[aurareturn]

  The M7 Pro and M7 Max are scheduled for as early as the end of 2027, while the M7 Ultra is on track for 2028.

This means there won't be a redesigned MBP this year since there won't be M6 Pro/Max chips. People were expecting a redesigned slimmer MBP with OLED display later this year, myself included.

I was holding out for one until I decided to switch from an M1 Pro 16" MBP to an M5 Air 15" due to the expected price increase. I think many M1 Pro/Max generation people were waiting to upgrade this year.

[asimovDev]

Current MBPs are such a delight, I really don't want to think about a thinner MBP again, I just get shivers remembering the Ive butterfly keyboard models

[keldaris]

Isn't that switch basically a downgrade? You get some more single core performance and some weight savings, but also a worse (and smaller) screen, less multicore performance, less GPU performance, less video encoding performance and a smaller battery? I'm on an M2 Max myself, and glad they introduced a larger form factor Air, but it seems like a long way from an upgrade.

[GeekyBear]

> This means there won't be a redesigned MBP this year since there won't be M6 Pro/Max chips.

They can release a redesigned MBP with the base M6 chip.

[aurareturn]

They can, it wouldn't make sense from a marketing and optics perspective.

They don't want to tell the world how the new redesigned MBP is the best laptop in the world but it's slower than the older MBPs.

[bombcar]

The optics and marketing is already fucked, the MBP goes to M5 Max, the Mini has the M4, the Studio has M2 or M3, the iMac apparently has two different kinds of M4s, it's all fucked.

[aurareturn]

Air and Pros are the flagship products.

[rjrjrjrj]

They released the M5 MacBook Pro last fall, but didn't release the M5 Pro and Max models until the spring.

[Schiendelman]

It seems likely the MB Ultra will ship with the M5 Ultra.