Would have been badass if Apple surprised us all with Coffee Lake macbooks at WWDC and shut up all the haters
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Intel's Upcoming Coffee Lake Processors Up to 30% Faster Than Kaby Lake Chips Coming to Mac Notebooks
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I know that you're being sarcastic, but this is exactly how laptops should be. No ports, no cables of any kind. Wireless connection, wireless transfer and wireless charging for everything. Sadly I doubt that we'll see it in widespread use by 2019. Hopefully not long thereafter though.
It's absurd that we're still plugging bits of metal into other bits of metal, when the technology exists to make this problem go away. The industry won't change though until someone has the courage to push the market towards this. Our grandchildren are going to laugh at the idea that phones and laptops used to have holes in them for plugging stuff in, in the same way that they already find it bizarre that SLR camera's used to have actual physical film in them.
Do you have any evidence that they are getting the chips cheaper from Intel? The official bulk pricing is the same for Skylake and Kaby Lake.
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Unfortunately, its not up to Apple but rather up to Intel. For example, I am more then convinced that Apple waited so long to use the Skylake CPU simply because they were waiting for mass availability of Iris-Pro enabled Skylake CPUs, which Intel has released in early 2016 I believe but all evidence points towards the conclusion that they could never get the yields high enough for what Apple needs. And releasing a laptop knowing that you can only ship a fraction of projected demand is not a very good idea.
I have a stinking suspicion that Apple would rather make a smaller & thinner form factor than put a quad-core chip into their "pro" laptop these days.
Remember that there are haters that just want to spew hate (I wish they didn't exist), and then there are legit haters that wish capitalism wasn't about satisfying the investor, but instead satisfying the customers. SJ satisfied customers. Tim does not when it comes to the computer lineup.
I don't understand that second part. Why would a Kaby Lake MacBook Pro, released in June 2017, outdated?
Maybe for the iMac, but Apple said they're working on something new for Pros. There's definitely room there to make a thicker iMac, or they could go bigger with a 32" model or something and it would have room for thermal dissipation. I made a rough mockup of what that might look like over in this post.
I would think that the MacBook Pro 13" could handle it though, since I think it already uses a 15W chip? I remember Apple switched to quad-core in 2011 once the power consumption fit within the TDP of the device. Although I will say that the 2011 machine would get hot! I upgraded the next year to the rMBP when it first came out and it was better with a redesigned fan and vent system but still gets pretty warm sometimes.
Yeah, they might not want to undercut the MacBook 15". But they might do it and put a high price tag on it if the new chip fits within the TDP of the 13" MacBook Pro chassis.
must buy macbook next week and not fall in to the trap of waiting for the next update
must buy macbook next week and not fall in to the trap of waiting for the next update
must buy macbook next week and not fall in to the trap of waiting for the next update
must buy macbook next week and not fall in to the trap of waiting for the next update
must buy macbook next week and not fall in to the trap of waiting for the next update
must buy macbook next week and not fall in to the trap of waiting for the next update
must buy macbook next week and not fall in to the trap of waiting for the next update
Then you've been not following the market. Apple generally chooses highest-tier CPUs available from chip makers for their laptops. This is in short contrast to some other manufacturers, which demand similarly premium prices but use lower tier CPUs. To accuse Apple of sacrificing CPU power for thinner is just silly. If they wanted to do that, they'd follow Dell's and Microsoft route and equipped their 13" models with 15W CPUs — would have also saved them some good money.
Give the reduced power, what more performance comprises will Apple make to these laptops as they strive for thinner / lighter?
The CPUs may be more powerful, but that doesn't mean a better Apple laptop.
The CPUs may be more powerful, but that doesn't mean a better Apple laptop.
You don't buy Macs for specs, performance etc. You buy them for "experience".
That won't be headed to laptops. Far too much heat and other issues. We might see 6 cores or potentially 8.
You may need to get the 15" if the 13" disappoints in terms of a dGPU (for your video), although it'll depend on the application. At this point I wouldn't mind having storage that's half as fast if we could have double (or more) the capacity for the same price.
I prefer wired mice. I do not care for your vision.
Yep, they will cease to function. They won't turn on or anything simply because a new CPU came out.
No thanks. At work there is a definite speed difference between a wired connection and WIFI. I'd rather still have the option of a wired connection.
Oh, and being able to use multiple external monitors via HDMI / whatever connection... Wireless connectivity would be a nightmare and requires more expense.
Lastly, wired earphones.. wireless -> I don't want to have to keep recharging on a daily basis.
Oh, and being able to use multiple external monitors via HDMI / whatever connection... Wireless connectivity would be a nightmare and requires more expense.
Lastly, wired earphones.. wireless -> I don't want to have to keep recharging on a daily basis.
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The HQ parts weren't launched till Jan 2017,
But the U parts were launched in Oct 2016.
The Macbook pro quad cores wouldn't have been available till January, But any other product Apple uses that use the U series could have been on kaby lake already (the 13 non touch MBP, Macbook Air, MacBook, Mac Mini).
However, Desktop CPU's were the ones really delayed.
Is there much of a price difference when it comes to SSD speed nowadays? Especially those blade ones that Apple puts in the MacBooks. Those all seem fast as hell. But yeah, if it were possible to save a lot, 1Gbps would be fine. That's still twice as fast as my 2012 rMBP but half to a third of the speed of the 2016. 1-2TB of 1Gbps SSD is much better than 512GB-1TB of 3Gbps SSD for me. I grew up with spinning drives that increased in speed only about 50% over the course of 15 years unless you bought a high-end, low-capacity 10,000 RPM WD Raptor for your boot volume. The recent drive speeds blow my mind.
Just hearing that jump from Haswell to KabyLake has me thinking about an upgrade finally from my i5-4670