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New 'Ultra-Thin' MacBooks Launching in Second Half of 2016 May Sport Metal Injection Mold-Made Hinges
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What do you consider a "power machine"?
You can get a Dell XPS 15 with a Core i7 6th Gen Skylake Processor and 32 GB of RAM. How much more power beyond that do you need in a laptop?
Kaby Lake next year if you're lucky please. 64GB of DDR4 RAM good luck with that. Then again, Kaby Lake is in a way Intel buying time for itself until Cannonlake is ready so not as major a release as Cannonlake.
yepp..recently my brother ask me to do some upgrade on his MBP 9,2. Installing 1 TB SSD dan 16GB RAM was plain easy. Not retina though, but at least performance was better for enhance my brother daily job.
Probably ifixit team will give score 0/10 for this super-ultra-thin macbook after release.
HEY WHOEVER IT IS ASKING FOR THINNER DEVICES COULD YOU PLEASE STOP
I think the Pro and Air monikers will disappear. I think they will simplify the laptops down to one line.
Hey diipii you do realise you're voluntarily writing a comment on an optional article on a website you've chosen to come to, just to moan? Get a grip.
Despite MR's endless moaning about Apple's direction - I'm excited what the next generation of Pros can offer. Shave a bit of weight out and reduce the footprint and we're getting a potentially great product. Far too many people assuming too much and getting themselves worked up.
Upping the power and battery life, reducing the weight and squeezing the same size screens on to smaller bodies would be great.
Pro branding is going nowhere - especially with the recently introduced iPad Pro moniker and rumoured iPhone Pro moniker.
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New Macs with new MacOS running on ARM processors. Apple has stalled Intel releases to make ARM look attractive, and it has spent a good deal of time and effort working on software initiatives such as Swift, iWork, and iLife to make iOS and Mac devices work together as one.
Intel is done.
Intel is done.
The title says "New 'Ultra-Thin' MacBooks" and I hope they don't include Macbook Pros in that as it would be a shame if Apple had to get rid of powerful hardware in favour of lightness and thinness. Even the current Apple hardware is not fully satisfactory for my use which includes math and physics calculations.
I would like:
i7 6770HQ or i7 6870HQ or i7 6970HQ or better
32GB or more of RAM
Nvidia GTX 965M or higher with 4GB VRAM or high
512GB SSD or more
USB-C with TB3 minimum of 2 ports
SD Card reader
HDMI out (or maybe not)
Headphones Jack (unless they plan to put a lightning port and make it a standard for headphones? which probably won't happen)
MagSafe variant of power connector
iPhone 6s's front facing camera as webcam
And most importantly, Bigger Heatsinks.. All Apple products I have had all thermally throttled when doing work.
Knowing Apple, most likely won't happen..
I would like:
i7 6770HQ or i7 6870HQ or i7 6970HQ or better
32GB or more of RAM
Nvidia GTX 965M or higher with 4GB VRAM or high
512GB SSD or more
USB-C with TB3 minimum of 2 ports
SD Card reader
HDMI out (or maybe not)
Headphones Jack (unless they plan to put a lightning port and make it a standard for headphones? which probably won't happen)
MagSafe variant of power connector
iPhone 6s's front facing camera as webcam
And most importantly, Bigger Heatsinks.. All Apple products I have had all thermally throttled when doing work.
Knowing Apple, most likely won't happen..
It's gone so far I now use a hackintosh at work. Twice the performance at less than half the cost.
It's darn difficult to find a good hackintosh-laptop, though, that's the only problem. I stick with cheapest possible there: a MBA 11", works ok when not in the office. I'm very happy I'm not one of those who only work on the go and had to rely on a powerful MacBook-something. Sick and tired of the "bling" in Apple products that add nothing to the bottom line.
It's darn difficult to find a good hackintosh-laptop, though, that's the only problem. I stick with cheapest possible there: a MBA 11", works ok when not in the office. I'm very happy I'm not one of those who only work on the go and had to rely on a powerful MacBook-something. Sick and tired of the "bling" in Apple products that add nothing to the bottom line.
