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New, thinner Macbook Pros will reportedly have an OLED touch bar
Barring a big change to the trackpad, Apple's high-powered MacBook Pro models haven't seen many major differences in recent years. That may be until now. According to 9to5Mac, which is citing both Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo and its own sources, the next family of MacBook Pros (or MacBooks Pro) could not only be thinner and lighter, but may also house a new OLED display touch bar just above the keyboard. This would act in place of the narrow physical function keys found on contemporary MacBooks. Apple may also bring Touch ID into its next series of laptops.
Dear Aunt TUAW: Should my Thunderbolt port be doing that?
Dear Aunt TUAW, Is it normal for a Thunderbolt port to have small sparks when you plug a mini displayport cable in? Here's a video showing the sparks in action... This is my new MBP Retina. The video is a little hard to see because I had a hard time filming with my iPhone and plugging that in at the same time. In any case, this doesn't seem right. What do you think? Your loving nephew, Chris Dear Chris, Is it normal? Auntie called Apple and the representative there recommended that you bring it in for service. The conversation went something like this: "So he's seeing small sparks when plugging in the cable, as he described. Do you recommend him going to the Genius Bar?" "Sparking? [Redacted]-yeah, get that thing in." No, Auntie can't tell if this a mountain or a molehill (especially from a distance) so she decided to throw it out there to the TUAW reader pool: are any of you seeing what Chris saw? And if so, what's your take on how normal or attention-needing this is? Hugs, Auntie T., who sees a spark at about 15-seconds into the video
