Apples development timescales are ridiculous. 2 years for the next MBP when the current one has so many issues. Still waiting on a Mac Pro replacement more than 2 years after it was announced. Cutting edge stuff is fine for consumer stuff, but for the Pro product lines there is no need to reinvent the wheel. I was happy with the 2010 form factor MBP as it was thick enough to have a decent keyboard and these strange things called ports. It also had a matte screen option and the ability to swap out storage and RAM. Okay, it needed a better cooling solution, but other than that it wasn't broken.
It will actually be at least 5 years for the new series as they should have been working on them by the time this series was released. I still have and use my extensively upgraded (what an odd concept) late 2011 17", as well as a 2015 15" I got off the refurb store last year. Ahhhh, the ports, the ports. As far as cooling, have you cleaned the gunk out from under the CPU? Even if it wasn't poorly applied in the first place, it would be quite tired by now. An issue that will not be relevant for the current MBPs as they will be dead soon anyway or at least not economically feasible to repair (repeatedly).
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It's going to take them that long to come up with the old keyboard.
Must be lost out the back somewhere along with all the headphone and mic ports.
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Still thrilled with my 2016 MBP - not a single keyboard issue. Probably just jinxed it.....
I suspect it's unlikely to be just "dust" as it mainly seems to be the most used used keys that are generally failing due to "thinness" of critical moving components, aka, the ironically named butterfly switches.
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Me too. I want a macbook pro that’s as close to a portable Mac Pro as possible. For my work device, size and weight has never been a problem for me (caveat below), but for big projects, performance has. We’re probably too small of a niche for Apple to care, but if this new MBP is more focused on performance than portability than the current line, how happy I would be.
Caveat—I have to add that while I love the idea of a 17” laptop, one thing I also like is being low-key. The good thing about 15” laptops is they fit in normal looking backpacks. A 17” laptop might require a special larger backpack and draw attention, so that has me a little on the fence. I don’t mind thicker laptops at all though.
After carrying a 17" to and from work for ten years in a 15" backpack, I never found the size a drawback, seeing MBPs were smaller than wintels. Obviously the 15" is more low key, but now iPads are apparently a feasible alternative, although, apart from no cellular, or the ability to have a cellular mode mode like iOS that doesn't drain your data in seconds, a laptop seems to be the thing that solves issues that pro ipad users constantly whine about.
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LOL with OLED Macs. PC's don't have OLED technology yet in mass quantities and you expect Apple to leap frog the PC competition and jump straight to OLED? No way. Recall that Apple isn't manufacturing these displays but rather relying on 3rd party manufacturers to make these panels. If those manufacturers don't think it is economically feasible to create these panels, they won't. Apple is helpless. OLED is still not proven technology in the personal computer space, not many manufacturers are creating OLED displays in the 13"-15" size (for laptops) and forget desktop monitor sizes!
OLED is not the solution that people seem to imagine as you say, just a stop gap till micro LED is affordable. Too many reliability issues, especially with burn in. I'll stick with my backlit Sony TVs till after OLED.
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6K on anything smaller than 27" is going to be hard on the eyes for some parts of the GUI. Lots of squinting and screen zooming for sure.
That was allegedly an issue with the 30" displays, so I don't imagine everything will shrink as you think. Native resolution on the 15" is pretty wild though.
