Will the 13" 2017 be updated soon?

[jerryk]

Looking at the Intel 8th generation Intel processors announced Monday I was struck that all of the 2 core mobile processors are now 4 core processors with the same TDPs and claiming 40% more performance. This lead me to wonder if Apple will soon upgrade the Kabylake processors in the 13 MBPs to the new 4 core processor.

Dell has announced the XPS 13 will get the new chips soon (end of Oct is the guesstimate), and the announcement slides feature a cool looking new black Microsoft Surface Book.

Thoughts?

 

[NathanD]

Apple probably won't use the Kaby Lake Refresh processors on their 13" MBP, because of their TDP and the lack of Iris Graphics. I guess they'll use Coffee Lake CPUs but they haven't been announced yet. Maybe we'll see the new MBPs in Early 2018 or at WWDC in June.