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New 12-Inch MacBook Tidbits: 15% Faster, 41.4-Watt-Hour Battery, Refurb Price Drop, and More
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It's a spec bump, that's it.. It's significant, in line with what Intel has achieved in this form factor. The memory bandwidth and SSD performance are really improved.
The best form factor of an Apple laptop for its purpose in years.. continues to shine. I take mine with me and really, a lunch weighs more/takes more room, sometimes. I won't upgrade for this speed bump--no need, really. Same price? Nicely done, Apple.
i talked with someone who is an engineer , and said that apple macbook don't have a 720p its because the weight and thin lid. Until apple don't find a way for the hinge to perfectly balance the lid , they will not put into the macbook. He said probably next year since the front facing camera will be thinner and they are adopting new hinge design
Considering the screen is the only part of a laptop that you interact with 100% of the time you are using it, I'd say it's pretty damn important, especially compared to marginal differences in CPU and GPU speeds that most users will never notice.
The current gen Skylake Core M doesn't support DDR4, so direct that complaint to Intel.
http://ark.intel.com/compare/88198,88202
It's kind of a crappy move by Apple though, to start the base config with the m3 now. The m3 and m5 cost the same from Intel.
http://ark.intel.com/compare/88198,88202
It's kind of a crappy move by Apple though, to start the base config with the m3 now. The m3 and m5 cost the same from Intel.
Then make the lid thicker? Wait, it's not possible because that would be obscene to look at. Designers at Apple must have some kind of mental disease. It's exactly like how the modeling industry fat shames 105 lb models.
When you look at the guts of it, I think Apple has a lot of gall charging what they do; it should really go for about 40% less. Really, when you consider that it has a Retina display (who cares?), one port, and a motherboard the size of an iPhone, it's a laughable product.
I agree. I'm much more likely to use my iPhone for FaceTime anyways because I can switch the camera and point things out to people. For basic calls people just need to be able to see my face.
if the lid would be thicker at some travel point it would fall and close the macbook. you cant understand
Well, I gave you a way in which it is possible: By reengineering the motherboard to fit an additional controller.
But that would require significant effort across more than just the board and this is a quiet refresh to update the internals to the most modern chipset and nothing more - that's what I was implying. Since the update to Skylake didn't bring that natively, Apple themselves would have to go out of their way to add it in - and why would they do that when the next iteration will have support native?
It wasn't included, but it wasn't missing. If Skylake supported it natively and Apple didn't make the appropriate move, then yes, it'd be missing.
That's most likely the user base Apple built this MacBook for:
People who have a money tree in the back yard and who doesn't care to FaceTime in high resolution in 2016. I guess making an autofocus front camera, supporting at least 720p would be too difficult for Apple engineers. Instead coloring it pink and making it thinner would make more sense and definitely pricing it at what it is now makes even more sense
Somebody asked for this http://appleinsider.com/articles/16...90-faster-ssd-write-speeds-20-cpu-improvement
did i miss something or there is no ssd bench there?
i believe 'memory' refers to ram, which is indeed faster, going from 1600 to 1833MHz, also LPDDR would help to save a bit of power.
i may be the only one here but i think this product is now mature, only the price is still hard to swallow..
Maybe some people really do take selfies with their MacBooks
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I am struggling to believe that some people are so naive as to think that Apple would update this with TB and another USB port on it's first refresh. I'd be surprised if they ever add another port to it. The lack of ports is a clear statement of intent for this thing. If you need ports buy a MacBook Pro.
Again, making highest profitable margins is what matters most. This is post-Job's era. Why make products people can use but let's make pink laptops for fashion and no one cares about how big the motherboard is. They only care that it's expensive because it has an apple logo and it's exclusive because it's expensive.
Changes in port layout usually don't occur until redesigns, and thats probably going to be in 2-3 years. Even then, I absolutely do not see Apple back pedaling on their one port philosophy. It's their envisioned future. Embrace it or buy something else.
"disk-write speeds using Blackmagic saw bigger improvements, as much as 80 or 90 percent faster (reading speeds look like smaller, incremental improvements)"
NUMBERS PLEASE. Or are they embargoed until Thursday?
NUMBERS PLEASE. Or are they embargoed until Thursday?