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Next-Generation DDR5 RAM Will Double Speeds of DDR4 RAM as MacBook Pro Remains on LPDDR3
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Pretty much. As a mac fan, you should know 2 things about Apple.
1) They don't use other companies tech until its old.
2) They don't fully use their own new tech till it's old.
Totally agree, Tim's Apple it all about the bottom line and maximising margins on old tech in the soppily chain.
A Surface Book is more "Pro" then a crappy rMBP with Touch Bar from 2016.
It depends what you are doing. I run electromagnetic/optical simulation software and depending on the size of the structure I am simulating and the grid spacing it can consume a great deal of memory and the memory speed is more of a bottleneck than the processor speed.
we need to get rid of Tim and soon as possible, he is helping apple no doubt by making more money
but at what cost, destroying the company reputation by lowering product quality and by selling old obsolete hardware and refusing to use new hardware
why because it cost more to build the device and they make less profit
well do the samething you always do Tim raise the price but at least give the latest generation of hardware
and make a state of art system, a masterpiece
man i miss steve
i'm sure people will pay for it and won't complaint
i know mac os is a very solid optimized system and it doesn't require tons of gigs of ram
but if the person wants to put more ram, put and SSD that is their decision
why apple solder the ram to the board in some models, what the hell is that
so i have to take it to them and pay them to change the ram
so i have to order more ram at time of ordering online, so they can squeeze more money out of me
nice strategy Tim
apple can still make money by selling high quality products, that how it used to be when steve was in charge
but this man is taking the company to the ground when it comes to customer satisfaction
i don't have nothing personal against him but he needs to go
i just hope they replace him with someone better and not with someone worst
the first thing a new CEO has to do is make a new mac pro
the real original Pro that has been forgotten
get new people with new ideas
i don't have problem with apple making money but give me something worth the amount of money that i'm paying for that product
sorry for my bad english
but at what cost, destroying the company reputation by lowering product quality and by selling old obsolete hardware and refusing to use new hardware
why because it cost more to build the device and they make less profit
well do the samething you always do Tim raise the price but at least give the latest generation of hardware
and make a state of art system, a masterpiece
man i miss steve
i'm sure people will pay for it and won't complaint
i know mac os is a very solid optimized system and it doesn't require tons of gigs of ram
but if the person wants to put more ram, put and SSD that is their decision
why apple solder the ram to the board in some models, what the hell is that
so i have to take it to them and pay them to change the ram
so i have to order more ram at time of ordering online, so they can squeeze more money out of me
nice strategy Tim
apple can still make money by selling high quality products, that how it used to be when steve was in charge
but this man is taking the company to the ground when it comes to customer satisfaction
i don't have nothing personal against him but he needs to go
i just hope they replace him with someone better and not with someone worst
the first thing a new CEO has to do is make a new mac pro
the real original Pro that has been forgotten
get new people with new ideas
i don't have problem with apple making money but give me something worth the amount of money that i'm paying for that product
sorry for my bad english
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I agree. I have a maxed out 5k retina iMac and it handles anything I could throw at it except non stop video conversion. Even then one would have a much more beastly rig for something like that. No complaints about speed for me and what I do. Actually it showed me how slow Adobe products are lol.
This entire argument is Stupid. Remember the Intel/AMD chip wars on MHZ, in the end they became meaningless, it is entirely the system architecture that dominates the user perception of performance in modern consumer electronics. Everything else you read here is marketing hype.
The title if this article is pretty inflammatory, and it sounds like alot of people posting in this thread didn't get past the headline.
From reading the article thiugh, I think this just gives apple more reason to move away from Intel, and maybe on to their own solution (ARM?) for their laptops and maybe even desktops at some point.
From reading the article thiugh, I think this just gives apple more reason to move away from Intel, and maybe on to their own solution (ARM?) for their laptops and maybe even desktops at some point.
Yes, I agree RAM is not the choking point here at all, it is just an easy target for people to jab at. That's sort of the point of my post, hope you didn't misunderstand. I wasn't critiquing Apple, but rather the inept article and especially the headline - talk about fake news!!
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I think this will only happen at this point if Apple can show off benchmarks showing they can outperform Intel chips...being "good enough" or "equivalent" won't cut it to convince non-hard core Apple users, i.e. the general consumer.
Incorrect. The mainstream socket 1150 was ddr 3 only. You may have built them but it would have been workstation class only. Take a look at Wikipedia page https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGA_1150
I agree. I just built a hackintosh because I got bloody tired of waiting for Apple to release a product that I would be interested in buying. It's not the money, but what you get for the money. For example, the new MacBook Pro is so overpriced for what you get - fixed RAM, fixed SSD, only 16GB RAM and only one connection type which requires a bunch of dongles selling for a $1000 more than my current MBP which has much more functionality other than the touch bar. No thanks.
The Hackintosh I built was very much similar to the original Mac Pros in design but to get something similar in a genuine Apple would have cost twice as much.
The Hackintosh I built was very much similar to the original Mac Pros in design but to get something similar in a genuine Apple would have cost twice as much.
I'm sure Tim will spin it just right.
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Yeah, no one can legitimately defend Apple on this one.
We are overdue an update of both Mac desktops and portables in our business. Apple just don't seem to be able to get ahead of the game anymore with performance or technology - they only seem to be able to push upward on price. The stuff may look lovely but bang for buck its just not worth the investment. Its a real shame that the sector that originally grew Apple is being so badly treated. 'We haven't forgotten the pro users', 'we've got something planned', doesn't hack it any more Tim - you need to deliver the goods - not talk about it.
Maybe apple may go for http://www.laptopmag.com/articles/amd-ryzen-faq the new eight core amd ryzen r7 1800x with the ability of 32gb ram and less power consumption than intel cpus and in combination with vega dgpu https://www.pcgamesn.com/amd/amd-vega-gpu-specifications
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If you have anything from 2012 onwards that serves your needs, I think the only good reason to buy one now is if you old one kicks the bucket
The new MacBook Pro 13" could have been the best 13" on the planet if Apple hadn't gimped it with such a terrible battery and such an horrendous price.
It can be a great computer with a higher capacity battery, Kaby Lake based 28w CPU, DDR4 RAM and a lower pricepoint for all configs. The other components in the machine are top notch and build quality exceptional.