Ok, I'll say it! Why oh Why cannot Apple put the I7 quad..the 3.1 or why not the 4.2 thats in the New iMac
into a mac mini? Comon Apple! I"d pay $3000 for that!
into a mac mini? Comon Apple! I"d pay $3000 for that!
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2017 MacBook Pro is Up to 20% Faster Than Last Year's Model in Benchmarks
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How about people who bought the October 2010 13" Core 2 MacBook Pro when Apple updated it to Core i5 in July 2011? That was a lot more than a 20% increase in performance.
2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 sounds like 6 years to me5 years
.. ....just kidding lol forgot to factor in the months...
Yeah they need to bring it back, different design to fit the form factor, but they need to bring it back - it was a differentiator.
5 years
Yep...The only things that is a major change is the SSD.
Holy @#$ those things are fast!
If it was 20% faster in real life usage then that would have been great but it's not.
ive returned my 2016 last month,but i just had this one,around 16% increase in speed here but i feel the keyboard lost that warm sound keys click, and from 8 hours with music,safari,mail (both latest macOS sierra) now after 11 hours and 11 minutes my 15" MBP died.
Does it perform the tasks in an adequate amount of time to meet your needs?
If not then www.ebay.com sell it and buy the new one.
This happens nearly 100% of the time a model is upgraded if it's a computer, phone, tablet, car, TV or game console. They aren't going to wait or stop upgrading.
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He’s trying to justify his purchase. Meanwhile, new buyers like myself will enjoy the small speed bump
The 2016 macbook pros could not beat the 2015 macbook pros in the mac benchmarks
Will the 2017? We will find out soon
Will the 2017? We will find out soon
I'd say sell it to someone who's looking for a discount and isn't as concerned about specs, and then buy the new one.
20% faster != 20% slower in reverse. That's not how the math works.
Yeah that iPad 3 was a real ball-buster. I've still got that slow-as-hell slab taking up space in my desk.
That's just the CPU. There are other things like SSD/RAM I/O performance which the mid-2012 15" rMBP just won't be able to keep up. The NVMe/PCIe SSD is a lot faster and with lower latency than the SATA 3 SSD in the old rMBP (Apple moved to PCIe with the late 2013 model moved to NVMe from AHCI with the late 2016 models).
If your compare the SATA3 SSD performance to the current NVMe/PCIe, we're looking at a jump from around 400 MB/s read and write to over 2GB/s. That's a huge gain.
Then there's the GPU. The GT650M is old and can't run most of the games released in the last two years.
Plus there's Thunderbolt 3 which allows you to add external GPU and brings the performance of the MBP up another notch or two. That's not possible with the mid-2012 model. And I'm speaking as someone who also has been running the mid-2012 model for the last 5 years. This year is the first year when my rMBP starts to feel slow.
It's just a speed bump.
Got burned on that.
That was, unlike the situation with the MBP 2017 and 2016, a significant issue, since the iPad 3s were significantly underpowered. Bad GPU that couldn't support the new Retina display.