We ’ve been wait four dreadful days for new MacBook Pros , and if you ’ve been hold back on to your dying machine in Bob Hope that a refreshed furrow must be at hand , we ’re sorry to inform you that you ’re going to have to wait even longer . fit in to Bloomberg ’s Apple sleuth Mark Gurman , the newfangled MacBook Pros are follow — but not at the former September iPhone event as many had hoped .
The write up is chock full of detail about the novel simple machine , which do n’t have a passing escort . Gurman advert anonymous informant who affirm many of the rumor we ’ve heard about the forthcoming MBPs . The function central strip at the top of the keyboard will be replaced witha customizable OLED stripthat would give gamers and Photoshoppers quick access to oft used macro and hotkeys . That would be standardised to the OLED keys included in the 17 - inch Razer Blade Pro ( though Razer replaced its number pad , not its F - key strip ) .
Gurman ’s sources also say the MacBook Pros will be slimmer than the current models , and will be small too . That could mean a much thinner bezel around the display — a move Dell popularized with the XPS 13 .
The newfangled Pros will have a faster mainframe too , but seeing as there have been four new Intel chips innovate since the last time Apple refresh the one in the MacBook Pro , that ’s not on the dot surprising . Details are scarce on what the new chip could be . It could be a Skylake chip like that constitute in the current MacBook . Or it could be the next coevals Kaby Lake . With Apple ’s tendency to go with what ’s stable versus what ’s new , await the slower Skylake fleck to be on the Macbook Pro when it eventually shrug off its afterbirth and shuffles into the real world .
The most flabbergasting news out of Bloomberg ’s report concerns Apple ’s purported choice of video card maker . Especially in light of Gurman ’s claim that Apple want to solicit gamers with its MacBook Pro update .
The new MacBook Pro will reportedly have an AMD Polaris video card versus something from the much , much , much more popular Nvidia brand . year ago there was a pretty heated contest between AMD and Nvidia for gamers ’ dollars . It was a rivalry as furious as that between Apple and Samsung or Windows and MacOS . But Nvidia eventually won . Big time . Last year I was told they held something like 80 - percent of the TV card market .
Gamers only opt Nvidia . Just like they prefer Windows to Macs . And it ’s not the hardware ’s fault . In both case it ’s because of higher-ranking computer software . That will be the real vault Apple will have to spring if it wants to pry gamers aside from sleek Razer machine and insanely powerful MSI unity . There are half as many games uncommitted for Macs as there are for Windows . So unless Apple accompanies its declaration with plans to port Overwatch , lift of the Tomb Raider , and the rest of the Windows - only games , the unexampled MacBook Pro will likely only appeal to the citizenry currently clamoring for it : Those who need a new workstation for 3D rendering , video editing , and image manipulating .
[ Bloomberg ]
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