A Mac with an i7-6700K was released October 13. The CPU was announced August 5. So yeah, your criticism is valid, and Apple is totally doomed if they keep taking two entire months to implement a CPU.
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A Mac with an i7-6700K was released October 13. The CPU was announced August 5. So yeah, your criticism is valid, and Apple is totally doomed if they keep taking two entire months to implement a CPU.
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Price drop would be good, and updated specs. Or maybe even a brand new redesign of the MacBook Air with a Retina display, I have a 5 year old MacBook Pro that I want to update from.
A real wide range of professionals (Myself Included) need a new macbook pro 15" with this specs:
- 32 GB RAM Capacity
- 4K Screen
- 6 GB VRAM Dedicated Graphic card
- Powerful Processors
I'm on 16gb of RAM and do the job of three people, constantly multitasking between photoshop, illustrator, indesign, chrome, transmit, outlook, word, fontexplorer and sometimes safari/firefox along with a few other mandatory applications running in the background thanks to corporate decisions from head office.
I get KILLED with RAM usage on a daily basis and it doesn't help that I'm still on 10.7.5 (probably the worst release of OSX since the first beta 15 years ago).
In his defense, Apple used to release new MacBooks and iMacs with new Intel CPUs before these CPUs hit the traditional PC market. So, yeah, I can see why he is disappointed.
If you use virtual machines, use 3D software animation, video editing in 4K, or use any animation app.. 32GB will make you your life easier.... Simple as that.
In his defense, Apple used to release new MacBooks and iMacs with new Intel CPUs before these CPUs hit the traditional PC market. So, yeah, I can see why he is disappointed.
Eh, that was rarely the case. The original MBA being one example.
Agreed... Had to return my 4k display cus my mid 2014 couldn't handle it. Such a shame
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OK sorry, not only is my RAM full but by Virtual RAM also carries a pretty good load most of the time... not because I'm doing heavy video editing or working with huge image files, but because I'm often multitasking and each program needs some chunks of RAM.
The point of my post was to counterpoint the punch of how one optimized program shouldn't need more than 8GB of RAM. While that's true, modern computers do tend to multitask. And multitasking works better with as much RAM as one can get. The OP shared a hope that a new MBP would come with more than 16GB and he was challenged on why that would ever be necessary with this one-optimized-program rationale. I simply offered a commonplace counterpoint that is probably applicable to every single user of modern computers. Who doesn't multitask these days?
We are talking about the need of 32 GB RAM. If you have an old OS X update it... but please don confuse this important subject with other issues...
Oh all of you stop. You don't need anymore than 640K. Bill Gates said so.
A handful of times, but you will of course only remember the moments when that happened. All Mac releases that weren't special in that regard will simply fade from memory.
... and enough heat generated to cook a steak.
Such click-bait. This is about Intel releasing a next gen CPU - for everyone - windows and apple.
Totally agree!!! A lot of people will benefit from a 32 GB RAM Macbook Pro
Please Apple, do it for us!!!!
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Sorry to all the people that got irritated with my post. I worded that poorly. I agree that we should have the option for as much memory as possible.
I should have mentioned that it was just my personal experience with the work I do, and I shouldn't have questioned anyone elses reasoning.
I should have mentioned that it was just my personal experience with the work I do, and I shouldn't have questioned anyone elses reasoning.
With the Mac Mini still at 4th Gen, 3 times the size of the NUC, and soldered RAM (for NO REASON), the Mac Mini is a joke at this point. Sure hope they go back to the quad core with reasonable user upgrade-able basic parts like the RAM and Drives. Somehow I think Apple has still not found their way in the Mac Mini arena since their absurd update in 2014.
Apple uses some of the most powerful processors available, but a 6GB graphics card? Surely you jest. Cards with that much memory are rare even on full fledged gaming notebooks, let alone workstation class notebooks like the Macbook Pro.
The reason is that the yields on processors with that extra 100mhz are much lower than yields of the slower processors. The slower ones are likely high end processors that failed to get certified to run at the higher speed.
The existing Macbook Pro with discrete graphics already supports 5k screens, albeit with dual displayport output.
Can you image a 32GB upgrade cost from Apple? $1200+ If they are going to solder their RAM, the ability to put 32GB of RAM in the system is not for most folks.
Unfortunately, I believe Apple is still only the path of less user friendly systems at this point. Hope that changes soon because their competition is blowing them away at this point.