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Is there a possibility of a Skylake rMBP in October?

Mr. Retrofire said:
:apple: https://www.apple.com/ie/support/macbookpro-videoissues/

The Broadwell rMBP is probably the last rMBP with a BTO dGPU.
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I don't think so, you may as well state the current iPod Nano will be the last one with a battery, the iMac will be the last one with a screen...

Most of Apple's products have suffered from 'known issues', it is up to Apple to not drop features but to make them work, like they used to do.

But of course with Apple's message to people that they simply must have a computer the thickness of a human hair, then who knows, maybe they will sell themselves out to the pro range have features?
 
I for one am not interested in the MacBook Pro getting any slimmer. I like the durable build and the availability of ports and I think slimming it down would sacrifice one or the other or both
 
mcarling said:
No. It doesn't mean that Apple will retain the discrete GPU. It not just about heat dissipation. Discrete GPUs are expensive and have proven to be a common cause of failure in MBP models which have them.
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Actually the 750M class is really cheap. It is like 20-30$ for the chip and some 15$ for memory. The 970M snf 980M cost money. The X50M is the mainstream mass market part you get basically for free. The whole thing costs Apple maybe 30-40$ hence why the non dedicated gpu version with the upgraded CPU does not cost anymore. The CPU costs something around 400$ in comparison. Next to that the GPU is for free.

Mr. Retrofire said:
:apple: https://www.apple.com/ie/support/macbookpro-videoissues/

The Broadwell rMBP is probably the last rMBP with a BTO dGPU.
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I think if this next rMBP gets a 950M/960M they will also upgrade to the next generation. With HBM and 14nm Pascal it will blow anything Intel will offer out of the water. If they drop it the will do it this time, when the Iris Pro 6200 does not look bad versus a 750M which they never bothered to upgrade to a 850M anyway. Intel won't have anything that makes dropping the GPU look good if the dropped GPU is Maxwell, and with Pascal it will be even worse.
If they keep the dGPU this time, they will wait until Intel seriously reworks their GPU's efficiency to compete with Mali, Adreno, Maxwell and PowerVR and uses HBM which is something an iGPU could really make good use of.
 
dusk007 said:
I think if this next rMBP gets a 950M/960M they will also upgrade to the next generation. With HBM and 14nm Pascal it will blow anything Intel will offer out of the water. If they drop it the will do it this time, when the Iris Pro 6200 does not look bad versus a 750M which they never bothered to upgrade to a 850M anyway. Intel won't have anything that makes dropping the GPU look good if the dropped GPU is Maxwell, and with Pascal it will be even worse.
If they keep the dGPU this time, they will wait until Intel seriously reworks their GPU's efficiency to compete with Mali, Adreno, Maxwell and PowerVR and uses HBM which is something an iGPU could really make good use of.
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The question I've been wondering is will nVidia's Pascal GPU come out in time for the Skylake redesign. Pascal is estimated to come out in 2016, going by past releases I'd imagine early 2016, and if the skylake redesign happens in early 2016 it might just make the cut. But if not, will we have to wait for a whole new redesign to even incorporate the Pascal GPU and it's new NVLink feature?

My dream machine right now is 16' retina, skylake CPU, nvidia pascal 1080 GPU and 16 or 32 gb DDR4 ram. Hopefully it comes out early 2016.
 
If the Skylake Iris Pro shows up in Q2 2016, as the most recent roadmap would imply, then it should line up well with the 16nm Pascal GPU.
 
dusk007 said:
If the Skylake Iris Pro shows up in Q2 2016, as the most recent roadmap would imply, then it should line up well with the 16nm Pascal GPU.
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Which road map are you referring to?

I've seen this one;

http://wccftech.com/intel-6th-gener...med-core-i76700k-core-i56600k-coming-q3-2015/

and it says Iris Pro is coming Q3 2015 to Q1 2016.

Granted it is for Skylake-S, but I haven't seen anything referring to Skylake-U or H in any recent roadmap leaks.

So is your implication drawn from the fact that if they were realeasing U and H parts in that timeframe then that would have been detailed by now?
 
I think what this roadmap says is that the Iris Pro 5xxxc chips last all the way to the Q1 2016. The 6600/6700K/T chips are all going to be quad cores with the small GT2 GPU. A Skylake Iris Pro chip will eventually replace those broadwell chips but it seems not anytime soon.
If Intel bothers to roll out those Broadwell Iris Pro chips at all they will probably keep them for a while before replacing them.
If Apple continues to insist on pairing the strongest IGP with a dGPU in the 15", they'd have to wait a long time for those chips to show up. Personally I think since Apple does not allow multiple monitors to run of the iGPU anyway a simple GT2 quad core with a dGPU would be the saner option.
 
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