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The 12-inch MacBook. The possible specifications for the 2019 release could include new 10nm processors.
Credit: Apple
Despite a refresh focused on the Intel processor in the early summer, other MacBooks are coming. Here's what a 12-inch MacBook Pro and an updated 16-inch MacBook Pro look like.
By the report this week& nbsp; (MacRumors), seven new models are in preparation. This comes as a result of the Update of May 21 on the MacBook Pro 13 and 15 inches.
May 21st refreshment:
On May 21, Apple has updated its 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Pro with the latest Intel Eighth and 9th Generation 14-nanometer (nm) processors, including the 8th generation & nbsp;Core i7-8665U& nbsp; (quad core) on & nbsp; MacBook Pro 13-inch highest-end and 9th generation & nbsp;Core i9-9980HK& nbsp; (eight hearts) & nbsp; on the highest-end 15-inch MacBook Pro.
Next step: MacBook 12 inches (maybe) & nbsp;
The 12-inch MacBook (the last update dates back to mid-2017) is it simply synonymous with time and disappearance? Or just on a two-year upgrade cycle of Apple?
Only Apple knows the answer to this question, but it relegated the status of the 12-incher with the release of Retina MacBook Air 2018: the 13-inch Retina MBA is the new flagship MacBook, thin and lightweight, not the 12-inch MB .
But … if the 12-inch is refreshed, it's a good candidate for the 9-watt (very very low power consumption) Intel Ice Lake Y-Series, scheduled for later this year. Ice Lake – the first 10-nanometer series of Intel processors – would be a big leap in two generations compared to the 14-megabyte and 14-inch Kaby Lake Y series of the 12-inch MacBook in mid-2017.
But here's the problem: this 10-inch Ice Lake chip would fit perfectly into an updated MacBook Air Retina, which currently uses a 14-nm Amber Lake Y dual-core processor. Apple could, for its part, integrate a higher-performance Ice Lake U-Series chip into an updated Retina MBA to maintain a satisfactory performance gap over the smaller MacBook.
The Ice Lake 10nm processor offers, among other things, great graphics power
- Generation 11 GPU with 64 threads, more than twice the number of current Intel processors, should provide a value & nbsp;TFLOP& nbsp; graphics performance **
- Support for the first time low-power LPDDR4X memory
- Battery life estimated at 25 hours
- Native support for Thunderbolt 3 and Wi-Fi 6 (IEEE 802.11ax standard – increasing maximum data rates to 9.6 Gbps from 3.5 Gbps today)
- Typical processor enhancements, such as an increase in performance per clock
- Power envelope of 9, 15 and 25 watts
And here's one last thing to think about: A new version of the 12-inch MacBook would be a great way to transfer MacBooks to Apple's internal A-series processors. But that's another discussion for another day.
MacBook Pro concept made by Viktor Kadar.
Credit: Viktor Kadar
MacBook Pro 16 inch / 17 inch: OLED?
Although this is purely hypothetical at this point, the monstrous 16-inch (or maybe 17-inch) MacBook would be a perfect opportunity for Apple to switch to an OLED display on a MacBook for the first time. (The iPhone X and the XS currently use OLED displays.)
The timing is good. The largest PC makers are just starting to opt for OLED on their 15 and 16-inch laptops. HP has just started shipping a 15.6 inches & nbsp; X360 spectrum with an OLED and Dell announced the 15.6 inches XPS 15 7590 with an OLED.
In addition, a massive MacBook would be ideal for Intel's fastest mobile processors. & Nbsp; As of the summer of 2019, this would be the ninth generation of Intel H Series mobile processors, such as & nbsp;Core i9-9980HK 8-core processor, which is now available during the May 2019 update of the 15-inch MacBook Pro. And the 9980HK is also available on Windows laptops like the Dell XPS 15 7590.
Even though the updated 15-inch MacBook Pro is still configurable up to the Radeon Pro Vega 20 graphics card with 4GB of HBM2 memory, it's hard to guess what the future RDNA AMD Radeon (formerly called "Navi") Apple graphics will look like could use in a mega MacBook Pro, because AMD has not yet specified what awaits them.
