Ehh, I can deal with not having the key. I'm sure there's a way to do it. It may involve me spending a few hours figuring out how keyboard input in the OS works in an asinine amount of depth and writing some code, but I'm sure it's doable. Who knows, maybe if they're eliminating the key they'll add it in the list of re-mappable keys. One can (but probably shouldn't) hope...
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Waiting for Skylake MBP thread
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New Macbook Pros, Spec bumped iMacs, Macbook Air bumped to Skylake with USB C/Thunderbolt three (no redesign) maybe an external display. No Mini, No Mac Pro.
If nothing else I hope those are updated to TB3 , its not much but it would make a lot of people happy.
That sucks, I hope BB lets us preorder it at least, I'm getting my old laptop replaced by BB so it's my only option
I'm with you on Best Buy.
Financially Best Buy is my best option as well with my card I can get 18 months no interest. I'm not to concern about availability but having the option for a maxed out MacBook Pro since I keep them a long time.
I'm so looking forward to retire my Late 2008 BTO again
The MBP that will be an one click buy for me:
15 inch (hope for 4K option)
512GB SSD
16GB (make 32GB really that difference?)
4 USB-C/Thunderbolt 3 ports
SD Card slot (I'm a photographer, will need this badly)
GPU, I hope the iGPU will be okay, if not I will go for the dGPU option (knowing Apple, it will be the last choice)
between €2600~2800
15 inch (hope for 4K option)
512GB SSD
16GB (make 32GB really that difference?)
4 USB-C/Thunderbolt 3 ports
SD Card slot (I'm a photographer, will need this badly)
GPU, I hope the iGPU will be okay, if not I will go for the dGPU option (knowing Apple, it will be the last choice)
between €2600~2800
They're dead in my opinion. Theres no point doing anything with the Mac Pro unless you're going to give it a new GPU
Apple has built their reputation re:touch screens and trackpads in part due to great integrated gestures. I'm assuming you could always swipe up with two fingers to access the default options or something like that.
Would be great if they integrated the iPhone 7's haptic engine as well, you could "feel" left-right scrolls or cranks in custom apps sliders and such.
To all the people who said March 2017..... you can go eat a pumpkin!
The Anandtech review of the Lenovo Yoga X1 has a good comparison between the LCD and OLED version. The battery life of the OLED version is just terrible compared to the LCD one in their testing.
If it's only USB-C's I'll probably add a USB-C to USB-A dongle, a USB-C to HDMI, USB-C to SD Card and USB-C to Ethernet. I won't buy them all at the same time tho. I'm alreaddy counting the pennies for the Mac itself. Im preparing for prices to go up.
I don't trust MBPs+dGPUs since the Nvidia GeForce 8600 GT GPU in my early 2008 MBP failed. It would turn on, the hard drive would spin, but nothing would show on screen. Eventually, it got to the point that it would boot up, HDD would spin for a bit, and then it would just die with a whimper sound. Brought it to 3 different Apple stores...coverage denied by all of them and they told me it would cost $800 CAD to replace the logic board. Then it happened again with the 2011 MBP and AMD card. Complete ******** if you ask me.
As you can see, I'm still bitter.
How many of you live in boston? I just went to turn in my rMBP and met two other guys doing the same. Now, that I come home I realize I could have waited till the last day of the 14 day return policy.
Wow did you just buy your 15"? A lot of people jumped from this thread over the past month or two and bought 2015 rMBP.
Yes, like a week back. Wasn't very sure about the rumors but I guess I was wronged.
finally! glad this is happening soon. I got my apple gift card of $290 today also to use towards my MacBook Pro! waiting for the other $275 one for my iPhone 6s trade in. Hope I get it in time for ordering on Thursday! 
I'm hopeful there will be a USB-A port and SD slot still. The case leak from June could have just been an incomplete prototype and things may have changed in these last several months we've been waiting. I do think MagSafe is gone, though, and perhaps Apple has some interesting USB-C innovation to roughly emulate the same functionality.
Honestly there is no chance of a USB A port. What would be the point? You either move on or you don't. I think the card slot is gone also.
I doubt they'd keep a legacy port just for the sake of it. Seeing as USB C is backwards compatible it would be a waste of a port to have a USB A one on there. Also this would probably make manufacturers produce a lot more USB C devices so won't be an issue soon, and long term you wouldn't want a wasteful type A port on there.
Magsafe wise who knows, I think they removed it from the rMB as it would likely not work with a device so small and light. I'm skeptical about the charging capacity of USB C for the MBP, it would probably still need a separate power brick and wouldn't be chargeable with any old charger like the rMB. Which seems silly. However, they could remove it for the simplicity of having an extra port when you're not charging. Although I doubt there would be 4 USB ports on the device, with all the USB C docks and stuff it seems pointless and unnecessary to have so many ports...
I would max out the ram and make it last. I wish my 09 had more the last painful 18 months of waiting. Might be better resale if you upgrade earlier
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