Apple Leak New MacBook Pro Images Showing New Features!

Publish date
Wednesday, 26 Oct 2016, 10:20AM
Photo: Getty Images

Photo: Getty Images

Apple is expected to unveil a redesigned MacBook Pro at an event this week, but it looks like a couple of images have leaked early. 

MacRumors spotted a pair of images hidden inside yesterday's update to macOS Sierra, both of which show a new MacBook Pro, a touch panel above its keyboard, and a fingerprint reader.

The images show a narrower MacBook Pro with slimmer bezels around both the keys and screen. The keys all look to be flatter, likely adopting the same slim format used on the MacBook. Otherwise, the design looks more or less like the Pro we know today.

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The highlights of these images is of course the touch strip at the top of the keyboard. This has been rumoured for a while. The images give an early idea of what it'll be like in use: completely blank and black when the computer is off, and able to display colors, buttons, and symbols in response to whatever comes up on-screen.

One of the pictures shows it being used for Apple Pay. An arrow points to the right corner of the touch strip, where a Touch ID fingerprint reader is located.

An eagle-eyed fan has worked out what it's possibly going to be called - the Magic Toolbar. Brian Conroy at The Trademark Ninja, who's caught a number of other product names early, spotted a trademark filing for the name that he's traced back to Apple. Hmmmm. 

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