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The 12-inch MacBook. The possible specifications for the 2019 release could include new 10nm processors.
Credit: Apple
Despite a refresh focused on the Intel processor in the early summer, other MacBooks are coming. Here's what a 12-inch MacBook Pro and an updated 16-inch MacBook Pro look like.
According to this week's report (MacRumors), seven new models are in preparation. This follows the May 21 update of the 13- and 15-inch MacBook Pro.
May 21st refreshment:
On May 21, Apple has updated its 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Pro with the latest Intel 14-nanometer (nm) processors, including the 8th-generation Core i7-8665U processor, on the higher-end the 13-inch Core and nine-core i9-9980HK of the 9th generation on the high-end 15-inch MacBook Pro.
What's next: MacBook 12 inches (maybe)
The 12-inch MacBook (the last update dates back to mid-2017) is it simply synonymous with time and disappearance? Or just on a two-year upgrade cycle of Apple?
Only Apple knows the answer to this question, but it relegated the status of the 12-incher with the release of Retina MacBook Air 2018: the 13-inch Retina MBA is the new flagship MacBook, thin and lightweight, not the 12-inch MB .
But … if the 12-inch is refreshed, it's a good candidate for the 9-watt (very very low power consumption) Intel Ice Lake Y-Series, scheduled for later this year. Ice Lake – the first 10-nanometer series of Intel processors – would be a big leap in two generations compared to the 14-megabyte and 14-inch Kaby Lake Y series of the 12-inch MacBook in mid-2017.
But here's the problem: this 10-inch Ice Lake chip would fit perfectly into an updated MacBook Air Retina, which currently uses a 14-nm Amber Lake Y dual-core processor. Apple could, for its part, integrate a higher performance Ice Lake U-Series chip into an updated Retina MBA to maintain a satisfactory performance gap over the smaller MacBook.
The Ice Lake 10nm processor offers, among other things, great graphics power
- GPU Gen 11 with 64 threads, more than twice the number of Intel processors today, should yield a TFLOP graphics performance **
- Support for the first time low-power LPDDR4X memory
- Battery life estimated at 25 hours
- Native support for Thunderbolt 3 and Wi-Fi 6 (IEEE 802.11ax standard – increasing maximum data rates to 9.6 Gbps from 3.5 Gbps today)
- Typical processor enhancements, such as an increase in performance per clock
- Power envelope of 9, 15 and 25 watts
And here's one last thing to think about: A new version of the 12-inch MacBook would be a great way to transfer MacBooks to Apple's internal A-series processors. But that's another discussion for another day.
MacBook Pro concept made by Viktor Kadar.
Credit: Viktor Kadar
MacBook Pro 16 inch / 17 inch: OLED?
While this is purely hypothetical at this point, the monstrous 16-inch (or maybe 17-inch) MacBook would be a perfect opportunity for Apple to switch to an OLED display on a MacBook for the first time. (The iPhone X and the XS currently use OLED displays.)
The timing is good. The largest PC makers are just starting to opt for OLED on their 15 and 16-inch laptops. HP has just started delivering a 15.6-inch x360 Specter with an OLED and Dell has announced the 15.6-inch XPS 15 7590 with an OLED.
In addition, a massive MacBook would suit perfectly the fastest mobile processors of Intel. Beginning in the summer of 2019, it would be the 9th generation H series of mobile Intel processors, such as the 8 Core Core i9-9980HK processor, which is now available at the same time. 15-inch MacBook Pro update of May 2019. And the 9980HK is also available on Windows laptops like the Dell XPS 15 7590.
Even though the updated 15-inch MacBook Pro is still configurable with a Radeon Pro Vega 20 4GB HBM2 graphics card, it's hard to guess what future AMD Radeon RDNA graphics (formerly "Navi") could use in a mega MacBook Pro, AMD has not yet specified what will happen.