Yeah I agree they will likely want to get rid of the air at this point - having killed off the 2015 pro it looks like they are pretty set on rolling out USB C/ butterfly/ retina machines across the lineup. Whether they will cut the MB right down to air equivalent pricing, I’m not sure, perhaps they will deem that $1,099 is close enough without being such a huge dent to their margins? By now the assembly lines should have bedded in and components become cheaper to the point they should be able to knock $200 off without going below their margin threshold. It’s also possible they will decide the MB is selling well enough at its current price that $1,299 & whatever that translates to globally is the new price of admission to a MacBook.
Amber Lake Y, mentioned earlier in the thread.
Apple has always made the larger sizes in a line more expensive. The best analogy here I would say is the 12" iBook vs. the 14" iBook. The machines were the same specs, except the 14" was bigger. The one odd thing there though is they both had the same resolution. The 14" just had bigger pixels. I hope they don't do the same thing with a 13" MacBook.
Maybe Apple needs to muster up a bit more courage and drop the headphone jack, and replace it with a 2nd USB-C jack. But arguably, the 2-port 13" already exists, sort of, as a dual-core MacBook Pro.
If they don’t make the casing edges thicker, or the taper more gradual I don’t think they would be able to without axing the headphone jack. They might well decide to do that if they are really serious about wireless audio though, these machines are probably the ones they’d test it out on first.
I think the reason is because of how retina works, they’re pretty well stuck at @2x 1280x800 (2560x1600 real pixels) by lower quality I guess they primarily mean not P3 colour gamut or the ultra bright backlighting?
The 12" MacBook is not True Tone and it isn't even wide colour gamut.
I guess that kind of kills off any realistic hope of a 14 inch MacBook - can only really hope at this point they decide to produce a 15 inch version as they have really moved the pro to be a particularly expensive power-focused machine, compounded by a weak £. Spending that much on a computer and as a result wanting it to last out another year of use would probably make me overly reticent to use it properly
I think the issue there is that upping the resolution when there’s no room for a bigger sensor can actually be detrimental to image quality. Particularly low light, as the pixels are represented by a smaller fragment of the sensor.
I wonder if we will get any kind of Thunderbolt support.
There were no leaks on the renewed rMBP either, everyone was surprised including reviewers used to getting units in advance! This of course might mean nothing for the new Macbook, since the rMBP is really a (massive but still) incremental update, but I just don't think enough people are willing to pay for leaks related to Macs when iPhones exist.
Precisely. Too much to lose over a product that ultimately isn't THAT exciting. If there would be any Mac related leak soon I'd expect it to be the new Mac Pro.
There’s no room on the logic board for a separate TB3 controller chip, and it consumes over 2 watts of power; the CPU itself only draws 4.5 Watts. For these reasons TB3 is not expected until Intel integrates it, expected with Ice Lake. Seems like you’ll have to move to a Windows PC
There’s no room on the logic board for a separate TB3 controller chip, and it consumes over 2 watts of power; the CPU itself only draws 4.5 Watts. For these reasons TB3 is not expected until Intel integrates it, expected with Ice Lake. Seems like you’ll have to move to a Windows PC
