So this means Apple must have been testing Kaby lake chips in the MacBooks for the past 6 months or so to be sure they were ready for today's launch. Yeah that sucks for the people who bought the 2016 model.
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Apple Updates Entire MacBook and MacBook Pro Lineup With Kaby Lake CPUs and Faster Graphics
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Overall I think the updates are good. People have complained about a lack of new desktops and now we have them. The MacBooks and MacBook Pros are getting normal spec bumps that Apple sometimes just announces through press releases.
I agree that since we didn't see a desktop with Touch Bar that Apple may de-emphasize it. I thought it was an interesting idea, and find it modestly useful but evidently it isn't getting the kind of traction Apple expected.
'Till the store is back up we can confirm if were still stuck at 16GB, since they did not mention anything abut memory
The excuse for Skylake 16GB limit was that it could t address more then 16GB and needed Kaby Lake to exceed that...
Just need 24GB...32GB is probably overkill.
16GB is just not enough to run a parallels windows environment with dev tools - yes I know that you can now get Visual Studio for Mac but that can't build windows targets.
The excuse for Skylake 16GB limit was that it could t address more then 16GB and needed Kaby Lake to exceed that...
Just need 24GB...32GB is probably overkill.
16GB is just not enough to run a parallels windows environment with dev tools - yes I know that you can now get Visual Studio for Mac but that can't build windows targets.
WHY? YOU chose to purchase a hardware at the TICK cycle just cause of a redesign and you KNEW the CPU was old upon release compared to what Asus, Lenovo, ACER, DELL, heck the entire industry upgraded to and was shipping already with 7th gen Intel iCore cpu's. This update comes in at the standard 8mth refresh cycle for Apple.
Kaby Lake also cannot support more than 16GB of LPDDR memory. You have to wait until 2018 and Coffeelake.
I have the ntbMBP and the minor update to Kaby Lake is fine for me.
But not the $200 drop!
Btw it's about ~$1,700 when I bought it here locally. So yeah, the drop is pretty significant.
But not the $200 drop!
Btw it's about ~$1,700 when I bought it here locally. So yeah, the drop is pretty significant.
Looks like I won't be returning my Mid 2015 15" Pro after all. I was kinda hoping Apple would drop the price of the touch bar 15" or at least give us a non touch model. Now I have to sell my 13" SG nTB Pro and that's really where I'm screwed.
Furious? Nah, Kaby is incremental. Some nice efficiency gains but that's about it. It would have been nice on the 2016 models but they probably weren't available in scale at the time.
32 Gb? Maybe. More space? Maybe. Terraced batteries? Maybe. Price drop? For sure.
Incremental CPU bump, meh.
Free GPU bump, yeah ok for those who paid extra for it in the beginning. But it's not like there is a brand new chip.
The 2017 is a nice refinement of the existing, barring any fixes under the hood that weren't mentioned. Craig spent less than 4 minutes for the entirety of the mac notebook line. There was nothing to talk about.
Still waiting for my 10hrs of battery life on my TBMacBook Pro And really now they decided to put kaby lake on the mac line smh
Maybe the mac laptop line will be sorted out by end of 2018.
The line is a mess and the ~30 seconds dedicated to it today show it
The line is a mess and the ~30 seconds dedicated to it today show it
The only thing from today that could possibly get you furious is the price drop, if you have bought a non-touch 13inch in the recent past. Other than that, the 2017 models are basically minor spec bumps that are negligible for 99% of the users.
Even if you are upset about how much you paid, it's still because you were too lazy to do any homework because the 13-inch base model has been selling for $1299 at least 1/3 of the time in the past.
Got mine with 200$ off and another $100 off apple care. Didn't regret a bit.
(Update: Just noticed the so-called price drop is not actually a drop. It cut storage in half, too. Meh)
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I have no idea why you were expecting 32GB LPDDR since we already knew it wasn't compatible was Kaby Lake...
8 months is "too close"? They should have released Kaby Lake MBP back in Feb/March. The MBP is now worth purchasing for those who need it, the 2016 version was a joke.
Hopefully we'll see CoffeeLake by Jan/Feb.
Like I mentioned, it's not bad news, we already knew it wasn't possible. Wait until CoffeeLake.
Expected updates, but still way too expensive..
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What price drop? Not in Canada!
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What price drop? Not in Canada!
The Apple store is back up.
The ntbMBP base model is now 128GB haha. The 256GB model actually had a price increase!
It does have a faster RAM and Iris 640.
I'm not too furious now.
The ntbMBP base model is now 128GB haha. The 256GB model actually had a price increase!
It does have a faster RAM and Iris 640.
I'm not too furious now.