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Next-Generation DDR5 RAM Will Double Speeds of DDR4 RAM as MacBook Pro Remains on LPDDR3
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o Mac mini: 4/8GB of 1600MHz LPDDR3 RAM
The Mini can have a maximum of 16gb RAM, not 8gb.
I'm well aware of what it has, unlike you, I'm typing on it's terrible keyboard right now. But you left out that it also has zero USB ports, zero USB 3 ports, zero HDMI ports, zero SD card ports, zero magsafe, zero Thunderbolt 2/1. Quite the impressive machine I've got here.
Yet I can't plug my new iPhone 7 into my new MBP out of the box...
That's because TC likes to kiss ass to shareholders which is cool and all, but SJ never gave two ***** about them. He just cared about moving the company forward. It was never about the money with him.
An impressive number of logical fallacies for such a dense post. You definitely have a future in internet arguments.
Is anyone here old enough to remember when Apple was the cutting edge tech company, and usually introduced new (or nearly new) technology first, or at least implemented it on a wide-scale first? The 3.5 floppy, the PowerBook, the CD-ROM drive (remember the Dinosaurs commercial?), USB, wireless networking?
Logical fallacies eh? I believe the word you're searching for is "facts". You clearly have zero future in anything related computer hardware. You must work for Microsoft technical support.
For some time now, Apple's "Pro" designation has basically meant "more expensive and slightly better than non-pro". There's hardly anything Pro about it.
The A10 processor is close in performance to the Core M5 from Intel. However the iPad, which you stated is better, actually has an A9X (pro), which doesnt beat everything intel has on the mobile market at the moment. And I would absolutely love to benchmark the A10 Fusion against a i7-7700k. But that would be comparing apples to oranges once again. See my point?
Furthermore, if what you say was true, why wouldnt apple opt for their own processor, LPDDR4, and a new, smaller form factor and socket in the MBP? Now that would be innovation.
I wouldn't say it's safe to say considering we've heard from people who say the MacBook can't even export a single 4K stream without bogging down while the A9X can do three.
Also, Apple favors thin.
Recently just realised this when I wanted to make a skype call........as Darth Vader would say....... NNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOO
Lets just cut to the chase.
Apple no longer care about Macs and any they do produce are no more than fashion accessories.
The only decent model left in the Mac range is the 27" 5k iMac which Apple will no doubt destroy in the next revision.
Apple no longer care about Macs and any they do produce are no more than fashion accessories.
The only decent model left in the Mac range is the 27" 5k iMac which Apple will no doubt destroy in the next revision.
And then you run into the Problem that others have the Patens on almost all other aspects. Easier to buy then to try to reinvent the wheel. ARM basis for the iOS devices offer a Chip Development kit based on there Design. Intel an AMD do not.
But not having DDR4 in the iMac with the Skylake Processor make the i7 4.3 GHz Slower than my Hackintosh i5 3,5 (6600k) Running a 3,8 on the Single CPU MacBench. 8 Thread will beat 4 on brute force but it shows that a Machine that dose not need energy constraints is only crippling its potential the iMac could be a hell of a lot faster, sure it would make the Mac Pro look even worse but it might motivate Apple to not take that long in its Dev Cycle. We always assumed that apple is working on the next Best thing not the past. That is why many Mac users are Frustrated and Tim saying that great thing are coming each year, are starting to feel like "Fooled me once, shame on you. Fooled me twice shame on me"
DDR5, for the faster rendering of Facebook profiles! Awaiting the bemoaning... incoming... 3...2...1...
that's why i build a hackintosh, i like macs and i love mac os but the problem is not the price, the problem is that i can't update the hardware the way i want. yes you can do some minor limited upgrades in some of them but you can't go hardcore, when i first bought my ddr4 memory kit i paid 1,000 dollars when they first came out, now the price went down drastically, i always wanted 128 gb of ram for my iram disk but 64 is not that bad, i also have a rocket raid card with 8 ssds in raid 0 and that thing literally flight, how fast it is, i can also overclock but default clock speed is more than enough but if i want to i can squeeze some more juice out of it, just in case i have a vanilla hackintosh the closest thing to a real mac. i know is not a real mac anyway my hackintosh has cooling system and 2 nvidia 970's that i use for rendering in FCP then i send it to compressor and it uses both cards at the same time, too bad there is no SLI on mac but i can still use the 2nd card for rendering, so is not useless after all.
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Mid 2012 MacBook Pro with retina: that was a great machine. Intels laptop-ready processors have not improved much since then. Very hard to justify buying a MacBook Pro. I'm hoping Apple move to inhouse chips ASAP. Otherwise I'm stuck on an iMac next time (talking pro machines).
