That’s what I imagined. If you had Face ID firstly it’d force Apple to upgrade the ISight cameras. If you use it as dual authentication it just makes it more secure. Also I can imagine a feature where if you’re not paying attention to the screen it blacks it out until you look back again so people can’t snoop what you’re doing once Face ID gets faster.
well you can just get a typewriter, problem solvedWell i don't want to have a camera which look at me when I'm not paying attention
I do appreciate the smaller, lighter chassis of the 2016 and 2017 machines, I just feel that they made far too many compromises to get there. The keyboard, the ports, the battery, even the screen assembly feels more flimsy than previously. The 2015 machines were a good balance between portability and functionality, I think the 2016+ models tip the balance too far towards thinner and lighter.
I wouldn’t rule it out completely, though it’s unlikely. It will become more likely that they’ve made some significant changes if there is no update in spring and wait until summer or autumn to refresh it again I guess.
If it’s just a spec bump then a spring release is still pretty likely - with the hype around intel 8th gen chips, quad core 13” and hexacore 15”, I don’t think Apple will be as relaxed about being (seen to be) behind as they usually are - especially with the push into VR and AR. June would make them quite a laggard if they aren’t making other changes too... I don’t really know what else they can do with the keyboard as it exists, if they found a silver bullet solution, then they’d probably just start using it on the 2017s without fanfare - it’s not something that they’d necessarily want to advertise (i.e. that there was a problem in the first place) and so not something they’d need to wait for a design refresh to implement.
BS. They usually are perfectly in sync with Intel: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/waiting-for-the-2018-mbp.2048940/page-17#post-24847792
Well the chips that Apple are, as we speak, testing in their MacBook Pro chassis, naturally... being released to general sale and being available to manufacturers isn’t the same thing, we had the first computers touting the 8th gen chips appearing a couple of months ago, around the same time the chips became available - but do you think Dell, Lenovo etc just ran to the Intel store and swiped a load of chips of their shelf to start putting in their machines? Of course they didn’t they’d been testing them for months previously. Apple like most large manufacturers have advance access to these chips to test in their machines so no I don’t think it’s unreasonable to see refreshed MBPs in the spring just because Intel haven’t publicly announced H series or iris plus chip models yet.
No sh|t .
Well, Kuo suggested that the 32gb ram MBP would be going into production in the last few months of this year so I guess we shall see...
you still have that story/link where Kuo suggested that? plz