No Wi-Fi ax in the 2019 MacBook Pro...

[DeanL]

Why???
I remember a time where Apple fitted n Wi-Fi cards into its Mac without telling anyone before the new specification was released and allowed people to enable it later.

 

[Howard2k]

It has native support in one of the next upcoming CPUs I think, but not the current ones. The 802.11ac implementation is very strong though, aside from the nTB. It’s still a better performer then many of the current ax deployments.

 

[kwikdeth]

Why???
I remember a time where Apple fitted n Wi-Fi cards into its Mac without telling anyone before the new specification was released and allowed people to enable it later.

it took an incredibly long time in technology standards to ratify 802.11n. The inclusion of n on macs prior to certification really had nothing to do with Apple being generous and was more the result of the manufacturers of chipsets moving to the new tech that was almost certainly going to be ratified as-is, and could be updated with minimal firmware changes. purely an economic matter.

 

[DeanL]

it took an incredibly long time in technology standards to ratify 802.11n. The inclusion of n on macs prior to certification really had nothing to do with Apple being generous and was more the result of the manufacturers of chipsets moving to the new tech that was almost certainly going to be ratified as-is, and could be updated with minimal firmware changes. purely an economic matter.

I see!

 

[NoBoMac]

FYI...

The iFixit teardown is showing that the new MPB has same wifi module as iMac Pro, Mini, previous Macbooks, etc. So, no real changes other than keyboard and processor bump.