Where are you getting that nonsense about abandoning 15"? The 15" retina MBP is still very much in production. As for the 17"- it's called supply and demand. No demand means there will eventually be no supply. Look that concept up. Apple only makes machines people are buying.
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Intel CEO 'Guarantees' Broadwell Chips by This Holiday Season
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It's going to offer Iris Pro across the line of processors and will be a great improvement over HD4000.
Where is this drivel about "reducing durability" coming from? MagSafe 1 and 2 are both equally durable and far more durable than the connectors Apple used prior when you factor in the hundreds of millions of dollars worth of laptop damage that they've prevented.
If you can't cite an actual source for your durability claims you're just spouting bull.
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I don't know why so many people can't get this simple concept through their heads. Touching a vertical screen would become exhausting very fast, and smudging your screen would provide no benefit when you have a keyboard and trackpad right in front of you, both of which are more accurate. This idea is silly yet it keeps coming back.
Maybe you could cite a source for your claim of the MagSafe charger saving hundreds of millions of dollars worth of laptop damages?
In some ways I absolutely agree. However, the keyboard is optional on the iPad but required on the laptop. Also in the case of the iPad, Apple controls everything from the hardware to the OS and even the Apps through the AppStore. Its also lighter and more mobile than a laptop. Finally, I believe the profit is also higher.
All this is to say that for Apple i is not at all the same.
It was just a little joke dude I was hoping that the context of the comment I replied to would have implied that.
I thought Broadwell was just a die shrink anyways. Will the Broadwell chips be meaningfully faster?
Broadwell is a Tick which means it will have a new GPU architecture (along with Die shrink). Iris Pro 2 is supposed to deliver 30-40% more performance than Iris Pro, which by itself already is an amazing IGP.
This will further eliminate the need for dedicated graphics, which means smaller (thinner) laptops and better battery life.
The comment you had originally quoted spoke of durability. You also brought up 30 pin/lightning, which were never particularly durable to begin with. I have nothing to claim for MagSafe as I've no experience with MagSafe 2.
Laptop damage has nothing to do with the durability of the connector (unless you are talking about electrical damage cause by faulty wires).
It depends how important the new CPU architecture will be to you. See my comment at the end of this post.
it will be a revolutionary spec bump =)
all joking aside. I think it is basically speed boost, more battery life(energy efficiency), and significantly faster graphics.
even though it is just a spec bump I am still very excited for broadwell computers.
I am actually super shocked by this! I thought there was no way broadwell would be ready until 2015
I will actually be disappointed if Broadwell doesn't get released by early November. Regardless, Intel has stated that Broadwell's life-cycle will be shorter than most. Intel still expects to release Skylake in 2H 2015.
I decided a year ago that I would purchase my next Apple laptop when Skylake is released. I might have been swayed by Broadwell because of the advances in power conservation and graphics performance, but Broadwell will be the last of its CPU architecture whereas Skylake is going to become the basis of the CPU architecture for the foreseeable future. Skylake will include Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) 3.2 512-bit instructions (as opposed to AVX 2.0 currently), SHA (secure hash algorithm) extensions (SHA-1 and SHA-256), MPX (memory protection) extensions, ADX (multi-precision add-carry instruction) extensions, SATA express (10-16Gbps) which is ~2.5 current SATA speeds, PCI Express 4.0 (which may be necessary for NVidia's Maxwell), and DDR4 memory (lower power consumption, more bandwidth, and hopefully also faster unless latency is too high).
Also, Skylake may bring more than just a new CPU architecture. Also due around that time are USB 3.1 (new, smaller connector) and TB 3.0 (twice the bandwidth of TB 2).
Hopefully NVidia.
It is also rumored that Skylake will be the first, true, single-chip SOC from Intel with a fully flexible graphics pipeline (Larrabee).
True but Apple has had plenty of time for prototyping.
What is sad is that he could not give a more firm date, so I'm thinking he is blowing hot air at this moment in time.
The funny thing here is that it looks like AMD, Samsung and TSMC won't be far behind with their own high performance sub 20 micron processes. It really looks like Intels process technology lead is slowly slipping away. What is really sad is when these companies slip deliveries it is all doom and gloom, when Intel does it the response is totally different.
What is sad is that he could not give a more firm date, so I'm thinking he is blowing hot air at this moment in time.
The funny thing here is that it looks like AMD, Samsung and TSMC won't be far behind with their own high performance sub 20 micron processes. It really looks like Intels process technology lead is slowly slipping away. What is really sad is when these companies slip deliveries it is all doom and gloom, when Intel does it the response is totally different.
I wonder what this means for the life span of the Haswell Refresh. I am more concerned about Devil's Canyon that is shipping around Computex 2014.
I'm pretty sure that won't happen! Intel has gone all in on portable chips, they are truly exposed here to significant competition from various manufactures.
