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2017 MacBook Pro is Up to 20% Faster Than Last Year's Model in Benchmarks
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I still don't get it; you want a guaranteed resell value? You don't want other people to enjoy better machines because it might affect the value of yours should you choose it flip it? Sounds selfish to me.
The 2016 model is a thing of beauty. Powerful sleek and sexy. Love it.
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Best keyboard out there. Super fast to type and feels good to use.
Heat - the iMac quad cores put out over two to three times the heat as the Mac Mini's dual-core.
For real. This is one of my favorite features. All my old Windows laptops eventually had their power ports go from too much use. There's no way I'm risking that on a $3K machine.
... are you seriously accusing me of being selfish over people i don't even know? Of course people are selfish. What a thing to say.
Why, did yours just stop working? Welcome to the world of technology where computers get faster.
Griffin Technology makes a $40 MagSafe type USB-C cable, but it is only up to 60w. Maybe they have a new one for the MBP??
https://griffintechnology.com/us/device/laptops/breaksafe-magnetic-usb-c-power-cable
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Well by that logic technology shouldn't move on until you've maximized the value out of the things only you own. As I said selfish.
that's not the logic at all. Nobody said crap about technology moving forward. I didn't even take a position on what Apple should have or shouldn't have done. How do you know my position isn't something like "Apple should credit previous buyers x amount"?
Don't accuse people of stuff based off of faulty logic.
What is it in Sierra that prevents the 2016 15" MBP with discrete graphics from playing 4K H265 video, if High Sierra will enable it to do so? Also do you have a source for your claim?
BTW, the people who probably got screwed the most are the base 15" rmbp purchasers, not only did they refresh everything, but they have a base spec bump on the GPU side.
Although from what i Heard, the 500 series is just a rebadged 400 series.
Although from what i Heard, the 500 series is just a rebadged 400 series.
True, though anyone who cared in any way about GPU performance probably opted for the 460 anyway, being only a $100 upgrade option.
I don't know your position, how could I? But why should Apple credit any amount to previous buyers. That would be Apple saying "We're sorry we made a better machine so close to your purchase, here's some money because we did our job making computers, boy we won't do that again"
That's a good question. It's possible Apple was able to use the form fitting battery this time.
If battery life is improved with the 2017 model, it might be worth a cringe and one of your "special" words if you own the 2016 MBP.
Yes, I have: WWDC 2017. Or you might just check the Apple website: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2017...-technologies-for-storage-video-and-graphics/
Yeah I took a look at Apple's website but I didn't see anything that specifically mentioned that 2016 MacBook Pros would be able to decode H265 in hardware in High Sierra, just that the new OS would support HEVC.
Quote: "With HEVC, Apple is enabling high-quality video streaming on networks where only HD streaming was previously possible, while hardware acceleration on the new iMac and MacBook Pro......"
P.S.: specifics about HEVC hardware support Apple engineers have said on the one of WWDC sessions dedicated to HEVC APIs https://devstreaming-cdn.apple.com/...fvfi7o3/503/503_introducing_heif_and_hevc.pdf.
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