Two New Apple Silicon MacBooks Expected to Enter Mass Production in Second Half of 2021

[smallcoffee]

No good reason?

Loads of professional cameras still store on SD cards, and transferring the card over to the machine for editing is almost always going to be faster than just about any other connection method.

And HDMI is hardly "legacy". Show me a boardroom or classroom that has a Thunderbolt connection for its projector or wall display, and I'll gladly throw my dongles out the window. I haven't encountered a single one yet.

“things are this way so we should just support this way and not change”

no thanks. I don’t use anything but USB-C, for example, with my digital tools. Why take the SD card out of my camera when I can just plug it in via USB-C? Oh and charge my laptop.

why have all these dongles and ports and stuff? Big waste.

 

[aforty]

I was hoping to get a new MBP 16" soon.

 

[Artemis70]

I don't get the Apple plan. Do they want to spend years in the transition from Intel to Silicon? I believe that Apple was much better prepared on the transition from Power to Intel processors. At this pace, it will be two years into the new processor before they are not selling Intel based machines, which means that have to support the Intel machines for quite some time (or piss of everyone who is replacing their Mac with an Intel model still).

 

[umbilical]

Aside from bringing back MagSafe to the MacBook Pro, I want the Apple logo on the back to light up again

meh, that is a waste, another thing to repair a connection light etc. maybe not too much but.
I never see that damn light when I use it obvious
I prefer a engrave thing!

 

[umbilical]

Sounds like almost my dream macbook pro, please God! 14 inch and no touchbar!!!

wait to Oct/Nov is too much for me, but I'll wait!!!!!
I need replace my macbookpro late 2013, the keyboard don't works, I using with an apple wireless keyboard.

 

[cmaier]

I don't get the Apple plan. Do they want to spend years in the transition from Intel to Silicon? I believe that Apple was much better prepared on the transition from Power to Intel processors. At this pace, it will be two years into the new processor before they are not selling Intel based machines, which means that have to support the Intel machines for quite some time (or piss of everyone who is replacing their Mac with an Intel model still).

What are you talking about? They started the transition only a few months ago. At WWDC they announce higher end laptops and they go on sale in the second half. iMacs go on sale before the end of the year. The whole transition will take about a year.

 

[cmaier]

Sounds like almost my dream macbook pro, please God! 14 inch and no touchbar!!!

wait to Oct/Nov is too much for me, but I'll wait!!!!!
I need replace my macbookpro late 2013, the keyboard don't works, I using with an apple wireless keyboard.

"second half of the year" means July. Nobody is predicting November.

 

[smallcoffee]

Having HDMI and SD on a Pro machine, intended for professional usage, certainly has a very good reason.

As someone else has said in this thread, the only reason to ever remove them in the first place was for aesthetic purposes, Jony Ive pursuing his dream of as thin a laptop as possible.

Eh, I just would like to avoid dongle hell. HDMI, USB-A, Displayport, etc. etc.

Pros will move to USB-C over time. Not to mention new professionals buying new equipment would buy USB-C first.

 

[Apple_Robert]

I am interested to see what the 14" offers, even though I don't need a lot. I don't mind waiting. My M1 MBA is doing just fine.

 

[Lemon Olive]

There will be 4 USB-C/tb ports on the 16” and 14” MBPs.

Nope, there won't.

The writing is on the wall.

 

[nquinn]

Depressing. I need one ASAP and was hoping for June/July. Should have just bought a cheap Air back in Nov/Dec to tide me over had I known it would take a year to get the 16" model.

 

[KPOM]

I don't get the Apple plan. Do they want to spend years in the transition from Intel to Silicon? I believe that Apple was much better prepared on the transition from Power to Intel processors. At this pace, it will be two years into the new processor before they are not selling Intel based machines, which means that have to support the Intel machines for quite some time (or piss of everyone who is replacing their Mac with an Intel model still).

