MacBook Pro 16" 10th gen Intel coming soon?

[sau93]

The only reason to wait only if the next gen CPU is energy-effective (which means less throttling), but who knows it?

 

[Sam Luis Obispo]

That's totally random. MacBook Pro series from 2019 got an update within a month after Intel released the 9th gen CPU. Tiger lake is expected to announce in 2020.
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But if Apple decides to move from Intel to ARM, then AMD won't be the choice. Remember, it took only 1 year for the transition from PowerPC to Intel.

3 years after the transition to intel was complete, Apple dropped support for PowerPC processors. Presumably there would have been an additional 3 years of security updates. If someone bought a PowerPC mac just before the transition there would be a total of 6 years of software support. I have a 2011 MBP (6 years of being able to move to the latest OS and now am looking at end of support later this year (9 years total support). I've been looking at upgrading for awhile but was not going to buy that butterfly keyboard. If someone were to purchase an intel mac now, how many years of total support could one expect? 6? more?

 

[high heaven]

3 years after the transition to intel was complete, Apple dropped support for PowerPC processors. Presumably there would have been an additional 3 years of security updates. If someone bought a PowerPC mac just before the transition there would be a total of 6 years of software support. I have a 2011 MBP (6 years of being able to move to the latest OS and now am looking at end of support later this year (9 years total support). I've been looking at upgrading for awhile but was not going to buy that butterfly keyboard. If someone were to purchase an intel mac now, how many years of total support could one expect? 6? more?

Actually, it took only 1 year and 2 months to transit from PowerPC to Intel. The transition started from 2005 to 2006. All power Macs discontinued in 2006. For software, they supported until 2009.

 

[magbarn]

3 years after the transition to intel was complete, Apple dropped support for PowerPC processors. Presumably there would have been an additional 3 years of security updates. If someone bought a PowerPC mac just before the transition there would be a total of 6 years of software support. I have a 2011 MBP (6 years of being able to move to the latest OS and now am looking at end of support later this year (9 years total support). I've been looking at upgrading for awhile but was not going to buy that butterfly keyboard. If someone were to purchase an intel mac now, how many years of total support could one expect? 6? more?

At least you can always fall back on Windows 10 which will be guaranteed support well into the next decade if/when Apple decided to abandon our current machines.