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Waiting for Skylake MBP thread

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OSX7 said:
We all know that new MacBooks aren't going to be announced. We have been warned repeatedly by EVERYONE of significance that this is the case. We are now in the stage of making excuses (for ourselves) of why Apple will announce them on the 7th. As always we don't listen, right at the end of the September event, everyone is going to be like: "where are the new MacBooks?!". Let's stop getting others hyped up and setting unrealistic expectations. New rMBPs are for October, Period. Anyways, would love to be proven wrong next week, but the chances of it happening are looking slim.
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well there is still one big reason why they may actually release it on this event.. It's been freaking long time since the last update of this device and they KNOW that. don't you Apple?
 
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OSX7 said:
We all know that new MacBooks aren't going to be announced. We have been warned repeatedly by EVERYONE of significance that this is the case. We are now in the stage of making excuses (for ourselves) of why Apple will announce them on the 7th. As always we don't listen, right at the end of the September event, everyone is going to be like: "where are the new MacBooks?!". Let's stop getting others hyped up and setting unrealistic expectations. New rMBPs are for October, Period. Anyways, would love to be proven wrong next week, but the chances of it happening are looking slim.
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Other than Mark Gurman, what primary sources are saying this? Most sources are merely rumor repeaters, and them having any kind of consensus is pointless.

On the other hand, we have John Gruber calmly, carefully trying to hint that, while he doesn't have any recent primary sources, he is fairly certain there will be no October event. In his mind, it's either September or a small press event.

Ming Chi Kuo has been uncharacteristically quiet since his (apparently accurate) Q4 prediction.

One way or another, nobody seems to expect MBPs to RELEASE in September. We're talking announcement only. There's no supply chain info that can tell us what Apple plans to talk about on the 7th. Apple has an MBP ready for production. They can talk about it any time they want. If people want to hope they'll talk about it next week, they have every right to have that hope. Until then, it's all speculation and rumors.
 
mjs402 said:
Nah. That means that those products will be for sale shortly after September 7th. We aren't expecting the Macs to be "released" until October but they could very well be "announced" in September.
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The guy from The Michael Report is indicating otherwise.

https://themichaelreport.com/
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Yeah, and if this artcile is right, it is even WORSE! :

A source close to Apple’s supply chain management indicated that the new retina MacBook Pros will ship around two months after the unveiling.
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But the article is kind of old, August 12
 
Let's pour some fuel on the fire and kick this thread to 1000 pages:

"So how soon can we expect to see Kaby Lake-powered computers on store shelves? Intel tells Slashgear the wait won’t be long; chips are already being mass produced and are going out to PC manufacturers starting in September, which launches for “hundreds” of units planned during Q4 this year."

https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/30/i...e-big-news-for-vr-notebooks-and-convertibles/
 
Pahanda said:
I've been waiting for a new 15" MBP since mid 2014. First I waited for Broadwell. There was no 15" Broadwell. So now I'm still waiting for Skylake for over a year...
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First we waited for Broadwell, but there was no Broadwell.
Then we waited for Skylake, but there was no Skylake.
Then we waited for Kaby Lake, but there was no Kaby Lake.
Finally they came out with Whisky Lake, but by then I bought a Surface Pro 9.
 
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Jim Dalrymple's report back in mid July doesn't make any sense.
...the company will want to keep the focus on iPhone and nothing else.

If there is a distraction, it would be for the release of iOS, which is complementary to the iPhone. Macs don’t fit in there at all. One of two things would happen: Either the Macs would take away from the importance of the iPhone release, or the Macs would get ignored completely. Neither one of those scenarios are good for Apple or the Mac products.
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Again I say, the iPhone has shared the stage with iPad Pro, Apple Watch, and Apple TV. All Apple products can compliment each other because they all work together. Take away the importance of the iPhone? Macs ignored completely? What is this dude talking about? Does he think an audience really can't handle several products at once? In that case, did the introduction of two pretty big products, iPad Pro and Apple TV, not take away from the relatively lackluster 6s?

I'm sticking with Gruber and my new best friend Michael on this one.
 
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So notebookcheck tested first laptop with kabylake and still no macbooks with skylake, what a joke. The main problem is that apple use cpu that use iris with edram and have to wait for it(which is still slow). They should use with cheaper configuration cpu without edram on iris gpu and in more expensive 15inch configuration with dgpu. Now they are almost a year behind competition.
 
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