![]() ![]() Release date(s) January 10, 2006 (15"), April 24, 2006 (17"). Consumer Reports did not initially recommend the 2016 MacBook Pro models. Days since last release. A special edition (PRODUCT). Jun 08 2017 New MacBook Pro and iMac Models Available Today at Apple. When will the MacBook Pro 2016 come out? Technically today — but the whole answer is a bit more complicated than that. At Thursday's press event, Apple's senior. The MacBook Air 2016 release date. Apple stuck with Skylake in the MacBook Pro 2016. The MacBook Air, however, still clings to Broadwell, unfortunately. MacBook Pro 2016 release date and specs rumors: New laptop to come out in June; Device boosts superior specs? The release date of the MacBook Pro 2016 has been pushed back and rumor has it that the reason for the delay is the Apple iPad Pro. Mac. Book Pro Release Date Revealed? Apple Reportedly Updating Mac Lines Before The Holiday Season. ![]() Now that Apple is done with the launch of its i. Phone 7, i. Phone 7 Plus and Apple Watch 2, it is said to be preparing for the release of its new Mac products. Right now, it appears that the Cupertino giant is looking to start the releasing streak with the 2. Mac. Book Pro. According to Mac. Rumors, if rumors are to be believed, Apple is going to release refreshes of its Mac products in time for the holiday season where consumers usually make investments in new hardware. The Apple- centric news site also said that the “redesigned” Mac. Book Pro could be the first Mac product to debut within the remaining time left for the company to release its new devices. Apple is said to be going full speed in developing the new Mac. Book Pro, so it could catch up with the release of mac. OS Sierra 1. 0. 1. The mac. OS update is reportedly designed to support the new hardware features that will be introduced in the 2. Mac. Book Pro, so it’s understandable why Apple is looking to launch both the software update and the new hardware around the same time. On Tuesday, Apple released the second beta of mac. OS Sierra (1. 0. 1. The tech giant is now expected to roll out what could be the final beta version in the following week — first week of October. There is no official release date as of late, but BGR has learned that if things are going according to plan, the 2. Mac. Book Pro models could start shipping by the second half of October. Hence, it won’t be surprising if Apple would launch its new powerhouse in late October. Per previous rumors, the new Mac. Book Pro will be sporting an OLED touch bar as part of its keyboard. What this does is display commands and functions that are subject to change depending on which app is running. There is also word on the possibility that the new Pro laptop is coming with Touch ID support. New Mac. Book Air News: Price, Release Date, Features & Specs. Those eagerly awaiting a Mac. Book Air update will be pleased to learn that Apple updated the Mac. Book Air at WWDC in June 2. Read our Mac. Book Air (2. However, the only change is that Apple has switched the 1. GHz Broadwell processor for a 1. GHz Broadwell processor. There's also a build- to- order option of 2. GHz Broadwell processor. Broadwell is the generation of Intel processor from 2. It's unclear why Apple hasn't updated the generation of Intel processors used in the Mac. Book Air since 2. It would be understandable if the price had dropped on the model in reflection of its lowely status, but the price is still high - and since the demise of the 1. Mac. Book Pro in 2. Hope of a proper update to the Mac. Book Air lineup in 2. Mac. Book Air still hasn't been killed off for good, which is some consolation to its fans. While rumours have abound that Apple will kill off the Mac. Book Air, the WWDC update, although minor, had been predicted. According to Bloomberg sources: ? In this article, we round up all the rumours, hints and clues about the hoped for new Mac. Book Air release, including tech specs, new features, design, as well as speculation that Apple may be phasing out the 'Air' lineup completely. For buying advice related to the current Apple laptop range, read our Best Mac. Book buying guide and Best cheap Mac. Book deals articles. You can also see our one- stop guide to the best place to buy any Mac. The Mac. Book Pro also saw a minor update, getting a processor bump to the Kaby Lake chipset. Read more: New Mac. Book Pro release. A new model of the 1. Mac. Book was also announced, again getting faster Intel processors. Read more: New Mac. Book release. The 2. Mac. Book Air: Availability. While Apple isn't listing the refreshed Mac. Book Air as 'New' on its website, the 'new' model updated in June 2. The 2. 01. 7 Mac. Book Air: Specs. Fundamentally, the Mac. Book Air hasn't changed a lot over the past few years, aside from increased RAM (4. GB - 8. GB) in April 2. GHz - 1. 