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If the event is on the 18th, that could mean preorders on the 22nd and availability on the 29th! So we could actually get new Macs BEFORE November! Although November 5th shipping could still be a possibility (especially seeing how the Apple Watch release was delayed).
That would be awesome. Especially the fact the earnings are around the corner. I hope pre-orders is on Friday.
 
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New rumors are saying 120hz screens!

Now PLEASE Apple don’t nerf the 16” version! A binned 24 core GPU should be standard. 16 cores wouldn’t be much better than the 2 year old models we’ve been burning our laps with 😂! 16 core is awesome for the 14” but let’s keep the 16” the graphics king of Apple laptops
 
New rumors take with a grain of salt. Just the messenger here:


- Notched display (probably for camera cut out due to slimmer bezels).
- 1000 nit miniLED Display (Makes sense)
- Higher resolution display with thinner bezels (matches the Mac OS leak)
- Blackout keyboard instead of the chocolate-like black on current MBPs
- No TouchBar
- TouchID remains
- CNC MacBook Pro text below display
- Thicker and squared off chassis. Heavier.
- HDMI and SD card slots
- MagSafe (new connector)
- Hinge will be same color as chassis; similar to 12” MacBook; antennas will be around the bezel
- 100W cooling fans (16” model)

Again take with a grain of salt but some of this stuff does sound right. Original tweet was translated from Chinese.
 
New rumors take with a grain of salt. Just the messenger here:


- Notched display (probably for camera cut out due to slimmer bezels).
- 1000 nit miniLED Display (Makes sense)
- Higher resolution display with thinner bezels (matches the Mac OS leak)
- Blackout keyboard instead of the chocolate-like black on current MBPs
- No TouchBar
- TouchID remains
- CNC MacBook Pro text below display
- Thicker and squared off chassis. Heavier.
- HDMI and SD card slots
- MagSafe (new connector)
- Hinge will be same color as chassis; similar to 12” MacBook; antennas will be around the bezel
- 100W cooling fans (16” model)

Again take with a grain of salt but some of this stuff does sound right. Original tweet was translated from Chinese.
@CarlJ did post this in the front page thread which makes that interesting:
3456 x 2234 is a weird aspect ratio. At 1.55:1 it seems to fall in between 16:10 (1.6.1, which would be 3456 x 2160) and 3:2 (1.5:1, which would be 3456 x 2304). Odd. Neither TV standard 16:9 (thank heavens) nor Apple's previously common 16:10. I wonder if it could be 16:10 with a 74px "extra" region/stripe across the top or bottom (camera "notch", anyone?).
 
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If it has notch then Apple wants to slim down the top bezel too, like the sides of the 16" current mbp
 
8Gb as standard in premium notebook in 2021 is a joke.
Why apple is so greedy for RAM?
This all depends on how the CPU and OS leverages the memory. We’ve already seen with the first-gen Apple silicone MBPs that they are incredibly efficient with lower amounts of memory. It’s not strictly a memory capacity numbers game anymore.
 
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If it has notch then Apple wants to slim down the top bezel too, like the sides of the 16" current mbp
I’m guessing it will have equal sized bezels on all sides (maybe a little larger at the bottom for the hinge).

That being said… equal bezels on all sides will make the corners look a little odd. Which makes me think we could get rounded corners which would look AMAZING!
 
New rumors take with a grain of salt. Just the messenger here:


- Notched display (probably for camera cut out due to slimmer bezels).
- 1000 nit miniLED Display (Makes sense)
- Higher resolution display with thinner bezels (matches the Mac OS leak)
- Blackout keyboard instead of the chocolate-like black on current MBPs
- No TouchBar
- TouchID remains
- CNC MacBook Pro text below display
- Thicker and squared off chassis. Heavier.
- HDMI and SD card slots
- MagSafe (new connector)
- Hinge will be same color as chassis; similar to 12” MacBook; antennas will be around the bezel
- 100W cooling fans (16” model)

Again take with a grain of salt but some of this stuff does sound right. Original tweet was translated from Chinese.
Hm, I don't know. Seems like a mixture of obvious things and odd claims. I'm definitely doubting they would leave room in the bezel to print MacBook Pro down below still. Very interesting if they got heavier - I will probably go with the smaller model if that's the case. The 4.3 lbs of the current 16" is already too heavy.
 
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