“At today’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, Intel formally announced its full lineup of 7th-generation Intel Core processors, known as Kaby Lake,” Juli Clover reports for MacRumors. “Today’s unveiling covers notebook and desktop chips that could be destined for many future Apple Macs. According to Intel, Kaby Lake will bring ‘double digit productivity performance increases’ of up to 20 percent for gaming notebooks and 25 percent for desktops, compared to 2013 Haswell chips from Intel’s prior release cycle. With 4K and 360 degree content, customers can expect up to 65 percent faster performance on notebooks. Enhanced security, a new media engine, and improvements in VR and gaming are all advertised features.”
“Of the chips announced today, the 28-watt U-Series chips are appropriate for a future 13-inch MacBook Pro update, and we could see the 7267U/7287U/7567U used in 13-inch MacBook Pro machines this year. Those same chips are likely what Apple would use in a Mac mini update, as the Mac mini and the 13-inch MacBook Pro have traditionally included the same chips,” Clover reports. “Intel’s 45-watt H-Series chips are appropriate for a future 15-inch MacBook Pro update.”
“With today’s announcement, Kaby Lake chips that are clear upgrades for the iMac, MacBook Pro, and Mac mini will be available to manufacturers in the near future and will be available for Apple’s planned 2017 upgrades,” Clover reports. “Kaby Lake chips appropriate for future MacBook updates are already available.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Intel has (finally) served the ball, let’s see what Apple does with it!
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Fred Mertz” and “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
Why do Macs need their own 7th gen chips?
These chips are not unique to Macs. These are the standard chips that Intel will be selling to everyone. Various SKUs are just applicable to different Macs (laptops and desktops).
Thank you. It didn’t read that way.
The editors were just contextualizing the story for the Apple audience.
Mac Pro use or is there another variant needed?
Mac Pros use the Xeon chips. The current Xeon line up is on a slightly different schedule, these are consumer chips
Mac Pro uses Xeon chipsets, which are designed for workstation and server applications. They are faster but more power hungry than the consumer oriented chipsets
all those early adopter beta testers are gonna be pissed when the new macbook pros come out in a couple months.
Some might. I won’t. I highly doubt they’ll be out before WWDC. At that time I’ll look at consider trading in, but likely I’ll keep what I have.
I wouldn’t expect much other than modest increases in speed, the same 16GB of RAM and similar battery life.
I couldn’t wait 6+ months, especially with the uncertainty that they would even come then.
The sad, very likely scenario is that even though the Kaby Lake variants applicable to the MacBook Pros will be shipping in quantity in February/March (and have been available in Apple’s labs for a few months already) the public won’t get new MacBook Pros based upon these chips until September/October 2017 — about a year after the current crop of MacBook Pros were announced.
True. And Meanwhile in the rest of computer land everyone else will be on to coffeelake etc…
But at least the emoji bar will be faster.
The new chips don’t provide a significant speed increase anyway; so it’s no big deal to me if Apple decides to wait for something with a bigger bang for the buck:
https://www.cnet.com/news/intel-kaby-lake-7th-gen-7700-7600-7350/
Lol. Are you kidding me Apple one be doing anything with the MacBook Pro now until 2020. Based on their current schedule. At that time they’ll be using these chips sadly
Yes, by the time Apple adopts these in a MacBook Pro, the 8th generation will be out and the 9th generation will be near.
“At today’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, Intel formally announced its full lineup of 7th-generation Intel Core processors, known as Kaby Lake…”
Not true.
Intel introduced the Kaby Lake variants that are currently expected/planned to ship in 2017. Not only is this subject to change between now and the end of this calendar year, it does not include Kaby Lake variants that are expected/planned to ship in 2018. You can easily expect new, high end workstation and high end server Kaby Lake processors to ship between now and June 2018.
Everyone should also note that there are no “E” or “X” variants (very high end chips that cost upwards of $2,000 a chip for the top of the line) in this announcement. But to be consistent Skylake “E” or “X” are not shipping in quantity yet as of today (and likely won’t until April or May 2017.
Apple still needs to match up with some decent GPUs but I’m sure it’s going to be nothing but more mobile AMD GPUs for desktops.
While I have many complaints with regard to the current crop of MacBooks (Pros and plain), Apple moving to USB Type-C connectors is not one of them, but I must admit to an annoyance with the complete drop of MagSafe.
Yes, the current requirement for lots and lots of dongles is a complete pain, but I still have to carry around a couple dongles for my maxed out 15″ 2015 MacBook Pro. I won’t upgrade to the current MacBook Pro for many reasons. The proliferation of dongles due to them having only USB Type-C ports is just a small fraction of those reasons. This does not constitute a reason for me to complain — other than the initial, nee jerk reaction I had and then got over in a few days.
I expect that by mid 2018 most of the dongle situation will go away. The computer industry will focus more on USB Type-C than it ever did on USB Type-A or Type B or any other connector. Yes, there will be some dongles necessary to deal with such things as HDMI and SDXC chips, but those will eventually be few.
what dongles are you using for your 2015 Macbook Pro?
Hope someone from Apple is lurking.
For the love of gawd, please return Quad Core CPUs and upgradeable memory to the Mac mini. And at bare minimum give us Iris Pro graphics.
I remember replacing the single core CPU on my first Intel Mac Mini with a dual core from eBay. Memories . . .
I did the same thing. Still using it at the cabin in the woods as a media server. Last year I replaced the HDD with an SSD from OWC. It just keeps ticking!
Kaby Lake is a reason why I hope Apple plans to create their own processors for laptops and desktops. There are some people who need Intel support. MOST people do not. I’m not against them have a high-end model with an intel processor. But I think most of us would be fine with Mac OS X on an A series chip, or whatever they decide to use. I think as long as they can get Microsoft, Adobe, and other companies to port their software to the new architecture, getting the Apple Store developers shouldn’t be a big deal. But it’s clear that Apple should not rest its product development on Intel, which seems to be stagnant.
Please bring your data to show that most people don’t need Intel support.
IBM wouldn’t have ordered a single Mac if they weren’t capable of dual booting to Windows.
Going to a power-limiting A chip is just ridiculous. For pro users and enterprises — the customers who Apple needs to reach to retain a sizeable customer base at all — want processing capability that is not compromised by Jony’s obsession with thinness and pocket portability.
Kaby Lake comes to Apple! (In 2020) LOL.
Hi
I am planing to buy macbook pro .. could u please tell me when kabylake processor will come with macbook ?
I need approximate date .
See my post right above yours for the answer.
Let’s hope that Apple doesn’t take a year or two to update its notebook and desktop computers to include Intel’s Kaby Lake, so that its Mac computer won’t, once again, fall two or more generations behind in CPU and GPU technology.