Hoping a 15" WITHOUT Touchbar is one of the new options!
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15-Inch MacBook Pro Delivery Estimates Slip Ahead of New Models Expected Next Week
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It's not really the same thing since there was no adapter that would allow you to connect a FW device on those machines.
That 16GB limit is actually approaching 6,5years now..
Such modern, much PRO, many awesome..
Can we just have the OS so we can get back to work?
http://www.boxx.com/products/mobile-workstations
http://www.boxx.com/products/mobile-workstations
This will probably be the laptop that apple wanted to ship, though they rushed out just the design changes last year. Sucks if you bought the new form factor without the internals .
Had you you just spent £4K.....if this is a major update , poor form apple.
Had you you just spent £4K.....if this is a major update , poor form apple.
That's true, but I find that lately Apple's more "controversial" products make me think "How will other people live with this?" When I think about my own personal use, there isn't a problem.
The MacBook Pros for me, are a great update. Suddenly there's dedicated graphics in the 15" base model. Perfect for what I need. The problem? Price.
USB-C ports aren't a big issue because the one thing I regularly use with USB is my Wacom tablet and external hard drive. I can buy two new cables and forget about it. I never use my SD card reader.
I think about the situation where I work: Video production, animation and photography company. We sometimes use SD cards but mainly XQD cards, which aren't built into Macs anyway - so we have multi purpose adaptors.
I wonder how many people are simply worrying about hypothetical use cases which are either rare, or non-existent?
Even worse:
Your freakin' investment went into a SVP salary who didn't notice it in the millisecond (s)he earned it...
I think most people are anticipating too much from WWDC...
My thinking is that, with the exception of a new 10.5" iPad Pro (and maybe the rumored Siri speaker): not much will change... especially with the notebook line.
They will likely spend their time:
1) trying to convince developers to make Touch Bar stuff.
2) trying to convince developers to make more iPad Pro apps.
3) talk about OS features or new OS upgrades (mac os/OSX, iOS, watchOS, tvOS)
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My thinking is that, with the exception of a new 10.5" iPad Pro (and maybe the rumored Siri speaker): not much will change... especially with the notebook line.
They will likely spend their time:
1) trying to convince developers to make Touch Bar stuff.
2) trying to convince developers to make more iPad Pro apps.
3) talk about OS features or new OS upgrades (mac os/OSX, iOS, watchOS, tvOS)
.
I read an article recently as I was considering a 12" MacBook to replace my 2011 MacBook Air about how it stacked up specifically in CPU power. What they said was the m series processors in the 2016 MacBook were comparable to the 2011 I series chips in the 2011
MacBook Air.
Now if I'm buying a new laptop - which I'm going to do - I'm not going to upgrade to a newer laptop that has the processing power of a 6-7 year old laptop that I'm replacing it with.
That's my opinion anyway
Would be even better news if they upgraded those pretouchbar macs to kabylake.
Wonder if this is when headphone jack will be eliminated as well? Have no use for that just like everybody else, right?
Unfortunately the vast majority of Apple Mac customers are simply casual users, hence the current poor state of affairs with the Mac. Personally given up, simply not prepared to negatively impact my workflow, for the sake of a consumer product, designed for the FaceBook & Starbucks crowd. 2017 Apple Pro = Joke...
Apple no doubt wants the Halo effect of it's diminishing professional community, equally the hardware produced today is joke, albeit very well executed. As for waiting, done enough of that, just more of the same coming; form over function and tricks & bells designed to WOW the base consumer...
Q-6
You purchased the worst MacBook Pro since 2008/9. Blame yourself for not waiting, like most of us have been saying, for KabyLake/Coffeelake. The machine was outdated the day it was released.
Honestly, you guys may be stuck with 16GB until at least CoffeeLake in 2018. Maybe they put in 32GB option for the 15" Pro... maybe.
The MacBook won't be worth purchasing as a primary computer until Cannonlake, and even then, it seems like you might have to wait for IceLake.
Therefore, jump in and purchase a MBP once Coffeelake and all it's improvements make its way to the MBP. DDR4-2400Mhz, 15% bump in CPU and significant iGPU enhancements will be coupled in with better efficiency and 6 cores. In other words, Intel's largest CPU bump since 2012, with all the enhancements of KabyLake.
This would be sensible if the investment done went into R&D for a new and truly better generation, in a company with a reasonable expoitation.
But we're talking excessive salaries, insane buildings, financial reserves equalling complete continents' public debts.
So compared with that, what they actually accomplish is rudimentary if not a bare minimum.
So I would be insanely mad too.
I expect a MBP with power, ports, and WITHOUT COMPROMISES.
Especially with "Apple tax" going into ludicrous nonsense/luxury that no customer ever asked for.
And who got his greedy hands on MagSafe - are those the savings they need ADDITIONALLY ?
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I don't now I feel about this. So soon for an update... If they include a more powerful GPU and 32 gigs of ram i'm going to be pissed! hahaha
Can't see that happening unless Apple further differentiate by, for example, choosing the i5-7300HQ which doesn't have hyper-threading. They'd have to retain a GPU such as the AMD Pro 450 (probably the AMD Pro WX 4130) because there's no Iris Pro GPU any more.
There could be a realistic step towards reorganising the range when Coffee Lake arrives with up to 6 core/12 thread CPUs.
It's fantastical stuff, however, as the 2017 Revision B Macbook Pros would appear to have very logical Kaby Lake upgrades. Obviously no mention of a lack of touch bar but I can't see Apple offering a 15" model without it unless they do it to the base model of the two on offer, and even then the cost saving will be paltry.
In terms of Mac, they brought back ports with the MacBook Air, and similarly they removed the backlit keyboard then brought it back again. And with the Mac Pro, we may see some more removed features returning.
Bringing back the SD card slot isn't something that's out of the question, especially since it's a slot that's thin enough to fit on the side of the MBP. It's also not something with a direct successor, and it cannot be replaced with a port in my opinion.
FWIW, the software company I work for develops primarily in IntelliJ/Java. Apparently several developers ran into an issue with the 16GB of RAM being too limiting. I'm due for a laptop upgrade at work and have been contemplating going with a MacBook despite the "warnings" that they've issued about the RAM. So a new model with 32GB of RAM would be nice.
Kaby Lake efficiency on a low TDP snappy beast, now if they could make it the same depth throughout..
=fill it with the new batteries & maybe a 'slightly' larger trackpad, on the 2015 13" model I'd get 24+hrs runtime anyways (i5)
?? Larger trackpad ????
Smaller...please!
It's almost like this forum consists of more than a handful users that all have different opinions of what sort of machine they want, how often they want updates and the pricing of said machines.