Mac. Book and Mac. Book Pro rumor roundup Whats coming next. In 2. 01. 5, Mac. Book kicked off the current generation of Apple laptops. In 2. 01. 6, the Mac. Book Pro took another big step forward. This is a list of file formats used by computers, organized by type. Filename extensions are usually noted in parentheses if they differ from the file format name or. In 2015, MacBook kicked off the current generation of Apple laptops. In 2016, the MacBook Pro took another big step forward. So whats coming next Note When you see a command inside parenthesis, like this CtrlA, it is the key short cut to the instructions just given. When you see this image. IkwidFcJlDY/V_eLYYCzciI/AAAAAAAAEtI/wLQwifMFDzgioIhJHeJnsfJYaHRgFS64ACLcB/s640/easy%2Bkeyboard%2Bshortcuts%2B01%2B%252825%2529.jpg' alt='Corel Draw 9 Shortcut Keys' title='Corel Draw 9 Shortcut Keys' />So whats coming next In March of 2. Apple introduced the all new 1. Mac. Book. Not Air. Not Pro. And certainly not at the old, white, plastic Mac. Books pricepoint. More shocking was its ports  or more precisely, its lack thereof. Gone was Mag. Safe, Apples convenient, tumble preventing, dent saving connector. Gone was old school USB A. ESKtVMxWAw/ULTPs4Yk0HI/AAAAAAAAEUc/JlB7DwawWjY/s1600/shorcutkey2.jpg' alt='Corel Draw 9 Shortcut Keys' title='Corel Draw 9 Shortcut Keys' />Corel Draw 9 Shortcut KeysNowhere was Thunderbolt. Instead, Apple introduced USB C. These changes came to 2. Mac. Book Pro, too, along with an OLED screen Touch Bar in lieu of function keys and a gorgeous Wide Color display. So, whats next for the Mac. Book lineup When will Apple update the Mac. Book Heres the previous update schedule March 2. Mac. Book with Intel Broadwell Core. MMarch 2. 01. 6 Mac. Book with Intel Skylake Core. M and rose gold color option. October 2. 01. 6 Mac. Book Pro with Intel Skylake Core i. June 2. 01. 7 Mac. Book and Mac. Book Pro with Intel Kaby Lake processors. Apple could drop new Mac. Books or Mac. Book Pros at any time  and if the updates are iterative, we could wake up to a press release and an updated web page any morning. A bigger update, like to Intels next generation Coffee Lake processors, probably wont come until 2. Will the next Mac. F1 Challenge 99-02 Files more. Book get Touch Bar and Touch ID Touch Bar has proven to be divisive Apple anticipated high attraction levels for Touch Bar, but while some people like it, many others do not. So, will Apple stick with Touch Bar the way the company did with USB C, and push it out across the line Or will Apple retrench and rethink its approach to touch Well have to wait and see. Touch ID, on the other hand, is such a convenience on the 2. Mac. Book Pro that not expanding it to all other portable Macs would be a letdown. The only reason it might not is price point It requires a secure, dedcated processing and display system think embedded Apple Watch just for Apple Pay so it adds about 2. Its possible Apple could do what it did with Mac. Book Pro and offer Mac. Book Escape and Mac. Book Touch Bar options, the former with traditional function keys, the latter with OLED. Otherwise, fingers crossed Apple can figure out how to save a few dollars elsewhere and get Touch ID in and under budget. The Far Kingdoms Game Walkthrough. And a Force Touch Bar, right Love the way you thinkTouch Bar is begging for Force Touch, but its unclear if the technology is ready for the next generation of Mac. Book Pro or Mac. Book. What about Face ID Face ID for the Mac. Book and Mac. Book Pro seems like something that has to arrive sooner rather than later. Its already rumored for i. Phone 8, after all. The only real question is how long would it take to propagate from phones to laptops Windows already does facial recognition to unlock, and itd be great on a Mac. That way, Apple Watch Auto Unlock, Touch ID, and Face Unlock could be in a three way race Could Apple ditch the keyboard entirely for a multi force touch surface That rumor has been around for a while. The idea of doing to the laptop keyboard what Apple did to the smartphone keyboard is compelling for a number of reasons  and terrifying for a number of reasons as well At