I have a mid-2010 MBP that is in dire need of replacement. I was disappointed to see rumors that the 15" Skylake MBP might not come out until September!
- There's no big redesign planned this year, and the Macbook and Macbook Pro will see press-release releases with updated guts (most notably Skylake) before too long.
- There is a significant redesign of the Macbook Pro coming up, and it'll be announced at WWDC.
I hope number 2 ends up to be true, but most likely number one. Phil Schiller described the ipad pro as "The ultimate replacement for the PC", and that means Apple is all-in for replacing the laptop in the mass market, while also very convenient for profits since their closed hardware will only run an OS and Apps signed by Apple, with only one store to buy Software.
They don't have an incentive to support open computing, and for the first time in years IBM and Microsoft have better products (Carbon X1, Surface book) while OSX haven't seen a major update and MacBook Pros that once were the best professional laptops are really past generation hardware and software.
That's exactly what I was going to do. Only reason I even had the keynote on tbh.
Am changing jobs and will be using my own laptop from now on, but guess I'll have to dust off eek a bit of life out of my aging MacBook Air - as I resent spending that much money on a laptop with year old hardware.
On the plus side Apple did just save me from spending £2,000 ;)
Haha ... me too! 2010 Macbook Pro that I've upgraded piecemeal. It is starting to act flakey so need to upgrade soon. It is surprising how long Apple is doing to do the Skylake update.
The speculation I've seen is that they're waiting for the new 14nm graphics cards to be released this summer, since the current generation is 3 years old. I'm also due for a new MBP, but if this is true then I'm fine waiting another 3 months.