on shoots, sadly it died. I'm really hoping we get at least the 16.5" display.

If your point is the size of the case the idea here is to shrink the bezels to make the case smaller. Some other laptop makers have already done this and I think that makes sense. I personally didn't have a problem with the size or even the weight.

I can see that being an issue if you were on a plane trying to work though! Even when I have my iPad I'm elbowing my neighbor all of the time

 

[Rhartford]

Except, somehow, 3 years down the line, that noise had completely died out, because suddenly there were a whole bunch of affordable, cross-platform USB peripherals and you didn't have to hunt down expensive SCSI drives, Localtalk/RS423 printers, ADB mice etc.

The original iMac "dropped" a bunch of outdated ports that were either completely proprietary (ADB, Localtalk), effectively proprietary (RS423) or which were becoming increasingly confined to expensive server/workstation setups (SCSI... maybe you don't remember terminators, device IDs and insanely bulky cables). That's if you can say "dropped" considering that the iMac was a completely new product category, so nobody had the rug suddenly pulled from under them - the existing Power Macs and Powerbooks gradually phased out SCSI and ADB over several years.

USB-A, HDMI. MiniDP etc. are only "legacy" ports in the fevered imaginations of the USB consortium. That's why people are still complaining 3 years later. That's why all the desktop Macs have kept their USB-A, Ethernet and (sometimes) HDMI ports. That's why the majority of "USB-C" devices on the market just use it as a replacement for USB-micro-B, come with USB-A cables or adapters and rarely offer any performance advantage over USB-A.

Well said!

 

[x-evil-x]

I agree with you I think the starting price will be somewhere between $3599-3999, still doesn't make sense to be that it is less than 1" from the 15"? and they just released new bump in models....likely will be a new design, that new design will follow the 'regular' line next year.....not sure I'd even want to own a totally new design TBH...

2019 just released pros especially the 15” with the 8 core is the most refined this generation will get. It’s the smarter choice imo then a new design

 

[PickUrPoison]

$3499 base model with 128GB SSD.
Mark my words.

I can only assume you’re trying to make some kind of a joke since the 15” has never had less than 256GB base.

 

[alexandr]

I miss my 17" It was great on shoots, sadly it died. I'm really hoping we get at least the 16.5" display.

If your point is the size of the case the idea here is to shrink the bezels to make the case smaller. Some other laptop makers have already done this and I think that makes sense. I personally didn't have a problem with the size or even the weight.

I can see that being an issue if you were on a plane trying to work though! Even when I have my iPad I'm elbowing my neighbor all of the time

that's exactly the problem. once i switched between my 2010 17" mbp to a 13" mba i had a hard time justifying carrying that huge and heavy laptop. and although this new one would be a lot smaller, at this point i'm hesitant to even go up to 15"... that's just me though

 

[kp98077]

I can only assume you’re trying to make some kind of a joke since the 15” has never had less than 256GB base.

128???! what???!