Please elaborate, I'm quite confused how that would work. Are you talking about the 11.6" Macbook Air or the Retina Macbook 12".
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Intel Unveils Full Lineup of Skylake Processors for Notebooks and Desktops, Early 2016 Likely for Most Macs
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Please elaborate, I'm quite confused how that would work. Are you talking about the 11.6" Macbook Air or the Retina Macbook 12".
Does anyone think Apple will offer better battery life, or just do what they normally do.
Reduce the size of the battery to make the device thinner and keep the battery life the same?
Reduce the size of the battery to make the device thinner and keep the battery life the same?
One of the roadmaps leaked last month talked about an October - November 2015 launch window for these chips. Given Apple would already have prototypes of these chips it could be possible for them to launch a 15" Macbook Pro in November. Although it's probably more likely they will do it in Feb/ March just to spread out Marketing activities.
So new iMac 5k announcement is possible in October...with deliveries by year-end, right? I need that Skylake 2TB SSD 5K iMac badly
There is zero chance for an MBA with Iris Pro graphics; Iris Pro would likely only be available with a 45W CPU (a yet unnamed mobile Xeon is slated to have it). This article was speculating MBAs might get refreshed with just Iris graphics, and even that is questionable to me given MBAs have only had Intel HD graphics since 2011.
As others have pointed out, Apple appears to be positioning the rMB as the MBA's eventual successor. If the MBA doesn't get a retina screen (which seems probable), then Apple would most likely just give it the 15W U class chips with Intel HD 520 graphics (i5-6200U/6300U as the standard with i7-6500U/6600U as an upgrade option), as those processors will be available this month instead of 2016, not to mention probably cheaper than the future Iris graphics-equipped 15W chips.
You're joking right?
At the point in time the G3/G4 was out, their competitor was the Pentium II/III. Intel fell over itself with the P4 because of the RAMBUS debacle, the Itanium debacle and AMD rolling out their own x86-64, to say nothing of the Mhz race hitting a wall. The entire reason the G3/G4/G5 was even competitive was due to (greedy) missteps by Intel trying to push out their competitors and falling flat on their face.
When Intel decided to dump the Netburst architecture because people didn't want an oven in their computer and go back to the Pentium III in which to base everything else since, we saw a huge loss in clock speed with the Core Duo/Core2Duo. Ever since then we've had a slow climb back up the Mhz ladder.
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html
But the pattern you'll notice is that something like the Intel Core i5-5200U @ 2.20GHz (3,511 15w TDP) is the same performance per thread as Intel Xeon X3480 @ 3.07GHz (5,986 95w TDP)... which puts it in the same performance level per thread as the 2009 Nehalem Mac Pro.
2016?!? I want my Skylake retina MacBook Pro now! (Still using a 15" mid 2010 MBP)
It's not much of a growth market. I doubt anyone will attract investors if they say they want to take on intel.
I'm buying iMac in late 2016. I wonder if Fusion Drive is going to be standard by then..
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But Apple needs Intel. AMD's CPUs have fallen behind the curve and have trouble catching up, and ARM CPUs are a far cry from delivering the necessary power for actual Pro devices.
I had a look at the released Intel slides and found plenty of 35- and 25w quad-core processors in the Skylake-U lineup. Seeing as Apple have used 35w processors in the first revision of the 13" rMBP, these should fit the 13" rMBP right? Or are there possible thermal constraints of the body making it impossible?
I do realize Apple are very unlikely to release a quad-core 13" rMBP. I just wonder whether it would actually be physically possible with todays design?
Edit: Nevermind, turns out the 35w chips were desktop processors.
I do realize Apple are very unlikely to release a quad-core 13" rMBP. I just wonder whether it would actually be physically possible with todays design?
Edit: Nevermind, turns out the 35w chips were desktop processors.
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Yes! That is what I wanted to hear. Finally a worthy replacement for my 2010 13" MacBook Pro. I can live with slow, I can not live without double digit hours of battery life. More RAM, bigger SSD. I don't care about that stuff. More battery life is my luxury.
Any info on a MacBook Pro design refresh?
Maybe if they can fit pro specs into an air thin design, they will shrink the lineup to just MacBook and MacBook Pro?
Maybe if they can fit pro specs into an air thin design, they will shrink the lineup to just MacBook and MacBook Pro?
Not sure how it's related to the Imac been released later ? Article mostly talks about the mobile Skylake chips for the Macbook lineup. Unless there is something I missed ?
The 12" retina MacBook effectively is the 13" [retina] MacBook Air replacement. I am of the belief that Apple is to possibly release 14" and 16" retina MacBook Pros instead of 13" and 15". Just assumption.
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Does early 2016 mean March 2016? I don't think apple ever releases laptops in January or February but I might be wrong.
I'm a bit disappointed that no 28W quad-core was announced. If the 15W dual-cores now get the Iris (probably with 64MB EDRAM), I don't see why even bother and use the 28W in the 13" rMBP. The minimal cpu and gpu gain is not really that big of a deal. In my opinion, Intel should have made a 28W quad-core instead.
They did, and they renamed it the MacBook. The purpose of the MBA when it came out was just what the MB does today. So, yes, they did give us a computer that does what the MBA was made for WITH a retina display.
Eventually, they'll recode all of the apps to ARM. Before then, they can't move from Intel. They sure as heck can't use AMD.