God if you're right I really hope my mid-2012 rMBP will last another 18 months. Hope you find some peace and maybe some level of enjoyment from your new MBP.
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Intel Announces Full Lineup of Kaby Lake Processors for iMac, MacBook Pro, and More
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God if you're right I really hope my mid-2012 rMBP will last another 18 months. Hope you find some peace and maybe some level of enjoyment from your new MBP.
To be honest I know I will miss magsafe and the better and quieter key travel of the older MBP, and maybe it will seem faster, though for nearly 10 years now I have not felt any frustration with slowness in any laptop I've owned. I really do think the Apple company has hit a rough patch when it comes to imagination since the loss of Steve Jobs.
Not true at all. Intel is just drip-feeding the industry with incremental updates as it's all the industry really needs. They've been getting away with it for 7 generations of the current CPU architecture and it will continue for the next 3-4+ years.
What you will see in Q1 2018 is the first 6 Core CPU's aimed at the general consumer (Coffee Lake). Perhaps 6 and even 8 Cores will become mainstream in a few years time and Dual Core CPU's will be obsolete in favour of 4 Core processors.
Intel is working on the next generation architecture of processors (replacement for the current Core i3/i5/i7 etc) but that will not arrive until around 2021/2022.
People often complain about Intel and their products, but why? Processors become more frugal with power each year, there's more than enough power (and has been for the last 5 years). The only thing Intel can really do is keep working on improving the integrated graphics and increase the Core count, which is long overdue and due in a years time.
Apple has almost forgotten that mac users too need to experience VR, i am fed up of trailing behind everyone in terms of technology. Even the android boys in the industry get to use latest technology and Apple has become a company that is lacking in innovation and failing to deliver the products of the future and still charging a premium for 2 yr old technology. I hope the next refresh cycle has extremely powerful GPU's along with the aforementioned Kaby Lake CPU's. I would have been happier if Apple would have included a good GPU with good cooling even in the current lineup instead of thinning the macbook pro and reducing the upgradeability prospects to zero It is such a shame that Oculus VR CEO, has openly said None of the current mac lineups even in the top end are capable enough to deliver the high end VR Experience thus they haven't considered supporting Mac's.
They sound like Samsung fans obsessed with Bells and Whistles that are usually out of tune. #spoiltbrats
I don't suppose that along with the top speed 7920HQ processor, Apple would consider bringing out a heavyweight super pro version of the 15" MBP for media professionals, with a decent suite of USB-C/Thunderbolt 3, USB3A, HDMI, and SD card slot ports, so that horrible dongles/port emulators with their attendant power supplies could be consigned to the dustbin, from which they should never have re-emerged after we got rid of them ten years ago. That of course would mean that they were admitting to an error which greatly angered many of their longest term and most loyal users.
BUT BUT BUT the computers do not have the latest generation processors. Therefore, Apple sucks!
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Yes, agreed! Hopefully soon SSDs will be the standard.
Apple should be announcing their new iMacs yesterday, with release circa Feb 1st.
They won't be doing much work on design, so they could have already engineered everything to go when the chips arrive.
Same for the mini, unless they do redesign the exterior. They should do a major overhaul and make the mini into something 1/3rd the current size.
They won't be doing much work on design, so they could have already engineered everything to go when the chips arrive.
Same for the mini, unless they do redesign the exterior. They should do a major overhaul and make the mini into something 1/3rd the current size.
The new processors have new hardware coded codecs for media, it's not all top speed.
The bias in your post is all too obvious. You should be writing ads for Apple.
While you continue to be stuck with your underwhelming, overpriced 2016 MBP, I'm actually looking forward to the new Kaby Lake Dell XPS 15. The specs look phenomenal and while I can't enter into an argument about battery life on it, I can say that I don't need 10 hours of battery and that any powerful portable needs an AC outlet close by anyway. It's physics. No MBP with performance parts will last long on battery when performing at peak either. As far as reliability, I am a long time Dell owner and am very happy with quality of their XPS and Latitude products.
The competition is far from underperforming.
Not officially supported no. NVIDIA GTX 680 was the last video card to be officially supported by the classic Mac Pro system. I do have a GTX 980 in mine, but it is a hack due to using the GTX 680 drivers. I have had a few issues come up recently due to that. It is disappointing
I agree that even a GTX 680 is better than that crap ATI 5770 I had when my Mac Pro was ordered! I just hope there are no big issues with me using my GTX 980. That will be a disappointing day!
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Um....so? Gaming performance wise a $1,000 Titan beats a $5,000 Quadro. NVIDIA still has absolutely horrible OpenCL performance compared to AMD.
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Yeah the exact same employees making watch bands and headphones build computers too. I hate these ridiculous arguments.
I was looking at the cheap dells on Amazon, no doubt the bang for the buck is there but and windoz 10 is better but
you still have to deal with bloatware, viruses etc..I think that Macs outclass PCs because of windoz
LP is also significantly smaller and requires a LOT less space overall. LPDDR3 takes up a fraction of the space.
Can you imagine having to put 2 full SO-DIMM modules inside the Macbook? It would take up more than half the motherboard space.
Considering most devices are always on now days, standby power usage plays a pretty big role.
The standby power consumption difference is also fairly significant.
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I was looking at the cheap dells on Amazon, no doubt the bang for the buck is there but and windoz 10 is better but
you still have to deal with bloatware, viruses etc..I think that Macs outclass PCs because of windoz
What
I have been using Windows for the last 20 years and I don't have any bloatware and I'm still waiting for one of these viruses you mention. Have I been doing something wrong? P.S. this is in addition to my Mac.Perhaps you have spent too much time on porn sites, hence the viruses?
Good info! It'll be interesting to see how AMD and Apples own processors figure in to all this?
Someones smart should make a joke about current processors in the MacBook being so slow they're called
Coffee break
Sorry, I don't think that but though I'd throw it in there
Ha Ha, no I was speaking of my FRIENDS Pcs!! I have to help them figure out how to get them going again..What
Perhaps you have spent too much time on porn sites, hence the viruses?
yep, its probably the porn!