2016 Apple Macbook Pro with OLED touch panel
Apple’s much awaited upgrade of the Macbook Pro has
been up in rumours from quite some time. The Cupertino giant has even scheduled
an event for this Thursday, October 27th, where it is expected to officially
launch the new notebook.
The leaked images of the Macbook Pro by Macrumors
reveal the rumoured OLED touch panel located on top of the keyboard replacing
the row of function keys. It suggests that the touch panel is expected to be
called the “Magic Toolbar”. The alleged image also suggests that Touch ID is
built into the OLED panel as it shows a finger placed next to the Apple Pay
sign with a message written “Touch ID to pay Apple US$ 326.20”.
Previous rumours for the 2016 Macbooks had suggested
that these will be thinner and lighter, and Apple will ditch the support for
traditional USB ports, as well as for MagSafe and Thunderbolt 2. In case of the MacBook Air, it is said that Apple
plans to kill the 11-inch variant in favor of the 13-inch. In terms of design
of the MacBook Air, not many changes are expected except for USB-C support.
Finally, Apple is expected to refresh the iMac lineup as well and also
introduce a new 5K (5120 x 2880) external display which comes equipped with a
built-in GPU.
The Apple event is scheduled for Thursday, October
27 at 10:00 am PT (10:30 PM IST). As
usual it will offer live stream for iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch users with
Safari on iOS 7.0 or later, Mac users with Safari 6.0.5 or later on OS X
v10.8.5 or later, or a Windows 10 users with Microsoft Edge. The live stream
will also be available for Apple TV (2nd generation or later) users with
software 6.2 or later.
