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My guess is a September launch. The new MacBook Pros will launch with Monterey, and perhaps be announced with the iPhone 13.
Apple avoids September launches for laptops, as they use that month to sell previous year models to college students, who are going to buy laptops that month anyways.

Likely an October or November launch for the next laptops.
 
Just use what you have and appreciate it. The newest models won't change lives.
It very well could for those with physical disabilities. For people without physical or mental challenges, the newest models will turn you into a super hero complete with Mac spelled out in large letters on your chest and a golden cape flying in the wind as you fly the skies looking for Mac newbies to save. :D
 
The tittle reads "New MBP's shipments Forcasted For 3rd Quarter" and then in the article it says 3rd or 4th quarter lol

I'll believe it when I see it by Apple at this point.
 
I wouldn’t have minded seeing new MacBooks or the iMac Pro at WWDC but I don’t know why anyone seriously expected to be shown.
Like I said, I wouldn’t have minded, but I thought it was unlikely.
They only released the M1 devices end of last year…
 
Same thing with all these rumours, they say they will get announced at (blah blah blah event), then it doesn't get announced there lmao
 
Yeah but it’s also strange to put 2 fans in the new iMac design if they weren’t planning to allow M2 configurations soon. That’s 1.5 more fans than the M1 needs.
Thats unrelated. Some software can readily cause that new 24" M1 iMac with two cooling fans to get really hot to the touch (Adobe Premiere 25 min test). While this M1 SoC does most things without getting too warm, it was quite apparent the cheapest M1 iMac model is one to avoid because of the difference to cooling compared to the two better configurations. Can't imagine incorporating a M2 into the same design without better cooling. :)
 
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After being burnt at WWDC with no MBP's I'd like to mute any future MBP rumors until an announcement comes from Apple since while normally it's fun to speculate, I'm just so ready for them now, and don't want my heart broken again, :p.
 
Funny about a year ago I was questioning if I should get the 16" MBP or wait for the rumored AS releases. 16" 64gb ram has been amazing. And the 5600m graphics still isn't touchable by any other model.

glad I didn't wait
 
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hmm interesting to see how many heads Jon Prosser lives in rent free. Especially since y'all were making the claim of MBPs being at WWDC months before he jumped on the bandwagon. Might wanna get a dementia test since many can't recall this all started last year. After the first wave of M1 devices Ming Chi Kuo reaffirmed statements that upper MacBook Pros were coming 3rd quarter 2021 maybe 4th due to covid consequences. Then at the start of this year more rumour mongers added weight saying they'd be ready mid - late (northern) summer. So that's July / Aug which had EVERYBODY thinking hey Apple holds an event in June, in the past they introduced hardware including new MBPs (2012) so it's reasonable to make the conclusion. This consensus was substantiated by more info such as the 2021 chips going into fabrication months ago to ready in time. All the pieces were falling into place except one, mini LED. This month supply chain news said the company making the mini LED arrays for these new MBPs only just started production. So not being ready for MPB assembly for several weeks. Strangely that key info didn't stop the rumour mills who instead rationalised we'd still get MBPs at WWDC without mini LED & it would be a feature added at the end of the year or early next. Which sounded ridiculous & it was.
 
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After being burnt at WWDC with no MBP's I'd like to mute any future MBP rumors until an announcement comes from Apple since while normally it's fun to speculate, I'm just so ready for them now, and don't want my heart broken again, :p.
The best clues are with product availability, there was absolutely nothing with availability to suggest any immediate announcement when people were hoping for new MBP at this show. Vendors putting sales prices on MBP/iMacs is not enough to discern anything either. ;)
 
In retrospect, maybe it’s not a surprise they didn’t announce it yesterday. It would’ve been strange to release new iMacs with an M1 chip and then two weeks later announce the M1X chip.
Not at all. The new M chip will be targeted at the higher end (more expensive) MacBook Pro lineup and iMac is a consumer device.
There was literally NOTHING in that keynote about progress on M1 apps currently. Like zero. Not enemy a shout-out to Devs who got their stuff already native on M1 over the last year.
 
