A filing for an unreleased MacBook Pro was briefly available on the Federal Communication Commission site.
The filing is no longer accessible, but sites were still able to comb through the FCC documentation. Reportedly, it concerned a device with the model number A2159, which matches up with other MacBook filings Apple submitted to the Eurasian Economic Commission in June.
The newer FCC filing offers a closer glimpse of the product it pertains to: we learn that it has a 13-inch screen and shares the same dimensions as the current 13-inch MacBook Pro.
Unfortunately, this doesn’t seem like a major MacBook redesign. If this was a drastic overhaul, you’d expect the dimensions to be much different. With that information factored in, the best guess is that we’ll soon see an update to the 13-inch MacBook Pro without the Touch Bar. The “MacBook Escape,” as it’s sometimes referred to, has gone ignored in Apple’s lineup since 2017, as MacRumors notes. If this were any kind of substantial MacBook redesign, you’d expect at least one of those measurements to be different than the current hardware.
There is good reason to be excited about Apple’s notebook pipeline: rumors have persisted that we’ll see an all-new 16-inch MacBook Pro as soon as later this year. Analysts believe it might show up in September, which is usually when Apple holds its iPhone and Apple Watch hardware event.
