Apple sends out invitations to an October 27th event titled "hello again", expected to announce new Mac hardware

[captain cactus]

Sauce: http://www.macrumors.com/2016/10/19/apple-announces-october-27th-mac-centric-event/

 

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Apple today sent out media invites for a Mac-centric event that will be held on Thursday, October 27 at 10:00 a.m. at Apple's Cupertino campus

The October event is expected to focus on the introduction of new Macs, headlined by a much-rumored and highly anticipated revamped MacBook Pro. According to rumors, the new MacBook Pro will feature the first redesign to the machine since 2012.

 

After some rumours floating around for the past couple of days Apple themselves have now confirmed an event on October 27th. 

 

Now, one of the things rumoured is a MacBook Pro with an OLED touch bar at the top of the keyboard. The image Apple sent out has a vibrant Apple logo with parts being completely black, just like how it would look on an OLED display. So we can say at least that much.

[Misanthrope]

Re: Hai. Moar ports kthxbye.

[Tech_Dreamer]

Just days before Halloween , Coincidence? i think NOT!!! #NoPortsHorror

[Shiv78]

Imagine if they put a full OLED panel in it... that would be pretty nice

[NinerL]

I hope we see dedicated NVDIA GPU's, but I doubt it.

[Shiv78]

1 minute ago, NinerL said:

I hope we see dedicated NVDIA GPU's, but I doubt it.

Maybe on the 15"

[Deletist_Jerk]

8 minutes ago, NinerL said:

I hope we see dedicated NVDIA GPU's, but I doubt it.

Whenever AMD contract is over with. 

 

I think it expires next year, but then there is a chance of Apple renewing the contract because of improvements we've seen in Polaris revision. 

 

[daniielrp]

I read "hello again" was the tag line when they first introduced the iMac, so I expect a lot of focus to be on that.

[rattacko123]

My parents are stuck with an old 2010 17 inch macbook, so new hardware would be great for them. New 21.5 inch imac pls apple

[suicidalfranco]

50 minutes ago, Deletist_Jerk said:

Whenever AMD contract is over with. 

 

I think it expires next year, but then there is a chance of Apple renewing the contract because of improvements we've seen in Polaris revision. 

 

Has AMD even released some polaris based mGPUs?

[Shiv78]

21 minutes ago, suicidalfranco said:

Has AMD even released some polaris based mGPUs?

No.

[Heesleemer]

25 minutes ago, Shiv78 said:

No.

actually theres been talk I believe so I wouldn't be surprised if this is the launch for them as well. 

Well my work is getting me a new macbook pro for work... i wonder if i can get this updaated one 

[mrchow19910319]

2 hours ago, rattacko123 said:

My parents are stuck with an old 2010 17 inch macbook, so new hardware would be great for them. New 21.5 inch imac pls apple

I miss those 17 inch macbook pros. 

[suicidalfranco]

1 hour ago, mrchow19910319 said:

I miss those 17 inch macbook pros. 

we all do (still have a 2007 17" inch macbook pro that my sister now uses, CPU/GPU apart, so much better than my own 15" 2012 MacBook Pro)

[mrchow19910319]

17 minutes ago, suicidalfranco said:

we all do (still have a 2007 17" inch macbook pro that my sister now uses, CPU/GPU apart, so much better than my own 15" 2012 MacBook Pro)

Those older machine is very easy to upgrade too. 

Not like these days the new one, so much thinner and yet a lot harder to repair.

Once it had some hardware issue, it is fucked. Either buy the apple care, or you go to apple store and pay $500 for a repair.... 

However despite all these, macs still have a better resell value and tends to last longer. 

[MoonSpot]

Will be busy preparing for Skyrim special edition, so sorry apple; I'll not be tuning in.  Doubt their new machine would even be able to play SSE well anyways but who knows, maybe this one will be different and provide power for the cost. :troll:

[pit5000]

i dont mind having no legacy ports but no more magsafe or SD card slot is a disgrace.

[suicidalfranco]

2 hours ago, mrchow19910319 said:

Those older machine is very easy to upgrade too. 

Not like these days the new one, so much thinner and yet a lot harder to repair.

Once it had some hardware issue, it is fucked. Either buy the apple care, or you go to apple store and pay $500 for a repair.... 

However despite all these, macs still have a better resell value and tends to last longer. 

totally agree, before giving it to my sister, the battery had swollen, best thing about removable batteries? it did it without damaging the rest of the PC! Then i remove the bottom cover, replacing the HDD with an SSD took me less than two minutes. Done that, decided to remove all the dust, again easy job. Since i was there also decided to reapply some thermal paste on both processors, not as easy as replacing an HDD, but again, done without problems. Finally weeks later, RAM sticks arrived and moved it from it's pathetic 2GB of RAM to 6GB. 

If it wasn't for the CPU/GPU that thing would be gold even for today's usage.

Also had to replace the keyboard cause some keys were missing, that was the most complicated thing to do out off all

[Magnetorheological]

It's about damn time. Isn't the Macbook Pro still on Ivy Bridge or something? I recall it's been a while since they refreshed those.

[Arri]

the invite should have been titled, "will you shut up now". 

 

Seriously though. I'm happy to see that Macs are finally going to be updated. However, I will be very sad if MagSafe is removed. It's one of my favorite features about MacBooks. Fingers crossed that magsafe stays (or a better implementation is introduced with type c) and also 13" MBA getting a retina screen. I do not want to update to a Pro!

[captain cactus]

2 hours ago, Magnetorheological said:

It's about damn time. Isn't the Macbook Pro still on Ivy Bridge or something? I recall it's been a while since they refreshed those.

They're on Broadwell.

[Thiback]

"Hello again. We have a new very exciting series of hardware without any ports. It's revolutionnary". I hope at least it won't be that, because then the entire industry are going to follow their "revolutionnary" trend just like after every Apple announcement ever.

[daniielrp]

3 hours ago, Magnetorheological said:

It's about damn time. Isn't the Macbook Pro still on Ivy Bridge or something? I recall it's been a while since they refreshed those.

No my 2015 one is broadwell - 5257U

That was last refresh with updated CPU, force touch trackpad and ridiculously fast ssds.

[Bleedingyamato]

3 hours ago, Magnetorheological said:

It's about damn time. Isn't the Macbook Pro still on Ivy Bridge or something? I recall it's been a while since they refreshed those.

It won't matter.  Macs are always behind in terms of hardware.  It'd be nice if Apple wasn't always like 6-12 months behind but I doubt they'll change any time soon.

 

 

7 hours ago, MoonSpot said:

Will be busy preparing for Skyrim special edition, so sorry apple; I'll not be tuning in.  Doubt their new machine would even be able to play SSE well anyways but who knows, maybe this one will be different and provide power for the cost. :troll:

I'm looking forward to the remastered Skyrim too.  Finally going to play it.  I was going to a few months ago but then I found out about the special edition and figured I'd wait and play the improved version.  

 

Like I said above, Apple likes charging insane prices for inferior performance.  They're happy with probably the worst price to performance ratio in the computer industry.  

 

Sure I'd love to see better GPUs in Macs but I just don't see if happening.

[Bsmith]

4 minutes ago, Bleedingyamato said:

It won't matter.  Macs are always behind in terms of hardware.  It'd be nice if Apple wasn't always like 6-12 months behind but I doubt they'll change any time soon.

 

being behind in hardware doesnt matter when CPU's barely change at all. if you look between the 6700 and 4900 series for example the difference is minimal in most tasks.

If we take an 6700K and a 4790K for example they are nearly equal in performance. the age of an CPU says nothing these days.