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WWDC MBP Predictions
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Yeah why ask the question if he’s confident it’s coming…. Tbh though I think everyone is having last minute doubts at this point 😂
Posting in a speculation thread is one thing. Dreaming about the unveiling is... quite interesting, though!
All this firmly tongue in cheek, of course. I've been more enthusiastic about lesser things myself
I hope you're wrong, but it unfortunately really does look like there won't be any hardware announced. I might be wrong as well, though, but the chances are very slim to zero now.
Reliable Leaker Suggests No MacBook Pro or Other Hardware Announcements at WWDC Today
In response to a tweet asking if there will be hardware announcements at WWDC 2021, cryptic but reliable leaker "l0vetodream" suggested there...
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Not looking good guys! Going to be an amazing event anyway!!!
Yeah 100% October or November, won’t be later this month as too close to WWDC, doubt it will be next month as an August launch is when many are on holiday (vacation) plus it’s too close to the iPhone event.
I expect a Mac event in October announcing:
MacBook Pro M1X
iMac Pro M1X
If nothing at WWDC.
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REMEMBER… love to dream saying ‘I feel no’ could be just his own opinion, he hasn’t really leaked anything about an upcoming MacBook Pro at all… there is still a slim chance here, Apple may have just kept a lid on leaks extremely well this time round.
Digitimes are wrong a lot of the time…
IF and I stress IF we get hardware at WWDC, I fully expect no redesign and literally just an overview of the new chip and that it’s going in the current high end 13” and 16” models.
That will make sense as the whole MBP line up will still maintain the same design language.
I think the redesign MacBooks are all coming next year tbh, starting with the low end MBA and MBP with M2.
An M1-based chip in October would be extremely underwhelming. Intel and AMD are supposed to release refreshed chips later this year and M1 in a pro device would look like a joke. If they are indeed delaying pro hardware to autumn, it better be something absolutely spectacular.
Yeah, only upsides to these not releasing until Oct-Nov would be that the chipset inside would almost certainly be M2-based (N5P microarchitecture) and they'd almost certainly have miniLED screens.
Counter-argument: that's just a guise to give a mask of plausible deniability ie. "In my dream..."
I still wonder how they are going to replace all macs with Apple silicon in 2 years' time if they don't announce new hardware halfway. Just going over the models:
- MBA: 50%-100% done, because before they had different processor variants
- MBP 13: 50% done
- MBP 16: 0% done
- imac: 50% done
- mac pro: 0% done
- mac mini: 50% done
So realistically, they're around 1/3rd of the way. If they don't announce anything now, they'll have a hell of a release schedule in the next year...
Been there, not doing that anymore!Come to the Southern Hemisphere - your MacBooks will keep you warm during the winter
It makes really no sense what you are saying. The next MacBooks will be most probably redesigned
Maybe, maybe not… look at it this way the base iMac was redesigned when M1 got introduced but neither the MBA or MBP were, there is every possibility they might not do a redesign.
Well maybe this time it will have proven a bit ambitious. The chip shortages may not have been anticipated. They may not have appreciated all the challenges with designing more of the hardware used themselves etc.
It could be that everything except the Mac Pro gets transitioned to Apple Silicon within the 2 years. I suspect the Mac Pro will be the last to get Apple Silicon and that project may get pushed back to get the rest of the products out the door.