Yesterday may have been a big deal for Apple with the launch of the M1 iMac, iPad Pro and AirTag trackers, but one of Apple’s MacBook vendors wasn’t having such a good day. Bloomberg reports that Quanta Computer Inc, a major supplier of Apple’s MacBooks, was hit by a $ 50 million ransomware attack by a well-known dark web hacking group REvil.
After refusing to pay the exorbitant amount, REvil honored his threat. As Bloomberg reports, the group has “posted schematics for a new laptop, including 15 images detailing the guts of what appears to be a Macbook that was only designed in March 2021”. Bloomberg didn’t reveal what the documents said, but Macrumors, who also saw the schematics after they were published, says they clearly show new ports coming to the next-generation notebook:
On the right side of the machine, there is a visible HDMI port, accompanied by a USB-C / Thunderbolt port and followed by an SD card reader. The left side has two additional USB-C / Thunderbolt ports and a MagSafesle charging slot, for a total of three USB-C / Thunderbolt ports instead of four as we have now.
Macrumors also says that “Leaked images of the new MacBook Pro floating around on Twitter also confirm that the device will not have a Touch Bar.”
Earlier it was rumored that Apple would return ports and MagSafe to upcoming MacBooks, tweak the design, and remove the Touch Bar. Apple just released a new iMac at the Spring Loaded event, so we don’t expect new Macs until at least WWDC in June.
Michael Simon has covered Apple since the iPod was the iWalk. His obsession with technology goes back to his first PC: the IBM Thinkpad with the flip-up keyboard to swap the disk. He’s still waiting for that to come back in style tbh.