some point, tactile simulation technologies could be advanced enough to trick out brain into feeling keys, dials, nobs, and other dynamically changing controls where none really exist, but were probably not there yet. More USB C Apple wanted to create a Mac. Book that was entirely wireless. Since wireless charging wasnt an option, though, Apple had to include at least one wire. So, it made that wire a multi tasker. USB C can both charge and carry data. Since one was infinitely more than none, that was enough, right Wrong. Not only isnt wireless charging a thing yet, Mac. Books still dont have LTE, and Bluetooth still isnt good enough to support real, diverse peripherals. The future, as always, is a beautiful lie. The Mac. Book Pro does this right, with its two to four USB C ports it seems only natural that the Mac. Book should follow in these footsteps. There are no doubt power and design constraints that may make two USB C ports more challenging than one in a Mac. Book, especially when it comes to where they can be mounted on that tiny motherboard. But its a challenge worth exploring. In a perfect world, Id love to see them on both sides, like the higher end Mac. Book Pro, so I can charge from either side. Id settle for them both on one side. It would show Apple can still bring us the future but in a way that mitigates the real pain points of the present. And theyd be USB C and Thunderbolt 3, right RIGHT Look, no blogger should ever substitute their fantasies for engineering realities. But if Thunderbolt 3 is possible on Mac. Book Pro, itd be outstanding to have it on Mac. Book. Consistency is absolutely a customer facing feature. You mentioned LTE, any chance. Ive always suspected getting LTE in a Mac. Book was more about the extortion level licensing fees Qualcomm charges than any real philosophical or technical hurdles within Apple. The current round of lawsuits only deepens those suspicions, as does the rumors that Apple is working on its own LTE modem. I very much hope we get LTE equipped Mac. Books and soon. We may just have to let the lawsuit dust settle first. How about next generation Intel Coffee Lake processorsIf and when Coffee Lake is available in the types of chipsets Apple uses in Mac. Book and Mac. Book Pro, there are a few things to look out for Coffee Lake will allow for a higher number of cores per processor. Previously available primarily on the higher end Xeon line, pressure from AMDs Ryzen Threadripper has gotten intel to push desktop chips up from 4 cores and 8 threads to 6 cores and 1. Faster memory speeds. Updated Thunderbolt and USB support. Thunderbolt 3 still doesnt support even older Display. Port standards. Well see if Coffee Lake fares better. Any chance new laptops could run on ARM, use i. OS, have a full multitouch display, and support Apple Pencil This is more of a strategic decision for Apple than a technical one. Both Mac. Book and i. Pad Pro tackle the problem of ultra light computing from different directions. Currently, mac. OS lacks a touch first interface and that would take time and resources to build out see Windows 8. Arguably that time and those resources would be better invested in making i. OS a better primary computing platform on i. Pad and larger screens in general. OS also lacks a pointer system, though adding selection like on Apple TV and cursor like in text editing mode, seems like far less work. Again, not an engineer, so everything seems both easy and impossible to meA Mac. Book thats essentially an i. Pad Pro with a proper keyboard, Surface. Book style, would be incredibly interesting to me. Apple prototypes everything, so well have to see whats interesting to them. But itd be killer at coffee shops and on planes. Im just saying. Jet black Product RED Ha I knew that was what all this was coming toMac. Book is currently the only laptop from Apple that comes in color. Sorry, Mac. Book Pro, silver and space gray arent colors. Gold debuted with the original and rose gold came last year. Im not sure if the Jet Black process scales or holds up to Mac. Book. Id love to see it, microabrasions, and all. Product Red at that size would be a lot of red.