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Apple Debuts New 8-Core MacBook Pro With Updated Keyboard
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It's still missing the function keys.
OH MAN Totally forgot about that rumor! I guess I was just excited to see a actual Mac post
So the 13" shows a 'new' label, but I only see it maxing out to "2.8GHz quad‑core 8th‑generation Intel Core i7". Does the 8 core only go into the 15"? Anyone know what may have changed to make the 13" display as new?
If they say "eliminate" and someone has a problem, people will cry bloody murder. I don't blame them for getting this out into the wild and testing that claim.
You gotta be nuts to buy one of these machines until the butterfly keyboard is relegated to the dustbin of history.
I don't follow specs day-to-day, but I don't remeber anything beying teh Radeon 560X and now I see this...
"Configurable to Radeon Pro Vega 16 with 4GB of HBM2 memory or Radeon Pro Vega 20 with 4GB of HBM2 memory"
Apple getting a few hardware updates out of the way before WWDC. I’m really looking forward to this years WWDC.
Even worse, they haven't come down on year-old pricing for graphics/memory/storage upgrades for year-old parts in a non-upgradable machine.
I really wish I could run Mac OS on a Razer or Lenova...
I wonder when the 12” MacBook will get upgraded. It should at least get the new keyboard. Will Apple wait until it switches to ARM, or will they put another Intel chip one more time?
I'll believe it after the new keyboard has been out 6 months to a year. People thought the 2nd gen butterfly keyboard would be the fix... it wasn't. People thought the 3rd gen would be the fix ... it wasn't. Forgive me for having doubts about the 4th gen. This should at least shut those up who denied the 3rd gen still had issues. Apple would not be making this 4th attempt if there weren't still issues with the 3rd.
wait, i guess i spoke too soon - this 8-core seems to only apply to the 15" model 
Again the best laptop in the market killed by the failed butterfly keyboard. Will Apple ever learn? Steve would never allow this disaster to happen.
I think the reason for no i9, is the heat issue. Alienware, anyone?? ;-)
4th generation butterfly keyboard. So 4th time lucky?
Maybe they are underselling and overdelivering???
Why? I bought a 2017 MBP 13’ over a year ago. My 16GB of ram, 1 TB SSD, and my i5-7287U processor is doing just fine, and will be fine for many many years to come. Keyboard is doing just fine too (for my wife and I).
I remember when I bought my 2017 MBP 13’ last year and less than 2 months after they announced new MBPs - I initially had a tinge of regret but looked at the price of the higher CPUs and 32GB of ram for 15’ only and said no thanks.
Happy to see the keyboard getting some attention. Our MBPs are great laptops and we expect to get 5-6 years out of them before upgrading.
Man that 8 core i9 is gonna throttle big time
Why would you expect a new design so soon?
Have to agree. Not sure why they’re so resistant to going back to prior kbs that so many liked.
If they'd ditched the Touch Bar and knocked $300 off the price, I'd have been in for a 13". Almost $2K for a base laptop with no discrete graphics is as crazy a proposition now as it was when they first released it.