i expect price will be high but that is ok. i am willing to pay if you have it. well. let hope it isn't that high
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Intel Launches New Skylake Chips Appropriate for 15-Inch Retina MacBook Pro
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i expect price will be high but that is ok. i am willing to pay if you have it. well. let hope it isn't that high
The current MacBook range is an inconsistent mess in desperate need of rationalisation.
I'm hoping for a new design MBP.
I'm hoping for a new design MBP.
Apple don't expect you to play the latest games from the App store, they expect to make the highest profit margin they can.
Agreed, desktop Pascal will be out in April from the latest rumours, yet we wont see this absolute beast of technology in a mac ever I'm afraid. Just how we never saw Maxwell in a mac product.
It's one of the reasons I go hackintosh on the majority of my computers, luckily nVidia still support OSX users with newer hardware via their web drivers.
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Agreed. I wish I got a 2012 instead of the 2011, which is a ticking time bomb from radeongate. The 2012 I think would've served me fine for years to come. I ain't buying any of their latest laptop products, nothing comes close to suiting my needs, even if you ignore the ridiculous prices (in Australia).
If it's not gonna include AMD's new Polaris architecture GPU on the big model, I will skip this generation of Macbook Pros, simple as that.
Skylake's improvements on IPC are miniscule at best, as is a 10% increase in CPU clocks.
Don't try Apple, instead deliver a premium product that has all the bells, not just the whistles.
Skylake's improvements on IPC are miniscule at best, as is a 10% increase in CPU clocks.
Don't try Apple, instead deliver a premium product that has all the bells, not just the whistles.
Is it?
12" MacBook is Apple's self-proclaimed take on the future of computing. It was not marketed as the MacBook Air replacement and it's not supposed to be the Air replacement. The 12" MacBook essentially shows us what we can expect in future MacBooks (very thin, light and in the future wireless technologies such as wireless charging etc will be present in this line).
The MacBook Air is essentially aimed at anyone and the Air is the 'entry' level MacBook. And the MacBook Pro is aimed at those who want a premium MacBook/Computer & those that need the extra horsepower.
I'm not sure what is so confusing about the above. Could Apple merge the Pro & Air line? Yes, but that wouldn't really be ideal as they'd have to offer a wide range of configurations to allow it still be an entry level MacBook and still offer the same level of higher-end options to satisfy those of us who buy the Pro.
Could Apple kill off the Air and expand the 12" MacBook like to include a 14" or 15" model? Yes, but I think we are still at least a year or two away from that scenario. I think Apple will simplify the MacBook line as and when technology allows, but not just yet.
Why not? What exactly the Iris Pro, bring a plus for the Mac Mini? Is it the size? Or it produces less heat? Or spends less energy? Or all three of those? I know it is not battery life, since Mac Mini doesn't have any.
I think the Mac Mini would benefit largely with those AMD GPU that the IMac 27" have. Doesn't have enough size? Why not make a mini trash can (Mac Pro), that uses the benefit of the mac pro arquitecture? Make a less taller version of Mac Pro, for example. There is plenty space for the Mac Mini to incoporate those kind of GPUs. It is already tiny enough.
I think Apple would benefit with this option, since it will attrack a lot of people like me, that the most demanding game they play is like Football Manger, Civilization 5 or Starcraft 2.
What you are describing at the bottom is almost exactly the headless mac that many have wanted for years. A line of mac's that are higher performance than a mac mini, lower than a mac pro, and dont have a built in monitor. If they were made with some upgradability (i.e. pci slots for changing graphics cards etc), I would buy one in a heart beat - provided the price isnt insane.
Your question still stands? As in, you expect someone here to have an answer? Perhaps you need to explain why you think anyone here would have the answer
Same here, and I'm surprised why I ever even bothered buying a Mac Pro in the first place; limited hardware, awful choice of video cards and when there is choice they're way overpriced and yet still typically 2 generations old, etc. I can't believe it took me 2-3 years of wondering about building a Hackintosh, but the one I got now just runs CIRCLES around any Mac I've come across and I paid so little for it.
