I don't put my MBP in a position for this to happen, and I'm not stupid enough to do it myself. I look after my ****... Im not clumsy.
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I don't put my MBP in a position for this to happen, and I'm not stupid enough to do it myself. I look after my ****... Im not clumsy.
Mistakes can happen. I'm incredibly careful and always have been with my mac laptops. Have had mac laptops for 18 years, never once got liquid on the keyboard, but one time I did drop a powerbook in a hotel room onto the hard floor and it bent it. A single mishap in 18 years. But all it takes it one. So to forsake a clever little safety feature like magsafe, and label it 'unecessary', is just silly IMO. Would it really kill you if Apple kept magsafe there?
AMD will be going consumer 8-core with Zen. The smaller process nodes that they are going to start using are much more power efficient than the bigger ones. Also, Intel's process nodes are still significantly better than anyone else's, as they number them differently. Intel's 14nm node is equivalent to TSMC/GloFo/etc 10nm. If AMD can do an 8-core CPU at normal TDPs, then so can Intel.
Intel make 15W dual core CPUs, and 28W dual core CPUs. Binning processors to find the most power efficient ones can result in some excellent efficiency products.
You don't need to overcomplicate. The power required by a chip is predominantly because of inductor impedance, which scales with the square of frequency. You can look at the clock speeds vs TDPs of typical CPUs to show that. Also, are you suggesting that TDP would not scale linearly with core count? Anyway, it is easier to cool a larger chip with a certain TDP than a smaller one, as it has a larger surface area.
An 8-core CPU will still run single threaded operations as fast as a quad, or a dual core, because of Turbo Boost. In terms of people not needing that much power, people who just use their computer for word processing should be buying the MacBook, not the MacBook Pro. The Mac Pro is in a different class, as it predominantly relies on having GPU power available that it would simply be impossible to put in a notebook for close to a decade.
Again, it's not an issue with Apple. Apple can only use the CPUs that exist. And Intel refuses to make 8-core CPUs at less than 3.2 GHz, and even then only for their enthusiast grade socket.
They have enough resources to continue to creatively design and Update the Macpro, especially for professional use. The fact that they don't is sad. Apple seems to live off of the failures of their competitors more than anything else.
I read all your posts in the voice of Eddie from Bottom because of your av. Makes me laugh
USB C is a universal multipurpose port that can do basically anything while i do not like the fact that there will be no other port it will force accessory maker to come out with more usb-c peripherals. Very soon you will be able to use type of cable for everything which is awesome IMO. (It will just suck in the meantime)
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$2500 I hope there will be a price drop but another price hike is more realistic
I replaced the batter just 5 months ago, tried plugging the old one back in, tried leaving battery and power unplugged overnight Still no dice.
I know of severa architecture office that use iMacs to run revit via boot camp their argument was the resale value they get as opposed to windows based systems. Certainly not every office, it some make the compromise.
is this when you connect and light doesn't come on, therefore isn't charging?
If so I think the female side on the Mac need a cotton wool bud and cleaning alcohol.
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Great posts, but ...
THERE WILL BE NO KABY LAKE UPDATES TO THE 15" MBP
because
THERE ARE NO KABY LAKE CHIPSETS WITH IRIS PRO ON INTEL'S ROADMAP.
ok. I'm done now.
THERE WILL BE NO KABY LAKE UPDATES TO THE 15" MBP
because
THERE ARE NO KABY LAKE CHIPSETS WITH IRIS PRO ON INTEL'S ROADMAP.
ok. I'm done now.
I read all your posts in the voice of Eddie from Bottom because of your av. Makes me laugh
You found me out skipper. do you want to see my elephant impression?? /undos zip
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I know several mid sized firms [around 40 people] who use ArchiCAD. I really don't see how such complex pieces of software will be easily ported to ARM.
Would it really kill you if they DIDN'T keep it?
Im doing a uni masters and I do a lot of my work in bed (yea I know... lol) and its a pain in the arse moving the laptop around while holding the cable carefully to stop it coming off. Its annoying as hell.
I accept some people like this feature, but for me its a negative. In the same context you have to accept some people DON'T like this feature.
Either way its irrelevant because its going for good, if the Macbook is anything to go by.
This is really too logical this argument.
People WANT KABY LAKE...its the LATEST...ITS THE BEST...
It doesn't really matter if its completely unsuitable...
FWIW i think the 15" will still get Kaby it's just that there will be no iGPU option only. A shame because I wouldn't touch an rMBP with a dGPU with a very long stick. I don't require OMG SUPER graphics performance for VM's and SSH sessions but I do require reliability and not getting randomly stuck with the dGPU slurping down juice like it's going out of style.
Isnt the 8 core zen the announce just a desktop processor so far? Did they already release the spec sheet for it?
Im not familiar with the all the chips, but from what people were mentioning in the thread 45W is the target for the 15" macbook pro. I'm not sure if the power draw is exact, but an 8 core chip could be handled in a 45W TDP?
Didn't mean to over complicate, just not sure if its doable. You mention that dual core CPUs with a 28W, so that means a quad with a 45W. So are we looking at getting a 90W octo if possible, but to scale down the frequency we would realistically look at a 1.2 GHz octo core?
And yes, you are right about those using macbook vs macbook pros.
Mind you I'm not an engineer of any sort, just trying to better understand how this would turn out. I think the folks over at linustechtips showed that the 10-core intel processor had slower single threaded performance than the 4 core haswell and skylake variants. Not sure if that means that would apply to the single threaded performance to its mobile counter parts.
Since its not really an issue with apple, and up to intel, maybe the tech isnt really there yet to be actually used in consumer products. I want to understand the difficulties they are having with it and why its difficult. Does that mean AMD has finally figured out how to make a very power efficient processor? I think i remember them showing a demo of their 8-core vs intel's and beat them by about a fraction of a second, but a few things werent mentioned with the testing method so im not sure what to make of it.
Use some gaffer tape?
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gfxCardStatus can force it to integrated only unless it's obsolete in newest OS. I'm on Yosemite.
Last year's CPU? Crappy GPU? Mac's dead.
FIRE TIM COOK ALREADY!!!!!!
It's. Not. Last. Year's. CPU. Razer have only just made their first release of the 6700HQ Skylake that just came out in June 2016 and they're the 2nd or 3rd after Intel. The equivalent Kaby Lake won't be released until June next year and incorporated in laptops this time next year.
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Yeah I know but it offers me zero advantages and only the disadvantage of janitoring it.
For the current Pro version to actually be better than the Air version, Apple needs to actually produce a current Air version. With the Air 2 being over two years old, Apple has not convinced me that the line is still alive.
Not really, no? They can be compared as they are and that was the question I responded to.
Will they release a new Air? No idea.
If Apple removes the headphone jack from both the iPhone and the Mac and then standardises the iPhone on the Lightning connector while the Mac standardises on USB-C... it's the opposite of their slogans of making things simple/it just works.
It's a problem that everyone's seen coming since they released the rMB with just USB-C ports. It's not like it's the end of the world to use an adapter but, yep, for sure it's pretty stupid. They must have known (or at least you would hope they're looking that far out) they were going wireless/lightning only in the 7, even ewhen they release the first rMB so either including a lightning port in that or going USB-C would have resolved a lot unnecessary awkardness. It's an odd move.