WiFi 6 Introduction

[Crash0veride]

So anyone care to speculate on when WiFi 6 might be introduced into the MBP line? Would the rumored 16” fall release have the hardware available from typical apple suppliers? (Doesn’t apple usually use a separate WiFi chip and not the built-in intel wifi?) Or is it more likely next year given that there’s only a handful of WiFi 6 hardware out yet and Apple’s tendency to wait?

Purely speculative thread.

 

[redheeler]

The 2019 Mac Pro doesn't have 802.11ax, so I'm going to assume we won't see any Macs with it this year.

 

[Howard2k]

I think we’ll see it in the refreshed Pro towards the end of the year.


The real question is not whether we will get it, but how will it be implemented. The Pros from 2015 onwards (excl. nTB) have had industry leading wifi. But some of the other vendors who jumped to wifi 6 have turned out pretty poor implementations.

I’m hopeful that we get wifi 6 and it’s as good as or better then the current Pro non-TB 802.11ac implementation, but I’m not holding my breath.

 

[DeanL]

I hope that Apple included it in 2019 but just didn't enable it...

 

[cocoua]

in 2019, WIFI 6 it's still in final steps, I can see Apple making test for at least June 2020 before introducing it in any Mac, together with some extra upgrades, Macbook Pro 16" could be the first, adding new form factor and some little changes, iMac could be next, if there is something more to add (maybe an intel updated chips…) as it would be very very odd from Apple to update just one component in their products.
Mac Pros could be the last one, as they work with huge loads of data and wired connection is expected.
the bigger you are, the louder the mistake you make is, Apple is the king here, a lot of cover with new products, the same for the complaints, so they need to be very careful with that.

The retina macbook 2012 which I have, was almost 2 years in the market with a extremely annoying WIFI-bluetooth problem, they took a lot of time to fix it and was painful. Luckily was a firmware issue and could be solved remotely (but 2 years!!!).

 

[Ries]

Any intel 10nm laptop will have wifi 6, it's build into it.