Apple reportedly planning no major MacBook Pro updates during 2018
A new report from Digitimes claims Apple isn’t planning any major MacBook Pro updates during 2018, with the company expected to only introduce minor internal upgrades such as adding a 32 GB RAM option alongside new CPUs.
The report claims Apple will evenly split MacBook Pro production orders between suppliers Quanta and Foxconn unlike the current production contract which makes Quanta responsible for 80% of all MacBook Pro production.
According to the report, “Foxconn has been aggressively working to land more MacBook orders from Apple during the past few years”…
The sources revealed that Foxconn had been aggressively working to land more MacBook orders from Apple during the past few years by offering attractive quotes. Since Apple has not had a major upgrade to its MacBook product line since the releases of its new MacBook Pro devices at the end of 2016 and has no plan for one in 2018, the US-based vendor is planning to shift orders for models that are already in mass production to Foxconn to save costs and reduce risks.
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Apple first unveiled their Touch Bar equipped MacBook Pro models in late 2016, introducing a machine 6.8 million times faster than the PowerBook introduced in 2001. The machines, available in Touch Bar and non-Touch Bar configurations feature Touch ID, larger Force Touch enabled trackpad, Retina OLED display and USB-C ports on either side.