Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
New MacBook Pro and 13-Inch 'MacBook' Coming Next Week, iMac and Display Not Ready Yet
- Thread starter MacRumors
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
I've been patiently waiting with a 4 year old MacBook Pro for about a year to see where these new ones end up as far as meeting my needs. This 4 year old MBP run non intensive graphics tasks very well, still. No issues. If it's still $2400 to get a discrete card, I'm not sure I can justify it. My MacBook is a content device, a photo organizer, and iTunes organizer. Why would I pay $2400 to run Civ 6 when I could get an ASUS ROG for $1200 and run it even better.
Im getting myself last years model for Christmas so this will only hopefully drive some prices down a little bit.
Kaby Lake came out only a few months ago. If apple plans to ship soon there's no chance in hell that they could ship with kaby lake
If it's true that no iMac will be announced I'll be very pissed off... My current iMac won't last for another six months and I've got no interest in portable computers... It is buying one of the current (and already outdated) iMacs or moving back to Windows... Not happy with either option.
The 27" inch iMac has a CPU that is as up to date as it's possible to be
Please. Read. The. Thread.
Doubt it. Otherwise it's just a 13 inch MacBook retina. Which kinda doesn't make sense, surely the 13inch will be the entry line of laptops.
we will know soon enough champ.
[doublepost=1477202145][/doublepost]
Let's not allow facts to get in the way of a good rant post. Lolz
Apple have not done themselves any favours with their annual major OS updates, no "pro" users wants to deal with unstable major software annually . Windows 10 is not a bad OS and it is stable, and that is a big plus. These days I have more issues with my Mac Pro than I have with my windows box.
Case in point my 2013 Mac Pro BT , buggiest implementation I have ever seen and apple did it see the need to fix it, forcing me to go wired . And I was using apple wireless
KB and mouse . Maybe if apple stops treating OS X as a markerting stunt along iOS to sell devices we might go back to having better software than windows....
[doublepost=1477202708][/doublepost]
Once apple release the new machines on Thursday , many good people on here will be able to offer advice if these machines are a good upgrade . Stay tuned .
October 2015 - Microsoft release surface book with Skylake processor
October 2016 - Apple refresh Macbook Pro, with Skylake processor
Why the god damn wait, Apple? Why? That's just an insult to your userbase.
October 2016 - Apple refresh Macbook Pro, with Skylake processor
Why the god damn wait, Apple? Why? That's just an insult to your userbase.
I can't help but laugh in the inconsistencies in your post. Windows 10 was released in July 2015. Windows 10 anniversary (you know what that means right?) was released a little over a year (because it slipped, because it was garbage) later.
I need Kaby Lake for the 2016 iMac; it will be the most powerful processor for my needs! Oh, & I expect it to be waterproof down to 10 meters
The Skylake in the surface book was the 15 watt ULV variant. The Skylake in the rMBP will be the 28w variant that wasn't released until June 2016. Looks like we've got another "tech expert" here
Please. Read. The. ****ing. Thread.
[doublepost=1477203059][/doublepost]
For a second I thought you were serious. It's no less ludicrous than a lot of the other posts in these threads then I read the waterproof bit and
Last edited:
its really time for MacBook Air to realize its destiny:
a keyboarded GUI for apps
not using Intel. Powered by A10 or A10+ or A11.
Convergence.
The Skylake in the surface book was the 15 watt ULV variant. The Skylake in the rMBP will be the 25w variant that wasn't released until June 2016. Looks like we've got another "tech expert" here
Please. Read. The. ****ing. Thread.
[doublepost=1477203059][/doublepost]
For a second I thought you were serious. It's no less ludicrous than a lot of the other posts in these threads then I read the waterproof bit and
The skylake will be good enough, but i wanted to follow up that I need to submerge the thing to get it into my evil underwater laboratory
.
I think it's still a year or two (or maybe three) out but it definitely won't be a macbook air. A macbook, maybe a padbook*, but i will be seriously surprised if this transition doesn't happen at some point no matter what its called.
*disclaimer: i am not a marketing guy and this name is not the important part
If or when Apple does this, it will be a hybrid a la Surface Book. The only difference is, it won't run Intel processors & it won't run non-App Store apps.
It isn't Intel's fault that they are struggling with the 10nm process.
It is Intel's fault that they STILL push quad-core CPUs as their top-end mobile and top-end consumer desktop products. I'm still using the first quad-core MBP, which was initially released 5.5 years ago. In all that time, the increase in CPU speed has been minimal. There is no reason Intel couldn't release 8-core consumer grade parts years ago. Despite this, it looks like we have to wait until at least 2018 to even get 6 cores with Coffee Lake, let alone 8.
swingerofbirch
macrumors 68040
I am skeptical about the touch bar.
Keyboards are designed such that you don't need to look at them.
They are parallel to your line of sight.
With a touch bar, it's reliant on graphics rather than keyboard layout memory, and so you're supposed to look at something that's in a complete opposite direction of your display in order to manipulate something on your display.
It seems at that point you might as well just make a touch display. I know that Apple has said you would get fatigue, and I guess that this bar is for limited use, which minimizes fatigue.
I had long assumed Apple was going to keep paring the Mac back more and more—somehow making it simpler. But this seems to be an investment in making the Mac more featured, in a way that kind of reminds me of PCs of old, such as any old random PC laptop that might have "media" keys above the keyboard, etc. Obviously not from use, from but from the idea, it sounds a little bit gimmicky.
Keyboards are designed such that you don't need to look at them.
They are parallel to your line of sight.
With a touch bar, it's reliant on graphics rather than keyboard layout memory, and so you're supposed to look at something that's in a complete opposite direction of your display in order to manipulate something on your display.
It seems at that point you might as well just make a touch display. I know that Apple has said you would get fatigue, and I guess that this bar is for limited use, which minimizes fatigue.
I had long assumed Apple was going to keep paring the Mac back more and more—somehow making it simpler. But this seems to be an investment in making the Mac more featured, in a way that kind of reminds me of PCs of old, such as any old random PC laptop that might have "media" keys above the keyboard, etc. Obviously not from use, from but from the idea, it sounds a little bit gimmicky.
That's a big assumption (the won't run non App store apps part) and I think will not be true, at least not before they do (or do not) for their Intel computers. There is nothing about ARM or A* that makes this necessary and in fact I think that a processor transition would make them shy away from that move. They'd need all the help they can get from developer to cross-compile inside and outside the App Store, at least for a few years.
I can't see Apple making a hybrid notebook/tablet. It just seems distinctly un-apple-like. I think Apple are likely to stick to making products with either a keyboard OR a touchscreen, not products with both.
I can see Apple sticking a high performance ARM CPU in a future MacBook with minimal other changes or problems however. I don't think your typical MB buyer would be affected. Also, as Intel apparently are going to start using their fabs to make ARM CPUs, perhaps some Intel engineers might figure out how to make some of the compatibility problems 'disappear'...
MacBook Pro, and all desktops are a completely different story. Intel CPUs for the foreseeable future. Except for I guess a slight possibility of going AMD with Zen, or Zen+.