That said, I can't wait for Pascal. I bought a GTX 960 a while back, a good medium range card but I don't game as much as I'd like to (work). Luckily, I won't have Apple's limitations holding me back as I can slap in any nVidia GPU I want.
I actually had the 2011 MacBook Pro and it did fail on me. After I got it back from repairs, a $600 fix for the motherboard, I put it up for sale and went out looking for a 2012 MacBook Pro with the matte finish screen (love it) and an Nvidia GT 650m. I don't use it much though, as the majority of my work gets done on my Hackintosh and laptop from work, but I keep my own regardless as I do travel a bit.
I am with you on a larger screen Xeon MacBook Pro. I am hanging onto my 17" Early 2011 MBP hoping for TB3, USB-C, and the dream that Apple would bring back a larger screen for my video editing / VFX / Colour / teaching work. That plus more RAM and I would be so happy. Unfortunately I have not seen any suggestions that Apple will abandon their "15 is enough" policy. I totally get there is only a small market for the larger screen but would argue it is a market of influencers.
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The lack of support for DisplayPort 1.3 is imposed by Intel, not Apple. Kick Intel's butt for having fallen so far behind. Of course, this what happens with a lack of competition.
Problem with MST is that it's not future proof. If the rest of industry only sells at the end of this year computers with dp1.3, the monitor industry will make only SST monitors for them. Then with mac, which can't have dedicated dp1.3 port EVER, you are locked with few old, expensive, very soon obsolete models.
But there's hope; hp's new zbook G3 doesn't have dedicated dp port either, so the monitor industry might keep MST alive. At least, logically, hp's monitors will...
Btw, that zbook 17" G3 is techincally what I'd like too with Apple logo: 17" anti-glare Dreamcolor UHD, 9 GPUs to choose from, max. 64GB ram, Xeon if you like... http://www8.hp.com/us/en/campaigns/workstations/zbook-17.html
That would be first for Apple. They tried hard and long for years to add usb3 controller to mbp, but couldn't find room even in 17" model. They tried their best, but couldn't. TB & fw controller took all the space and weight. They just had to wait for intel to integrate usb3 to their chipset.
Has intel commanded Apple that it can't use dGPU with discreet dp1.3 port? Same way that Apple's hdmi ports can't be 2.0(a)? Poor Apple has no other choice than just do what they are told to...
This is where I am at right now. I have a 2007 MBP and a 2010 27" iMac. My wife wants a 15" laptop, but she only wants it for basic stuff like web browsing and word processing. She says she would be fine with my current MBP and that I should have the new one. We just got our stolen money back from the government (aka tax return) so it is tempting to buy the current model. But I, like you, am smart and I'm gonna wait it out.
We should remember that the Air wasn't the entry-level model when it was released in 2008. We had the plastic MacBook and the aluminium MacBook Pro at that time. In 2010 the 11" MBA was added and the Airs became SSD-only. It was 2011 when the plastic MacBook was finally dropped. New features like SSD-only or retina screens are always introduced at a higher price first and existing models remain in the lineup at a lower price until the price of newer-technology products drops.
A lot of people would have wanted Airs with retina screens (and wouldn't have minded if the extra power draw required a slightly larger battery and thus slightly thicker and heavier computer). But if those retina Airs would have come within 10-15% of the retina MacBook Pro in terms of price and weight, I don't think those people wishing for retina Airs would have been happy either. Nor would the MacBook lineup have been better than what we have now.
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I can't like this enough. (Although I'd prefer a 17", but I don't see it coming anytime soon.)
Agreed. I have to lug around my Alienware to run all my virtuals. Would love to be able to run all of them from my MacBook. I am getting close to needing an upgrade for my non-iOS dev environments and never planned on getting anything but the first 32gb MacBook Pro, but if we don't see one in 2016 I'll have to get something else. Sucks, big time!
Is there any laptop at all that has 32gb of RAM? Do single 16gb sticks even exist?
Yes. ThinkPas W series (mobile workstation) support up to 32GB, although using 4 DIMMs.
Yep. My Alienware has 32 gb. 4 sticks - 2 under the keyboard, very painful getting in and out. First set I had in went bad, so I have had it apart twice. There are several others out there also. My Alienware is like 4 years old now. Apple needs to get real and step up.