Given that Apple more or less is rolling out a Skylake based MBP at the time that Skylake is near its lifecycle, I'd say no, many people will then be wanting Kaby Lake.
...and many other people will only care about Kaby Lake if Apple really drops the ball on its advertising. The advantages seem to be
slightly better performance (probably less than the differences between the various power/cores/gpu permutations) better 4k video decoding (irrelevant if the machines have a discrete GPU*) and Thunderbolt/USB 3.1g2 built in. The latter might be most significant, since it could affect how many TB3 ports you get on your laptop...
As far as I'm concerned, the main attractions of new Macs will be TB3/USB3.1g2 for future proofing & better docking options... plus (since I can afford to wait) the knowledge that a new model wasn't coming out a few weeks after I purchased. If my Mac went phut tomorrow, I wouldn't be
too disappointed with a current model rMBP or iMac.
*Looking at what MS and Dell are offering, Apple probably need to make a dGPU standard on all the 15" rMBP models... offering dGPU on the
13" rMBP would give them one up Dell and help compete with the MS SurfaceBook.
I listened to a podcast and they said that Apple rolled the dice and skipped a generation but got burned because of Intel's timing, or rather delays.
I think that was true up until, maybe, this summer - but its passed its sell-by date now.
However, Apple need to up their game on defending their position: MS are advertising the Surface Book as "twice as powerful" as the MacBook Pro (which surely can only come from comparing the entry level 13" rMBP with the top-range SB model, with i7 and dGPU, that costs more than a rMBP 15" with gpu and quad i7). The Dell XPS 13
briefly - for a few months over this summer
- offered a model with Skylake 28W + Iris graphics that was a viable upgrade from the rMBP 13", but I notice that they've now switched the entire range to Kaby Lake 15W with HD graphics... be interested to see how that compares with the older 28W/Iris...
That illustrates another problem: Intel's current, stupid, branding scheme is
posion for anybody who actually cares about performance. "7th Generation Core i7" tells you
nothing about the performance - to Dell's credit they do actually list the model number (unlike others, including Apple, who bury it) but even then you have to dig around to find out what that means.
I found a site on switching "From Mac to Microsoft Surface". I may need it at the end of this month if Apple still has not made any announcement.
Do note that the site is from
Microsoft - i.e. its an
advert - so don't treat it as impartial. I do quite like the look of the Surface Pro/Surface Book, and if the idea of a convertible laptop/tablet floats your boat then Apple offers nothing that compares. However, they're awfully expensive - consistently more than a rMBP with the same level of RAM and SSD (going on UK prices) and the entry level
doesn't have the discrete GPU in the base - leaving it with a 6th Gen 15W/HD Graphics CPU versus the rMBPs 5th Gen 28W/Iris - which could easily be a zero-sum game.
Oh, yes, and the rumours are that there will be a Surface Book 2 out (with USB-C/TB3 and maybe a Kaby Lake processor) real soon now - so you're back to waiting
