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New 13-Inch MacBook Pro Announced With Magic Keyboard, 10th-Gen Processors, Up to 32GB RAM and 4TB SSD, and More

FellaMeLad said:
I need someone's advice quickly! I just bought a Macbook Pro in the UK a week ago on Barclays finance. I've literally finished setting it up over the weekend. My model came with 256GB storage (I didn't want the 128GB option).

I've now seen this new model announced today, which has the 512GB storage for the same price as I paid. What should I do?
  • Should I contact Apple to see if they can upgrade me?

    Or

  • Should I contact Barclays who I'm financing it through, and cancel my agreement? (it was all financed through the Apple website)
My only worry about contacting Barclays is that, if I cancel the agreement, and then try to purchase again, they might not accept me!?

I've had this MacBook for less that two weeks, and really don't want to lose out here. Any advice appreciated.

Thanks!
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It can't hurt to ask, but yeah the Barclays Finance aspect might be difficult. Usually they'd have a 'no questions asked' returns policy, and I'm sure they still do even in your circumstance, but it's worth clarifying with them and Barclays beforehand whether a return would impact your ability to get it again. It's done based on a credit check of course, but depending on how they classify your return (it wasn't like you just couldn't pay according to the agreement you signed) it might not show up at all and then wouldn't impact your ability to do it again.
 
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FellaMeLad said:
I need someone's advice quickly! I just bought a Macbook Pro in the UK a week ago on Barclays finance. I've literally finished setting it up over the weekend. My model came with 256GB storage (I didn't want the 128GB option).

I've now seen this new model announced today, which has the 512GB storage for the same price as I paid. What should I do?
  • Should I contact Apple to see if they can upgrade me?

    Or

  • Should I contact Barclays who I'm financing it through, and cancel my agreement? (it was all financed through the Apple website)
My only worry about contacting Barclays is that, if I cancel the agreement, and then try to purchase again, they might not accept me!?

I've had this MacBook for less that two weeks, and really don't want to lose out here. Any advice appreciated.

Thanks!
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Everyone knew the new 13" MBP was coming. I have no idea why you pulled the trigger on the older model.

You need to decide for yourself. I'd imagine that you have a cooling off period where you can cancel the finance agreement. Before making expensive purchases in future try a little bit of research.
 
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thadoggfather said:
thought it was a typo

gotta spend $1799 for 10th gen

yikes. Now I feel better about my i5/8/512 2020 air ;)

It’s pretty much a keyboard drop in and ssd bump
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Yeah that is some ****. I don't know another way to say it. How can the Airs come with a base 10th gen and the pros do not?!
 
adrianlondon said:
Phew! I was thinking ... for around $250 more I could have bought the cheapest Pro instead of the i5 Air. But then I realised, as have so many other posters above, that I'd end up with an 8th gen processor and worse graphics. And a touchbar I don't want.

*closes the "initiate a return" webpage*
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People were thinking these 14" MBP's that didn't come to light, would render the MBA refresh useless in a short period of time or short sighted.

Appears to not be the case at all.
 
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dlastmango said:
Was so ready to drop my 2012 15" for a new 13" but for these specs/prices.... can't pull the trigger.
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Why not? The higher end model now comes with 512GB SSD as a baseline & 16GB RAM. It's actually better value for money compared to the previous gen. If it's now too expensive, then it must have been too expensive before as nothing has changed with the pricing.
 
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Not surprised Apple kept with the 13" size, glad they didn't go with 14".

As for CPUs... disappointed about the low and mid entry machines - still using two year old CPUs :-(.

Nice 512GB on the storage for mid and high end machine.. finally stopped with the 256GB crap.


Wireless is still stuck on 802.11ac Wi‑Fi, and still Bluetooth 5.0 :-(. Ugh. ****** decisions.... doesn't look so great after all.
 
mattopotamus said:
Yeah that is some ****. I don't know another way to say it.
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critiquing Apple's decisions doesn't make us 'trolls' either... some people really have thin skin over a purchase they haven't made, or if they have, of a product that isn't in their hands yet. If any other OEM pulled this crap, even for way less money, people would give it to them too.

