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

We could use the smart connector of the iPad Pro to connect to the base of the MacBook. When connected, we use the processor and drives of the MacBook and the touch screen and touch ID of the iPad Pro. Once you remove the iPad Pro from the Mac base it is your standard iPad Pro with all your data already synced via the smart connector. All other work is updated via iCloud until the two are joined again and syncing real time. This would give a MacBook with @ 13" retina display that is powerful when needed and ultra portable when on the go. The display portion would be powered by the iPad internal battery to give the Mac base longer life. Once the Mac power supply was connected it would power and charge both units. Just an idea.
 
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polbit said:
For once, Apple, DON'T make the Pro thinner. Make it quieter/cooler instead. For once! I'm so tired of my current MBP being a vacuum cleaner/oven every time I so much as watch a Youtube video. We DON'T need thinner in the Pro line! Save that for the Macbook line, the Air line.
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Wow dude. A MBP and you don't know you should be using HTML5 for everything?

I use my laptop as a programming machine, and I can do intense stuff ALL DAY and never hear my fans.
 
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one feature I can imagine useful, for me: the screen displays app icons that are currently open, so you can just touch the icons to move apps without having to swipe/activate mission control.

or maybe some kind of Edge's display, it will show extra information/feature of currently opened app. For example, if Safari is opened, we can easily change tabs. In Mail, change to different folders, etc.
 
Touch panel.. No thanks, my Work computer was a Lenovo X1 with a touch panel.. Ugly and unusefull.

Dont make the same mistakes Apple.
 
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[unpopular opinion] I actually love the butterfly keyboard in my retina MacBook. [/unpopular opinion]

Would be very interesting to see what features will be implemented on the touch-display-keyboard-thing. I think Apple is good enough to make these kinds of features actually useful rather than gimmicky (Touch ID comes to mind).
 
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I just had better be before Dec. 16th, 2016 because that's when my apple care expires. They should be replacing my rMBP because they've done multiple repairs for the same reason over the years. The trackpad it bad.
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mb3152 said:
The MacBook keyboard is awesome. Use it for a day and you won't want to go back to those fat and sloppy keys.
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I agree!
 
maryunani said:
[unpopular opinion] I actually love the butterfly keyboard in my retina MacBook. [/unpopular opinion]

Would be very interesting to see what features will be implemented on the touch-display-keyboard-thing. I think Apple is good enough to make these kinds of features actually useful rather than gimmicky (Touch ID comes to mind).
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I enjoy it, but not the key travel distance. Have the mechanism from the rMB and the travel distance from the 15" MBP, and the new keyboard will be golden.
 
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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. But I would love to see TID in a MacBook, that's for sure. The OLED bar, not sure because I have a hard time imagining what it would look like.
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Others may have mentioned this, but Touch ID function on iPhone would be for older Macs.
 
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We could use the smart connector of the iPad Pro to connect to the base of the MacBook. When connected, we use the processor and drives of the MacBook and the touch screen and touch ID of the iPad Pro. Once you remove the iPad Pro from the Mac base it is your standard iPad Pro with all your data already synced via the smart connector. All other work is updated via iCloud until the two are joined again and syncing real time. This would give a MacBook with @ 13" retina display that is powerful when needed and ultra portable when on the go. The display portion would be powered by the iPad internal battery to give the Mac base longer life. Once the Mac power supply was connected it would power and charge both units. Just an idea.
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Yes and yes and yes!!!

Ante it up with the ability to dock to a Mac Pro, high end iMac specs/innards/guts. That is really where I think they are headed (even if it's years out). Be able to scale between iOS and macOS apps depending on the situation of what your computing.

Seriously yes!!!!
 
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What I am hoping for:

16 GBs of DDR4 RAM Standard, expandable to 32 GBs
Latest Intel Kaby Lake processors
4K or 5K Retina Display
USB C ports, 4 of them, HDMI and all the rest.

Still have no plans to upgrade, my Early 2015 MacBook Pro is serving me well.
 
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When I read OLED I thought they were going to incorporate an OLED screen, which would be quite nice. Then as many have pointed out it says "OLED display touch bar above the keyboard." So essentially we're waiting to Q4 for a faster Skylake processor and AMD Graphics.

Here's an idea. Why not make them a bit bigger and more rugged. How about making them water resistant. While we're at it, make room for 2 SSD's. Just some thought on how to add some value.
 
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Touchbar? Sounds like something Microsoft or Sony would have. Why compromise the screen size? Just make the whole thing touch.
 
simx34 said:
Damn, I was gonna call that...
It would be very, very slick. It would make a lot of sense as well since Apple are trying to push a fullscreen app system similar to that of iOS.
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Think of what musicians/video editors could do with this strip. They could use pro, beefy apps on OSX macOS but still have ipad like input when needed (for scrubbing, selecting, whatever).
 
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*SIGH*

Looks like I'll be holding onto my trusty 2011 17" MBP (that I actually bought in 2011) even longer.

Five years, Apple. FIVE years of NOTHING I want. Of nothing to replace my 17".

(I think) I can live with an unnecessarily thin device and dongle-hell at the expense of dedicated Ethernet and other standard/useful ports, reasonable storage capacity (for large file, e.g. 4k video, etc), and expandability.

I. Just. Don't. Want. To. Downsize.

Apple, you went big with EVERYTHING ELSE (well, iOS at least).

Build a goddam 17" MBP already!!!
 
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Touch strip instead of function keys? No thanks. Gestures on touchpad works better as they don't require user to move eyes off screen (and is more power efficient than an extra screen). Likewise, touchID should be integrated in touchpad rather than some extra unsightly scanner... although I could live without it on a computer.
 
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kidaje said:
Touch panel.. No thanks, my Work computer was a Lenovo X1 with a touch panel.. Ugly and unusefull.

Dont make the same mistakes Apple.
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That does look pretty bad. :eek:


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