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Waiting for 2021 MBP

I’m again disappointed, as I was last November. My 2015 15” is literally falling apart. So no I have no choice, I have to blow a grand on the Air to get me by until they release the 16”. Could be within a couple months, but it’s also just as likely it’ll be 2022, and with that possibility I have to go pick up the Air
 
Yeah, strange with all the hype before the keynote. But not the first time I remember hype and no hardware. Anyway. I had a good reason to invest in a new Mac in June but I can work around that. And also, the external screen I'm looking at, the Huawei MateView, will only be released mid August here. It's always fun, new releases, but realistically, I can actually wait.
 
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what the emojis audience should have really looked like :
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So now we wait for July to November (worst case) Not great, but not terrible. At least next mac OS looks like a solid upgrade, and hopefully is about stability more than anything. Already got the wallpaper download on my 5K iMac. If it's November, it will then be choosing between the cooler colored MacBook airs and a sick 14 inch I think.

Honestly, that's a pretty good problem to have.
 
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PeterJP said:
Yeah, strange with all the hype before the keynote. But not the first time I remember hype and no hardware. Anyway. I had a good reason to invest in a new Mac in June but I can work around that. And also, the external screen I'm looking at, the Huawei MateView, will only be released mid August here. It's always fun, new releases, but realistically, I can actually wait.
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It was unlikely to be announced as Apple rarely announces hardware at WWDC events (that and such a massive redesign warrants its own event). Anyone who expected otherwise has only themselves to blame.
 
Well that's a massive letdown although we were letdown yesterday with the rumor of no hardware coming. Prosser is getting bad intel... hehe.
 
I can live untill November with my 15” 2016 MacBook Pro. What I cannot live with is a white bazel MacBook Pro.

For me the new iMac new design looks cheap and generic without the Apple logo on the chin. Also I am hoping for a gold MacBook Pro similar to the MacBook Air.
 
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Marty80 said:
I can live untill November with my 15” 2016 MacBook Pro. What I cannot live with is a white bazel MacBook Pro.

For me the new iMac new design looks cheap and generic without the Apple logo on the chin. Also I am hoping for a gold MacBook Pro similar to the MacBook Air.
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Agree abotu the iMac look. And people say "its white so it matches the color of my wall so my content pops out" ....seriously? thats the most mental gymnastics ive ever heard. everything up till now (for the imac at least) has been black bezels and people liked that but now white is all of a sudden so great?!
 
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It could be that they were indeed planning for the wwdc, but got some delays for one reason or another (covid related ot not), in that case maybe a special event before November ?
 
I'm a glass half-full kind of guy, and can see the positive side to this:

1) If the new MBPs are pushed out to Autumn then there is far more chance that they will be based on a newer (faster) core technology (that may have common design elements with the A15, also expected at the same time).

I had told myself that I wouldn't buy an "M1X" (upscaled M1) and would wait for the second-generation designs, which historically have had a significant boost in performance (think original iPad, Apple Watch and first Intel MacBook Pro). Come to think of it I have a pattern here - I bought an iPad 2, Apple Watch 2 and the Intel Core Duo 2007 MBP - all of which were the second generation of the device...might as well keep the trend going!

2) I own an MBP16 bough in November 2019 and was bit disappointed that this would be superseded so quickly by a new Apple Silicon version in July. The current M1 Macs solidly beat it in single-core and modestly in multi-core performance, but they fall short in GPU performance and memory capacity (I have 32GB). I will upgrade the machine if the replacement is a solid 50%-plus better across the board, which is likely to be the case with even a new 14" MBP. The delay will give my MBP16 a longer service-life as "top dog", and delay the point at which I feel the inclination to upgrade.
 
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Surprised not too many mentions of the 2018 MBPs, which were released in July of that year. I know, because I was waiting for new MBPs to launch at WWDC, something with an upgraded keyboard to the problematic 2017 one. When they didn't launch, people were basically saying that it will now only launch around November so I went ahead and pulled the trigger on a 2017 MBP.

Lo and behold, a month later, the 2018 MBP launched and I was basically stuck with mine. I wouldn't put it past Tim Cook's Apple to just do a random launch event any time they feel like - could be even next week, but more likely, we may see new ones in July.
 
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Surprised not too many mentions of the 2018 MBPs, which were released in July of that year. I know, because I was waiting for new MBPs to launch at WWDC, something with an upgraded keyboard to the problematic 2017 one. When they didn't launch, people were basically saying that it will now only launch around November so I went ahead and pulled the trigger on a 2017 MBP.

Lo and behold, a month later, the 2018 MBP launched and I was basically stuck with mine. I wouldn't put it past Tim Cook's Apple to just do a random launch event any time they feel like - could be even next week, but more likely, we may see new ones in July.
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Yeah, that sounds like something Apple would do. That's why I'm going to be waiting before I order. The external monitor I want (Huawei MateView) will arrive only mid August in Belgium anyway, so I'm in no hurry.
 
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Surprised not too many mentions of the 2018 MBPs, which were released in July of that year. I know, because I was waiting for new MBPs to launch at WWDC, something with an upgraded keyboard to the problematic 2017 one. When they didn't launch, people were basically saying that it will now only launch around November so I went ahead and pulled the trigger on a 2017 MBP.

Lo and behold, a month later, the 2018 MBP launched and I was basically stuck with mine. I wouldn't put it past Tim Cook's Apple to just do a random launch event any time they feel like - could be even next week, but more likely, we may see new ones in July.
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good point. July is a real possibility.
 
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good point. July is a real possibility.
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I’m feeling July as well. Surprise event with orders starting that same day and YouTube reviews the next day. If we look at the evidence:

1. Apple has already registered both the 14” and 16” battery with the Chinese government.

2. Schematics for 14” leaked along with the schematics for the new iMac which helps prove their legitimacy.

3. We got a manufacturing report that the M1X chips would be ready to ship in July

4. Mark Gurman (who actually has a good track record) report that the 14” and 16” would be available by early summer.

3 out of 4 of those things go behind just the normal rumors and hearsay from sources. #1 is probably the most telling since having hard battery specs means these things are far into their production cycle. For a laptop, the battery is one of the most important components since every other component has an impact on battery. If Apple already has the battery specs finalized then these things must be nearly ready to go but they just weren’t ready for WWDC. November seems too far out for a product this far along… July makes a lot more sense.

We will know these are close when we start seeing references to them in the Max OS 12 beta.
 
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Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo (via Mac Rumours) suggests Apple’s new laptops won’t hit shelves until the third quarter of 2021, which would imply a September launch at the earliest. ....

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So, let me refresh my memory,
latest mbp 16', comes from 2019?
A whole of 2 years without updating?
 
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