I know, but even that has higher specs than any of the competition anywhere near $1000. It's crazy to me how people's value of technology is affected by the race to the bottom.
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Apple Launches 2018 MacBook Pros: 8th Gen Core, Up to 32GB of RAM, Third-Gen Keyboard, Quad-Core on 13-Inch and More
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I know, but even that has higher specs than any of the competition anywhere near $1000. It's crazy to me how people's value of technology is affected by the race to the bottom.
Well, good update, I really like the truetone feature. The thing is that I configured the specs to match my needs (32GB ram / 1TB SSD) and it's 4300EUR. So, I will stick with my 2015 15". I would probably buy it if it has no-touchbar...
Not as bad as you might think. Apple uses high-end NVMe SSDs, not SATA; a comparable 2 TB 960 Pro retails for around the same price.
32 GB 2400 MHz DDR4 RAM goes for around $300, so Apple could make that one $100 cheaper.
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Two or three and better specced. You're going to go for it, right?
I'd be funny if that seriously were the case. If anybody could manage to question an Apple representative about these new laptops, the should ask whether the this four-year extension also applies the 2018 MBPs and if they say no, whether that means that the reliability of the keyboard has been improved.
Hmmm, can't bad mouth too much. At least we have a 6-core available now. We have touchbar Macs in rental, keyboards seem to be fine. I guess if you don't drag them through a sand castle you should be fine.
*edit* hmmm weird BTO does not show a 6-core option, nm I was being stupid. Too early.
*edit* hmmm weird BTO does not show a 6-core option, nm I was being stupid. Too early.
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I know right? Touch Bar is this MBP generation, that's going anywhere either. It works just fine.
Things are the same that they’ve been this century. Perhaps it’s that Mac users never gave high-end PC hardware a chance. Honestly once Adobe improved their product on Windows, the OS was just a matter of preference. It’s not like Windows 10 is the first usable version.
I left Windows because I am tired of performing the redundant maintenance it requires to run well although SSDs improved the situation.
No, I don't buy my laptops. I use what's provided and only keep my iPad at home.
Seeing you are in San Francisco you aren't fortunately exposed to the Great Apple European Rip-off. Regular laptops are a bit more expensive (not much). Apple's on the other hand... Despite that we still have a nice bridge in common.
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NOTHING about Thunderbolt 3 is "underpowered".
What if I want the additional resolution from the MBP vs. the Air, or the larger display size vs. the MB? What if I'm a professional developer for backend services, who needs the additional processing power, but not the additional GPU power/heat/consumption, likes the portability of the 13" MBP?
My point being: there's really no correlation to the "Pro" monicker, and the end use, there's plenty of people surfing websites on Pro models, and people doing hardcore development on MBAs, it's really just a feature/spec/price demarcation, so you can't really say "It's not Pro enough", because what does that really mean?
Question for Macrumors. Does it not shock you that with all your and our rumor sources, Apple is still able to pull off these stealth updates without us being able to see them coming? I don't mean that we have no rumors. You obviously report them quite well. But just like this "boom" they are on the website and available for purchase and if you asked folks who are totally clued in what MONTH this was coming in, you would have gotten guesses for August, September and even a few people guessing October.
I’m on the 2016 model, after 1.5 years I still have to look down to locate the position of the slider. Hard to get used to something that’s not at a fixed position.
Also I dislike the Touch Bar sometimes when it makes simple tasks like adjusting the brightness while watching a movie more complicated than on previous keyboards.
Tapping the Bar to activate it, pressing the button and than adjusting the slider feels so much more unintuitive than pressing and holding a single key on the older keyboards.
If the non TB models had TouchID, I would prefer them over my current MBP which is my first Apple computer that I find very underwhelming.
A real shame the 13" doesn't come with a 32GB option. Would've been a close to perfect system with quad cores + 32GB RAM.
I see a lot of complaints but honestly I quite like the 13" MacBook Pro.
I see a lot of complaints but honestly I quite like the 13" MacBook Pro.
Your eGPU is still being throttled by 20% with thunderbolt 3. Yes, your $1200 enclosure+decent GPU slapped to the $3000 brick still have the graphic performance of GTX 1080TI*80%= $640.
Impulse buy emotions are in me right now, but I am going to chug along with my 2015 MBP a little bit more and see how this plays out. But when I do upgrade, it sure will be maxing out on the 15 inch.
Perhaps higher clock speeds. The 555X may be the old 460/560 but the 560X can’t be just the 560. I wonder if they still have the same 80 GB/s bandwidth.
Not really, these quiet updates do happen. Usually we hear rumours of what will be coming, we all kind of figured this was coming but it is a surprise they launched today.
Too expensive, Apple needs to do better here. Same specs, remove the touch bar? Another reason I moved to iOS only, much more cost effective.
I wonder in which world Apple execs are living. Post 2016 the prices are just unbearable.
Macbook Pro 15" i9 / 32Gb / 1Tb
UK - £3689
US - $3899 = £2948
Japan - Y423800 = £2849
£3689 - £2849 = £840 less than across the road from me in Oxford Street!
Flight to Tokyo = £550
Total saving £290
Books flight to Tokyo.
My country is such a rip off.
Kon'nichiwa!
UK - £3689
US - $3899 = £2948
Japan - Y423800 = £2849
£3689 - £2849 = £840 less than across the road from me in Oxford Street!
Flight to Tokyo = £550
Total saving £290
Books flight to Tokyo.
My country is such a rip off.
Kon'nichiwa!
Let's hope for similar changes on the 12".
Yes. Absolutely. Why? Perfect scaling to Full-HD. The current MBPr only scale clean to 1440x900 or even worse at the 13": 1280x800 -which it doesn't support.