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Waiting for 2021 MBP

Mackan said:
I would like a simple USB-C charger, just like on current M1 Macbooks.

Now they introduce yet another proprietary charger. Yet they excluded a charger for latest iPhones to be friendly to the environment. This is hypocrisy. But if you add ethernet into it, you save an ethernet dongle. Thus, more friendly to the environment? Anycare care to do the math? Nah.
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Given they’ve switched to a magnetic connector on the iMac, I’d say its odds-on that its going to be similar on the MBP.

I’m a big fan of having four ports on the the MBP which all support power, so I’m hoping the new one will still offer that option - if there's thunderbolt ports then they obviously will support it.

Design-wise, unless the leaks have all been part of some elaborate double-blind by Apple, its going to be a case of evolution rather than revolution. So look at the current models, square the corners off and you're not going to be far off.

I really hope they give some different colour options though as silver and space grey have been done to death IMO.
 
I wonder...
So charging will be through both Magsafe and USB C. What does that mean for the charging brick? Will it be a charging brick with a singular USB C female port with a USB C to magsafe cable? OR will we get a charging brick with a non detachable Magsafe cable like the older laptops prior to USB C???
Means if you want to charge with USB C you'd need a different charger! Mmm... NO idea!
 
smoking monkey said:
I wonder...
So charging will be through both Magsafe and USB C. What does that mean for the charging brick? Will it be a charging brick with a singular USB C female port with a USB C to magsafe cable? OR will we get a charging brick with a non detachable Magsafe cable like the older laptops prior to USB C???
Means if you want to charge with USB C you'd need a different charger! Mmm... NO idea!
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I am hoping that Apple will stick with Thunderbolt-C charging but also that we’ll get the functionality of MagSafe.

So basically that the rumors about MagSafe returning to the Mac is true but that they’re shipping their MacBook with a USB-C cable with MagSafe functionality but instead of the old MagSafe-way, with the cable detaching from the laptop maybe the cable detaches from the connector or such and if this is true I’m also hoping the brick is a simple dock/hub, maybe just with Ethernet but could also be with SD-card reader and perhaps also USB-A port, though this wouldn’t be very Apple like, since they could make money selling us such hubs.

I’d be pleasantly surprised, if Apple has had thoughts about extending the functionality of the power brick (they did obviously have them for the 24” M1 iMac as they provided the power brick with an Ethernet-port) if Apple offered us to “upgrade” the power brick to a hub, either as in letting us choose between a standard power brick with just power delivery or upgrading it to a hub with a few selected useful ports (if not stupidly expensive…), or even better let us select the ports we want for our power brick/dock/hub.
I just like the idea of the power brick to be more useful than to just sit there and provide the computer with power (which is of course very useful but you know what I mean!) and also I’d love to just have to unplug 2 cables to be mobile instead of the 5-6 cables I have to unplug from my MBP from 2015.
Though maybe this is something that the MacBooks charged through USB-C has been able to do third party docks/hubs since Apple introduced them? I haven’t owned one of them so sorry if that is the case.
 
Look how thick that Duo was above!

I used to carry one of those, while walking to school in the snow, when I was a young'in!
 
Paratriplel said:
I just like the idea of the power brick to be more useful than to just sit there and provide the computer with power (which is of course very useful but you know what I mean!) and also I’d love to just have to unplug 2 cables to be mobile instead of the 5-6 cables I have to unplug from my MBP from 2015.
Though maybe this is something that the MacBooks charged through USB-C has been able to do third party docks/hubs since Apple introduced them? I haven’t owned one of them so sorry if that is the case.
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Yes, this works great through both my USB-C monitors and Thunderbolt docks. A single cable connects the laptop to power, external displays, keyboard, mouse, webcam, external drives, USB microphone, optical audio out and Ethernet. (In the case of the monitors, power and USB devices only, of course.)
 
I might have missed this, but what is the price expectation for the base 14” pro? And will it have 16 gb of ram?
 
Arctic Moose said:
Yes, this works great through both my USB-C monitors and Thunderbolt docks. A single cable connects the laptop to power, external displays, keyboard, mouse, webcam, external drives, USB microphone, optical audio out and Ethernet. (In the case of the monitors, power and USB devices only, of course.)
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Well in that case I don’t see Apple bothering, I guess they did the iMac’s MagSafe-Ethernet-on-brick just because they wasn’t able to find a solution for adding a Ethernet-port to the actual computer and seeing as the iMac is a stationary computer maybe they feel that it has to have the ability to have threaded network/internet… Or maybe they just tried this solution out on the iMac and liked it and similarly inspired solutions aren’t going to expand onto other Apple products at all. We’ll find out within a few months or years.
 
niclliot25 said:
I might have missed this, but what is the price expectation for the base 14” pro? And will it have 16 gb of ram?
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Some have said prices will stay the same, others have said it will get a small price bump (US $100) and just this or last week there was a rumor about the semi-conductor shortage resulting in the factories raising prices and that the price increase is likely being passed on to the end customers and will result in a “noticeable” price increase.
What that “noticeable” in “noticeable price increase” actually is, we do not yet know.
 