Out of curiosity, what do you do that requires 32 GB OR MORE RAM? I have 16 GB here, compose and edit music, edit 4K video and run Creative Cloud suite (mostly at least five of those at once because I'm messy) and the only time I noticed that 16 GB is a bit low was when I was running Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Audition and had three songs with vocals, backing vocals, brass section etc. open.
Really hope Apple have been looking at these forums over the last year.... People want Top performance ... Great battery life and pro products not just thinner ones... I keep banging on about this but Apple are becoming a joke in the pro areas these days... 
Imagine simulating a CCD sensor and further simulate decay of a particular particle with certain lifetime travelling in a beam with several other particles all interacting with each other then letting the particle decay and balancing momentum and recording the trajectory the particle makes on its way to sensor.
A CCD lets say 30MP (which is very small) would take about 0.5GB of RAM
A particle that travels 2 meters then decays then travels about 2 more meters and meets sensor, to record the trajectory with accuracy of about 1 nano meters (should be much more accurate, depends on particle speed) would take about 4GB of RAM.
That was just one particle there are techniques that greatly reduce the memory usage by only recording last few trajectory points to calculate momentum/speed but there is never only one particle to simulate perhaps 10^6 at any given time. Under these conditions, the memory starts to fill up very quickly. For a very tiny simulation.
Other uses that need a lot of memory is Finite Element Analysis, that is where you apply physical constraints on the system and observe its change. A simple piece of metal with dimensions of 1 meter by 1 meter by 10cm would have around 100million nodes requiring x component, y component, z component, velocity, pressure, temperature and so on depending on the simulation. All of that needs to be stored and retrieved quickly, RAM is the best place and if RAM gets full, the performance gets a big hit. A simulation that may only have taken 10 mins would now take hours or even days to finish.
I really hope they don't sacrifice functionality,ports and battery life.
the 12 Inch Macbook was truely a disaster because of such unintelligent approach.a useless,overpriced fashion accessory instead of a powerful fukky functional portable Mac.
please don't destroy Macbook Apple.
the 12 Inch Macbook was truely a disaster because of such unintelligent approach.a useless,overpriced fashion accessory instead of a powerful fukky functional portable Mac.
please don't destroy Macbook Apple.
Any kind of Simulation or Neural Networks can easily gobble up ram. Also would be nice to be able to have VMWare always up with windows and allow for it to use 6-10GB ram without running into problems
Better brush up on those Windows (or Linux) skills. Because you just described requirements Apple is unlikely to offer in the future but that is already available from other sources.
I am looking forward to thinner MacBook Pro, and thinner iPhone.
Katy lake MacBook Pros not coming til end of 2017 at the earliest
I know this wait is killing me.
the MacBook is still ultra-thin...? who says otherwise. and the MBA is still thin to ultra thin. the macbook pros are normal.
I use a 13" rMBP everyday, am using one right now. I also use all other computers. One thing that drives me crazy about the 13" rMBP is how thick it is. And I much prefer the MBA and MB, or other ultra books. but the non retina display on MBA is a deal breaker. I can't wait for a thinner MBP
the 12" rMB is not a disaster? It's a great laptop. It is not selling much, but it wasn't supposed too, the rMB is doing exactly what apple wanted it to do, and is very successful.
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I read through all 8 pages, expecting all 8 pages to be about this, but no one has mentioned this!!
We are expecting updates MacBook Pros at WWDC in June. This article says 2H 2016, which I would imagine means July or later. Are we no longer going to get MBP updates at WWDC, or is this article just totally wrong. Even is the MBPs were going to be announced WWDC, and ship in late june or early July. It still seems weird to say 2H 2016.
Everyone hates Chromebooks. Between the 60 iPad 2s and 300 Chromebooks, all the teachers and students fight over the iPads at my old high school.