I was doing backflips for the SE2, and 2020 MBA. I think they're both excellent releases and excellent pricing. In fact I own both.

iPad Pro 2020 which is a repackaged iPad Pro 2018 with Lidar and no price drop, nah.
These Pros, which are repackaged 2019's with 8th gen silicon which was outdated even then, nah.

The only way I would say its nice is if you don't care about 14" and you were going for the top end SKU in the first place, regardless of this bizarro silicon separation.
 
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Nice bump for the 4x TB 13", and good to see the new magic keyboard made standard on the lower end.

It looks like the new lineup is:

$1000 - 9W 10th-gen i3 dual-core, 8GB/256GB, 2xTB3 (13" Air)
$1100 - 10W 10th-gen i5 quad-core, 8GB/256GB, 2xTB3 (13" Air)
$1300 - 15W 8th-gen i5 quad-core, 8GB/256GB, 2xTB3 (13" Pro)
$1700 - 15W 8th-gen i5 quad-core, 16GB/512GB, 2xTB3 (13" Pro)
$1800 - 25W? 10th-gen i5 quad-core, 16GB/512GB, 4xTB3 (13" Pro)
$2000 - 28W 10th-gen i7 quad-core, 16GB/512GB, 4xTB3 (13" Pro)

Starting 16":
$2400 - 45W 9th-gen i7 6-core, dGPU, 16GB/512GB, 4xTB3 (16" Pro)
 
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Like with the Air before, these are probably special Ice Lake NG (rather than G) parts that haven't been announced yet.

The 2.3 GHz BTO option could be the 1068G7 (both the base and the turbo match), but none of the others fit an existing SKU. And the 1068G7 still isn't shipping, as far as we know. My guess is none of these are announced SKUs; rather, Apple got (just like with the Air) special-TDP parts that are somewhere in between the existing 15W and 28W ones. (edit) Except for those that are still 8th-gen CPUs, of course.

Bit of a shame that none of these are six cores (unlike Comet Lake-U), but OTOH, we get much better graphics. We'll see in the benchmarks what this actually means compared to the previous Coffee Lake-U parts — the memory controller is way up from LPDDR3-2133 to LPDDR4-3733, so despite the lower clock speeds, we could see some nice boosts there.

It's a bit strange how little the $300 premium over the Air buys you. Benchmarks could tell a different story there, but it seems to be slightly nicer display and speakers, a faster CPU and GPU, and the Touch Bar?
 
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Now that my excitement has calmed down a bit. Wondering what I should do here.

A full redesign isn’t coming until next year at this point. Apple won’t update the lower end specs to a 14” or any other other rumored specs in 2020.
 
DelayedGratificationGene said:
It’s so funny how the Apple bashing trolls are always the first comments in any article. They truly are trolling constantly and once anything comes up they do their thing and bash it immediately. Then gradually as you scroll down the trolls are replaced with the intelligent educated and super informed posts which everyone appreciates. So funny.
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It's your comments that is uneducated. Peoples are pointing out correctly that Apple's new Macbook Pro is using a 2 generation old Intel cpu and still use the same design.
 
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Im disappointed with no 14" option and no real refresh except 16GB RAM and 512GB SSD option is nice but still same bezels, same speakers...Nice to have is physical esc key back
 
Zdigital2015 said:
They expected -

FaceID
14”
No bezels
Up to 64 GB of DRAM
Discrete GPU
16 hours of battery
No TouchBar
Lighter
A leprechaun with a pot of gold
Starting price of $899

Hopefully, none of these people are engineers.
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Exactly. A lot of the people that populate these forums have totally unrealistic expectations about updates and especially on price.

Apple is a phenomenally successful company and even more so under Tim Cook and it's got that way because it charges a huge premium for its products. And their prices seem to be going upwards.

Many consumers are buying powerful computers for very light needs but it's a free market let them spend their money, it's brilliant marketing by Apple and the company has built an eco system where many people with limited tech understanding feel safe and their digital life works seamlessly across a range of products. Bravo.
 
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