8. GHz) in June 2. It's the fact that Apple has essentially been updating the Mac with what would have been build- to- order options on the original 2. Macs in the range, and other computers on the market, that has fans vexed. The current model offers 1. Thanks to the updates post its 2. GB RAM along with 1. GHz i. 5 Broadwell processors as standard. You'll also find the option of either 1. GB or 2. 56. GB flash storage and Intel's HD Graphics 6. Now there is a smaller, lighter and thinner Mac. Book on the scene. While it is the cheapest Mac laptop, the Mac. Book Air can't really be described as low- cost. At the same time as the 1. Mac. Book Air was discontinued, the 1. Not many people will want a costly Air with more powerful, and thinner, Mac laptops available for not a lot more. The Mac. Book and the 2. Mac. Book Pro (which is still available) both cost . Apple discontinued the i. Pad Air line up when the new i. Pad, reviewed here, was introduced in March 2. Even the 1. 2. 9in i. Pad Pro could be reason enough for Apple to discontinue the Mac. Book Air. The i. Pad Pro may indeed have been the killer of the 1. Mac. Book Air if Apple CEO Tim Cook's comments to the Telegraph are taken into account (published on 1 December 2. Regarding the new Pro i. Pad, Cook told the Telegraph: ? No really, why would you buy one? Yes, the i. Pad Pro is a replacement for a notebook or a desktop for many, many people. They will start using it and conclude they no longer need to use anything else, other than their phones. With all that in mind it seems likely that the Mac. Book Air range will be discontinued and replaced by a lower priced Mac. Book range. In January 2. Digi. Times cited Chinese site Economic Daily News and said Apple is going to drop the price of the non- Touch Bar 1. Mac. Book Pro and discontinue the Mac. Book Air. It added: . Until the company is preparaed to reduce the price of the Mac. Book by that much we don't expect it to remove the lower cost model from the line up. The 1. 3in Mac. Book Air is currently $9. Mac. Book Air was $7. We'd like to see Apple reduce the 1. Mac. Book Air price to that level, reverting to that lower entry- level price. Mac. Book Air price. Considering the place of the Mac. Book Air in Apple's product line up we feel that it is over- priced at almost . It now costs . To make matters worse, before the 1. Mac. Book Air was axed in October 2. Mac. Book Air for . So the cost of buying a Mac. Book Air is now . Apparently it is still a popular option. However, the Mac. Book Air hasn't always been the entry- level Mac laptop. When the Mac. Book Air initially launched it was quite overpriced for the specs, just like the Retina Mac. Book which launched in 2. Apple stopped paying attention to the Mac. Book Air). At the time the Mac. Book Air launched in 2. Mac laptop was the old Mac. Book models - the ones that were aluminium, then white and black, and then eventually aluminium again. Over time the price of the Mac. Book Air was reduced and those older Mac. Book models disappeared from the lineup. It seems likely that the same will happen with the new Mac. Book models eventually replacing the Mac. Book Airs, at a lower price. Until Apple is ready for the Mac. Book price to drop to below . As soon as the Mac. Book price comes down, expect the Air to vanish. Future Mac. Book Air specs. If Apple does ever update the Mac. Book Air, here is a taster of what you could expect.. But we have to say, it's looking unlikely. Retina display. Back in March 2. Apple to award the Mac. Book Air with a Retina display - years later and it still doesn't have one. When Apple updated its Mac. Book Air in March of 2. Retina display. Instead, it launched a brand- new Mac. Book line that's super- thin, super- light and does offer that high- resolution display, but does that mean Apple won't enhance the Mac. Book Air with a Retina display in the future? If Apple wants to keep the price down maybe not. Intel is shipping its Kaby Lake processors - that's the generation of chips after Skylake - and light years from the Broadwell processors in the current Mac. Book Air. These processors offer support for Thunderbolt 3, USB 3. Display. Port 1. 2. Keyboard. 9to. 5Mac and Trusted. Reviews report that Apple has been in talks to use a laptop variant of Sonder Design's dynamic keyboard technology. Sonder Design is famous for developing an E- ink keyboard, using E- ink to change the key labels on the fly. This means that the entire keyboard is customisable, providing multiple languages as well as contextual shortcuts from a single keyboard. It allows users that are, for example, editing in Final Cut Pro to look down at the keyboard and see exactly which tool they need to use without having to memorise them before hand. What isn't clear is how Apple is planning on implementing the software, or which laptop it could be featured on, but it could theoretically make an appearance on the 2. Mac. Book Air. Sonder has confirmed that talks between Apple and the company has taken place, although it won't comment on whether