It could be supply constraints because of the pandemic.

 

[KPOM]

Too bad we're not really talking about 12" MX MacBooks. Still love my 2017 12" MB. It's like having a roadster in the garage. But it would totally benefit from Apple Silicon.

Exactly. I'd like to see that return. Perhaps once Apple completes the transition of its existing lineup it will reconsider other designs.

 

[cmaier]

Nope, there won't.

The writing is on the wall.

What writing? The bandwidth for the legacy ports is a fraction of even a single such USB-C port, and the M1 already has plenty of bandwidth for 4. It's just missing the extra controllers and drivers in the I/O ring. "M1X" will definitely have them.

 

[cmaier]

Depressing. I need one ASAP and was hoping for June/July. Should have just bought a cheap Air back in Nov/Dec to tide me over had I known it would take a year to get the 16" model.

July is the "second half of the year." So it could be July. None of the rumors say december. It will most likely be announced at WWDC and on sale shortly thereafter.

 

[calliex]

I don’t see why people can’t get a magnetic usb-c dongle if they want - there are plenty of them on Amazon.

The problem with the dongles is the cost and quality of them is all over the place. I have researched many of them and they get hot, mess up wifi, quit working ,etc. If apple made the dongles that would allow legacy ports that would be great.

 

[Clix Pix]

Nope, there won't.

The writing is on the wall.

Apparently you don't realize that the M1 is built on the baseline level 13" MBP, which had only two ports. When they move to the next group of MBPs those better-spec'd machines, just as their Intel predecessors do, will have four ports.

 

[SirAnthonyHopkins]

Depressing. I need one ASAP and was hoping for June/July. Should have just bought a cheap Air back in Nov/Dec to tide me over had I known it would take a year to get the 16" model.

always get the computer you need when you need it. Because you need it. Don’t wait based on guesswork and assumptions about when the new upgrade will be released and then get depressed when it doesn’t come to pass.

 

[chucker23n1]

Nope, there won't.

The writing is on the wall.

There isn't any writing on the wall whatsoever. The current M1 MacBook Pro replaces a previous Intel model that also had two ports on the left side.

Neither of the four-port Intel models have been replaced.

 

[carestudio]

Please give me thunderbolt ports only. No magsafe or hdmi. I dont know why Apple wants to bring legacy ports back? what about FireWire 400 and FireWire 800? or perhaps E-SATA too? and ExpressCard slot? I don't want my next MX mac looks like another mac pro cheese grater.... too many holes. All I need is thunderbolt ports and they provide everything I want and look so slim and clean.

 

[chucker23n1]

HDMI is not a "legacy port". If it has a successor (it doesn't), it sure isn't USB-C. Good luck going to a client's or hotel's meeting room and trying to connect a USB-C cable to a projector.

 

[GizmoDVD]

Just to be clear - the only M1 laptop with a touchbar is the 13? None of these are rumored to have one?

Wow.

 

[cmaier]

HDMI is not a "legacy port". If it has a successor (it doesn't), it sure isn't USB-C. Good luck going to a client's or hotel's meeting room and trying to connect a USB-C cable to a projector.

But HDMI ports apparently look neither “slim” and ”clean.” And how do you address the well known problem of ”too many holes?” I mean, does Apple not care at all about the poor trypophobes?

 

[chucker23n1]

But HDMI ports apparently look neither “slim” and ”clean.” And how do you address the well known problem of ”too many holes?” I mean, does Apple not care at all about the poor trypophobes?

I do suspect an MBP with HDMI will be a little thicker. But then… why is this a problem? The Air exists. Let the Pro be more of a workhorse.

 

[cmaier]

I do suspect an MBP with HDMI will be a little thicker. But then… why is this a problem? The Air exists. Let the Pro be more of a workhorse.

if they “flatten” the bottom of the case, as is rumored, don;’t see why it needs to be thicker. The edge may be thicker, but the overall machine can be as thin.