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Ludicrous Speed 1Tb SSD in new rMBP's
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I can certainly relate to the 13" form factor, but if someone has a genuine need for the CPU upgrade they're better off going with a 15" quad-core.
In Canada, the maxed out rMBP 13 goes for $3,279 plus tax. Add Apple Care at $279 and taxes it comes to just over 4K.
And I have one on order.
In Canada, the maxed out rMBP 13 goes for $3,279 plus tax. Add Apple Care at $279 and taxes it comes to just over 4K.
And I have one on order.
Wow, I thought I lived in the most expensive Apple place in the world..
With tax and Apple care the maxed out 13" rMBP comes to an even USD 3700
Wow. Then I guess I won't complain. Under $2900 tax included plus $175 for AppleCare from Adorama.
Yes.
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$2700?
In my country the same machine costs $3200 dollars.
The QHD coming in the newer laptops is 3200x1800. Not picking on his decision, Im just blown away that Apple charges $2700 for a DUAL CORE processor and a sub par, integrated GPU. I thought $2k was expensive, wow.
I'm curious what these increasing SSD speeds are leading up to. Differences between the SSDs in the early-2015 and mid-2014 are already imperceptible in day-to-day usage for most consumers. I don't even know if I can tell the difference between my 850 EVO and the SSD in my friend's mid-2014. So is there anything on the horizon? Or even currently that can take advantage of 1000+ MB/s reads and writes?
That's not QHD, that's a 3k display, and frankly, once they went retina, all extra pixels would do is lower battery life and show up the integrated graphics even more.
I would love to go all out without thinking twice and go 3.1/16/1TB on the 13" but I don't for two reasons
#1. It's $2,699 and I'd rather save the extra money spent.
#2. I would feel really bad if it was outdated in a year.
#3. I'd feel even worse if I dinged, dented, scratched, spilled coffee, etc on it.
BUT
When I'm a billionaire and on Forbes list, I might pull the trigger on it
#1. It's $2,699 and I'd rather save the extra money spent.
#2. I would feel really bad if it was outdated in a year.
#3. I'd feel even worse if I dinged, dented, scratched, spilled coffee, etc on it.
BUT
When I'm a billionaire and on Forbes list, I might pull the trigger on it
I would love to go all out without thinking twice and go 3.1/16/1TB on the 13" but I don't for two reasons
#1. It's $2,699 and I'd rather save the extra money spent.
#2. I would feel really bad if it was outdated in a year.
#3. I'd feel even worse if I dinged, dented, scratched, spilled coffee, etc on it.
BUT
When I'm a billionaire and on Forbes list, I might pull the trigger on it
Getting the upgrade to 512gb was a 200$ increase and going to a 1tb was another 600$ on top of that for almost 800$ additional dollars. Could I afford it if I wanted to? Sure. Could I justify that additional cost though? No, so I settled for the 512 gb. My last laptop, a dell XPS from 2008 only had a 170gb hard drive so it was still quite the upgrade in my mind.
It may be in perception but in reality a quad core 15" base would run circles around your config at substantially lesser price as well. That's the dilemma: go balls deep with your wallet on maxing out a dual core 13" or get a base or mid end 15" for cheaper and outperform it for years.
I went from a mid-2014 13" rmbp with 512 ssd (samsung ssd) to a early 2015 13" rmbp with 512 ssd (samsung ssd again) and here are some pictures of the 2014 vs the 2015 ssd speeds. Read and write speeds essentially doubled
Why are your numbers for a 512 ssd better than the numbers for 1TB ssd in the OP? I thought 1 TB was supposed to be faster.
I read the first two words in the thread title.. it took me a few minutes to stop laughing. Excellent movie!
Because the quad core can turbo boost to way higher speeds than the dual core when both CPUs are using the same number of cores. For instance, the 2.8GHz i7-4980HQ in the 15" can boost to 4GHz when on a single core, but the 3.1GHz i7-5557U can only turbo to 3.4GHz on a single core.
Besides if you're doing multithreaded tasks, the 2.8GHz quad core i7 will be more than twice as fast than the 3.1GHz dual core i7.
Ludicrous Speed 1Tb SSD in new rMBP's
I wouldn't say my numbers were faster than the OP's numbers but equivalent. You can run benchmarks multiple times and get a different number every time within a certain range though. My numbers and OP's numbers are within similar ranges so one cannot conclude that one is faster than the other, they are more or less the same.
The point of my screenshots was to illustrate the significant increase to read/write speeds when compared to the previous mid 2014 rmbp.
I wouldn't say my numbers were faster than the OP's numbers but equivalent. You can run benchmarks multiple times and get a different number every time within a certain range though. My numbers and OP's numbers are within similar ranges so one cannot conclude that one is faster than the other, they are more or less the same.
The point of my screenshots was to illustrate the significant increase to read/write speeds when compared to the previous mid 2014 rmbp.
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No disrespect to the 15, that thing is a marvel. I had one for about a week but returned it due to the fact that It was just too big.
The 15" doesn't have the new SSDs, which is a real shame. Or the slightly faster RAM.
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I believe that the current 15" rmbp Intel iris pro integrated gpu is still significantly faster than the new 2015 13" rmbp 6100 integrated gpu.