or not it's a deal - it has only confirmed that it's . It claims that Apple is planning to release a Mac. Book Air with USB- C ports in future, but doesn't provide a launch timeframe for the upgraded laptop. Lenovo, Acer and Dell are still evaluating the option. It would still represent a bold move overall for Apple however - it'd mean all of its laptops would no longer support standard USB- A connections, a move sure to annoy a few people, but ultimately shape the future of mobile computing. Apple Pencil- enabled Trackpad. While this isn't a new patent (it was originally filed back in 2. Apple Pencil to work with Mac trackpads. What is most interesting about the patent is that it depicts a more sophisticated Apple Pencil than the one currently available, suggesting that the accessory is due to get an overhaul at some point in the future. It even goes as far to describe the Pencil being used as a general input device like a joystick or an 'air mouse'. However, Apple has a habit of applying for a patent and then doing nothing with it, so it isn't set in stone that we'll be seeing this featured on the next Mac. Book Air - but we can sure hope. Touch ID and Force Touch. We expect this feature to come on the Air model - if it isn't discontinued! There are also reports to suggest that it'll boast Touch ID within its Trackpad, which may also get the Force Touch upgrade that was given to the 1. Mac. Book Pro back in March 2. Mac. Book. Touch ID is the fingerprint sensor that's built into the Home button of the i. Phone 5. S, i. Phone 6 and i. Phone 6 Plus and beyond. It's also used to make Apple Pay more secure and with the recent announcement of Apple Pay coming to Mac as part of mac. OS Sierra, this rumour makes a lot of sense. According to an Independent report, Touch ID for the Mac line would require a dedicated chip to be built into the device. The rumour started with Taiwanese blog Apple. Corner, which cited sources in the supply chain. Apparently, the Magic Mouse and Magic Trackpad may get a biometric update too, enabling users to make Apple Pay payments on the web, but both those accessories were updated alongside the launch of a new 4. K i. Mac so that seems unlikely to happen anytime soon. We'll be updating this article as more information about the rumoured Mac. Book Air emerges so check back from time to time for the latest news. Wondering which Mac. Book is best for you? Read: Mac. Book Air vs Mac. Book Pro comparison review: 1. Apple laptops compared. You might also like to read our Which Mac? Best Mac buyers guide. Apple’s hot new Mac. Book Pro might be good enough for VR, but it won’t launch next month – BGRApple is very interested in virtual reality, but not all of its hardware can support VR at this point. However, things may change later this year when Apple launches its 2. Mac. Book Pro series. Detailing the alleged new features of the new laptops, a report casually mentions that some models will pack high- end Polaris graphics cards, which have been built to offer gamers cheap access to VR, at least on desktops. DON’T MISS: This has to be the prettiest poster ever designed on an i. Pad. That said, it’s not clear what type of AMD Polaris graphics card will be found in the new Mac. Book Pro.“Apple is using one of AMD’s . It’s unclear what company will provide the processor for the new Mac. Book, with Intel being Apple’s choice for previous models. Bloomberg did not only focus on the chips and graphics cards of the upcoming Mac. Book Pro. According to the report, Apple is preparing the most significant overhaul to the laptop line in over four years. The 2. 01. 6 Mac. Book Pro should be thinner than existing models, but they won’t be tapered like the Mac. Book Air and Retina Mac. Book. Even so, they will have a smaller footprint and the case will have shallower curves around the edges. The pressure- sensitive trackpad is slightly wider, and a secondary, likely OLED- based screen will replace the function key row on the keyboard. The new touchscreen is supposed to offer users fast access to context- aware shortcuts. Depending on the app on the screen, the secondary display will show shortcuts that fit the task at hand, such as media playing controls or shortcuts to some of the most frequent actions inside an app, like copy and paste. The new design also includes USB- C ports, and Apple may launch the Mac. Book Pros in i. Phone colors, including gray, gold and silver. A fingerprint sensor will also be found on the new Mac. Book Pros, and will likely borrow the Touch ID features on the i. Phone. Users will be able to unlock the laptop with their fingerprints and authenticate Apple Pay purchases online. The new computers have been in “advanced testing” inside Apple since earlier this year, and should be unveiled during a press event later this year — but not the i. Phone keynote that’s reportedly scheduled for September 7th.
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