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New MacBook Pro models to feature magsafe, no touch bar and more ports: analyst

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Re: New MacBook Pro models to feature magsafe, no touch bar and more ports: analyst

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Post by simonmales »

runawaybottle wrote: post #6
simonmales wrote: post #4

Reading this, it feels like the MacBook Pro of 2015 is finally getting an upgrade. Took them 5 years to go back and restore the old school. Great to hear a couple iterations ago they restored the keyboard. Now with dropping the touch bar and bringing back mag safe. My 2015 daily driver might see retirement.

Yeah, plus more ports. Touchbar was interesting, but not a killer feature. Sounds like the upgrade devs were looking for.

When the 2016 line came out, I told colleagues that I didn't see it as a 'professional' device. Thinking in particular for photographers who depended on the SD card slot.

And hoped that Apple would release a 'classic' line one day.

Re: New MacBook Pro models to feature magsafe, no touch bar and more ports: analyst

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Post by mcintyre1994 »

This is the laptop I want to buy, but I find it really hard to believe. They just released a new ARM Macbook Pro with a touch bar at the bottom end of the Pro lineup, which didn't used to come with a touch bar (I have ~2017 pro without). If they wanted to drop the touch bar they could have done it without much fanfare on that model and I'm not sure why they wouldn't do so.

Re: New MacBook Pro models to feature magsafe, no touch bar and more ports: analyst

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Post by robin_reala »

Ndymium wrote: post #22
tsjq wrote: post #18

Does this have the Apple Silicon chip ?

The article states: "5. There is no Intel CPU option for the new models.", so it would have to be Apple Silicon. But of course this is just rumors, it sounds maybe too good to be true.

G5 Powerbook finally happening?

Re: New MacBook Pro models to feature magsafe, no touch bar and more ports: analyst

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Post by simonmales »

ksec wrote: post #15
simonmales wrote: post #4

Reading this, it feels like the MacBook Pro of 2015 is finally getting an upgrade. Took them 5 years to go back and restore the old school. Great to hear a couple iterations ago they restored the keyboard. Now with dropping the touch bar and bringing back mag safe. My 2015 daily driver might see retirement.

>Great to hear a couple iterations ago they restored the keyboard. Magic Keyboard was only introduced in mid 2020. And they are still not as good as MBP 2015 in terms of typing experience. Magic Keyboard Key Travel - 1mm MacBook 2015 Key Travel - 1.3mm Key Spacing as well. They are tiny in Magic Keyboard Layout and it is harder to "sense" the keys apart. >Took them 5 years to go back and restore the old school. Track…

Ah, I thought the whole bringing back of the Scissor mechanism had brought the glory back.

Reminds me of a blog post (via HN of course) that discussed how Apple is hurting itself by being obsessed with making devices smaller (Ugh, can't find the link).

A friend was grilling his boss who was fan boying over a particular iPhone release. Where the device was 10% thinner. In the real world it was a 1mm difference.

Re: New MacBook Pro models to feature magsafe, no touch bar and more ports: analyst

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Post by square_usual »

I know it's from Kuo, but these leaks don't pass the smell test for me. It makes no sense for them to add the touchbar to the base model 13" MBPs only to remove them from the higher end versions. It makes even less sense to add more ports which aren't USB-C, as the bits about MagSafe and no dongles imply. Further, I don't understand what is meant by "iPhone 12 like" non-curvy design - I have a 2018 MBP 15", and the sides of this thing are pretty flat and not curved.

I mean, these features sound like a dream come true, but I'm having a hard time believing them.

Re: New MacBook Pro models to feature magsafe, no touch bar and more ports: analyst

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Post by nopzor »

seanieb wrote: post #29

They need to upgrade the camera too. The current cameras on the Air and Pro aren’t good enough for the COVID era video calls.

i don’t want a higher res camera for zoom calls... nobody should have to suffer by seeing me in HD :)
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