“Apple will bring a high-resolution Retina display to its 13-inch MacBook Pro with a product update set to launch this October, according to one insider,” Neil Hughes reports for AppleInsider.
“Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI shared in a note with AppleInsider on Thursday that he expects Apple to ramp up production of a 13-inch next-generation MacBook Pro with Retina display in September,” Hughes reports. “That would allow the product to hit stores in early October, in time for the holiday shopping season.”
Hughes reports, “Kuo was the first to indicate that Apple would retire its 17-inch MacBook Pro, and that the 15-inch next-generation MacBook Pro with Retina display would be sold alongside the previous-generation MacBook Pro with lower-resolution display and thicker design. Both of those details proved true this week at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
Horseshit!!!
Will the 13″ have a discrete graphics card?
They would have debuted it Monday along with the others. That rumor is easily false.
I’m confused. How did the retirement of the 17 incher prove true? Apple never releases the 17 before the 13 or 15, so a September release date would be logical. Thus in the absence of a statement by Apple the the 17 has been retired I’d say that prediction was false.
When a 17-incher with Retina is more affordable, that may return as its new top-of-the-liner. Or not.
A 13-inch version of the new MacBook Pro with Retina Display would just be a 13-inch MacBook Air with Retina Display.
I think what will happen, next year at about this time, is a slimmed down (no optical drive) 17-inch MacBook Pro will return with a Retina Display. Then, the lineup will be…
11.6-inch MacBook Air (low-cost model at $999)
13-inch MacBook Air
13-inch MacBook Air with Retina Display
15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display
17-inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display
MacBook Air may be renamed just “MacBook.”
EXACTLY what I wanted to hear. I’m there!