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Buy MBP now or wait for 2018 version? Will 2018 a 15-inch macbook pro get a VEGA gpu?

I am thinking we won't see a new MBP with Vega Mobile or Coffee Lake or higher until July at the earliest. The current released Kaby Lake R 8th Gen Mobile CPUs still don't support LPDDR4 and are only quad cores. So far there is only a leaked stack which shows more 8th Gen Coffee Lake Mobile CPUs with 6 Cores but no other details and no time line for release. If Intel announces these at Computex in June. WWDC is the earliest time to see them.
 
4RunnerHeaven said:
I didn't wait and got my 2017 MBP 15" now. I know by the history of Apple. this update isn't going to be a big one either. Don't believe what everyone says expecting it to be a big when when they don't know. Get one now and enjoy it.
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What does this have to do with history of Apple? You act as if we have no information to go on and are just wildly speculating. At the same time, its well known that Intel is releasing hexacore mobile CPUs this year and these CPUs are direct successors of the CPUs used in the 15" MBP. So its pretty much a certainty that any MBP refresh this year is going to use these CPUs. I'd say thats a rather substantial upgrade.
 
i dont think Apple will update the MBP until they dont have a new dGPU for the 15"....i mean it will be embarrassing to put the same gpu in the new 2018 amd 555/560
 
KensaiMage said:
thanks. what I care the most about is futureproof specs. thus its hard to make a decission. in addition to the business related mbp I need to buy 3 macbooks 12 for my family members as our computers are old and we reach for ipads much more often atm.
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I think everyone who has replied to you is making way too many assumptions to be useful to you. You didn't tell us what you intend to use updated hardware to do. You say you want future-proof, but for what? If you want to be able to play the latest and greatest games that's one thing, if you're editing hi-res video that's slightly different. If you just want the best laptop you can get so that you know it will last a long time but your workflow is not very demanding, that's entirely different.

To be a little more specific, others have mentioned improved graphics, more cores, etc. Do you do anything that would actually take advantage of all that? Or is you're workflow heavily dependent on accessing external devices? Finally, you mentioned everyone in your family needs to update. Are they all using the machines in the same way? If we knew the answers to questions like these we could give you better responses.
 
mj_ said:
AMD hasn't even announced mobile Vega chips yet, and I highly doubt Apple is going to cram the current 210W-345W Vega chips into their MacBook Pros. The only thing AMD has announced are Raven Ridge APUs with a Ryzen CPU and a Vega GPU and again it's highly unlikely that Apple is going to go all-in with AMD and ditch Intel.
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https://www.anandtech.com/show/1220...ith-31-ghz-base-100w-target-tdp-overclockable

100W for GPU+CPU+HBM2, could make a laptop with that, but properly too high TDP for thin macbook's
 
leman said:
What does this have to do with history of Apple? You act as if we have no information to go on and are just wildly speculating. At the same time, its well known that Intel is releasing hexacore mobile CPUs this year and these CPUs are direct successors of the CPUs used in the 15" MBP. So its pretty much a certainty that any MBP refresh this year is going to use these CPUs. I'd say thats a rather substantial upgrade.
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Umm, you all are wildly speculating. Apple's history is proof that they don't do huge changes to their products very often especially within a 3 year timeframe. It will get the 8th gen processors, but not much else than that.
 
4RunnerHeaven said:
Umm, you all are wildly speculating. Apple's history is proof that they don't do huge changes to their products very often especially within a 3 year timeframe. It will get the 8th gen processors, but not much else than that.
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Exactly. And the 8-gen processors are the hexa-core ones. I am not sure what your point is.
 
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4RunnerHeaven said:
Then wait for the 2019 model. it will have the 9th gen processors, oh no, wait for the 10th gen. And so on. Give me a break.
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Yes, logic is a difficult concept ;) What makes you believe that the 9gen CPUs will be such a big departure from the 8th gen? So far, the 8th gen looks like the biggest improvement in CPU performance intel had since introduction of Core CPUs.
 
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leman said:
Yes, logic is a difficult concept ;) What makes you believe that the 9gen CPUs will be such a big departure from the 8th gen? So far, the 8th gen looks like the biggest improvement in CPU performance intel had since introduction of Core CPUs.
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Totally agree. I think this upcoming models will have the biggest improvements from one gen to another since ivy bridge i think
 
2018 spec will include 13" quad cores and likely 15" 6 cores.

If you can wait a month or two, wait.

Vega mobile... maybe. Personally, don't care about mobile GPUs, that's what thunderbolt 3 is for. Plug in a proper GPU or use a desktop if you need it... aware YMMV - but i've done the onboard GPU thing in portables before and for me its always a disappointment.


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damn it, forum showing me ancient threads related to ones i am posting in... didn't realize this was from january, sorry.
 
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