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Haswell in June: Refresh vs. Redesign (merged)
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Yes, calling someone kid to assert your authority and belittle another's post without any fact. Good one, old man.
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This reason will fall away at the next refresh. They have plenty of time to increase production. I think the question this time is if they want to serve both target groups. The ones willing to pay a high price and those not. Or if they want a one size fits all approach as they always used to.
As much as I would not like my rMPB to look outdated, I'm fairly certain they will make it a tad thinner. I was also reading that this is the last generation of the silver unibody Macs? If you think about it, this design has been running since 2007 i believe.
Source for thinness: https://www.macrumors.com/2012/09/2...ponents-for-2013-macbook-air-and-macbook-pro/
And this is unlikely, but why not?: https://www.macrumors.com/2012/11/05/apple-considering-switch-from-intel-chips-in-future-macs/
Source for thinness: https://www.macrumors.com/2012/09/2...ponents-for-2013-macbook-air-and-macbook-pro/
And this is unlikely, but why not?: https://www.macrumors.com/2012/11/05/apple-considering-switch-from-intel-chips-in-future-macs/
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A friend of a friend of a friend who works for Apple in Cupertino California told his friend who is a friend of my friend that they will make do with the cooling vents below to the retina Macbook pro in September when the new refreshed Macbook Pro's and air's are released. He also said it will be very slightly thinner (on par with the 15" model).
True story, you heard it here third.
True story, you heard it here third.
I just made the mistake of reading up on broadwell...this is killing me! haha. If haswell turns out to be mostly marketing BS and not a huge improvement then I will consider waiting on broadwell if they have more concrete roadmap dates by then. I really hope haswell is what intel is claiming it to be.
What do you think Intel promises for Haswell?
It will be a big step for Ultrabooks, Air and everything smaller with the new single SoC dual core.
The standard chips with quads will not shake the earth. Nice improvement for the iGPU on some 13" rMBP chip and otherwise small evolutionary improvements.
Only broadwell will bring single SoC across the board and 14nm how ever that will turn out.
Performance wise Haswell doesn't promise too much. Only the GPU really. Power savings should be great for the single SoC but the others get only the new i0x idle state and that should be about it.
It will be a big step for Ultrabooks, Air and everything smaller with the new single SoC dual core.
The standard chips with quads will not shake the earth. Nice improvement for the iGPU on some 13" rMBP chip and otherwise small evolutionary improvements.
Only broadwell will bring single SoC across the board and 14nm how ever that will turn out.
Performance wise Haswell doesn't promise too much. Only the GPU really. Power savings should be great for the single SoC but the others get only the new i0x idle state and that should be about it.
I don't think they will completely redesign it, but they will definitely make some small improvements. For instance, there is no reason why the battery has to be glued in if the macbook airs don't have that issue. Apple has a history of doing this with every rev A model.
Unlikely unless they get the rmbp to the same prices the cmbp were or release a 15" macbook air.
1. cmbp 13" is their most popular model. It would be silly to take that kind of risk.
2. it would leave a huge price gap in their line. Imagine...you'd have to spend over 2k in order to buy a 15" laptop from apple.
3. a lot of business users require a kensignton lock slot and DVD drive. MBA and rMBP do not have these.
Most people will just pay Apple to replace it anyway, so they might as well make it easy on themselves to do the replacement. Right now Apple has to give you an entire replacement topcase for the price they charge to replace the battery. I would think that they would prefer to not have to do that.
Lots of people say that they will drop the regular MBP and keep an all retina line up but will they drop the prices that much?!
At the moment:
Lowest 13" cMBP - $1199
Lowest 13" rMBP - $1699
That's $500 less!
I think, if they did that we wouldn't see any increase in SSD sizes because at the moment they charge you $200 to take out the HDD and put in a 128gb SSD in the low end 13".
I think that they will keep the cMBPs this year, and next year will be the earliest they kill off the bigger ones.
At the moment:
Lowest 13" cMBP - $1199
Lowest 13" rMBP - $1699
That's $500 less!
I think, if they did that we wouldn't see any increase in SSD sizes because at the moment they charge you $200 to take out the HDD and put in a 128gb SSD in the low end 13".
I think that they will keep the cMBPs this year, and next year will be the earliest they kill off the bigger ones.
I don't think Apple cares if the rMBP's hit price parity with the cMBP's before they kill off the fatties. Apple would rather people buy MacBook Airs than cMBP's. They'll kill off the cMBP's to specifically force people to consider the Airs who otherwise would not have. People like my wife, who knows absolutely nothing about either product but would never even consider a MBA because the MBP has the word "Pro" in it and it's the model she's seen everyone else using. Apple will kill the cMBP's and help force the MBA's into that role, like they've always wanted. They will keep the rMBP's around as true "Pro" machines, and the prices will likely never drop as low as the cMBP's did.
The MacBook Air is the new consumer MacBook, whether you want it to be or not! Apple won't give you a choice.
Yeah I do agree that they'll do tiny things like but they're not going to redesign the look. They'll make small minor changes that'll be non-noticeable to the public eye.
I mean there's a difference between a redesign and small improvements.