A thinner, lighter MacBook Pro must be par for the course when Apple’s designers sit down and pull the sketch pads out for the line’s near-annual refresh. Reportedly, Apple is ditching the function keys in favour of a new OLED display touch bar. This may help condense the overall design and work better with the injection mould-made hinges and butterfly-mechanism keyboard that was in the 12-inch MacBook and should feature in the Pro line.
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The MacBook Pro range has remained pretty much unchanged – but for a Force Touch trackpad addition here and there – for several years now.
Apple will also remodel a 13-inch laptop similar to the latest 12-inch Retina model upgraded with performance boosts.The last innovation of Apple gossiped by tech entrepreneurs was that a “sexier” 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook will be unveiled in the market during the fourth quarter of 2016. However, the new rumour suggests Apple may add the supporting hardware in the laptop itself.
It’s also worth noting that the upper row of a MacBook Pro keyboard consists of more than just F-keys; the power button and escape keys are there as well, and we reckon Apple might want to keep those keys physical. Additionally, Kuo predicts a 13-inch notebook will join the 12-inch notebook in Apple’s MacBook lineup.
Apple knows that USB-C is the wave of the future so the MacBook Pro 2016 on release date will likely boast not only one but at least two ports for the soon-to-be dominant connectivity standard. The said MacBook Air 2016 series will be packed with numerous changes; however, MacBook Air 2016 series may no longer have an 11-inch variant.
What would you like to see in the next MacBook Pro?
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A Touch ID scanner – spelling the end of typing out passwords for good – is also apparently on the cards, as is a touch-sensitive OLED display.
