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2016 MacBook Pro May Include OLED Display Touch Bar and Touch ID

The screen will be a horizontal iPad Pro and a vertical iPad mini, attached to a physical keyboard, two iPhone SE's injection molded and flush mounted into the frame (one for each palm rest), force touch track pad, dual-rear facing cameras, true-tone selfie camera.

MacRumor users will essentially have 4 screens to simultaneously test for light leaks in their bathrooms. It will run an optimized version of iOS--"MacOS"--and updated El Capitan "Picard" will be accessible through "BackToMyOldMac" for legacy apps on the go. Trouble shooting will be be reduced to simply logging out of iCloud, and back in, on all components, namely, the iPad Pro, iPad Mini, and two iPhone SE units.

Tech-media will largely undervalue this technological marvel of hardware and design because it didn't launch with wireless charging and fourteen USB-3 ports. Others will find that the fatal flaw of rMBP is not in the technology, but, rather, because it still breaks when YouTube users snap it over their knee despite liquid metal composition--as one twitter user summarized: "price does not quite justify durability 'shortcuts' designed to screw users."

In the end, everyone will be pissed when the base RAM is upgraded from 8GB to 16GB (now shared across all i-devices via iCloud subscription service) in 4-6 months.
 
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Dr.Chroma said:
Dear Mr.Ming Kuo, please change your prediction for the release of the MacBook Pro to WWDC June 2016, as there a lot of very impatient, Unhappy Apple fans waiting for a desperate refresh
Of the MacBook Pro. Then I will apologize for all those times I said you were wrong. Thank you.
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Does Kuo mean the fourth financial quarter cuz that starts in July and would line up.
 
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Small White Car said:
God damn it.

They'd better not. I had hopes that the butterfly keyboard was intended to tell consumers which MacBooks were the "cheap and crappy" ones. As long as the Pros kept real keyboards I didn't really care.

But are they really delusional enough to think those things are suitable for all of their Macs?

I've always thought that the Macbook Pro was Apple's most solid product. I really hope this rumor isn't true.
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Yes, they are totally delusional enough. They like the keyboard.
 
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sniffies said:
Not happening. Mid-2017 at the earliest.

This year's refresh will just be thinner, lighter, and faster + Skylake. Nothing dramatic.

Drama is saved for 2017 to coincide with the 10-year anniversary of iPhone.
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Yes, because the 10 year Anniversary of the iPhone has everything to do with laptops!

And honestly... who wouldn't want to take the spotlight off the iPhones?

It’s a no brainer, right?

:rolleyes:
 
garirry said:
The rumour of Touch ID being in this computer and the rumour of iPhone-enabled Touch ID coming in 10.12 seriously contradict each other. Something is fishy...
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Errm... How does it contradict exactly?
Knowing Apple, they will probably make this feature exclusive to the MBP and update the rest throughout the following year or two. Meanwhile, Touch ID systems will be integrated into this years OS X, so in order for everyone else to make use of the new feature they'll supply the economic option to unlock via your phone.
 
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Small White Car said:
God damn it.

They'd better not. I had hopes that the butterfly keyboard was intended to tell consumers which MacBooks were the "cheap and crappy" ones. As long as the Pros kept real keyboards I didn't really care.

But are they really delusional enough to think those things are suitable for all of their Macs?

I've always thought that the Macbook Pro was Apple's most solid product. I really hope this rumor isn't true.
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The keyboard on my new Macbook is WAY better quality than on my 2013 rMBP. The butterfly keyboard is so accurate in its movements it makes the old style keyboard feel loose and mushy..id even describe the old ones as "cheap and crappy" in comparison.

Whether you like the butterfly or old style is another question...

I prefer the butterfly keyboard. Way better imo.
 
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Normally I despise touch buttons, but the function keys are too far of a reach for touch typing anyway, at least for me, so I guess I wouldn't mind if they made it a touch strip, as long as they have functional reasons for doing so, which I'm sure they do.

Looking forward to seeing what they have in store.

I suppose lighter and thinner is good as long as they are also improving performance and battery life. I'm sure the balance of portability and power of the MBP appeals to a lot of people. I personally wish Apple would lean about 30% more toward performance.
 
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pushingrobot said:
Also, if you press the Unicorn button, a unicorn will appear and whisk you away to a magical land.

What? I can make predictions too.
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Seriously Pushingrobot at this point I would take Fairies and Unicorns...Between The Game Show /Reality Show that has become Presidential Campaigns, endless incidents that involve AR-15s, Wallstreet BS and just general Mendacity all round I will take a Magical Land yes please!! Oh and more RAM in my MBP.
 
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If this thing had an integrated touch id sensor built in.. imagine: You lift the lid of your macbook pro and and the center of the strip has an indicator that fades in, prompting you for your thumbprint so you can log on to the computer.
 
Well, with all the interest my bank account has made with my "Apple Cash" just sitting there! first from waiting years for Intel to deliver thier delayed processors, and second, Apple " Finally" upgrading these very over due Mac lines? I can afford to buy both MBP and ( hopefully upgraded) Mac Pro!! P.S ok, throw in an Apple Watch2!
 
lowkey said:
The keyboard on my new Macbook is WAY better quality than on my 2013 rMBP. The butterfly keyboard is so accurate in its movements it makes the old style keyboard feel loose and mushy..id even describe the old ones as "cheap and crappy" in comparison.

Whether you like the butterfly or old style is another question...

I prefer the butterfly keyboard. Way better imo.
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This. Apple redisgned the mechanism with improvement in mind. Smaller gaps between keys, less glide, less wobble, individual LED backlighting per key.... All improvements. It takes a while to get used to typing on it, but it also takes a while to get used to ANY new keyboard. Just because you're afraid of change doesn't mean the change is bad.
 
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lowkey said:
I prefer the butterfly keyboard. Way better imo.
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Well why not just make it a piece of glass then? It feels exactly like typing on an iPad and at least then it could change the keys per application.

Right now you have the worst of both: a glass pad feel but without the ability to change what it displays.

I'd also hate a glass pad keyboard, fwiw, but at least then I'd understand why they did it. With the butterfly I just don't get it.
 
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Small White Car said:
God damn it.

They'd better not. I had hopes that the butterfly keyboard was intended to tell consumers which MacBooks were the "cheap and crappy" ones. As long as the Pros kept real keyboards I didn't really care.

But are they really delusional enough to think those things are suitable for all of their Macs?

I've always thought that the Macbook Pro was Apple's most solid product. I really hope this rumor isn't true.
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Couldn't agree more. The MBP is the best computer Apple has left (and really the only one still worth buying right now IMO). Please don't ruin it with the weirdo keyboard from the Macbook. The "butterfly" mechanism is fine, but the keyboard in a "pro" model needs real key travel.
 
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CrystalPepsi said:
That was my thinking as well. It would be -very- slick if they could pull it off.
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This would be in line with an interview from Phil Schiller last year. He was asked quite a bit about why Apple has avoided doing touch-screen laptops. One of the primary reasons was that interacting with a computer is a hands DOWN experience, because reaching up to the screen is not ergonomic or natural. It would also require redesigning the entire OS to be finger friendly, but then it's no longer mouse optimized. This could be the compromise: leave the main laptop screen mouse-based and add a small touch section for special functions.
 
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I'm hoping they're not doing away with traditional F1~F12 keys while adding this new gimmicky touch bar.
Hopefully, the new hinge will give them extra vertical space to put the bar in without interfering with apps that actually depend heavily on those func keys.
 
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