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2016 MacBook Pro May Include OLED Display Touch Bar and Touch ID
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What, like Keychain?
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Is your real name Hercule Poirot?
umm... To everyone freaking out about a 4th quarter release, not sure if anyone pointed out that Apple's 4th financial quarter runs from late June through late September. New MBP can easily be announced at WWDC and ship one month later in July which would be In Apples fourth quarter.
No. Thicker is anathema to these folks. It will never get thicker. Only thinner.
Gimmicky OLED dock that only make sense if you're too scared to losing the icons to auto-hide the dock, touch-id for people who forget passwords, no 17" option, no bigger battery, no full size keyboard.
Sounds like the exact opposite of a PRO machine to me.
Sounds like the exact opposite of a PRO machine to me.
Read it again. OLED touch bar... Refers to the function keys area on the keyboard...
We make those complaints because they're valid. Performance and battery life are incredibly important to some of us and always will be. But you can have your incredibly thin underpowered toy and enjoy yourself, since obviously Apple is catering to people like you, not us.
For us though, it's frustrating and sad, and will be for a while, and we're still in an era of hope (diminishing albiet) that this race for thinness will finally subside and we can enjoy thermally ideal laptops that allow for true pro power.
Don't worry, one day the last of us who remember and loved the old Apple (great power AND great design) will fade away and you and the other 'thin at all costs' fanboys won't have to listen to us.
Chao.
Forgot about that, but now it can use touch id to verify before being allowed to use it, similar to iOS with my bank app or Amazon.
so, when we all have a better security method that gives up a reason to tout over the previous one as "well that sux, even though we were all using it before" as in reffing to Keychain Access unlocking.
If Touch ID would be used for this, in fact make Touch ID as a "replacement" if Apple wants security.... Do away with passwords entirely. So knowing how many time u need to enter your iCloud password in different areas in iTunes, u'll probably be just using your finger all the time till its turns red.
If Touch ID would be used for this, in fact make Touch ID as a "replacement" if Apple wants security.... Do away with passwords entirely. So knowing how many time u need to enter your iCloud password in different areas in iTunes, u'll probably be just using your finger all the time till its turns red.
This is the best news I can hear (not sure about the touch id though), given it will be the only device I will be upgrading this year. Plus the iPhone 7 seems not worthy of an upgrade when compared to next years model. I however wonder with this sudden trend to OLED, if Apple will adopt an OLED screen to next years iMac.
Keychain could use a little work to bring it up to date. As you say, I think using touch ID to verify who you are & to log on to your Mac instead of a password is a must-have feature for all new Macs.
I don't think that you have to worry about this. The keys will be programmable (to support different kind of Apple hardware).
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This OLED strip is very intriguing. There may be some unique, touch operations you could make on this strip, if wide enough.. think really skinny mini ipad above the keys. Would it be absurd if they made this strip the "new dock"? Perhaps they could even provide a secondary function of the fn keys when typing is detected (maybe it can sense your hand positions somehow).
Just some random musings.
The Macbook Pro is long in the tooth. It's design has been imitated MANY times over the past few years. What can they do to set it apart? Whatever it is, they've taken their dear old time on rolling it out.
For those of us that do actual work on our rMBP (you know: circuit design, thermal transfer simulations, measurement instrument control, perhaps some programming), then you realise that:
1. OLED strip: who cares
2. Thinness? The computer is thin enough, we would like more battery so that the battery life under load is 8+ hours (rather than currently 4 hours under load and 10 hours when faffing about on the internet)
3. Standard USB3 ports are very useful, heck it's annoying to need a dongle for Ethernet. Aagain, working at a real job, you know designing ICs etc then WiFi is a PITA (latency, throughput, number of supported clients), and I say this as an engineer getting paid real money to do microwave & RF design: wired connections are preferable.
4. Keyboard: the MB1 keyboard is not very comfortable. I hope they stay with the existing one.
5. The MBP design is fine, make some minor updates if you want to Apple, but don't dummify your product lineup even more...
In fact some apps I use require the F Keys to move the mouse out of the window and keyboard shortcut cannot be changed.. There goes my Amiga emulator..
Apple is kinda clinging to straws here to see what else they can give customers.... but whatever devilish plot their using.... it's still working
I'm just wondering for how long.
But Apple have just released the new Magic Keyboard... and it's already more expensive than the previous model.
Sounds a bit fishy to me.
Sounds a bit fishy to me.
Thinner, faster, better screen (?4K) and less weight I would be delighted with. My wife's 2015 2.5 gHz 15" MBP makes my 2012 2.7 gHz i7 15" MBP seem sluggish, I would guess mainly due to its faster SSD, so a really zippy 2016 MBP would be great for converting loads of large RAW files to TIFF. However what I would hate is if they take away all the USB3-A and lightning ports and just leave you with a couple of useless USB-C ports, which you will then need to hang a port convertor or dock off to connect most things. This would not be progress but a retrograde step.
They are going to copy Amazon Kindle's model. The OLED strip will display iAds and the price will be $50 less. If you want iAds removed, you can pay $100 after purchasing. Or you can buy the ad-free version.
It's your problem if you don't know how to choose the correct tool for your job. What you need is a workstation windows pc, you are just willing to buy a macbook because of some irrational personal preference. If you're not into photography, video, music, iOs programming... then macbooks are and have always been just a gimmick fancy hardware buy. Grow up, there is no standard engineering program designed natively for Mac OS, if you want to be hip it's entirely your problem. I don't go to Porsche forums and complain because they don't have a truck, van or excavator.
Apple plans to introduce a revamped high-end MacBook Pro this year that'll include a thinner and lighter form factor, Touch ID and a new OLED display touch bar above the keyboard, according to a new report from KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. The new MacBook Pro would come in 13- and 15-inch variations and arrive in the fourth quarter of 2016.
Kuo calls the new MacBook Pro updates the "most significant upgrade ever undertaken by Apple." The new "thin and light" design will be helped by new metal injection mold-made hinges and the butterfly-mechanism keyboards that debuted in the 12-inch MacBook. There has been speculation Apple would introduce Touch ID to MacBooks and, in the meantime, Apple engineers are working on a way users could unlock their Macs with Touch ID on iPhone.
The 12-inch MacBook will also be joined by a 13-inch MacBook, according to Kuo. The analyst believes that Apple will move forward with all three MacBook lines this year, with the MacBook Pro occupying the high-end slot, the MacBook will replace the Air as the medium-level model and the MacBook Air will serve as an entry-level model with comparatively low prices.
In April, it was reported that the new MacBook Pros would see slimmer designs and new hinges. Additionally, speculation indicated the new MacBook Pros could adopt Thunderbolt 3 with USB-C. Today's report confirms both rumors. Apple's refreshed MacBook Pros are also expected to sport faster Skylake processors, with the top-of-the-line MacBook Pros also sporting AMD's new 400-series Polaris graphics chips.
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It's hard to believe that there are people who still don't realize that the Retina MacBook is the new MacBook Air with retina display.
The MBA is dead, long live the
Tired of the neverending waiting. Seems like for years and years there is something "really great" "innovative" just around the corner, but nothing really happens (even timely updates of many product lines are now a rarity).
Either industry leading stuff is presented at WWDC (and soon available, not some bs like "later this year"), or Apple can GTFO.
Either industry leading stuff is presented at WWDC (and soon available, not some bs like "later this year"), or Apple can GTFO.
The same source said that a new 13" rMB is launching in Q3. If that also is fiscal Q3 then the release of the new rMB should be pretty close. I guess we'll know soon enough.
http://appleinsider.com/articles/16...3-end-development-of-macbook-air-insider-says