AppleInsider Staff
New Retina MacBook Pros with Intel's new Haswell processors could arrive even later than expected, in October, if the latest rumor is to be believed.
The details were published this week by China Times, and highlighted by Macotakara on Friday. According to the report, new MacBook Pros equipped with Retina displays won't ship until October, well after the June debut of Haswell-powered MacBook Airs.
That rumored date is later than well-connected analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities expects the new MacBook Pros to be introduced. He said in a note provided to AppleInsider this week that he expects MacBook Pros with Haswell to debut in mid-September.
Apple is said to have experienced continued yield problems with the high-resolution Retina display in its notebooks. That's led to apparent internal delays, despite the fact that benchmarks for both the 13-inch and 15-inch models have appeared online.
Prices for high-resolution LCD panels, as well as solid-state drives, have dropped in recent months. But the price of DRAM is also rising, which is why sources believe the new MacBook Pros will be sold at the same price point as the current models.
The new 13-inch MacBook Pro, in particular, is said to be even thinner than the current Retina display model. Kuo also expects the portable Macs to include 1080p "full HD" FaceTime cameras.
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Hope they come with 32GB of Ram (though this is unlikely to happen if the price of RAM is rising); at the rate the average OS X first-party app eats memory (especially Safari), even that won't last long. For reference: the Notes app eats up 100 times more RAM in 2013 than the entire Microsoft Office suite did in 1994, despite doing much less...
I'm looking forward to replacing my late-2011 15" high-end MacBook Pro with a high-end version of whatever 15" model comes next; too bad that they won't put a Retina display on the classic models, since those are the only laptops worth the Pro monicker.
So the "expected" date was "mid-September" and the new rumored date is October and that's considered "even later than expected?" Half a month seems well within any reasonable margin for error on an expected product refresh.
Hope they come with 32GB of Ram (though this is unlikely to happen if the price of RAM is rising); at the rate the average OS X first-party app eats memory (especially Safari), even that won't last long. For reference: the Notes app eats up 100 times more RAM in 2013 than the entire Microsoft Office suite did in 1994, despite doing much less...
I suspect you don't understand what you see in Activity Monitor. My Mac has been on for a few weeks, and I run Safari all the time with lots of tabs. Currently I have four tabs open and Safari is using 292MB of RAM. I just launched Notes and it's using 35MB.
[quote name="malax" url="/t/158725/rumor-apple-to-ship-haswell-powered-retina-macbook-pros-in-october#post_2368359"]Half a month seems well within any reasonable margin for error on an expected product refresh. [/quote] being that this is all speculation and innuendo; half a month seems well within any reasonable margin of error on an unannounced product refresh.
[quote name="chabig" url="/t/158725/rumor-apple-to-ship-haswell-powered-retina-macbook-pros-in-october#post_2368369"]I suspect you don't understand what you see in Activity Monitor. My Mac has been on for a few weeks, and I run Safari all the time with lots of tabs. Currently I have four tabs open and Safari is using 292MB of RAM. I just launched Notes and it's using 35MB. [/quote] how does your comment enlighten those of us who "don't understand what you see in Activity Monitor"? my version eats up 17.5MB on launch. then i create a bunch more and it eats up 40.5MB. BFD. both your comment and mine add zero to the conversation. I suspect even you don't understand what you see in Activity Monitor.