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New MacBook Pro and Air Benchmarks Comparable to Mid-2014 Models
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not sure how i feel about the loss of megasafe or the lack of ports at very least give two USB c ports now with lack of speed bump I'm not sold ill keep my late 2011 MBP i7
Isn't that what everyone said about "forget Ivy Bridge...", and then "forget Haswell...", and now Broadwell?
what kind of tasks can you do with these kind of benchmark numbers?
ofcourse you do your daily basic stuff (email, browse, microsoft word/excel, watch movies, music)
but can this handle more intensive tasks? (lol, i can't think of anything more intensive than the list above, lol me)
ofcourse you do your daily basic stuff (email, browse, microsoft word/excel, watch movies, music)
but can this handle more intensive tasks? (lol, i can't think of anything more intensive than the list above, lol me)
So glad I didn't wait for Broadwell. Got the mid-2014 13" rMBP w/512GB SSD in December last year on sale. Woke up today to see that the price of the new rMBP with the same amount of storage is now 400 more on the Apple store than what I paid at a local retailer back in December
Same as... got my 13" 2.8/16GB/1TB at a great discount in December. Glad I didn't wait.
How good of an investment will it be?
I kinda feel the pain of Eithanius.
I use a 7.5 yrs old white MacBook (that I upgraded a bit, but that's beyond the point).
It still does what it needs to do (I don't expect it to run as Usain Bolt) and the only real pain is when I have to run virtual machines or software that needs a newer OS X version.
I was waiting for this update looking forward a retina display and 16+GB of RAM. I would have loved to have a 13" Air with all of the above, but it is simply not there yet (and there is no way I am going to get a 12" MacBook with that kind of CPU: it just does not cut it for me and my needs).
Only option left is the Retina MBP, which now costs even more and has no noticeable improvements.
The fact that you cannot upgrade your RAM/storage as you go is a real pain that gets huge if you consider how overpriced the hardware is.
I invested 1400 EUR, in total, for this MacBook and it still runs as a champ.
Will I be able to say the same for this new Retina MBP which will cost around 40% more? I don't think so...
On top of that, I will never spend 650-700 EUR for a small CPU speed bump and 1 TB of storage: it is simply insane to me.
Need more storage? I'll have a small portable drive when I need it.
Will I need a few extra MHz, ever? Not a chance.
1. Negligible performance improvement...
2. OS X quality drops without options to downgrade...
3. Price increased exorbitantly (from where I am)...
I'll be keeping my soon-to-be 5-year old MBP for another year I guess...
I kinda feel the pain of Eithanius.
I use a 7.5 yrs old white MacBook (that I upgraded a bit, but that's beyond the point).
It still does what it needs to do (I don't expect it to run as Usain Bolt) and the only real pain is when I have to run virtual machines or software that needs a newer OS X version.
I was waiting for this update looking forward a retina display and 16+GB of RAM. I would have loved to have a 13" Air with all of the above, but it is simply not there yet (and there is no way I am going to get a 12" MacBook with that kind of CPU: it just does not cut it for me and my needs).
Only option left is the Retina MBP, which now costs even more and has no noticeable improvements.
The fact that you cannot upgrade your RAM/storage as you go is a real pain that gets huge if you consider how overpriced the hardware is.
I invested 1400 EUR, in total, for this MacBook and it still runs as a champ.
Will I be able to say the same for this new Retina MBP which will cost around 40% more? I don't think so...
On top of that, I will never spend 650-700 EUR for a small CPU speed bump and 1 TB of storage: it is simply insane to me.
Need more storage? I'll have a small portable drive when I need it.
Will I need a few extra MHz, ever? Not a chance.
If only Apple used Intel processors, this wouldn't happen.
Time to move to Motorola.
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Absolutely lovin' my decision to buy my 2013 MBA. I expect this thing to last me as long as my last Macbook (6 years)
Well when Intel announces a new chip every year and then fails to deliver in a timely fashion, people tend to forget what Intel is currently producing and focusing on what they're promising.
By the time Intel releases Skylake it will already be 2017.
"Forget Skylake" here comes...wait for it...Cannonlake
Old Macbook Pro is still on sale
I can't believe they are still selling the old Macbook Pro. They could at least drop the price on that thing. It hasn't changed since 2012? It's way over priced for what it is today.
I also don't know why they are keeping the Air around. I'd dump both Airs and just have Macbook and Macbook Pro. However, when they redesign the Pro I sure hope they keep the card reader, more than one USB port, and a thunderbolt port.
I can't believe they are still selling the old Macbook Pro. They could at least drop the price on that thing. It hasn't changed since 2012? It's way over priced for what it is today.
I also don't know why they are keeping the Air around. I'd dump both Airs and just have Macbook and Macbook Pro. However, when they redesign the Pro I sure hope they keep the card reader, more than one USB port, and a thunderbolt port.
I think I'm hanging w/ my 11" 2011 rMBA (purchased 2012) for another year. Still runs great, I bumped the storage. My mid-2010 15" MBP also still runs great. I leave it at the office, use the MBA at home & travel. By next cycle, Apple will likely integrate some of the new tech in the MBA & MBP.
My 15" 2008 MBP just died a few months ago. It had been through a lot of maintenance & surgeries. I'll miss it. It was my test/emergency MBP. 6.6 years is pretty good life.
It doesn't look like RAM can be upgraded from 8GIG...
I just bought a used 2013 MacBook, and upgraded it to 16GB Ram and a Terrabyte hybrid Drive. I'm told it will accept 32GB if I can find them.
Yosemite can boot using 5GB.
I would hope there's a chance of that going up, but I suspect this is just a way of pushing you to a MBP Retina, instead.
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I just bought a used 2013 MacBook, and upgraded it to 16GB Ram and a Terrabyte hybrid Drive. I'm told it will accept 32GB if I can find them.
Yosemite can boot using 5GB.
I would hope there's a chance of that going up, but I suspect this is just a way of pushing you to a MBP Retina, instead.
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Intel is in no hurry to increase performance. The competition is so far behind they don't need to, the real threat to Intel is low power chips that have popped up everywhere thanks to smartphones and tablets.
I am surprised if Skylake brings a big performance increase to the table to be honest. These are pretty boring years to be a computer enthusiast.
I am surprised if Skylake brings a big performance increase to the table to be honest. These are pretty boring years to be a computer enthusiast.
Probably not too good considering core M and HD 5300 powering a retina display!!!
Why is Geekbench the only thing ever used to compare these? SSD and graphics matter just as much as CPU and RAM to consumers.
Well when Intel announces a new chip every year and then fails to deliver in a timely fashion, people tend to forget what Intel is currently producing and focusing on what they're promising.
By the time Intel releases Skylake it will already be 2017.
"Forget Skylake" here comes...wait for it...Cannonlake
My point really was to say, one should just buy when they need a computer. Playing the specs game just leads to never buying and "waiting for the next big thing"....
If Haswell and Broadwell (especially) has done anything, is prove that waiting is pointless and we are becoming less and less dependent upon CPU power...
I guess, but it so happened that Broadwell was delayed and it seems Skylake isn't. Plus I hear the jump up in performance (CPU and GPU) is going to be relatively big (compared to Broadwell and Haswell).