Paratriplel said:
Some have said prices will stay the same, others have said it will get a small price bump (US $100) and just this or last week there was a rumor about the semi-conductor shortage resulting in the factories raising prices and that the price increase is likely being passed on to the end customers and will result in a “noticeable” price increase.
What that “noticeable” in “noticeable price increase” actually is, we do not yet know.
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Gotcha. Thanks!
 
niclliot25 said:
Gotcha. Thanks!
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No problem!
Oh, about that RAM, from what I’ve gathered from reading in this thread it seems for the 14” it could go either way but smart people here have made a good, or even great point about if there is a price increase it’s also a greater chance of 16 GB of RAM. Though, if the 14” has the same GPU (since the cpu already seems to be rumored to be the same) as the 16” that chance decrease and the same also goes for the 14” having a larger SSD, since the great price difference between the 14” and the 16” can not be justified just by the larger screen size.
Again though, this is just pure speculation and I guess it kind of has to be since none here knows any of this for a fact and Apple being Apple etc. but the logic does however make sense, at least according to me. :)
 
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I think the power brick and MagSafe connection will be like the iMac's one, so hopefully we also get the Ethernet port on it - would make sense if they can use the same part for multiple product lines.

The semiconductor shortage is forecast to last for a couple more years, so potentially there will be a price bump. I still think there will be a 13/14" 8GB MBP with 512GB SSD as they'll want to keep it affordable, but also have all the BTO options available for those who do need larger SSDs and more RAM. Would also be great if there were a couple more standard builds which you could buy online or in-store without having to wait for BTO.
 
Paratriplel said:
Some have said prices will stay the same, others have said it will get a small price bump (US $100) and just this or last week there was a rumor about the semi-conductor shortage resulting in the factories raising prices and that the price increase is likely being passed on to the end customers and will result in a “noticeable” price increase.
What that “noticeable” in “noticeable price increase” actually is, we do not yet know.
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It’s easy. Increase the price 1 unit and you get 1800. Very noticeable indeed over 1799 :cool: joke aside, I don’t think that the price change will be too much. They have reasons to raise, and also to lower the price as others have pointed out. Knowing Apple, probably it won’t be the latter but I suggest all people here not to normalize any increase.
 
We got a rumor in August saying that the 14 was going up in price, but that was only in relation to the high end 13 it is replacing. So who knows. I personally think prices will be going up. Based on nuttin except my feeling.
 
There's always very few rumours on Mac laptops... and there's even fewer rumours about pricing as that's the one thing that nobody in the supply chain needs to see and its not even on finished packaging for example.

I think they'd like to keep the prices the same for the entry-level MBPs, but who knows. Remember the rumours about how expensive the 16" laptop was going to be when it was introduced and it turned out to be... exactly the same price.

We've not seen any of the "pro" Apple Silicon models yet, so we don't really have anything on which to base guesses on. We've no idea what the spec options will be, let alone the base spec.
 
MrGunny94 said:
Yeah, we in for October/November announcement and most likely end of November to get these models. I'm just hoping they update the current 13" Pro because a 2k 14" would be more than what I need right now.
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Unfortunately there have been zero rumours indicating a new 13 and many believe the high end 13 is being EOLed. The low tier 13 may or may not get an upgrade to M2. My guess is it won’t but who knows.
 
smoking monkey said:
Unfortunately there have been zero rumours indicating a new 13 and many believe the high end 13 is being EOLed. The low tier 13 may or may not get an upgrade to M2. My guess is it won’t but who knows.
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Once the "real" MacBook Pro is announced I'll be very surprised if the low-end one stays in the line-up.

If it is true that the Touch Bar is going away on the high-end models it makes zero sense to have it on a single product, and there is practically nothing differentiating it from the MacBook Air if the Touch Bar is removed.

Perhaps it will hang around for a year until there is a new high-end MacBook Pro so that the soon-to-be-announced one can drop in price to take its place.
 
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MrGunny94 said:
I'm just hoping they update the current 13" Pro because a 2k 14" would be more than what I need right now.
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Not happening even a little bit. Time to start the grieving process now, friend.

That said, there is zero chance that the base 14" MBP will cost that much. Apple can be greedy, but they aren't stupid when it comes to getting MBPs in people's hands.
 
It’s kinda funny there is so much hype around the iPhone event next week and meanwhile, I’m just waiting for it to be over so we can get to the October event 😂!

I’m thinking we should start to see some hints at the M1X and new MacBook Pros in the upcoming Mac OS betas. Maybe the small glyphs will give us some hints at what the new design will look like.
 
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