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New 15-Inch MacBook Pro With Kaby Lake and 32GB of Desktop-Class RAM Coming Later This Year
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No. Well, extremely unlikely. Intel has to bring out a chipset that will support 32GB of lpddr ram; they’re not expected to do that until late this year (if they don’t push it back still further), so the likelihood of Apple doing this is 2018 is rapidly approaching nil.
I note that this poor, hobbled MBP you’re all talking about is Apple’s top-selling Mac, helped push them into the #4 worldwide computer maker slot, is helping Apple beat the PC industry average slump, and has full support for eGPUs in beta. It would seem that the RAM is much less important to buyers than a tiny (and whiny) but vocal minority would have us believe ...
This is true, and I honestly don't understand how that happened.
The new MBP does have some features that are absolutely phenomenal that the old one didn't have, prime among them TouchID and the phenomenal sound quality as well as Thunderbolt 3 and eGPU support, and it's also thinner and lighter.
But from every other angle I just don't get it. The ports are a constant issue, and the trackpad and keyboard are, in my honest opinion, much worse than the previous generation.
The trackpad and the keyboard is in a nutshell why I'm not upgrading my MacBook Pro. I absolutely hate them. The key travel is way too shallow and the keyboard is very noisy, and the trackpad is WAAAAAAAAAAAY too big. I tried in a Humac and it just kept picking up my palms over and over and over again. It wasn't nice.