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New MacBook Pro and 13-Inch 'MacBook' Coming Next Week, iMac and Display Not Ready Yet
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Is the Mac Mini made in USA too? Maybe that's why there is no speculation from Ming-Chi Kuo about it, as well as nMP.
I think so too. Not this year, maybe not next year, but it seems inevitable that Apple will take control over the whole platform.
People who use bootcamp or vmware (80% of my work time) will have to find another solution but we are a solid minority of Mac users.
I heard Walt Mossberg say on a podcast this week he writes all of his stuff on a Macbook Air.
I was just responding to the comments made by people who are questioning why Apple are releasing a new Macbook Pro using Sky Lake rather than Kaby Lake. Because they wanted the Christmas business rather than let Microsoft have it all which is something they wouldn't be able to do if they waited for Kaby Lake.
What, 2 or 3 months ago?
Because we are tired of waiting.
Nothing prevents Apple from releasing an upgraded MBP with Kaby Lake next year, when the CPU is available in volumes.
Literally nothing. Apple doesn't respect its consumers. No Idea why so many of you are shocked.
I think that's exactly what will happen. We'll get late 2016 mbp this year and a late 2017 (maybe early 2018, depending on how much Intel manage to screw the pooch this time) on the same design. Kaby is a minor update to Skylake so there shouldn't be much to do.
I would love an 18" MBP with thin bezels and lightweight design.
My 2010 17" doesn't run very well in OS X, although Windows still runs well on it. I can't seem to want to go to the smaller sizes.
Oh, you don't know what's different? I will tell you then. Their former CEO passed away and they hired a guy who has no clue about the meaning of the word innovation when it comes to computers. But he is a social justice hero and a visionary when it comes to watch bands.
Or, drying our tears and looking at this logically and armed with facts, they couldn't update the 27" which already has skylake to Kaby Lake because the appropriate Kaby Lake processor does not exist. The 21" could certainly have been updated yo Skylake but it really wouldn't have moved the needle in any case.
Because Intel cannot be trusted when they rush out new CPUs. Just ask Microsoft. Apple is very conservative when it comes to relying on latest silicon from anyone and it has probably paid off. It's just hard to prove a negative.
Skylake wouldn't have been possible in 2015. It was quite buggy early on. The two appear to pretty similar on paper, given that intel extended the duration between process shrinks.
No idea.
I'd like the quad core option to return, for starters. Maybe make the PSU an external power brick and use the space to fit a dedicated GPU. Basically, take all the specs from their iMac and put it in the mac mini, but without the display. That would be my dream desktop in a nutshell.
That 13" MacBook that will be more like an Air makes me very interested.
What I don't really get is all the complaining about pro users not being able to use Macs for their work. Ok, I don't think they should remove the SD slot, bad move but there's always an adaptor.
Maybe it's because I'm not a pro user, I don't know what would actually define a "pro" user or I mustn't interact with these kinds of people who have the difficulties.
I'm just a software developer, website designer on the side. I also have a business making 3D printed sculptures, so I do a lot of 3D software work. I'm a semi-serious photographer, I do a lot of photo editing and a fair amount of video and sound editing. My wife, outside of her day job, is a part time illustrator. Other than that my best friend is a sound engineer who also uses a Mac.
So maybe we're not classed as "pro" users but we've never had a problem achieving anything on our Macs. Maybe we have to use the occasional dongle or adapter to achieve certain tasks. But that's about it.
I'm using a 2012 iMac, definitely not what you'd call a "pro" machine, even though it was maxed out at the time of purchase. But I still manage to achieve everything I want on it. All that while it's also being used to stream HD video to 3 or 4 people at a time.
So I may be in a minority, but I'm actually really happy with my iMac. I'm considering an upgrade to one of their new ones once announced. But I don't really need it, this ones still doing a great job.
*There was probably a point to this, but I forgot it while waffling on
I get the impression a lot of Mac users like buying new stuff for the sake of buying new stuff. You rarely see explanations why people desperately need that massive 12% boost in CPU performance when they already have a relatively modern Mac. I shouldn't moan. I want Apple to continue making as much money as possible so.....
Quite a few Kaby Lake Windows machines on the shelves at the moment. I don't know though if these chips are more impressive than whatever Apple might go with in with their Macbooks though.
I would imagine that the new campus is taking up a lot of employees time. I can't even fathom how difficult it is to move a company the size of Apple.
There's not a lot of exciting things happening with traditional computers that Apple makes. Gaming hardware continues to push forward, but CPU's and the components Apple cares about for Mac there's not a lot happening. People keep morning about Tim Cook neglecting the Mac, but there's not a whole lot Apple can do here in a very mature market. The performance bumps I will see from my late 2013 MacBook Pro to the new Skylake model will be very minimal at best. Apple is not getting left behind really at all.