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Rumored Thinner, Lighter Apple MacBook Pro with OLED Touch Bar, Touch ID To Release Q4 2016

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According to a new report from one of the most reliable Apple analysts in the world, Ming-Chi Kuo at KGI Securities, we are about to see a dramatically overhauled MacBook Pro towards the tail end of this year.

According to Kuo, the two new MacBook Pro's will be thinner, lighter and take design cues from the new 12-inc MacBook line of laptops. Along with introducing support for Touch ID, the new MacBook pro will also supposedly ditch the physical function keys (things like volume control, brightness etc) in favor of an OLED display touch bar.

Other changes, according to Kuo, include new injection molded hinges, a feature long-rumored to be part of the upcoming MacBook Pro refresh, connectivity ports for USB-C and Thunderbolt and the same butterfly-mechanism keyboard found on the 12-inch Macbook.

Kuo also revealed that the current 12-inch MacBook would be joined by a 13-inch variant. Supposedly Apple's logic here is to make the MacBook Air the entry-level Apple laptop, the standard MacBook as mid-tier and the MacBook Pro as high-end.

No news yet on what the internals of these laptops will be like but they will probably still run off Intel's  CPU's and MacBook Pro's are probably going to run AMD's new Polaris line of GPU's.

Supposedly, these new MacBook's will be available sometime in Q4 2016.