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MacPro

Whenever Apple cuts price on its existing hardware, it's usually a good bet that new models are on the way. Recent slashes to the company's Thunderbolt displays collection speculation that the company would shortly debut a new model, possibly with its own integrated GPU. Now, in that location's talk of a substantially upgraded MacBook Pro, fueled past purported photos of the body and some substantial price drops on 2015 models.

Let's start with what nosotros know. Late final week, authorized Apple reseller B&H began offering $200 discounts on its xiii-inch, and most 15-inch MacBook Pros. The nearly expensive xv-inch MacBook Pros received $300 or $400 discounts, while the 21-inch and 27-inch iMacs besides got $200 knocked off the buy cost. In nearly cases, this works out to a 10-12% disbelieve.

These price cuts are expected to articulate inventory ahead of the 2016 MacBook Pro refresh cycle. Presumably these systems volition be based on Intel's Skylake CPUs and rely on Intel integrated graphics for the vast majority of SKUs — right now, merely the nearly expensive MacBook Pro, at $2,499 base price, includes a detached GPU (the AMD R9 M370X). That's a low-end, four-yr-old, GCN ane.0 processor with just 640 stream processors — essentially an AMD Radeon Hard disk drive 7770. Hopefully Apple will time its product updates so information technology can apply AMD's 14nm Polaris architecture and offer MacBook Pro users a graphics card that wouldn't exist learning to tie its shoes and attending kindergarten. (We're assuming that Apple will choose to stick with AMD rather than Nvidia, though the company has been known to switch between the ii vendors before).

2016-MacBook-Pro-Chassis

Meanwhile, leaked photos of the purported 2016 MacBook Pro chassis suggest it volition integrate an OLED screen at the top of the keyboard for function fundamental back up. Cult of Mac as well claims that the visitor will offer more USB ports but, in a twist, volition dump backwards compatibility and ship the laptop only with four USB Type-C ports. If the company doesn't also ship adapters, end users will take to buy them separately, and the thought of having 4 different adapters (or a hub) dangling off the laptop isn't a especially sleek or desirable presentation.

Other features floated for the new hardware include a switch to the butterfly keys that Apple uses with the MacBook, elevation-mounted speakers, and a thinner overall blueprint. Apple is nevertheless keeping a headphone jack on the MacBook Pro, though it's rumored to be because ditching that port on the iPhone seven, which is expected to launch later this yr.

Other miscellaneous rumors include a proper name change for Bone 10 to "MacOS," Siri launching for MacOS, and upgrades to the Photos and Apple Music applications. 9to5 Mac also reports that Apple may allow Apple Pay to part over iMessage.

Multiple sites are reporting that Apple tree won't launch new hardware at WWDC, which makes sense if the visitor wants to capitalize on AMD'south Polaris or Intel's Kaby Lake refresh. We'll have to await and run into what develops on that front end.