This speculation is the best that Macworld can do? No offense to them, but I mean, the rumors are slim pickings.
I really hope that Apple fixes its laptop lineup at WWDC. It's a complete and total shitshow right now. And that's coming from a huge Apple fan.
Even before you factor in the keyboard issues, it's a mess. The Air line maxes at 8gigs of ram, but you can configure for a better core i7 proc than the MacBooks. Of course the screen is awful.
The actual MacBook line has an anemic processor, but you can get 16gigs of ram and a decent screen. But by that time, you're paying MacBook pro money. Which at 13-inches, you can't get the top specs without the touchbar, and the midrange specs on the non-touchbar are stupidly overpriced even for someone like me who's willing to pay a premium for Apple kit. And still capped at 16gigs ram.
15-inch model suffers from the same problems as the 13-inch: You can only get the maxed specs with the touch bar and the mid-range specs are a joke for the price.
The only pro laptop worth buying right now is a 3-year-old mid-2015 MacBook pro. I was in the market for a new Mac a couple of months ago and literally could not find anything worth spending money to upgrade on from Apple. I picked up two 11-inch macbook airs for cheap on eBay because I adore that tiny form factor and use them as mostly dumb terminals for remote stuff. They are surprisingly useful and have great battery life.
Apple really needs to fix the laptops and give up the goods on the Mac Pro machine. I don't care if it's throwing a bevy of these chips in an ultra thin MacBook Pro-Air X Plus or what. But this situation is embarrassing. Reminds me of the mid-90s, when there were a ton of options if you wanted a mac, but nothing really worth buying.
My work ThinkPad is an ugly brick that gets the job fucking done. I'm about to buy one for my home if I don't just stockpile all the 11" macbook airs I can find and build a home lab cluster to remote into for doing real work instead.