Notebook Lineup 2018

[roland.g]

What Apple's Notebook Lineup should look like by the end of October:

12" MacBook - $949
Dual Core m3
8GB up to 16GB
128GB up to 512GB
Integrated Graphics
1 USB-C
2.0 lbs

12" MacBook with TouchBar - $1,299
Dual Core i5
8GB up to 16GB
256GB up to 1TB
Integrated Graphics
2 USB-C
2.0 lbs

14" MacBook with TouchBar - $1,499
Dual Core i7
8GB up to 16GB
256GB up to 2TB
Integrated Graphics
2 USB-C
3.2 lbs

13" MacBook Pro with TouchBar - $1,799
Quad Core i5
8GB up to 16GB
256GB up to 2TB
Integrated Graphics
4 USB-C
3.0 lbs

15" MacBook Pro with TouchBar - $2,399
6-Core i7
16GB up to 32GB
256GB up to 4TB
Dedicated Graphics
4 USB-C
4.0 lbs

All machines with Retina Display and all but the entry 12" MacBook with TouchBar and T2 TouchID.

 

[Lobwedgephil]

Think $999 will be the entry point.

 

[Dave245]

Why put a Touch Bar on the 12” MacBook the Pro has it because it’s a professional laptop and the Touch Bar can be used in apps like Final Cut Pro, Logic, Photoshop and so on.

There also won’t be a 14” version it’s rumored to be a 13” version that will replace the Air, wouldn’t it be great tho if they released a new generation of the Air?

All new MacBook Air with the following

13” Retina display with True Tone
Thinner bezels
16GB option
3rd generation butterfly keyboard
Thinner and lighter
Higher specs than the current version

Just a thought

 

[maflynn]

What Apple's Notebook Lineup should look like by the end of October:

You forgot the MacBoo Air

 

[roland.g]

You forgot the MacBoo Air

No. I think it will he gone and the MacBook and Air lines will become one.

 

[maflynn]

No. I think it will he gone and the MacBook and Air lines will become one.

Rumors have been abound that apple is updating the MBA. I understand there's so much overlap in apple's product line, but so far the chatter is more about a new MBA then not

 

[roland.g]

Rumors have been abound that apple is updating the MBA. I understand there's so much overlap in apple's product line, but so far the chatter is more about a new MBA then not

What is really glaring is that the stock dual core i5 12” MacBook at $1,599 has almost no value compared to a base 13” Touch Bar Pro. The 2018 13” revisions make that MacBook seem so under featured and over priced.

 

[jerryk]

I question the need for a 14" MacBook, but the rest makes sense. The Air should be gone at this point.

Instead of a 14 inch MacBook I can see a more loaded pre-configured 12" macbook in place with 512 GB at $1499 with slightly faster clock. Similar to 256 and 512 GB versions of the 13" and 15"

 

[Brookzy]

The rumours are pointing towards the new MacBook Air replacement being 13".

Unfortunately I expect its arrival will make the notebook line-up even more confusing and incoherent.

Why put a Touch Bar on the 12” MacBook the Pro has it because it’s a professional laptop and the Touch Bar can be used in apps like Final Cut Pro, Logic, Photoshop and so on.

Really? The Touch Bar is arguably the least-pro "pro" feature Apple has come out with. Essentially existing as an emoji picker, iTunes scrubber, and word suggester, it would be more suited to a MacBook/MacBook Air than a MacBook Pro... alas, only the pro market will pay for it and so only they will get it.

Though I agree what you suggest would be a nice MacBook Air replacement. If they could make that $999, and then add a True Tone/P3/500 nits display, 3rd gen keyboard, Touch Bar, and a second USB-C port to the 12" MacBook, and also make a 13" or 14" version, and then have the current MacBook Pros on the top end, that would be quite an amazing lineup.

Instead I expect we'll get some weird MacBook Air replacement that sits as a sort of halfway house between the current Air and the (already ambiguous) function keys MacBook Pro, and the rest of the lineup unchanged or minorly spec-bumped.

 

[Dave245]

The rumours are pointing towards the new MacBook Air replacement being 13".

Unfortunately I expect its arrival will make the notebook line-up even more confusing and incoherent.


Really? The Touch Bar is arguably the least-pro "pro" feature Apple has come out with. Essentially existing as an emoji picker, iTunes scrubber, and word suggester, it would be more suited to a MacBook/MacBook Air than a MacBook Pro... alas, only the pro market will pay for it and so only they will get it.

Though I agree what you suggest would be a nice MacBook Air replacement. If they could make that $999, and then add a True Tone/P3/500 nits display, 3rd gen keyboard, Touch Bar, and a second USB-C port to the 12" MacBook, and also make a 13" or 14" version, and then have the current MacBook Pros on the top end, that would be quite an amazing lineup.

Instead I expect we'll get some weird MacBook Air replacement that sits as a sort of halfway house between the current Air and the (already ambiguous) function keys MacBook Pro, and the rest of the lineup unchanged or minorly spec-bumped.

The Touch Bar is very useful in Final Cut Pro, one of my best friends uses his 2016 MacBook Pro with Touch Bar for video editing and he loves it, he’s told me a number of times that it saves him time (which he is happy about because time is money). I can’t speak for other people but it also looks good in Photoshop and so on. If you only use it as an emoji bar then yes I would agree it’s not very Pro, in my opinion it’s all about what apps you use it with and how you customise it.

I think we will see an Air replacement in the form of the rumoured 13” MacBook or whatever they end up calling it, i at least expect it to have a Retina disaply, P3 would be nice and on par with the MacBook?

I have a felling that’s the reason why they haven’t updated the 13” none Touch Bar MacBook Pro, I think this 13” will replace that and the Air.