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Apple will launch a 16-inch MacBook Professional this 12 months, a second analyst predicts – CNET
The 2018 MacBook Air.
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The final main design change in Apple’s MacBook Professional line got here in 2016, when the corporate added a second Contact Bar show, a butterfly keyboard and a House Gray coloration possibility. However 2019 will even see a significant shakeup within the iconic laptop computer’s lineup, as analyst Jeff Lin predicts a brand new 16-inch MacBook Professional.
The report, obtained by Forbes, states that the laptop computer would function an LG panel with three,072×1,920 pixels and can go into mass manufacturing in September. At present, Apple affords 13- and 15-inch MacBook Professionals, along with its 12-inch MacBook and 13-inch MacBook Air. It might be the primary plus-sized laptop computer since the 17-inch MacBook Professional was discontinued in 2012.
Lin, who represents IHS Markit, is a display-industry analyst, thus the prediction being centered round display specs. In 2012 he appropriately predicted a 13-inch MacBook Professional with Retina Show, and IHS lately have been confirmed proper when it stated the unnamed iPhone X would function a flat OLED display and 2017’s 10.5-inch iPad Professional would rock a 2,224×1,668-pixel show.
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Through the years lots of Lin’s Apple predictions have come true. In 2012 he appropriately predicted a 13-inch MacBook Professional with Retina Show, and in 2017 he appropriately predicted Apple’s 10.5-inch iPad Professional getting a 2,224×1,668-pixel show.
His newest prediction additionally corroborates a February prediction made by Ming-Chi Kuo, who over time has confirmed to be one thing of an Apple Nostradamus. Kuo stated Apple will launch a brand new 16-inch MacBook Professional, new iPads and a 31-inch 6K monitor. That 31-inch 6K monitor, we came upon earlier in June, is the Professional Show XDR.
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