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I'm confident on a WWDC announcement and soon after availability.
Enough of a difference from the rMB to earn the pro title, but still with an inevitable lean towards thinner and lighter. Most likely to be done with the older USB ports, but with definitely more than the one USB-C port.

To go on a bit of a tangent, has anyone thought that this Amazon Echo competitor/new Apple TV that has popped up recently, might end up being the new Mac Mini? We are nearly sure that Siri is coming to the Mac this year so how about a new Mac mini with these hub functionalities based on a much improved Siri? With the potential for an Apple USB-C powered display made available to use with the mini. Any thoughts?
 
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"by the experience developed designing the A9X, we are proud to announce the whole new MacPadPro with AM1X cpu, it's like having four A9X cpus all in one, you don't need to know how much ram there's inside, or vram, or that boring stuff like clock speed and cache, it just works. shipping in silver, space gray, gold, rose gold (rose gold is the new white for us in apple) and the all new Flame Red, based on the actual color of the burning AS*ES of all the people from the macrumors forum "waiting for skylark mbp". that's all people, have a nice week!"
 
apolloa said:
You do realise you have just made an assumption on all you just typed, with no facts or proof to show any of it is true right?
The current logical timescale is WWDC, if Intels history is anything to go by it wouldn't have MacBook Pro Kaby Lake processors out till next year. And then you could all worry about the next Intel chip technology and waiting for that one.
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True, but assumptions is all I have... and there have been reports that it'll come out in Q4, with some previous posters noting October. WWDC does seem logical, and I really, really hope they'll have announced the new models two weeks from now.
 
The only products in current Apple lineup suitable for the coming kabylake cpus are: macMini, MacBook retina (just updated), MacBook Air.
MacBook Pro, expecially in the 15" variant use only HQ series cpus, the one with more powerfull integrated gpus, and they will come later in 2017.
Actually the 13" MacBook Pro uses a lower spec cpu, but they rarely upgrade in two steps the same line.
 
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It says Kaby Lake will be ready for Q4 2016 which is the estimated time for the new MacBook Pro line to arrive.
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The Kaby Lake Chips releasing in 2016 will not be suitable for a Macbook Pro. Intel does not just release every variant of a processor family all at once. Skylake chips started coming out last year, but suitable chips for Macbook Pro have only been available for a few weeks. It is extremely likely that the same will happen with Kaby Lake.
 
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doctorwhofan98 said:
True, but assumptions is all I have... and there have been reports that it'll come out in Q4, with some previous posters noting October. WWDC does seem logical, and I really, really hope they'll have announced the new models two weeks from now.
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KGI Securities are one of THE most reliable sources for leaks, NOT people on here, and they stated fourt quarter, they did NOT state the calendar year fourth quarter and Apples fourth quarter starts end of June.

We shall find out in a few days.
 
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Here's something that actually is happening; AMD are hosting a press conference in Taiwan at 10am local time on 1st June (3am UK time, 10pm EST tonight) where they promise an 'update' on Polaris GPUs.

Hoping for a Polaris 11 chip maybe called R9 M480 with 2.5Tflops of power and a TDP of 50W and BOOM the MBP might actually be able to drive its retina screen.

Then, immediate availability suggesting an appearance in an Apple product soon, what do people think? If they aren't available straight away I can't see them being ready for WWDC.
 
After reading this entire thread. Even if they do launch with skylake in June, I'll probably go with the more powerful razerblade depending on the spec's. OS does't matter to me both are usable at this point.
 
gifo said:
mainly native TB3 support and better gpus by the rumors
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Power efficiency and high bandwidth/low latency external bus are the biggies. And the multimedia codecs (perfect for the typical Apple market segment).

Kabylake is perfect for USB-c and multiple 5k displays.

I feel Apple will launch 1st gen on Skylake with supporting hardware. Kabylake gen 2.

Though... and it's a big though... Apple could announce at WWDC with Kabylake availability in Q3/Q4 for the back to school market. If anyone can nudge Intel, Apple can. It would be a huge post tick-tock opportunity for Intel.

This MBP is gonna be huge. It won't beat iPhone sales, but it will be a much needed boost to Apple's overall sales.
 
doctorwhofan98 said:
I'm not too surprised, as it would be odd for Apple to launch a model that's just one inch bigger, and even more odd for them to announce it just before WWDC. But Serban's reliability is definitely even more questionable.
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SSD-GUY said:
It already exists m8.
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And we mocked then at the time. Now we'll all be joining the thread with our talks between our legs

Damn you Apple, damn you to hell!!!!!
 
abrooks14 said:
Here's something that actually is happening; AMD are hosting a press conference in Taiwan at 10am local time on 1st June (3am UK time, 10pm EST tonight) where they promise an 'update' on Polaris GPUs.

Hoping for a Polaris 11 chip maybe called R9 M480 with 2.5Tflops of power and a TDP of 50W and BOOM the MBP might actually be able to drive its retina screen.

Then, immediate availability suggesting an appearance in an Apple product soon, what do people think? If they aren't available straight away I can't see them being ready for WWDC.
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It will be either a Polaris chip or only the iris pro 580. I think that Apple won't use a dedicated gpu in the redesigned MacBook Pro. That way they can achieve a much thinner design as you remove a TDP of 50W.
The 15" would go from a TDP of around 95W (CPU and GPU) to 45W. That's a huge difference and the iris pro 580 performs as good/bad as the M370X.
 
cmChimera said:
The Kaby Lake Chips releasing in 2016 will not be suitable for a Macbook Pro. Intel does not just release every variant of a processor family all at once. Skylake chips started coming out last year, but suitable chips for Macbook Pro have only been available for a few weeks. It is extremely likely that the same will happen with Kaby Lake.
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However they still do mention an Apollo Lake kind of Skylake revision that would bring native USB-C TB3 support for mobile platforms - such as the MacBook(which ended up lacking USB-C TB3 support) and the MacBook Pro - so we may see the new MacBook Pro powered by a Skylake revision that's being launch at the same time as the first Kaby Lake Intel processors.
 
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Though... and it's a big though... Apple could announce at WWDC with Kabylake availability in Q3/Q4 for the back to school market. If anyone can nudge Intel, Apple can. It would be a huge post tick-tock opportunity for Intel.
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The Kaby Lake Chips releasing in 2016 will not be suitable for a Macbook Pro. Intel does not just release every variant of a processor family all at once. Skylake chips started coming out last year, but suitable chips for Macbook Pro have only been available for a few weeks. It is extremely likely that the same will happen with Kaby Lake.
 
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NiVanc said:
It will be either a Polaris chip or only the iris pro 580. I think that Apple won't use a dedicated gpu in the redesigned MacBook Pro. That way they can achieve a much thinner design as you remove a TDP of 50W.
The 15" would go from a TDP of around 95W (CPU and GPU) to 45W. That's a huge difference and the iris pro 580 performs as good/bad as the M370X.
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Dedicated GPU is old fashioned and incredibly wasteful for all but a tiny percentage of users who really should be doing their calcs in a HPC center. If you can't, then I guess you are a 0.001% of specialist user who might consider an external GPU/Xeon Phi over USB-c (watch out for the power consumption though).
 
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