Did the new rMBP get broadwell or not?

[dudeslife]

Did the new rMBP get broadwell or not? 9 to 5 Mac says yes. Others say no. If not, will apple go straight to Skylake?

 

[leman]

Pretty much. Wouldn't make a lot of sense for then to change the board layout for the the MBP twice in a year.

 

[Fluttershy]

no - still haswell.

 

[yjchua95]

Did the new rMBP get broadwell or not?

Nope. They're still Haswell.

I think it's evident from this that Broadwell-H has been entirely scuttled, considering that it would have such a short shelf life since Skylake-H is on time.

 

[dudeslife]

whoa, this paragraph on 9 to 5 Mac almost made me pull the trigger on an order.

While the upgrade to the latest Broadwell processor doesn’t show a speed-bump, Apple says that the flash storage is 2.5 times faster and greater power efficiency provides an extra hour of battery-life …

 

[yjchua95]

whoa, this paragraph on 9 to 5 Mac almost made me pull the trigger on an order.

While the upgrade to the latest Broadwell processor doesn’t show a speed-bump, Apple says that the flash storage is 2.5 times faster and greater power efficiency provides an extra hour of battery-life …

Knowing how inefficient AMD chips are compared to NVIDIA's, I'd wager that Radeongate will happen in 3 years' time.

 

[MagicBoy]

Take your blinkers off yjchua95. It was one bad product.

 

[Freyqq]

They changed it to "Intel Iris Pro" from "Intel Iris Pro 5200" in the marketing materials. Had it actually been broadwell, I would have expected it to say "Intel Iris Pro 6200."