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15-Inch MacBook Pro AMD Radeon Pro Vega Graphics Options Now Available to Order
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A separate point of note is actually how (relatively) good value the higher spec 15 inch model is.
For 400 extra USD, you get a +256GB SSD upgrade (worth 200USD), and a 560X GPU upgrade (worth 100USD), making the processor boost (2.2 to 2.6 Ghz base clock) only 100USD. That's a steal compared to most CPU upgrades.
The vega GPU on top of this, on the other hand, looks like a rather expensive option.
For 400 extra USD, you get a +256GB SSD upgrade (worth 200USD), and a 560X GPU upgrade (worth 100USD), making the processor boost (2.2 to 2.6 Ghz base clock) only 100USD. That's a steal compared to most CPU upgrades.
The vega GPU on top of this, on the other hand, looks like a rather expensive option.
Yeah very funny, see here:
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tldr; the maxed-out UK price is now £6524 (from £6209) or £6923 with Applecare (£399). Same thing in the US/ROW pricing.
Not to beat a dead horse, but the Chevy/Ford/Dodge wars have been raging for decades and show no signs of ever extinguishing...
FWIW, I do not see Team Red versus Team Green ever ending...
I'm using a pretty powerful PC with 3 Nvidia cards. I prefer macOS but Apple isn't interested in supporting the industry I work in.
I was hoping (rather optimistically) they'd slightly reduce the pricing on other BTO options. Oh well… time to buy, I guess.
Education pricing is $2824 with the Vega 16 and $2909 with the Vega 20 (total upgrade cost of $310).
AMDs marketing is saying 60fps 1080p AAA gaming. Apple’s own info says 60% faster.
I mostly use mine for 3D animation and rendering and on the go. If this is the case, my current MBP will be going in Ebay shortly.
I mostly use mine for 3D animation and rendering and on the go. If this is the case, my current MBP will be going in Ebay shortly.
There is nowhere to put it in the current 13" MacBook Pro chassis, much less dissipate the heat it generates.
Why should it be?
You payed and bought for the product at that time for the current price at that time. It is with everything like that. At one point you decide to buy or to wait. If you have to wait until the next revision or model you never have to buy anything
I also don’t understand why some Apple consumers say a 2600 dollar product is deprecated or obsolete when the next one comes out with only a few minor changes. It is not like the iPhoneX is total crap and stops working now the the XS is out...
so if the iPhone 11 came out next year and Apple decided to break the cycle and an iPhone 11S gets released a couple of months later, you’re saying that no one should be pissed? you’re telling me that you wouldn’t be pissed if you bought the iPhone 11?
First off, yes, I think it's unreasonable to complain about a short update cycle. You're still getting precisely what you paid for.
Second, this isn't quite the same. The GPU wasn't available until a few weeks ago, and we don't know how soon AMD could actually ship it in volume. The implication that Apple somehow intentionally deceived customers by withholding a product doesn't apply.
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They did. Three months ago. At the same price point. They even got 50% more cores.
Why not...runnnig a 2017 MacBook Pro 15" with Mojave and an external GPU perfectly fine in both bootcamp and Mojave. Using Sonnet Breakaway box with RX 480
No, Vega M GL is a very different chip and doesn't have much to do with Vega Pro 20 except the substring "Vega" in the name.
Well, considering the best eGPU for the mini right now is a Vega 56, I'd say it would be significantly faster.
Well Apple with a mere 7% pc market and 9% of smartphones is not a monopoly at all, choose another word.
You’re not recalling the pricing correctly. It is exactly the same as last year for the low/mid/high end models at $2,399/2,799/3,099. Pricing for RAM/SSD also did not change, though as in the case of the graphics options, there are now higher cost (higher-end) configurations available, i.e. 32GB/4TB/Vega.
Damn, got my decked out 2018 15" a couple of months ago, if I had known Vega was coming I probably would have waited. $350 for the Vega 20 seems like a pretty good price (though it'd be nice if it came with 8GB memory instead of 4GB). Oh well, I've got my eGPU set up - so better than nothing I suppose.
It does imply that Apple's offerings have been limited in comparrison to PC based offerings, or they wouldn't have made such a bold and unexpected upgade. I would be pretty pissed if I paid over five grand for a top speced RMBP, then a few months later they offer a chip that's 60% faster. At least offer some kind of trade in deal, where people who paid for a speced out RMBK can atleast break even in a trade up.
Apple has created OpenCL. Yes, they were also fairly quick to abandon it once it was clear that OpenCL's adoption in the industry is lacklustre. And since Vulcan went a very different direction than what Apple hoped for, they have rolled their own API, and a better one than anything else currently on the market. As to their depreciation of OpenGL — about time! OpenGL was my entry in 3d APIs and I spend a lot of fun time with it, but it has been effectively dead since Long Peaks initiative has been killed off.
I'm not talking about market share, I'm talking about their terribly aggressive approach to their products ie the third party repair market and the App store.
"the exclusive possession or control of the supply of or trade in a commodity or service."
i didnt say Apple deceived us, but i find it highly unlikely Apple was in the dark about the Vega chips. Apple works with AMD closely especially when the MacBook is so thin and the thermals/battery life could be potentially bad for including the Vega chips in the same design
it’s entirely possible that Apple’s A chip team could be behind on their dev, so Apple reuses the same A chip as the XS (to satisfy users on iPhone Upgrade plan, deal with investors as a public company, dealing with suppliers, etc) in thr iPhone 11, then release the 11S later with the new chip.
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no one would be unhappy if they skipped this year’s vega chips and waited until next year
It is clear that if people do not bother with OpenCL, they will bother even less with Apple's proprietary stuff.
Thank you. I was under the mistaken impression that all eGPU would work with Mojave
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