Apple tends to be several months behind when it comes to putting in intel chips so the 13/14” refresh will be ice lake with comet lake for the 16” most likely if they refresh it. Tiger Lake looks promising but from the ARM rumours Ice/Comet Lake could be the last MacBooks with Intel chips as if Apple announces the ARM transition at WWDC this year it may only be 18 months before most of the lineup maybe excluding Mac Pro is converted over to ARM
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Waiting for the 2020 MBP
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Unsure I’m just going off the rogame leak. I’d struggle to see them having a 64gb option when the last generation only supported 16. I think best case scenario we get 16GB standard with BTO up to 32GB. However I’m still not convinced they’ll bite the bullet and give 16GB as standard
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Not really, no.
Since the 13/14 uses lpddr4 (lp standing for low power) it will be limited to 16 most likely. Seems like the controllers used for lpddr4 don’t support 32gb in the quad 8gb chip setup at this moment.
That’s exactly what I did , just got a cheap Thinkpad t450s to fill the gap till the 14” MBP is out
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100% , base will be 8/256/i5 and top 8/512/i7 just like the air
With all this work from home stuff I just returned my 16 and will just wait until September or so to buy.
I have an 8th gen NUC at home I’ll use to do anything my iPad can’t for now.
I have an 8th gen NUC at home I’ll use to do anything my iPad can’t for now.
From the leak which was a MacBook Pro with Ice Lake I’d say there’s a 90% chance they’ll have a 32gb option but a similar chance of there not being a 64gb option
Jon Prosser has again said the new MPB is likely next month.
I'm pretty sure I remember he also said there's a MBP pencilled in for WWDC as well, so hedging his bets, or a 13" in May with 14" and/or 16" later in June?
He’s been very reliable with some things in the last couple of weeks, but he’s clearly hedging his bets on the MBP. Which makes sense as we’ve heard Q2 from a few places.
Common sense would suggest a spec-bump for the 16” MBP, but that’s not something worthy of a WWDC announcement I’d suggest.
Who knows what WWDC will look like now - I guess we’re not sure how much the pandemic has made Apple change their 2020 plans.
Common sense would suggest a spec-bump for the 16” MBP, but that’s not something worthy of a WWDC announcement I’d suggest.
Who knows what WWDC will look like now - I guess we’re not sure how much the pandemic has made Apple change their 2020 plans.
Just give us the 14" MBP already Apple so we can be disappointed. I am expecting the base model to be i5 quad core, 8GB ram, and 256GB starting at $1,499. I want 16GB so I am sure I will be looking at $1,699 or even $1,799. As long as it has the new thin bezel screen and the newer keyboard I will be happy. 4 usb-c ports would be killer but I highly doubt we'll get more than two.
I guess there‘s two ways Apple might approach it.
They either keep the lineup as it is - so effectively all the pricing and models stay largely the same as they are today, expect base storage doubles.
Or the two-port model gets dropped from the lineup.... Possibly because they might think the upgraded Air could take its place for some users? Which I can kind of see the logic behind, but I’m aware of the thermal limitations.
From what the lwq guy says it’ll be a 13” next month with Q 3 or 4 for the 14.1”. I’d imagine that’d be with mini led. Such a shame as I’d have hoped to have gotten even a regular lcd display with the increase to 14”
I can’t see them updating the 13” without going to the larger screen and new keyboard as well.
Then mini-led later in the year or start of next year, although would they maybe keep that back for the full redesign (and ARM?) due next year?
I agree - it would be crazy for them to launch an "upgraded" 13 inch pro and then launch a much more desirable 14 inch a few months later.
Definitely, I doubt it’s worth the bad press of having the thick bezels hanging around for only a couple of months
And more expensive too...
Personally, if they keep the prices with a base storage of 256, I prefer a 13” upgrade than having to pay more money for a 14” or a mini led display
However, I don’t see a sufficient price gap between the 16” and the 13” to put the 14”
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Now that the 16” inch has been out for several months with the newer design I’d be disappointed if they didn’t carry it over to the smaller model. Especially if they’ll not do it now and wait 6 months for a new design
But that's exactly what they did with the 2019 15 inch in the summer and then the 16 inch in the fall! I should know, I'm one of the suckers who bought (mind you, out of necessity at the time) the high spec 15 2.4/32/1TB for a lot more money than a similar 16 is configured. You know what though? It's rock solid super stable unlike some of the 16 inch nonsense going around and I even don't mind the refined butterfly on the 2019s.
Interesting - I didn't realize they did that. So silly. But yeah, sounds like it ended up fine for you
This does feel a bit different though because I wonder if at that point people knew a 16 inch was coming. Now, we know a 14 inch is coming, and if not the one in May then in a few months. I probably won't be purchasing if it's not the 14 inch knowing I can get that one a few months later, and I'd assume a lot are in the same boat with what we know now. But based on what you pointed out it does seem it's possible they release the 13 inch. I really hope not though.