Dude,... are you kidding lol You think the non-mobile variants of a CPU that doesn't exist would be perfect for apple?
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Dude,... are you kidding lol You think the non-mobile variants of a CPU that doesn't exist would be perfect for apple?
I am wondering why Apple hasn't been able to strike a deal with nVidia, which seems to be working pretty well with Microsoft products lately. Smells #exclusive
No GTX 1000 series? Wow, that SUCKS.
Razer's new Blade Pro is almost in similar pricing territory, while having DESKTOP-grade GPUs (GTX 1080) and CPUs (i7-6700HQ, IIRC) in them.
I love Apple, but I really don't like paying big bucks and getting outdated hardware. We have moved on to better graphics and DDR4. I'll give them a pass on not shipping Kaby Lake silicon as I don't think Intel is even shipping MBP suitable chips until 2017. Don't even get me started on the FaceTime camera. It isn't 12" MacBook bad, but 1080p should be standard in 2016.
Razer's new Blade Pro is almost in similar pricing territory, while having DESKTOP-grade GPUs (GTX 1080) and CPUs (i7-6700HQ, IIRC) in them.
I love Apple, but I really don't like paying big bucks and getting outdated hardware. We have moved on to better graphics and DDR4. I'll give them a pass on not shipping Kaby Lake silicon as I don't think Intel is even shipping MBP suitable chips until 2017. Don't even get me started on the FaceTime camera. It isn't 12" MacBook bad, but 1080p should be standard in 2016.
When I bought a MBP in 2010, it wasn't an ultrabook. I want a device that lives up to the Pro name. I don't want a professional device that sacrifices performance for thinner and lighter.
Edit: If I felt the new MBP was priced appropriately, I wouldn't have an issue. But $3K is too much for what I want out of it.
Jesus, you are so sad. Do you think creative professionals haven't been forced to leave Apple because of their underpowered hardware? And no way, I plan on building my own desktop PC once I can cancel my MBP order but the Razer does look nice and powerful for a laptop.
you buy a razer to game, you buy a mac to be productive. What games would you be wanting to crank out on your 1080 in a mac, enlighten me. you want 10 hours of battery, and you want a GPU that would literally allow you about 35 minutes of usage. But again, what games are going to take advantage of this CPU on a mac.
you answered your own question man :\ , you don't want what it's become..... so go buy something you do :\
I already responded to it. You pointing at it and saying you agree isn't an argument either. And I also welcome you to my ignore list.
You do realize that these supposedly "non-existent" processors are already powering Dell XPS 13 laptops? It's called the i7-7y75 and it would have been great for a MacBook.
How about before vomitting out another post you do a few seconds of googling?
I think that in a free market economy, no company owes you anything. You don't have to buy anything. If you're locked in, that's your own fault. Stop complaining and take some responsibility for creating your own happiness. Whining on a forum isn't helping you and your life or anyone else in theirs.
You'll still be here years from now whinging about Apple and Macs that your apparently don't want.
Please don't bother commenting on any of his posts. He thinks that an integrated graphics card is good enough for the MBP, and thinks that a $200 price hike is justified to go from a 455 to a 460.
I didn't say gaming. There are people who buy Razer computers and use them for everything BUT gaming. I own a Razer mouse... I haven't touched Steam in two years. You can buy a product and not be its target market, ya'know.
My point is compute power. GTX 1080 blows these AMD cards out to the next galaxy and consume similar amounts of power. NVIDIA has been flat-out killing AMD in graphics for quite some time now.
What about Adobe users? They can't use CUDA cores to render their work now, they're forced to use OpenCL on AMD cards and wait for eons compared to a GTX card.
You mean the 10 series GPUs that are some of the most power efficient GPUs to come out in maybe ever? Those ones? Yeah? Also why is a more powerful GPU not related to being productive? Have you ever actually used a GPU for productivity before or are you just talking out of your nether region? There aren't any laptops with the 1080 getting 35 minutes of usage, which is a terribly exaggerated time frame that shows you have literally no idea what you're talking about. Honestly the reasons some of you people are giving for defending this piss poor GPU is astounding. "Well the crappy garbage can lowest common denominator bottom of the barrel GPU is for people that want to be productive" ... this unbelievable.
Exactly. Good grief. As an example, Adobe products will use however many CUDA cores you can throw at them.
Yup. Have a 1080 on my PC and love the rendering times. Tried my friend's 480 and tried to render the same video... Nope.
You seem (by the underline) to be trying to correct me by making my original point. I'm not saying they didn't choose to, of course they did. That's the whole point. The same basic range of parts have been on the market for decades, and they always make the same choice. There is no surprise here. They are not going to use a 75 watt GPU in a notebook.
Ranting about the particular parts out this year is no great revelation. The story this gen, as you pointed out, is much the same as last gen, and the gen before that, and before that, and . . . Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
Ranting about the particular parts out this year is no great revelation. The story this gen, as you pointed out, is much the same as last gen, and the gen before that, and before that, and . . . Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
A GTX 1080 uses a hell of a lot more power than 35 watts!
That's a 4.5w processor, released in Q3 2016 (source: http://ark.intel.com/products/95441/Intel-Core-i7-7Y75-Processor-4M-Cache-up-to-3_60-GHz). The MacBook, the only machine it's suitable for was updated in April. Do you seriously expect Apple to roll out a new machine every time Intel manages to trundle out another barely different piece of silicon with the same IPC as the last one? Do you think that's a viable business strategy?
What? I never asked a question? And I specifically said I was going to be building a custom desktop. I want to continue using macOS but Apple isn't giving me any good options to stick around. The continued use of macOS is literally the reason I ordered the new Macbook Pro earlier today which I'm now going to cancel when I can because I can't accept that price for what I'm getting.
You... Do realize that companies can listen to customers, right? That's what's called an actual customer-company relationship. Company releases hardware, customer gives feedback. Company revises product, releases to customer, hoping that the current customers are satisfied, and new ones will come in because of existing customers' positive feedback, as well as the glowing reviews of the item in general.
I find it funny that it is during the release of these very strange Apple products (MacBook, and now the MacBook Pro) that you will always have these people say the same thing - "Apple doesn't owe you anything!" Well, unfortunately a lot of people rely on Apple's laptops and desktops for their workflow. And being nipped in the behind by these ridiculous premiums, very mediocre specs, and no desktops - I say that these people who use these computers for a living, DO have a right to be frustrated.
And how they vent their frustration, that's up to them. Calling/reaching out to Apple is one obvious, but it's clear after today that Apple doesn't really care about the actual pro market. So venting with other people who share the same sentiment is another option.
It's clear from your tag that you're new to this forum, and the idea of forums in general. If you're mad that people are complaining about the mediocre event, sorry.