Please help me with this decision!!!

[kevinkyoo]

Mostly because of the screen size and the fact that that the 13 in model only has 2 usb-c ports which I find a little hard to believe. The power is also a plus.

I'd just wait then. Unless your MBA is literally dying, no need to spend $2000-4000 on something you don't need right away

 

[Patron_Saint]

update to the 7th generation 28 and 45 watt parts (Kaby Lake) when they are released, sometime late Q2 2017.

Yeah, because Apple had Skylake loaded up in fresh MacBook Pros the day Skylake launched.

You're talking out of your ass. Stop spreading false info to push whatever ridiculous agenda you have.

I am making crap up, just like everyone else here trying to understand what Apple is doing. Apple has several times before done multiple updates within a one year cycle. the recent slowdown in updates has to do with Intel as much as Apple. Apple didn't time this latest release to use year old CPUs so either these machines were meant to come out earlier (delay on Apple's part) or they were waiting for the appropriate Kaby Lake parts (delay on Intel's part). within 6 months we should have those Kaby Lake parts and ideally a mobile 470 and even 480 from AMD. it would make sense for Apple to update at that time. they don't have to but they should.

We may or may not see updates to the processors and GPUs in 6 months. But just because the updates get announced, it then takes additional time to implement into supply chains, not to mention update the hardware to it. By that time you're looking at a year or more. If there's a delay by intel? Add more. If there's a delay from AMD? Add more.

Apple is rarely if ever on the bleeding edge with processors and GPUs. That's well documented, even to the extent of the 2015 15" still being on Haswell architecture. It makes zero sense for you to be spreading this nonsense of a 6 month update coming in conjunction with the estimated release of a new chipset. That's not happening.

 

[thats all folks]

Yeah, because Apple had Skylake loaded up in fresh MacBook Pros the day Skylake launched.

You're talking out of your ass. Stop spreading false info to push whatever ridiculous agenda you have.

I covered the delay in my post. if asking people to look ahead at what is most certainly coming when deciding on a multi-thousand dollar purchase, is a "ridiculous agenda" then I'm not sure we can make you happy.

 

[Patron_Saint]

I covered the delay in my post. if asking people to look ahead at what is most certainly coming when deciding on a multi-thousand dollar purchase, is a "ridiculous agenda" then I'm not sure we can make you happy.

Certain to happen eventually. That's the key aspect.

Acting like you have some sort of inside info pointing to Apple changing to a 6 month refresh cycle on MacBook Pros is not only far fetched, but downright deceptive when you and everyone else knows it's not happening.

 

[happyslayer]

Yes! Massive upgrade. If you've got the cash, I'd totally do it.