hearSAY?!....looks like Apple may be introducing new MacBooks @ WWDC....

[NewtonMP2100]

.....new MacBooks, MacBook Pros, and perhaps MacBook Air......


Apple to Announce New MacBook, MacBook Pro, and Possibly MacBook Air at WWDC

....Apple is planning to announce refreshes for its notebook lineup at its upcoming Worldwide Developers Conference set to take place in June, reports Bloomberg. New versions of the MacBook and MacBook Pro are expected to be announced, and Apple is also considering updating the MacBook Air, its most affordable notebook.

The MacBook Pro, which was just updated in October with a slimmer design and a Touch Bar, will be refreshed with a faster Kaby Lake processor, an update from the Skylake processors in the current machines. It will look the same as the current model, adopting only internal updates.

Apple has been working on a custom-designed ARM chip that could handle low power features in the MacBook Pro, but the chip may not be ready for the June MacBook Pro refresh.

Apple's MacBook, last updated in April of 2016, will gain an updated processor, also likely to be in the Kaby Lake family.

Apple has not updated its MacBook Air since March of 2015 and has been phasing it out in favor of the MacBook and the MacBook Pro, both of which are now thinner than the "Air" model, but Bloomberg suggests Apple is thinking about refreshing it with an updated processor, which would mean the MacBook Air could stick around for at least another few years as a low-cost notebook option. Sales of the MacBook Air "remain surprisingly strong" due to its affordability.

The new notebooks are likely to be announced at Apple's June 5 keynote, which is set to kick off at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time. Rumors also suggest Apple could use the event to introduce both a new Siri speaker and the long-rumored 10.5-inch iPad Pro, which is said to feature slimmer bezels for a nearly edge-to-edge design.

Today's report makes no mention of the iMac or Mac mini, two of Apple's desktop machines that have not been updated in some time. It has been more than 580 days since the iMac was last updated in October of 2015, and more than 940 days since the Mac mini was updated in October of 2014.

Apple is said to have updated iMacs in the works, but it is not clear when these machines will debut.


say you, say me..........?!

[steve...]

Hope the new iPad Pro is in the lineup. I'm ready to buy.

[pRICE cUBE]

If they gave even 1/3 the effort to make a Mac pro as they do Macbooks, it would be great.

[robfilms]

pRICE cUBE wrote:
If they gave even 1/3 the effort to make a Mac pro as they do Macbooks, it would be great.

:agree:

a mac pro which can have user removable multiple hards drives and updated graphic cards.

be well.

rob

[Lew Zealand]

robfilms wrote:
[quote=pRICE cUBE]
If they gave even 1/3 the effort to make a Mac pro as they do Macbooks, it would be great.

:agree:

a mac pro which can have user removable multiple hards drives and updated graphic cards.

be well.

rob
That's crazy talk. Next you'll be wanting free RAM slots and a removable power cord.

[robfilms]

lew-

please calm down.

we always paid for those RAM slots.

they were never free.

be well.

rob

Lew Zealand wrote:
[quote=robfilms]
[quote=pRICE cUBE]
If they gave even 1/3 the effort to make a Mac pro as they do Macbooks, it would be great.

:agree:

a mac pro which can have user removable multiple hards drives and updated graphic cards.

be well.

rob
That's crazy talk. Next you'll be wanting free RAM slots and a removable power cord.

[Drew]

Hope the rumor is true. I'm getting ready to buy within the next month. Probably a 13" Macbook Pro, but want to see what an updated Macbook might bring. Didn't expect the Pros to be updated so soon.

[mrlynn]

I want a lighter travel laptop than my 2010 MBP 13" (3.5 lbs), but don't want to give up ports and optical drive—at least ports. Bother!

/Mr Lynn

[gabester]

Since Apple generally doesn't do what I want:

1) Thinner, with less functionality and fewer ports.
2) Please do not include an integrated ethernet port; it's not useful as a fast way to transfer data across multiple platforms with minimal network configuration knowledge and an inexpensive cable that you can make yourself in 2 minutes with the right tools. I prefer multiple cable standards that may or may not use the same connector but have different capabilities and that aren't universally available on all of Apple's devices much less across multiple other manufacturers.
3) Definitely no eSATA then, that's clearly a dead and useless medium for transferring data on drives!
4) More fancy high tech touch devices attached to the laptop that require special configuration and make enterprise deployment challenging by requiring open connections to the internet to access Apple servers to download updates.
5) Less tactile keys... I much prefer fumbling around hoping to hit the right key because my fingers can't tell where they are on the keyboard. Please advantage hunt-and-peck typists who have to look at the keyboard.
6) Definitely don't include a hardware button to activate Siri/Speech-to-text dictation. That wouldn't be useful at all and would encourage fumbling by aforementinoed hunt-and-peck typists. It definitely wouldn't do to work to advantage one class of user over others!
7) Do solder the screen to the motherboard with a delicate cable that frays; and make the screen able to bend extra-far so that the cable is really likely to fray and require an expensive repair. Definitely DO NOT consider returning to ram slots or m.2 for internal storage.
8) I definitely don't like taking photos, or storing or transferring them. So instead of making iPhoto Photos Pictures (whatever you're going to rebrand your first-party app as this year while reducing functionality) just delete all photos upon connecting any device that stores them. The anguish I'd feel would be greatly diminished by transferrence from your increasingly lousy platform to the deep personal loss of such memories as they vanish forever. Forget SD cards or even micro-SD, because none of those are useful.
9) Implement more wireless technologies that require me to evolve eyeballs that see in radio frequency to understand what's going on with my data connections and why things aren't working. Because none of the environments I work in are so heavily trafficked in radio waves that a few more could certainly improve the signal to noise ratio of the things I'd like to get access to most.
10) Definitely don't put ANY lights on the outside of the case that give me any useful feedback about the device's state. And darken all the interface elements and decrease overall contrast, it's currently too easy for me to tell when my computer's on and the battery's low.

[sekker]

Drew wrote:
Hope the rumor is true. I'm getting ready to buy within the next month. Probably a 13" Macbook Pro, but want to see what an updated Macbook might bring. Didn't expect the Pros to be updated so soon.

If the rumors are right, the next Mac laptops are:

1) Updating the 15" MBP with a true Pro model - 32GB RAM and new processor.

2) Updated MacBook with TB3 port (instead of USBC).

3) Updating the processor in the MBA. Just because that model keeps selling well, and it's a great low-end machine.