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My "three day wild guess": Apple has shelved the M1X SoC. Taking full advantage of the current chip shortage, Apple now has time to convert the 14" and 16" MacBook Pros to run the M2X variant of the upcoming M2 SoC, based on the A15 coming in September 2021. M2X will have 8 high performance CPU cores, 2 high efficiency CPU cores, and 16 to 32 GPU cores, all CPU and GPU cores based on the M2 design. And because it will likely arrive in early 2021, it will also sport mini LED panels. In short, Apple will in another online event unveil the M2/M2X based MacBook Air, Mac mini, MacBook Pros and iMacs.
 
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hmm interesting to see how many heads Jon Prosser lives in rent free. Especially since y'all were making the claim of MBPs being at WWDC months before he jumped on the bandwagon. Might wanna get a dementia test since many can't recall this all started last year. After the first wave of M1 devices Ming Chi Kuo reaffirmed statements that upper MacBook Pros were coming 3rd quarter 2021 maybe 4th due to covid consequences. Then at the start of this year more rumour mongers added weight saying they'd be ready mid - late (northern) summer. So that's July / Aug which had EVERYBODY thinking hey Apple holds an event in June, in the past they introduced hardware including new MBPs (2012) so it's reasonable to make the conclusion. This consensus was substantiated by more info such as the 2021 chips going into fabrication months ago to ready in time. All the pieces were falling into place except one, mini LED. This month supply chain news said the company making the mini LED arrays for these new MBPs only just started production. So not being ready for MPB assembly for several weeks. Strangely that key info didn't stop the rumour mills who instead rationalised we'd still get MBPs at WWDC without mini LED & it would be a feature added at the end of the year or early next. Which sounded ridiculous & it was.
Good points, however i don't think any of us really want MBP's utilizing mini-LED, its obviously problematic to use with tiny flat panels as feedback been given with 12.9" iPad Pro. Most TV's don't use unless 50" or bigger. So why any excitement at all for that technology against MBP's? :)
 
Digitimes is like Prosser, just guesses

By that tally, Prosser is more accurate than Ming-Chi Kuo. Why do Apple sycophants get so butthurt about Prosser?
 
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Nah.

You got fooled for believing Prosser. He’s notorious for being wrong but people enjoy his wet dreams. His prediction was completely out of line with the entire supply chain, which had been saying 2H’21 for the longest time.
It was always reasonable to infer (if perhaps optimistic) that Q3 or 2H'21 could mean shipping late July / August. I wouldn't call that "completely out of line with the entire supply chain." All the reliable analysts were noncommittal on a specific timeframe. Given the chip shortage and possible mini-LED constraints, we all should have been a bit more skeptical of shipment earlier in the second half of the year.
 
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It was always reasonable to infer (if perhaps optimistic) that Q3 or 2H'21 could mean shipping late July / August. I wouldn't call that "completely out of line with the entire supply chain." All the reliable analysts were noncommittal on a specific timeframe. Given the chip shortage and possible mini-LED constraints, we all should have been a bit more skeptical of shipment earlier in the second half of the year.

2H'21 means the analysts don't know if it's Q3 or Q4. If July/August had any real possibility of happening, analysts would have converged on mid-2021 or Q3.

We had people doing mental gymnastics saying, "If Kuo and Nikkei and Digitimes said 2H, it could mean July shipping and it would be launched at WWDC, right? Right??" Again, this made zero sense given analysts said 2H. They said 2H because they didn't think it was going to be early Q3. In addition, none of those WWDC theories could explain why Apple would voluntarily Osborne their existing MacBooks, which would negatively impact revenue.

Nikkei reported M2 wafer starts began in April. Digitimes said Epistar was trailing mini LED for MacBook in May. Nothing in the supply chain ever suggested WWDC.
 
Digitimes is like Prosser, just guesses
Its clear Apple want an event just for the mac in fall close to the new macOS release
Apple will bring in one event 14" and 16" MBP, mac mini and probably the bigger imac
And for the September event, iphone,apple watch and airpods
It makes sense to wait a year between Mac Mini models. I read a report that the mini-LED screen production was sluggish, so whether or not it would be on the new Pro's was temporarily in question. Mac Mini's were on sale for Memorial Day and before, so I thought they were depleting inventory. wrong.
 
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