MacBook Pro 2022 leak just revealed a big design overhaul

MacBook Pro 2021 leak just revealed a big design overhaul

MacBook Pro 2021 Touch concept designed by Abovergleich

MacBook Pro Bear on concept designed by Abovergleich (Paradigm credit: Handy Abovergleich)

If you liked the look of the flat and boxy iPhone 12, so you're probably going to like the upcoming MacBook Pro 2021.

Apple seems to exist going all-in on its new flat-sided production design according to a new merits past analyst Ming-Chi Kuo in a new note to investors and seen past MacRumors. Given we've been looking at almost identical MacBooks for the past decade or then, this could herald one of the biggest changes to Apple'south laptops in recent retentiveness.

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Kuo said: "In terms of casing design, the new models cancel the curvy design of existing models' tiptop and bottom parts and prefer a apartment-edged form factor pattern similar to the ‌‌iPhone 12."

From the pinnacle, the existing MacBook line already looks a little similar the iPhone 12, only with a different aspect ratio. Nonetheless, the convex tiptop and lesser surfaces of the laptops don't mesh with recent iPhone designs, the concluding model with a curved back being the iPhone 3GS back in 2009.

Older rumors abnegate Kuo'due south latest prediction, notwithstanding. Mark Gurman of Bloomberg has said there will be "simply minor pattern changes" betwixt the electric current and next-gen MacBooks. However, he did say there would be a reintroduced MagSafe charging port, and new displays, potentially using long-rumored mini-LED panels.

The biggest changes to the side by side generation of MacBooks will all be found within Cupertino'due south side by side laptop. That'southward because of Apple's proprietary M1 chips, which have so far appeared in the latest MacBook Air and MacBook Pro (13-inch). Information technology'southward anticipated that we'll encounter the Apple M1 fleck, or a new updated version, used in the 2021 13-inch model, or a fresh sixteen-inch MacBook Pro model.

The upcoming Apple tree Spring 2021 outcome isn't thought to characteristic new MacBook models. However, at that place are more specific rumors effectually the iMac 2021 making an advent in March. Whatever changes seen at that place may reflect whatever Apple has in shop for the MacBook line later in the year.

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