Unlike the MacBook Air 2016, the MacBook Pro 2016 is seen as something that has better chances of debuting soon, likely by the fourth quarter of 2016.
Much of this was mentioned in a previous post. Though the MacBook Pro 2016 was absent from WWDC 2016, its chances of having a successor is better than Apple’s Air line.
Thus far, features it may carry have come out such as an OLED touch bar and something that will feature metal injection molds (MiM) which will be behind the thinner MacBook Pro successor.
Other potential features the MacBook Pro 2016 may carry include use of new and powerful Skylake chips, a new AMD GPU, touch screen mode that would be built-in the keyboard area, USB Type C and two sizes (13-inch and 15-inch variants).
According to the latest roundups, there is a chance that the MacBook Pro 2016 will be using a new operating system called macOS Sierra. The inclusion of the operating system could be perfect since its expected debut is set for the Fall, the same time when the MacBook Pro 2016 is speculated to be coming out.
Seeing that we are only entering July, it does seem uncanny for retailers to start pulling out old models. Apple Insider reported how stores have started to pull out 13-inch non-Retina Macbook variants already and all that was immediately tied up to a potential (or imminent coming of the MacBook Pro 2016).
With the early pullout of old non-retina MacBook Pro models, there is no growing belief that the MacBook Pro 2016 could be rendered sooner than the expected Q4 release.
Then again, the pull-out could be a result of poor sales performance for the non-Retina model of the Macbook Pro. The only major Apple products available over there right now are the ones with Retina displays except for the MacBook Air.
The whole non-Retina MacBook pullout seems to be hitting both directions right now as Apple retailers start to clean shop for the imminent coming of the MacBook Pro 2016 model.
