2nd gen rMB...

[SteveJUAE]

I've had mine since launch and I'm actually hoping for a 14" version this year. It doesn't even have to have a second port. I would just like a slightly larger screen.

I never appreciated this problem till recently being a 100% Windows bootcamp user, it seems we have a little more flexibility on settings for system font's etc which can help (outside of resolution change) when some have problems with OSX defaults and really would prefer a larger screen to overcome some issues.

 

[h00ligan]

Heavy video and photography use for one.

Do you use your machines for heavy duty (semi pro or pro_ photography? I am curious if the MacBook will be good enough to limo by for a while until I move and have room for an iMac. I won't be shooting pro at the time as I am recovering from multiple surgeries, but I have ten to fifteen thousand photos I need to cull and develop in Lightroom. I'm also very curious how on1 perfect photo would run. I'm trying to find photographers beyond sort of hobbyists who have opted for the MacBook as a mobile solution. I don't need it to be super fast, but if it's not going to perform better than the surface pro 3 i7 machine then what's the point for me,

Though it's important to note on1 software doesn't work with integrated graphics in Windows but it does in OS X (lazy developer in my eyes) and Windows image editing software tents to run a bit slower in my experience, probably du to disk and ram integration with macs being so much faster.. Because on like for like systems it runs faster in Windows, but what apple does with disk and ram integration really makes dealing with a large quantity of photos much much faster.

So I bought the iPad Pro and keyboard and I was going to limp by using the surface or mobile Lightroom, which is probably the easiest best way to cull, but not great for anything else. The mobile setting on the surface in desktop Lightroom activates the develop module, which is just stupid, Adobe should allow mobile style culling in the library module, because on machines like the surface pro 3 the develop module makes things much much slower.

ANwyay, I'm curious how this new MacBook will stack up given the improved graphics card. I'm also going to spend a couple days importing raw and using FSN to process raw and batch via the iPad. Raw scores I'd have to think the iPad actually compresses video faster than the new MacBook, but as we know there's a serious lack of desktop class software

I'm sure if Adobe released a proper Lightroom for the iPad it would FLY.. I wish they would.

 

[ZipZap]

Apple won't update or upgrade the RMB until 2017 at the earliest.

What Skylake offers the RMB doesn't need. It already has class-leading all-day battery life. It eschews processing horsepower for portability. Apple won't gain or lose a sale over this processor so they have zero incentive to move it forward, especially with so much work to do on the ancient Pro and Air lines. Much bigger fish to fry at the high and low end over there. And people forget how slow the RMB rollout was in 2015, announced in March but not in critical mass in all stores until August, that's only 4 months ago. The RMB is just getting started.

Since you say the current product would be great for you, I suggest rather highly that you not deprive yourself of the experience here in December waiting for a Skylake unicorn that will never come. Jump in today, you'll love it. Whatever upgrades come in 2017 you'll worry about then.

BJ

Lets take a moment to note how wrong BJ was on so many threads. So sure he was an expert on the Apple plan for rMB and yet so wrong.