Apple Plans MacBook And MacBook Pro Kaby Lake Refresh For WWDC

I don't think this is true - 2013's WWDC had new macbook airs, for example: https://thenextweb.com/apple/2013/06/10/everything-announced...

Agreed. I found it ironic that Apple considers the function area unused space so in their "Pro" line they replace it with something they view to be more usable but it seems most pro software[1] already made use of function keys, it's the consumer MacBook line that would miss the function row the least.

[1] Software dev tools

It's probably the wrong thread to share my hopes for the next-gen but still. My family owns four 2016 models (maxxed out both 13 inch and 15 inch, a pair used at a day job and a pair is personal) and we all experience similar issues:

a) Touch Bar reacting to fingers that are accidentally touch it while resting. Causes a lot of volume and Esc triggers. Latter is particularly annoying at it usually cleans Slack/Skype/other active text input.

b) Keyboard quality is terrible. My work machine does not respond to Option and Control presses anymore. My wife's machine has similar issues with up/down arrows.

c) I don't get why Apple changed default/native resolution to be non-retina trading extra screen real estate for image quality.

b) Last but certainly not least as mentioned on all previous MacBook threads starting October 2016: running Docker/minikube/Chrome/Slack and et voila: you have 4GB of RAM left. I'm not even talking about ML/Data Science work: AMD GPUs are way behind even 1050 at the moment and I doubt that their new offering that is meant to compete with nVidia P100 will ever make it into a laptop.

Personally I think this news isn't real. Intel "promises" to release Cannonlake this year (thanks, AMD!) and I don't see much sense in either updating MacBooks with Kaby Lake nor releasing them just after 8 months after last refresh. That's the CPU that you get when company stops trying.

If they are going to mention MacBook Pro, I'd probably expect them to do a small price drop but not a refresh.

While it may be true that Apple sometimes released hardware at WWDC in the last decade, there's still the elephant in the room; Why have no big name sites like fool.com or wsj put their name on this "leak" if it is real? When there's real hardware coming, those guys usually get the inside scoop (and preview hardware if weeks from release). They'd be furious if Apple let small beans sites scoop them.

https://www.wsj.com/news/technology

Not one mention of Apple anywhere.*

*laptops

The ever known MacBook problem :D