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Could We See a 16-inch MacBook Pro Announcement Today?
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If Apple is doing a daily release through the end of the month, then I’d imagine the 16” Pro would be last. There’s 10.15.1, possibly the Apple Tags (I know), a refreshed ATV+ maybe Apple TV Pro (Apple is all in on the Pro moniker) just ahead of the Apple TV shows to be released on Nov 1.
Then again, it’s hard to know what Apple will do now that there isn’t an October event. Their focus seems to be on promoting the new TV line up if anything at this time.
Then again, it’s hard to know what Apple will do now that there isn’t an October event. Their focus seems to be on promoting the new TV line up if anything at this time.
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I'm hoping for MacBook Pro XDR. I know they probably can't fit that full 1600 nit peak brightness but would like to see what something similar or better than iPhone 11 Pro.
The AirPods Pro will definitely sell higher unit quantities than the new MBP, and might possibly sell more in overall revenue.
Perhaps updating one HomePod and seeing how it goes would have been a more measured course of action. I have two MacBook Pros on Catalina (one Production, one Beta) and the thought of just updating all of them wholesale is antithetical to the notion of Sh*t Happens, which it does, and more often than we would like.
I too have been dissatisfied with Apple's macOS' software engineering since Lion with occasional high points along the way (El Capitan 10.11.6 and Mojave 10.14.5). My previous employer's lease machines never saw High Sierra ever, despite the senior programmer's insistence that I move everyone to HS to make software dev and testing easier (on him).
You’re on a rumor site, so yes, speculation about a new product of high interest is content, absolutely. There’s a reason this article is approaching 150 posts, right?
A DisplayHDR 600 display with 600 nits sustained with a 1000 nits peak brightness would be a good start and probably a more realistic one. Heat generation and power consumption are real considerations for a laptop.
This plus a 120Hz Pro Motion Display would be incredible, but are probably more of an either/or right now.
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...except the leaked icon suggests that it will be slightly bigger and have pretty much the same sized bezels.
However, (a) 15.4 to 16" is not a huge size increase and (b) a larger-screened MBP is not going to be aimed at people who already feel that a 15" is borderline.
Horses for courses: if I wanted a laptop that I was going to carry around all day, I'd get a 13". If I wanted one that's mainly going to commute between desks in the back of my car I'd get a 15" or even a 17" if they still made one. I've used both sizes in the past. I find the idea that the modern 15" is too big and heavy somewhat amusing... I've carried the 17" on a bike (and it were uphill both ways) and it was a feather compared to the old G3...
Now we've got quad core 13" Macs (...and eGPUs, I suppose, although I'm not a fan) the attraction of the larger models is going to be increasingly centred on the larger screen (plus, of course, the more powerful CPUs and GPUs - but they need more space/weight for cooling and battery anyway).
I really don't think it's much of a cadence, though. They make a new model when it makes sense to them.
The 2010 model moved it to iOS and made it smaller; the 2012 added full HD; the 2015 brought it to tvOS; the 2017 added 4K.
The device also went through an unusual amount of UX re-takes for an Apple product. I'm guessing (hoping?) they finally feel they nailed it, and if another Apple TV does come around, it'll ship with an evolved version of tvOS rather than another rethink.
Which raises the question: what's the big thing missing from the current model? About all I can think of is a low-end/small-form-factor 'stick' variant.
Although the A10X Fusion is competent and has excellent Metal scores, Apple Arcade is going to be the driving force for the next big update to the AppleTV. I would expect additional DRAM and storage more than 64GB to be able to hold more games as Arcade allows downloads online/offline play and up to six family members. Throw in Bluetooth 5.0 and 802.11AX (iPhone 11/Pro/ProMax now have this) and a better remote and that’s the recipe for a newer up to date AppleTV 4K. To me, 2020 makes sense for this, if not this year even. I guess we’ll see how it shakes out.
They could be getting the Apple servers ready for the Mac Pro and Macbook Pro order flood!
And making sure they have the Mac OS Catalina update ready!
And I suppose the release of Apple TV+ and Apple Arcade are a perfect excuse for Apple to come out with a brand new Apple TV.
Doesn’t the store normally go down for updates like this? Not sure they did that with the AirPods yesterday?They could be getting the Apple servers ready for the Mac Pro and Macbook Pro order flood!
And making sure they have the Mac OS Catalina update ready!
9:05 pacific, we’re past that now and no word on apples siteWhat time did the AirPods pro hit the apple website? I feel like I’m checking macrumors every hour now
Apple is getting better at staging the store page updates. I did not see the Apple store go down for the Air Pod Pro update. Just like Amazon, they do not have to take down the store if they get a lot of orders.
You are implying that they may have forced to delay the release of the 16-inch MacBook Pro?
Sigh. This again.
(a) The iMac was pretty much a new line (apart from some formerly-known-as-Performa designs that were failing to sell) - it didn't leave existing customers in the lurch. The G3 tower kept the floppy and old ports (or, at leasts, slots that could take them) for longer.
(b) It was a desktop machine, so having a floppy-on-a-string (if you even needed it) wasn't such a big deal as with a laptop.
(c) Floppies were well and truly obsolete and almost unusably small by then, when people had hard drives that could fit several thousand floppies. Floppies etc. were already being phased out of the laptop line - first as removable modules that could be replaced by extra batteries or Zip drives, then optional removable modules. If it would fit on a floppy it would fit in an email. People were using a mess of Zip drives, Syquests, optically-tracked 'superfloppies' and CD-Rs but with no one clear winner there was no obvious removable storage device to include.
I know when all my colleagues switched to PowerBook Tis I made the mistake of ordering floppy drives with each one - most of those ended up in cupboards, about 1 drive per 4 Macs would have been fine.
(d) The other ports that were lost included ADB (proprietary - with USB suddenly you could use any mouse and keyboard with a USB port and, yes, mice were coming with USB then - remember all those green USB-to-PS/2 dongles?) - localtalk (proprietary, and totally obsoleted by 10BaseT Ethernet) - RS423 (technically standard but annoyingly different from the de-facto standard RS232 and far inferior to USB) and SCSI (Increasingly only supported by expensive server-grade drives, plus: terminators and device IDs anybody?)
So, no, "Steve removed ports from the iMac" is not a justification for removing USB-A or SD-Cards when those formats are still at the height of their popularity, and the alternatives are just the old technologies packaged in a new connector.
