16-Inch MacBook Pro Will Come With Intel ‘Coffee Lake,’ End Of 15.4-Inch MBP, Says IHS Markit

[UPDATE] The 16-inch MacBook Pro will start prolongation subsequent month and could meant a finish of a longstanding 15.4-inch MBP, IHS Markit said.

The 16-inch MacBook Pro will start prolongation in Sep during a monthly prolongation volume of 39,000 units, IHS Market’s Jeff Lin pronounced in an email on Saturday.

The 16-inch MBP will use a Intel Coffee Lake-H Refresh, he said. The latest Coffee Lake H mobile series was expelled in a second entertain of this year and is Intel’s fastest 45-watt mobile processor to date braggadocio as many as 8 cores. Those processors are now used on a 15.4-inch MacBook Pro.

The “15.4 [inch] MacBook [Pro] will…end production…Nov’19,” Lin pronounced in his note. “We consider 15.4 [inch] MacBook volumes will change to 16 [inch],” he added.

Update: Lin had been indeterminate about a finish of 15.4-inch MacBook prolongation in his initial email. In a second email he pronounced that “it is reliable from OEM row supplier” that 15.4-inch MacBook Pro prolongation will finish in November. “I am flattering certain that MacBook 15.4” will be EOL [End-of-Life],” he added.

The switch to a 16-inch-class arrangement might not impact a distance of a MacBook Pro, however, according to a report in Digitimes. So, consumers could be removing radically a stream 15.4-inch framework though with a incomparable display.

Other 16-inch MBP sum embody a arrangement with a fortitude of 227 pixels per inch, a same as 13.3-inch MacBook Pro.

12-inch MacBook finale production

The 12-inch MacBook will finish prolongation in August, Lin said.

The 2-pound MacBook, introduced in 2015, was Apple’s try to reinvent a strange MacBook Air introduced by Steve Jobs in 2008. But it was dropped when Apple revamped a 13-inch MacBook Air in 2018.

The 12-inch MacBook was removing a glow sale diagnosis this weekend during retailers like Best Buy, where it was ignored by $500.