I'm pretty sure these Aren't going to happen:
- DDR4 (apple said no...) and 32GB because of that.
- U chips on 15
- More IO (requires a redesign)
- no touchbar max spec (apple isn't going to takeaway something they so proudly announced)
- return of the magSafe and the good Keyboard (again, apple isn't going to takeaway something they so proudly announced, not wanting to admit wrong)
Now, the Intel's HG chips are interesting stuff. Because while we know that the chips are somewhere between 35W, we don't actually know what the hell the CPU part of the SKU is because i'm not sure if this is a divergence technique by intel if the chips on the thing are indeed the H chips that we're looking for, or just a revamped U chips that we've seen in 2018 so far.
The HG chips are also quad-cores. NOT hexa. Our trusty old Johnny said they're taking the user feedback in that current macbook pros aren't very powerful for a pro machine. However, it is also the case that if Apple genuinely are taking our feedback seriously and wants to make the pro machines like they said they would (the iMac Pro is awesome), the HG chips won't do. This suggests a board redesign, and that will mean that the macs refresh might as well be there.
So here's the thing.
We're not going to see a new face.
LPDDR3 stays, thus 16GB stays.
It might be HG, it might be Hexa. In either case, the announcement will be at the end of Q2, the release will be Q3.
what are your speculations on this year's mac realistically?
- DDR4 (apple said no...) and 32GB because of that.
- U chips on 15
- More IO (requires a redesign)
- no touchbar max spec (apple isn't going to takeaway something they so proudly announced)
- return of the magSafe and the good Keyboard (again, apple isn't going to takeaway something they so proudly announced, not wanting to admit wrong)
Now, the Intel's HG chips are interesting stuff. Because while we know that the chips are somewhere between 35W, we don't actually know what the hell the CPU part of the SKU is because i'm not sure if this is a divergence technique by intel if the chips on the thing are indeed the H chips that we're looking for, or just a revamped U chips that we've seen in 2018 so far.
The HG chips are also quad-cores. NOT hexa. Our trusty old Johnny said they're taking the user feedback in that current macbook pros aren't very powerful for a pro machine. However, it is also the case that if Apple genuinely are taking our feedback seriously and wants to make the pro machines like they said they would (the iMac Pro is awesome), the HG chips won't do. This suggests a board redesign, and that will mean that the macs refresh might as well be there.
So here's the thing.
We're not going to see a new face.
LPDDR3 stays, thus 16GB stays.
It might be HG, it might be Hexa. In either case, the announcement will be at the end of Q2, the release will be Q3.
what are your speculations on this year's mac realistically?