Price drop comin with refresh?

[willmtaylor]

How are you getting the 30% more powerful? Coffee Lake still uses the 14 nm process like Kaby Lake. The top end units will support 6 execution threads, but that only matters if you run applications that can take advantage of the extra threads. For other apps, it will probably be a minor upgrade.

Perhaps from the press release & headline of the article?

 

[jerryk]

From the press release

That reference one lower powered model cpu and one benchmark, SysMark 2014 and running with 4GHz turbo, instead of the 3.5 Ghz of the Kaby Lake part. Previous numbers from Intel on a wide range of benchmarks were in the +10% range, which sounds reasonable.

 

[ET iPhone Home]

I was holding off on buying a MacBook Pro because the 2016 models were too expensive and people made the 2015 one seem really outdated. Since Apple might refresh them in June, do you guys think a price drop will also happen? Has Apple historically dropped the price on the first refresh of a remodeled Mac?

Hey! Is this June refresh really going to happen? I was planning on buying the current (new) MBPro 15" on June 16th. when I travel to Portland, Oregon to take advantage of the tax-free on goods there. If Apple comes out with a refresh, I don't mind waiting and postponing my trip to Portland.

 

[rasputin1969]

I'd like to see Apple release a non TB, non integrated GPU 15 inch. I've currently got a 15 inch touchbar and see no worth, at all, in the TB. If they can get the price down by omitting the TB & GPU then it's quite a good pro developer machine, even with only 16GB.

 

[ascender]

Maybe the non-TB one will drop price a bit, especially if it is the intended successor to the MBA, but I can't see why the price of the other models would drop.

 

[Merkava_4]

All in all, people are OK with the prices. If they're not OK with the prices, they're ashamed to admit it and usually keep quiet about it.

 

[Aditya_S]

All in all, people are OK with the prices. If they're not OK with the prices, they're ashamed to admit it and usually keep quiet about it.

I actually saw a lot of people who complained that they were too expensive.

 

[jerryk]

Hey! Is this June refresh really going to happen? I was planning on buying the current (new) MBPro 15" on June 16th. when I travel to Portland, Oregon to take advantage of the tax-free on goods there. If Apple comes out with a refresh, I don't mind waiting and postponing my trip to Portland.

Until WWDC next week no one knows if an update is coming. There were tons of thread and predictions of an update at WWDC last year, and nothing happened until fall.

 

[Aditya_S]

Apparently Apple will refund me the price difference if they lower it within 14 days. So I'm going to buy a refurbished MacBook Pro and if they do refresh it and drop the price, I'll save even more money.

 

[serkan]

Hey! Is this June refresh really going to happen? I was planning on buying the current (new) MBPro 15" on June 16th. when I travel to Portland, Oregon to take advantage of the tax-free on goods there. If Apple comes out with a refresh, I don't mind waiting and postponing my trip to Portland.

Is Portland, Oregon offers tax-free ? Are you talking about Apple Store ?

 

[jerryk]

Apparently Apple will refund me the price difference if they lower it within 14 days. So I'm going to buy a refurbished MacBook Pro and if they do refresh it and drop the price, I'll save even more money.

You sure that applies to a refurbished unit?

 

[Aditya_S]

You sure that applies to a refurbished unit?

Someone claimed that he was able to do that with his refurbished 2014 rMBP.

 

[dallas112678]

Someone claimed that he was able to do that with his refurbished 2014 rMBP.

Would probably be a very good idea to actually call an Apple store rather than simply go with what someone "claimed". Personally, I'm skeptical of that applying to refurbished.

 

[Aditya_S]

Would probably be a very good idea to actually call an Apple store rather than simply go with what someone "claimed". Personally, I'm skeptical of that applying to refurbished.

It won't matter anyway, I can always return it cause WWDC is just a few days away. Its actually really important that I have it by Saturday so I really can't wait until June 5th.

 

[Aditya_S]

I finally bought the 13 inch MBP with TouchBar. I'm excited for it to come!

 

[ET iPhone Home]

Is Portland, Oregon offers tax-free ? Are you talking about Apple Store ?

Yes, in Portland, I can go into Apple, buy a MBP, tax-free. There's no sales tax on goods of any kind. I'm buying my iPhone 8 there too.

 

[serkan]

Yes, in Portland, I can go into Apple, buy a MBP, tax-free. There's no sales tax on goods of any kind. I'm buying my iPhone 8 there too.

I am sensing road trip for me too

 

[ET iPhone Home]

I am sensing road trip for me too

I'll let you know the details. I'm still debating if I should still fly to Portland on June 16 to buy the MBP or postpone my trip.

 

[serkan]

I'll let you know the details. I'm still debating if I should still fly to Portland on June 16 to buy the MBP or postpone my trip.

That will be great. I am thinking about driving or grabbing a cheap ticket from Southwest, if possible.

 

[addictzz]

looks like the new non-touchbar MBP price drop doesn't come without a catch. Baseline model starts with 128gb SSD. 256GB SSD model is for $1499.

 

[leman]

There is also a price drop for the 15", which is not really the price drop. The base model now gets the faster GPU and the fastest GPU is cheaper.

The Pro 560 is also most likely be on par with or slightly faster than the GTX 1050.

 

[5to1]

There is also a price drop for the 15", which is not really the price drop. The base model now gets the faster GPU and the fastest GPU is cheaper.

The Pro 560 is also most likely be on par with or slightly faster than the GTX 1050.

On the uk site there's a non TB 15" now.

Scratch that, think it's just the rMBP. The specs only mentioning TB ports confused me.