Probably not. That extra few watts is available for powering peripheries connected via USB/TB3 to the display, e.g. drives.
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Apple Registers 7 Unreleased Mac Notebooks in Eurasian Database
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Probably not. That extra few watts is available for powering peripheries connected via USB/TB3 to the display, e.g. drives.
Predictions:
Macbook Air moniker goes away, leaving simply Macbook and Macbook Pro.
Macbook starts at $999 and includes a 15" option. No Touchbar. Configurable up to $3.5k.
Macbook Pro is an overhaul (like the Mac Pro) in response to criticisms that Apple neglects "true professionals." One screen size, includes Touchbar, ports besides USB-C. Prices start at $4k and can go over $10k.
Thoughts?
Macbook Air moniker goes away, leaving simply Macbook and Macbook Pro.
Macbook starts at $999 and includes a 15" option. No Touchbar. Configurable up to $3.5k.
Macbook Pro is an overhaul (like the Mac Pro) in response to criticisms that Apple neglects "true professionals." One screen size, includes Touchbar, ports besides USB-C. Prices start at $4k and can go over $10k.
Thoughts?
Then why create the keyboard repair warranty program?
Who was it?
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Like I said, there is only one model for each category. Macbook 12" / 15", MacBook Pro, that is only 3 model.
If you actually care about CPU power, the MBA is not the right product for you. Don't count on it getting a monstrous speed boost from bump to bump. The priority would be improved battery life or cooler running, with a modest performance boost at best if the chip allows.
To take care of the small number with issues? Like I said, huge issue, completely redesign and an onslaught of pissed off customers.
Neither happened. Apple just taking care of the customers with issues, as usual. Happens when you sell 18M Macs/year.
Often within weeks - this came about 7 weeks prior to the iPads being refreshed a couple of months back...
Holy shizzles, we really don't need a 16" MacBook. What we need is a 17.3" one or larger. A 16" is pretty useless when the one before it is already 15.6".
Given the circumstances, I would expect them to release the models during an October event, as they have always done.
[doublepost=1560439473][/doublepost]Holy shizzle, if this really is the OLED MacBook Pro, I would be surprised at how quickly they released it. Also can't wait for the redesign.
The 'Air' name has too much goodwill, that's almost certainly why the October 2018 machine was called thus and not the 13" MacBook - more likely would be the 12"MB being rolled into the Air line (it was effectively the replacement for the 11" Air) add a 128GB version for $999 and the old Air can finally be retired. I would like to see a 15" MacBook based on the Pro but using something like an i7-8559U (Iris rather than Radeon graphics) for around the $1,500-$1,700 mark.
I'm pretty sure it's the same size as the 15 inch but with smaller bezels. Similar to how the iPhone X has a much larger display than the 8 but the phone's size is the same.
Companies dont just give out extended warranty programs to take care of people, I promise you. They didn't make a serious redesign in the latest because they didn't really care enough to spend the money on R&D and figured hey we can just use the same design and save us more money. Apple won't in the foreseeable go away from the butterfly keyboard, not because its a good design, but because they would then have to admit they were wrong and messed up. What they WILL do is keep it for a couple more years and eventually change it saying they came up with a new design courageously more awesome than the butterfly keyboard and implement it while also denying a problem with the Butter fly keyboard, saying the were just not as magical anymore.
I trace back all previous Euroasian DB and there has never been that many "Mac" ( Assuming Portable Computer here means Mac ) new fillings. We are talking about 7 new things. That is certainly enough for an event.
It could very well be OLED Model.
Keep telling yourself that buddy.
If so, they could have updated alongside with their previous Spec bump.
I had a first gen MacBook too (sold to get an iPad Pro). I didn't have any performance issues and I loved the keyboard. Just offering my personal experience, which was nothing but positive.
May be starting at $2999? Apple needs to boost the sales and profit for wall street, the only best way for right now they can figure out is increasing price due to lack of ground breaking innovations.
The new Xps 2-1 will be using an iceLake U series CPU at 15W instead of the Y series at 7W in the current model.
I think this update is for the MacBook and not the Macbook Air which was just updated.
They will also probably update the Macbook Pro 13 inch without Touchbar which hasn't been updated in 2 years.
This still doesn't explain why they've registered 7 different devices.
Or the multiple redesigns, or the fact that the keyboard is demonstrably flawed due to the fact it is prone to failure when gunk gets in.
Not to mention that even John Gruber considers them "the worst products in Apple history".
What variants usually call for a model number with macs? I know for example all 2015 15" pros are A1398 (regardless of storage tier, processor or iGPU/dGPU) - and indeed the 2014 and 2013 models were also A1398! - 7 seems a lot taking this into consideration?
Apple didn’t just update the MBP so they could release a new design in 3 months. It’s possible a brand new 16” device could be an all new design but I’d be shocked if it’s a complete 180 on the keyboard. And if it’s an all new design it will be very $$$.
Any Product Category is a model number,( not Spec Bump ). So MacBook Air , Macbook Retina, Macbook Non Retain, MacBook Pro 13, MacBook Pro 13 Escape, And MacBook Pro 15 each has its own Model number.
And Spec bump or minor Hardware update don't increase model number either. For example the newest MacBook Pro, with updated Keyboard had the same model number as last year.
God this is exciting! 2019 seems like the year of Mac.
Yeah, because launching a new product that is immediately part of a global repair programme is clearly a sign of things going well.
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