I am not saying I want cheaper products. I am willing to pay a price that makes sense. I may want a 16-inch laptop and I am willing to pay for that. But perhaps I am not willing to pay for additional RAM, a very powerful video card, or storage that comes standard with this configuration. If it costs $3,000, I may consider it. If it costs $5,000, I will not buy it. Who knows? It has not even been released yet.
It won't start at $5,000, but it will probably be configurable to $5,000.
The current 15-inch MacBook Pro starts at $2,399 and goes up to $5,149.
The new 16-inch? Who knows. Its starting configuration might replace the current $2,799 configuration. Or it might exist entirely alongside all 15-inch models for a while.
If Apple decides to charge a million dollars for a new 16-inch MacBook Pro, perhaps there would still be some Apple evangelist willing to justify the price tag, even if not able to buy one.
Maybe, but since that won't happen, it doesn't matter.
Microsoft has just released a Surface Laptop 3 with a 15-inch display. And it starts at $1,199 with a pretty modest configuration. This laptop, as well as other offerings such as LG Gram, target certain consumers who want a thin-and-light laptop and a good battery life without giving up a large screen. Apple is yet to deliver this kind of product, as its 15-inch MacBook Pro is noticeably heavier, due to carrying all this additional power (which also makes it more expensive).
The Surface Laptop 3 does start at a much lower price point than the MacBook Pro. It should be noted that it also stays at lower specs; the Mac's CPU even at the lowest config is 28% faster in single-core and 103% faster in multi-core. You also cannot configure the Surface Laptop 3 with more than 16 GB RAM (MacBook Pro: 32 GB, which I find is still not enough) or more than 512 GB of internal storage (MacBook Pro: 4 TB, although at yikes-y pricing). Therefore, the Surface Laptop 3 is simply not an adequate substitute for mid-end much less high-end usage of the MacBook Pro.
As for "noticeably heavier", are you
sure you would notice an 18% difference that much?
Anyway, no, Apple doesn't currently offer a larger low-end laptop, and never really has, and they're certainly not going to start with this particular (presumed) model. And maybe they should.
But this rumored model? It will be a very-high-end laptop, which is exactly what many people are clamoring for.
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They removed that icons in the new beta. This things that Apple do makes me nervous
It doesn't have to mean much. New Mac models often ship with their own custom macOS build.
My guess is the original plan was to ship the 16-inch MBP before 10.15.1, meaning it would have shipped with a post-10.15.0 build, but also meaning that, once 10.15.1 comes out, 16-inch MBP support is already included.
Then they expedited 10.15.1 (seems they'd have plenty of reasons to), meaning the regular 10.15.1 build no longer needs to include 16-inch MBP support, but rather that it would ship with a post-10.15.1 build.
They almost certainly didn't come up with this graphic then scrap a hardware project. It could be delayed all the way to, like, February. Who knows. (I'd really like to buy one ASAP; my late-2013 model is getting long in the tooth. But I'd rather they get it right.)
