MacBook Pro 2022 will reportedly kill Touch Bar, revive MagSafe — and offer more ports

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MacBook Pro 2021 volition reportedly kill Touch Bar, revive MagSafe — and offering more ports

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A redesigned MacBook Pro could see Apple bring back the much-loved MagSafe charger and ditch the divisive Touch Bar at the same time.

This news comes from long-time Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo (via MacRumors) and corroborated past Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, both of whom have such a redesigned MacBook Pro tipped for a release in the third quarter of 2021.

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This is large news, and non just because the MacBook Pro's pattern has stayed the same since the launch of the Bear upon Bar in 2016. MagSafe was one of the MacBook'south ameliorate selling points, but it vanished when Apple switched all the ports to USB-C.

A new MagSafe arrived with the iPhone 12 last twelvemonth, just it was a very different beast — relying on Qi wireless charging rather than the break-abroad power cables of the old MacBooks.

The but question is how unlike the MacBook'southward MagSafe will be compared to the iPhone 12'south version. Co-ordinate to Gurman, it volition be similar to the pill-shaped design of the old MagSafe connectors, and volition connect to the MacBook'southward charging port.

MacBook Pro 2021: Now with more ports

According to Kuo, the new MacBook Pro'south loss of the Touch Bar will meet the return of physical keys, and he also believes there will be a wider range of ports to reduce the need for dongles.

That's right, maybe your next MacBook won't insist on doing everything through USB-C, though it volition still be present in some class. He besides predicts that the new MacBooks volition exist available in fourteen-inch and xvi-inch options, and won't exist available with Intel chips. The latter is understandable given the impressive functioning the Apple tree M1 fleck delivers compared to erstwhile Intel MacBooks.

Gurman adds that the machines will launch effectually mid-2021, will offer brighter screens, pocket-sized design changes, and a adjacent-gen M-Serial scrap with extra cores and enhanced graphical capabilities.

He also promises that the MacBook Air volition be getting a like treatment, merely not until long later the launch of the redesigned MacBook Pro. That's almost all we know right now, though we'll no doubt be hearing more than about the reportedly incoming MacBook Pro range soon.

Tom is the Tom's Guide's Automotive Editor, which means he can ordinarily exist found knee deep in stats the latest and best electric cars, or checking out some sort of driving gadget. It's long style from his days as editor of Gizmodo Britain, when pretty much everything was on the table. He'south usually found trying to squeeze some other giant Lego gear up onto the shelf, draining very large cups of coffee, or complaining that Ikea won't let him purchase the stuff he really needs online.

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