Apple to release new 13-inch MacBook Pro in May, leaker claims
Apple could still be preparing to refresh the 13-inch MacBook Pro in May, a leaker claims, which could get a 14-inch display without dramatically altering the overall physical size.
Apple is thought to be working on its usual refresh of the MacBook Pro lineup, one which could occur in the near future. Following the update to the iPad Pro range, it seems likely that Apple will launch updated MacBook-family products next, but it is suggested there may be a bit more of a wait before the company makes its announcement.
According to leaker Jon Prosser, Apple will be bringing out a refreshed 13-inch MacBook Pro "next month," meaning sometime in May. In a follow-up tweet, Prosser goes on to clarify it would be a refresh of the current 13-inch model, but a move to a bigger 14-inch display "is a big possibility."
While the tweets could be considered educated guesses based on Apple's usual product cadence, along with incorporating details from other rumor reports, Prosser also makes the claim the new model will have the codename "J223." Prosser has also been making more Twitter-based pronouncements about Apple's product line in recent times, with some level of accuracy, which frames the tweet's details as being genuine.
On March 3, the analyst Ming-Chi Kuo proposed there would be a replacement of the 13-inch MacBook Pro by one sporting a 14.1-inch Mini LED display. In Kuo's note, the analyst doesn't specify when the model would launch, except it would be sometime in 2020, and that product development of Mini LED will "remain unaffected" by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
Kuo has also suggested in earlier notes a refreshed MacBook Pro model with the new scissor-switch keyboard mechanism would arrive in the second quarter of 2020, though stopped short of saying what models would be affected. Earlier Kuo predictions for 2020 MacBook Pro upgrades include notes dating back to 2019.
Apple is thought to be working on its usual refresh of the MacBook Pro lineup, one which could occur in the near future. Following the update to the iPad Pro range, it seems likely that Apple will launch updated MacBook-family products next, but it is suggested there may be a bit more of a wait before the company makes its announcement.
According to leaker Jon Prosser, Apple will be bringing out a refreshed 13-inch MacBook Pro "next month," meaning sometime in May. In a follow-up tweet, Prosser goes on to clarify it would be a refresh of the current 13-inch model, but a move to a bigger 14-inch display "is a big possibility."
If everything goes well...
New 13" MacBook Pro (codename J223) coming next month. pic.twitter.com/2LGXy6w9Ya-- Jon Prosser (@jon_prosser)
While the tweets could be considered educated guesses based on Apple's usual product cadence, along with incorporating details from other rumor reports, Prosser also makes the claim the new model will have the codename "J223." Prosser has also been making more Twitter-based pronouncements about Apple's product line in recent times, with some level of accuracy, which frames the tweet's details as being genuine.
On March 3, the analyst Ming-Chi Kuo proposed there would be a replacement of the 13-inch MacBook Pro by one sporting a 14.1-inch Mini LED display. In Kuo's note, the analyst doesn't specify when the model would launch, except it would be sometime in 2020, and that product development of Mini LED will "remain unaffected" by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
Kuo has also suggested in earlier notes a refreshed MacBook Pro model with the new scissor-switch keyboard mechanism would arrive in the second quarter of 2020, though stopped short of saying what models would be affected. Earlier Kuo predictions for 2020 MacBook Pro upgrades include notes dating back to 2019.
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Maybe the 13" is for the cheaper two TB3 port models, and the 14" is still coming? Or maybe it just waits all the way to mini LED at the end of the year.
Even without discrete graphics, I'm thinking of going with the 13/14" next time just for the convenience of the size. My 15" is just a bit too bulky, and a bit too heavy. Not as bulky heavy as my 13" black MacBook used to be, but a bit less weight would be nice. Especially now they're claiming they enforce carry-on weight limits. Not that I expect to be flying anywhere in the foreseeable future.
Aha, the same poster makes another technically incorrect statement!
There is a very very fundamental difference between the 10th and 7th gen Intel CPUs, and that critical difference affected the 13-inch MacBook Pros to a monumental, it would even be fair to say historical, degree.
Up through the 2017 13-inch MacBook Pro with the 7th generation CPU, the 13-inch CPU was dual core. It was one reason I always had to get the 15-inch, just for the quad core multicore performance for photo and video editing.
With the 8th generation, for the first time in history, it was finally possible to spec a quad core i5, in the 2018 13" MacBook Pro. I downsized to the 13" and have been very happy with it.
I will say that you are correct that Intel has hardly improved their CPUs in general. Their CPU designs are so far behind AMD and Apple it's pathetic. But the factual inaccuracies in your posts would lead many to believe that you are basically just trolling here.