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New MacBook Pro and 13-Inch 'MacBook' Coming Next Week, iMac and Display Not Ready Yet

Stella said:
If Macbook pro does have TB3 - you'd be able to easily attach an eGPU?
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As someone who bought a 2011 MBP in the hope of doing eGPUs, I wouldn't hold your breath. The Wolfe takedown doesn't make this look promising.
 
Technology has moved on so much since the last time they've updated the Mini, one has to assume that, when they finally update it, the thing will be a third of the size.
 
I need good discrete graphics. I'll keep a cheap/old/entry level mac to stay in the ecosystem for my photos etc. with my phones, iPads, Apple TV, but I'll be using a Windows laptop if I can't get halfway decent graphics on my next MacBook Pro.
 
Cougarcat said:
If they were to make it a bit thicker *Ive winces in horror* and dropped the chin, I think it would look way better.
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Why would making it thicker look better? Again sounds like change for the sake of it - currently design is more or less perfect apart from the old hard drive bulge and until we can get 3-5TB flash PCI (at reasonable prices) that stays.
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Johnny907 said:
Except Asus and several other OEM's are already shipping laptops which use the same Kaby Lake parts an updated MacBook Pro would use, so ya know, there's that inconvenient little fact. It's the Desktop level Kaby Lake processors that won't be out until early next year, which is why iMac refreshes are doubtful.
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That's incorrect, you need to actually look at which Kaby Lake processors the MacBook Pro uses - the MACBOOK level Kaby's are available (but offer little to not advantage over Skylake in current MacBook) the rMBP's are not. Further more the iMac has and always has used mobile parts not desktop chips.

All the data is easy to find on this site.

(Edit 1st search: https://www.macrumors.com/2016/09/22/intel-mobile-roadmap-coffee-lake/ - Kaby Lake for 13" rMBP not available until 1st quarter 2017 at earliest, H series for 15" not available until end of the year and even then there is an issue with embedded graphics chip which means they may never be used in the 15" rMBP and may skip to the next Intel update)
 
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SMIDG3T said:
Yes. Just yes.
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Well I suppose it's a personal preference thing. I just find it really hard to get used to because I'm a heavy typer (as in, I strike the keys quite hard haha) so for me if I type my fingers begin to hurt a little.
 
inhalexhale1 said:
I wasn't expecting radical redesigns across the board or anything unrealistic like that.

...but leaving the iMac untouched for over a year, sticking with a 5500rpm drive as standard in a $1500 4K model, etc.; their lineup stills seems dated and lame.

A MBP that has a "magic strip" touch screen, and a MacBook Air that has a new USB port just doesn't seem like enough to justify an entire event. Especially one with a title that reminisces of big news. I'd at least expect component upgrades in the models that are well do for one.
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What can they do with the iMac though? Its already running Skylake in the 27 inch the 21.5 is on Broadwell if I remember correctly there was no Skylake equivalent of the chip used in the 21.5 inch. I think they will wait for the appropriate Kabylake processors before updating the iMac.

The hard drive thing is classic Apple, the Mac equivalent of the 16gb iPhone, severely gimped device that only exist to make the base price point seem lower.

Sounds like a 5k external display over a single cable isn't ready yet which doesnt really surprise and the future of the Mac Mini and the Mac Pro isn't clear. I could see they both being killed to be honest.
 
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aohus said:
they lost me at 'keyboard will have same butterfly design as on the macbook.'

SHAME!
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I bet my left arm this is wrong - most of these predictions can be made with common sense - the common sense choice here is that the MacBook Pro will have the same travel as the Magic Keyboard 2, which is more than the MacBook but slightly less than the current rMBP, having constantly swapped between all three I can tell you the Magic Keyboard 2 has the best feel of all of them.
 
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blahbrah said:
As someone who bought a 2011 MBP in the hope of doing eGPUs, I wouldn't hold your breath. The Wolfe takedown doesn't make this look promising.
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eGPUs was possible with earlier MacBook Pros, but cost a lot of money to do so, and long winded:
https://linustechtips.com/main/topi...setup-guide-benchmarks-egpu-setup-windows-10/

Since TB3 has enough bandwidth out of the box to cope with Ndivia 980s/1080s... it should be cheaper and more realistic?
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/gigabyte-external-gpu-dock,31984.html
 
SMIDG3T said:
Get over it.

Typing is so much better on the new keyboards.

SHAME!
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SMIDG3T said:
Get over it.

Typing is so much better on the new keyboards.

SHAME!
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You are one of the few who likes the new keyboard. As a technical writer the keyboard is so important to me this might drive me to Windows machines in the future - just hope my MacBook Pro lasts a few years.
 
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I have a Macbook and the rMBP 15 - I really hope they don't put the Macbook keyboard on the rMBP. Will probably count me out of a new one if it does (who am I kidding...).

I love my Macbook, it's a brilliant travel and meeting buddy. What it isn't is a typing work-horse. I can't type anything like as quickly on the Macbook, nor as accurately. I don't think it's terrible, but I don't use the Macbook in the same way as the 'pro.

Sigh.
 
Rob_2811 said:
Sounds like a 5k external display over a single cable isn't ready yet which doesnt really surprise and the future of the Mac Mini and the Mac Pro isn't clear. I could see they both being killed to be honest.
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I could too, however neither of those needs the thunderbolt display. It's a bad match for both of them. The mac pro has enough thunderbolt ports that you could simply run 1 or 2 as displayport. It's too expensive to be a good match for the mini. In fact the thunderbolt display didn't work with the mac pro until 2 years after its introduction. They kept the cinema display around a bit longer for the mac pro, but it probably wasn't the primary option for those users.
 
I find the rumored updates to be underwhelming at best. Apple has had two years and this is the best they can do? Really?
 
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"13-inch MacBook" does not mean "Air".


Expect a MacBook 13" w/ i3/i5 intel cpu options, starting at/near $1299

AND

Expect to see the current MacBook 12" to drop in price close to or at $999

There may be a soft launch for iMac.

No updates for Air, mini, or Mac Pro at this event or "ever".

Expect an iMac Pro, possibly in black, during Q2 2017
 
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