Waiting for next, redesigned MacBook Pro

[KensaiMage]

Current design MBP pros:
-Good processors
-High amount of ram
-Third generation butterfly keyboard

Current design MBP cons:
-Not Spectre/Meltdown proof processors
-Third generation butterfly keyboard (We do not know anything about the dust resistance yet.)
-Medicore GPU
-Not so useful touchbar (It is useful for some. However, Apple could create something better.)


Most probable next design MBP pros:
-Spectre/Meltdown proof processors
-Processors with faster clocks and/or more cores
-HBM2 GPU
-LPDDR4 memmory
-4k resolution
-Sexy new look
-More reliable keyboard
-Rethought touchbar or some invention that replaces it
-Face ID

Next design MBP cons:
-unknown reliability

I am waiting for the next redesign - how about you?

 

[ofarlig]

I try not to wait too much for stuff so I am getting this version, if next year brings around a redesign that entices me I will get that as well to replace this one.

 

[cyberone]

I prefer the last batch of a product lineup, not the firsts of a new product lineup. Avoids teething issues that come with any new product - and almost exclusively gives the most reliable hardware.

 

[The Mercurian]

Op your poll needs a third option: "They lost me and I'm defecting to Windows"

 

[fokmik]

This version...since the redesign will come probably in 2020...and, based on Apple history i will never buy a first gen redesign . So 2018 model for me, and i will upgrade with 2021 or 2022 model

 

[Falhófnir]

We still have the 2019s to go with this design if Apple sticks to past form - the 2020 model will be the next redesign, and it sounds like it’s going to have a Taptic glass keyboard and Apple designed ARM chip from the scant rumours we have had. Controversial indeed

 

[cambookpro]

I'm apparently some kind of sadist and love putting myself through the joys of owning first-gen products. Have owned a 2006, 2008 and 2016 MBP (skipped the 2012 Retina as had just bought a 2011 the year before).

So I'll wait and probably pounce on the next redesign. Wouldn't mind Face ID and a slightly smaller form factor.

 

[MacFather]

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[Sterkenburg]

Buying the current design for three main reasons:

- 6-core CPU and 32GB RAM are the most significant upgrade in years in terms of hardware.
- The last couple iterations of every design are usually the most solid MBP units in terms of reliability. No more first-gen products for me after being bitten hard by the 2016 keyboard fiasco.
- Given the recent redesign trends and the relentless push towards thin and light, I'm scared as hell when I try to imagine what Apple has in mind for the future. If in the next redesign they pull off stunts such as abandoning the x86 architecture or introducing a glass keyboard, the machine I'm buying now might well be my last MBP.

That said, the quality of the 2018 hardware upgrade gives me hope that they will always keep a proper high-end model for those who need an actual pro laptop.

It would be nice to have a 4K display and a Vega GPU, but as soon as they're available there will be inevitably something else around the corner, and so on and so forth. So the waiting game ends here for me.

 

[macintoshmac]

Most probable next design MBP pros:


Next design MBP cons:
-unknown reliability

I am waiting for the next redesign - how about you?

With the unknown reliability of the next design already in place in your mind, why would you wait for it? Wait for the next-er redesign which you would think be reliable.

 

[Ethosik]

How will a redesign of the laptop fix the Spectre/Meltdown issues? It is up to Intel and the processor, not the shell and how the computer looks.