Apr 18, 2024 | Updated: 11:35 AM EDT
Feb 20, 2017 12:00 AM EST
MacBook Pro models were launched last year's October, but Apple enthusiasts are now waiting for the next update of the MacBook Pro 2017. Some of them created rumors analyze predictions regarding the new MavBook Pro 2017; in terms of its design, features, price, specification, and its release date.
According to an analyst named Ming-Chi Kou of KSG Securities, Apple will have an update in the entire range of 2017; stated by the reports of Seattle Times. Last year's MacBook Pro that was launched in Oct 2016, he already assumed that Apple will have to launch another update in MacBook Pro models by the second half of 2017, including the support for a 32GB RAM.
Last year, analyst Kou used Cannonlake processors as a reference to the new MacBook Pro that will launch in February of 2017. He added that the upcoming MacBook Pro models will carry a Kaby Lake processor, both 15-inch and 13-inch version of MacBook Pro by the end of the year 2017.
Although the expected high-end MacBook Pro with a 32GB RAM will not be launched by the end of 2017. Recently, Apple released a list of price regarding with their MacBook Pro models. As for the 2016's 13-inch and 15-inch, new MacBook Pro with Touch Bar will start at a price of $1,799 and $2,399 for the 15-inch model.
As claimed by the reports of Bloomberg, MacBook Pro 2017 will feature an Apple-designed chip to support simple tasks such as emails and other updates even the laptop is in a sleep mode. This unnamed chip was already used in the latest MacBook Pro to power the keyboard's Touch Bar feature; the chip was temporarily named as codename T310 which supports the laptop's low-power mode functionality.
Apple's MacBook Pro was predicted to carry an Intel Skylake CPU that supports up to 16GB of LPDDR3 RAM at the 2133MHz processor; it one of the processors that are capable of running more than 16GB of memory. Meanwhile, the expected Kaby Lake processor upgrade for the MacBook Pro will not boost the RAM capacity of 16GB.
To those who can afford the Apple's MacBook Pro models especially the upcoming 2017 variant, there will be a lot of upcoming updates that will be released by the company. Stay tuned.
