{"id":185380,"date":"2016-11-01T08:48:51","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T06:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=185380"},"modified":"2016-11-01T08:51:09","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T06:51:09","slug":"macbook-pro-refresh-in-2017-may-include-32gb-ram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/185380-macbook-pro-refresh-in-2017-may-include-32gb-ram.html","title":{"rendered":"MacBook Pro refresh in 2017 may include 32GB RAM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new report from\u00a0KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo\u00a0predicts that Apple will\u00a0cut the price of the new MacBook Pro and refresh the product line in 2017, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2016\/10\/31\/macbooks-2017-price-cuts-32gb-ram\/\" target=\"_blank\">MacRumors reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Kuo said Apple tends to set higher prices on major\u00a0new product releases like the original MacBook Air and MacBook Pro,\u00a0usually dropping prices in the following year.<\/p>\n<p>He therefore expects\u00a0the prices of the new MacBook Pro range to come down in the second half of 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Kuo also predicted that if Intel&#8217;s Cannonlake processors launch in time, Apple will launch a refreshed MacBook\u00a0Pro range\u00a0with support for 32GB of RAM in the second half of 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Should Cannonlake not be available, Kuo said Apple will\u00a0use Coffee Lake for the MacBook Pro refresh and the maximum RAM support will remain unchanged.<\/p>\n<p>This is because Cannonlake features\u00a015-25% less power consumption on\u00a0LPDDR4, versus the existing LPDDR3 which will be used in\u00a0Coffee Lake.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/185084-apple-macbook-pro-vs-microsoft-surface-book-the-laptop-royal-rumble.html\">Apple MacBook Pro vs Microsoft Surface Book \u2013\u00a0the laptop royal rumble<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has explained why he believes Apple may launch new MacBook Pro models in 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":184994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[36,605,39570,39572,131,2652],"class_list":["post-185380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-active","tag-apple","tag-cannonlake","tag-coffee-lake","tag-intel","tag-macbook-pro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185380"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185380"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185386,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185380\/revisions\/185386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}