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Apple's Mac Lineups to See Significant Graphics Upgrades as New GPU Launches Loom

TallManNY said:
I'm still using my 2011 iMac at home. Nice machine with the integrated DVD player. Every five years is about my desktop upgrade cycle. I'm going to hold off until end of year to see if I can get these better GPUs.
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I ripped the DVD player out of mine the day it arrive - my 2011 iMac was running 2x SSD's configured as raid 0 - I had almost 1000MB/s read and write in an iMac about 5 years before it was the norm :p

Now doing equally fun things with a Skylake iMac and Thunderbolt 2 enclosures. I hate the waste space with optical drives and media.
 
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dannys1 said:
I ripped the DVD player out of mine the day it arrive - my 2011 iMac was running 2x SSD's configured as raid 0 - I had almost 1000MB/s read and write in an iMac about 5 years before it was the norm :p

Now doing equally fun things with a Skylake iMac and Thunderbolt 2 enclosures. I hate the waste space with optical drives and media.
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Cool. One of the things I go back and forth on is trying to do the task of taking out my HD in the iMac and putting in an SSD. I've looked at videos and read a bit about it. I know it will make a huge difference. It might even make me hold off on upgrading the iMac for another couple of years. But I'm not much of a DIY person. The thing most similar to this that I've done is I used to open up my iPhones and replace their battery after they got a bit old. But that was often hard (and getting harder with each iteration), so I've decided I won't ever do that again.
 
AsprineTm said:
Maybe we finally get a iMac Pro?

Apple has ignored i big group of GPU users for way to long.
Now lets hope the finally ban 5400rpm hardrives.

Knowing apple is always primarily after our money I dont get my hopes up for the latest and greatest GPU's
Probably only GDDR5+ for the iMac, they will save the HBM2 for the Mac Pro.
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I cant see a pro machine is integrated with a screen. There are many reasons why you want a headless computer. I work on a Cintiq screen, for example. Some would like to youse there expensive calibrated screens, some would like to power a bigger screen or tripple setup.
 
Just making the point that "Pro" seems to be nothing but an advertising moniker now. The person joking about an "iMac Pro" is so funny because I can see it coming to fruition. Is it unlikely to think that we could see the iPhone Plus models re-branded as an iPhone Pro as well...
 
Yeheheheheeeeees! At long last. Please don't skip on the higher end mobile chips for the top end MBP's this time, Apple. Pleeeaaasse! <3
 
sigmadog said:
Not if your Mac does all you want it to do.
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It doesn't. But I have a HP work laptop for work, a Surface 3 for dicking around, an XBox One to play games and most of my media watching needs, and the 3rd gen AppleTV to for watching content acquired through extra-legal sources. And serving up that content to the AppleTV is pretty much the only thing this 2011 Mac mini is still doing. Crappy, antique graphics is one of the many reasons this will be the last Apple product I'll have bought.
 
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TallManNY said:
Cool. One of the things I go back and forth on is trying to do the task of taking out my HD in the iMac and putting in an SSD. I've looked at videos and read a bit about it. I know it will make a huge difference. It might even make me hold off on upgrading the iMac for another couple of years. But I'm not much of a DIY person. The thing most similar to this that I've done is I used to open up my iPhones and replace their battery after they got a bit old. But that was often hard (and getting harder with each iteration), so I've decided I won't ever do that again.
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IMHO its easier to open the iMac than the iPhone as everything is bigger and goes back together more easily. I had my 2011 iMac literally into pieces and it was one of the easiest things to put back together.

I find electronics generally pretty easy to fiddle with on a basic level, its cars that I can't handle - pulling trim out on a car not only hurts but its difficult and i've never got it to go back again the same way!
 
Looking forward to seeing what Apple does with this. My computer is getting a little long in the tooth and the graphics are so outdated on it. But I will have to stick it out awhile longer I guess.
 
As much as I want to believe this is awesome news, I don't see any actual news. This is just a restatement of upcoming GPU releases that have been known since 2015, plus speculation and wishful thinking about Apple's lineup. Is there anything substantive--even if just a purported leak--that indicates what Apple's actual plans are? For all we know, Apple may go all integrated graphics from here on out.
 
Very much looking forward to this! I really hope I'll be able to buy a MacBook Pro with proper nVidia graphics - or a CUDA competitor from AMD that actually has some much needed features currently only CUDA offers.
 
We cannot help but drool at this seeing Intel is pretty much dead in the water when it comes to NOTICEABLE performance boosts in its CPU line. The real performance enhancers over the next decade will be GPUs. Which is all the more reason Apple needs to empower us with the ability to add external GPU devices to any Mac via ThunderBolt3 to boost performance. For example, I'd love to buy a 12" MacBook for its portability, then take it home and plug it into a GPU dock that boost it's performance to iMac levels.
 
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JDW said:
We cannot help but drool at this seeing Intel is pretty much dead in the water when it comes to NOTICEABLE performance boosts in its CPU line. The real performance enhancers over the next decade will be GPUs. Which is all the more reason Apple needs to empower us with the ability to add external GPU devices to any Mac via ThunderBolt3 to boost performance. For example, I'd love to buy a 12" MacBook for its portability, then take it home and plug it into a GPU dock that boost it's performance to iMac levels.
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We thank AMD for making Intel lazy. lol
 
I really hope we will get a MBP with Skylake soon.

My current MBP Retina from 2012 is running on fumes. Trackpad is broken, CPU gets overheated very easily and the screen has severe burn in. I have already bought a new charging cable, because the rubber on my old one was completely destroyed. Now my second cable, is about to fall a part.
 
sudo1996 said:
Wait, this is a desktop, and they're putting a mobile GPU in it? They're worrying about power usage? What the ****?
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Know, they are worrying about heat dissipation. Mobile GPUs run cooler and since Apple go for a quiet machine over a cool one, getting heat out of the system is a concern.
 
I hope Apple and Microsoft push for USB 3, USB-C or Thunderbolt external graphics which gives rnd users more options; sounds like this will be a good year for the Mac side
 
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Hi,

I've been following the long quest of the new macbook pro's. Last time i've bought one was in 2012, and i'm eager to buy another late this year, especially for VR purposes. Do you think Apple will provide that with the latest iteration? I'm tempted to build a desktop just for VR, but I always need my mac. The macbook pro's haven't got much love the past years, please tell me some good news!
 
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