My guess in this moment is that the new MBPs from today were the first two numbers in the list. So we have still three numbers to go (and consecutive, so they likely belong to a same product line). And I'd wish they were MacBooks, but I guess that the product line that is more likely to get three numbers is the iMac (although, honestly, I'd really wish to see soon an ultralight MacBook bigger than 12'')
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TB, in overall, would be just fine by me, but it fails miserably in being display(_)port.
TB3 supports dp1.2, which was finalized in 2010.
And we just got new über expensive mbp's and there's no TB4 around!
Meaning, that Apple's flagship in 2018 has ports for displays, that is EIGHT years old.
It isn't Apple's fault that Intel didn't schedule the development of TB3 right. They should have developed it in time to take dp1.3 in it, which was finalized September 2014. But they didn't. Hopefully TB4 wll arrive by the time of mMP, otherwise it will be another fiasco too.
This is why we still have no new Apple Display and I guess that we will not get it before TB4.
As soon as other computer makers will increasingly include "real" dp ports with dp1.3/1.4, display makers will forget to make "dual-dp1.2" kludges for outdated (ie. present) macs. Then you can't buy new modern monitors for today's macs.
What is Apple's fault, is that it doesn't include "real" dp port in new macs, it just hides the old version behind the TB.
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A ThinkPad? I also have two different ThinkPads for work and especially the smaller T460s has an awesome keyboard.
Oh the keyboard is great. The performance isn't nearly as smooth as my 2011 MacBook Pro. I think Windows is a big culprit.
Windows 10 itself is quite snappy, but a bad AV can slow things down quite a bit. So without knowing your exact setup, it’s hard to say what’s the problem.
That could be it. I have 3 monitors at work. A Dell 34” via HDMI and two other 24” via at Targus dock.
I think they might come at an October combined iPad/Mac event if there’s any significantly redesigned hardware (new 13” MacBook) - they usually like to run us through new hardware configurations, even if it is just a variant. As to why they didn’t wait on the MBPs, I think because they were ready to go, and because the keyboard thing was snowballing and they wanted to get the ‘fixed’ units on shelves ASAP... I am going to hold on for October to see if there is a small possibility of a 15” MacBook also appearing so I don’t have to splash out so much on the pro. It could happen under the radar if they’re using largely the same casing? I like to think they don’t intend on just leaving the 15” at £2,349 after discontinuing the £1,899 2015 model
It should be before October, because the filings say they will run 10.13, and October would quite probably imply 10.14.
As for a 15’’ MacBook, I’m also hoping for it. Yesterday I went to an Apple Store to repeat the “test” I did last year (holding a 15’’ MBP with one hand), and, I could bear with it if there are no lighter options, but I prefer it lighter).
The fact that the new MBP have substantially increased specs (cores and RAM) that push them more into the Pro field, helps keep my hopes high for a larger screen Macbook coming, as this MBP bump could be a resource for differentiating the MBP from MacBooks with lower specs but with larger than 12’’ display.
I really hope and wish all of this will happen before October, though.
Good point... well will wait and see, but I don’t know why they wouldn’t have updated across the line together if they weren’t holding back for an event?
They seem to be bifurcating their product lineups into standard consumer configurations and performance oriented pro configurations - certainly with iPad and iMac. As I say I haven’t heard anything about a 15” MacBook, but macs don’t tend to get as comprehensively leaked, and if they are using the same casing as the 15” pro to save money (not sure the 12” design would necessarily stretch to this size?) then there’s nothing really to leak...
Or iPods...
Speaking of the iPod, folks complain about the four years since the last Mac Mini was released, but it's been fourteen years since the iPod socks! Apple can give us a new Watch Band seemingly every other month, but can spare no love for my iPod Video, evidently.
Maybe they are holding back for an event, but is it really impossible for the september event to be a “back to school event” instead of a “100% iPhone event”? IMHO, a more open “back to school” event would be very benefitial for the Apple image these years.
I would say a qualified "yes" because iPhone is the most important product in Apple's entire line-up so they do not like to "dilute" the message with a slew of other announcements. So I expect a separate event that will cover the new Macs (including a new Mac Mini in a new form factor) and iPad Pros.
It looks like there's some unexpected event coming soon, though (where "soon" means "before 10.14 and iOS 12 are released"). For example, the two additional iPads registered a few days ago, also specify iOS 11 https://www.macrumors.com/2018/07/13/apple-registers-two-new-ipads/ (while new iPhones have been registered specifying iOS 12). This seems to suggest that we could have a Mac/iPad event before the iPhone event. I really hope so, as I don't have the slightest interest on the iPhone, but I really look forward to replacing my MBA with a worthy successor (and I said worthy, as I don't want a cheap MBA, I want a premium one -top engineering in size/weight ratio-, like the original MBA was).
Jason Snell on today's "Upgrade" podcast made the case that he thinks Apple might be going back to the old "product square" that Jobs introduced when he returned to the company where you have a "Pro" desktop and laptop and a "Consumer" desktop and laptop.
In his opinion, the (upcoming) Mac Pro, iMac Pro and MacBook Pros with TouchBars are the new "Pro" models. They have the latest technology (whether one feels it's warranted / relevant or not) and the most powerful CPUs and dGPUs Apple offers (again, whether one feels they are or not).
This leaves the iMac 5K/4K and the (upcoming) Mac Mini as the "Consumer" desktops and the "Consumer" laptops. In the latter case, I believe the 13" MacBook Pro without Touchbar is going to be discontinued because it does not fit in Apple's new "Pro" laptop category and this is why it was not updated along with the TouchBar models. It's replacement, IMO, will be the 13" MacBook model that Ming-Chi Kuo has been rumoring along with the 12" model and I believe both will now get 2 USB-C ports (and likely not have TB3).