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Broadwell "should" be excellent, especially if you hold machines for a long time. It isn't just Broadwell but the combination of things that they need to update to deliver a new generation of hardware. So before you jump on Broadwell make sure Apple has an implementation that is a complete update.
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I wouldn't be surprised if they got the first test chips in 2013. Most likely a Broadwell based laptop has already been built by apple.
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Totally different situation! Besides they would go with an A8 or enhanced A7. The reason for an enhanced devices is to get larger caches and a wider memory subsystem. In my opinion A7 could go a lot faster with such improvements.
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Not even close! As to copying Apple that is all some companies can do.
You see this is where I have massive problems, you say they are the best out there yet they don't hold up at all. That is directly related to the cabling they implement which in simple terms is crap. It is perhaps one of the only really disappointing things with my MBP.
In short if they aren't durable they can't be the best out there.
Ok, so you just have a dick sense of humour. All is forgiven then.
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A hilariously transparent attempt at a redirect away from your baseless claims. You aren't fooling anyone except maybe yourself.
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If we're talking about the durability of the contacts, preventing laptop damage was the entire purpose of the design of the MagSafe contacts and is 100% relevant. If we are talking about quality control issues in the cord or power supply, then this isn't really about MagSafe at all. Now since the OP can't cite any sources as to what reliability issues he is talking about, or even give an anecdotal example, we don't really know what he was trying to say except that he said it poorly.
That depends upon how you measure performance. The Power PC chips had terrible integer performance and that lead to most users seeing significant improvement in overall system performance on Intel hardware. This even if there was a step backwards to 32 bit hardware.
It isn't as far away as some think. Yes it would need a revision to improve cache and memory access but the architecture of the chip is actually rather advanced for a mobile chip.
Most certainly. The specific machines probably can be determined by looking at the architecture support in LLVM. However I'm certain that they have been running Mac OS/X on "A" series chips for some time now. Reports started coming out at least two years ago that Mac OS on ARM isn't that bad. I suspect that minor tweaking could deliver a very nice laptop chip.
Actually there are other concerns when it comes to i86 in a Mac OS based machine. It is a massive selling point that one can run Windows or Linux on these machines if they have to and do so easily.
However I suspect that they have Mac OS running on at least 3 architectures at Apple. ARM is really a no brainer here because iOS is basically Mac OS with a different GUI and some technical changes here or there in the kernel.
That's terrific. I had only a scant few prior to Mavericks installation (went over everything a few times here. Like yourself, others have been great in trying to help out.)
I don't doubt it could be me and the hardware. The machine is close to four years old, so it's expected on the hardware end.
I can be very impatient and under Mavericks that could be some of the beach balling - especially with the memory tweak inside 10.9. Considering this thing flew on ML with 12GB of ram. Ah well. As long as it can last until the new machines arrive, great. I've got a contingency plan just in case it does not though.
I've always wondered why doesn't Apple announce that they are dropping Intel processors from their portfolio, watch Intel stocks tank 90 - 95%; then swoop in buy Intel for dirt cheap, get rid of the operations which it doesn't like and start punching out A-series processors on Intel's latest fab technologies??
Is that illegal in the US??
Is that illegal in the US??
Intel is under extreme pressure right now.
The move away from i86 in many products, products consumers are favoring, has put a real crimp in Intels earnings. They need to reassure people that relevant chips will come in time.
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You can read the same Intel documentation everybody else does. When it comes down to it all chips are spec bumps from previous design.
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However more than anything else it is the extra pixels that make all the difference in the world.
The move away from i86 in many products, products consumers are favoring, has put a real crimp in Intels earnings. They need to reassure people that relevant chips will come in time.
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You can read the same Intel documentation everybody else does. When it comes down to it all chips are spec bumps from previous design.
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Well for one a larger machine would hopefully have a larger RAM array. Larger than the shipping base machine which also need a RAM boost. You would also hope for a faster chip and a larger battery to support it.
However more than anything else it is the extra pixels that make all the difference in the world.
Well not exactly. Broadwell gets minor fixes or improvements but you can't underestimate the importance of a switch to 14nm for improved clock speeds. The potential is there for much faster clock speeds depending upon how Intel wants to allocate thermal loads.
Yes huge for the chips that actually deliver that bump in performance. It is one of the bigger reasons to hold off until Broadwell. Any machine using the integrated Intel GPU should demonstrate very nice GPU performance increases. That is for a like to like implementation, I can see Apple trying to exploit the low power possibilities for that rumored fanless Air. If Apple tries to leverage the low power possibilities we may actually see a performance regression as I don't see a fan less Air keeping up with actively cooled machines this year.
In Apples other machine though Broadwell should be a huge win.
Actually I didn't think SkyLake was all that new either. More of a minor bump in performance. Then again we are getting to the point where it isn't likely that you will see massive architectural improvements to i86. I can actually see Intel stressing more cores over extremely complex ones.
The same Larrabee that has been touted about and talked about for almost 10 years?
That ship sailed a long time ago.