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Refreshed MacBook Pros with Haswell Chips Coming in September?
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Huh? And I thought the latest Air update was unusually impressive. What exactly do you use their most portable laptop for?
And why is this on the Blog page and not front and center? I know Macs are the bastard products of Apple but they are getting more iOS-ified and should therefore rate a front page rumor every now and then.
Agreed. Not that anybody cares what I think but IMHO this should have been posted on the front page instead. Nice to see some news about Macs.
I'm considering this approach more and more. At first I was sure I wanted the new 13" MBA, then I thought, well, why not wait for the Haswell update of the rMBP, but now I'm also wondering if I should consider the 13" cMBP for its upgradability.
I don't think I could live with a 128 GB SSD and upgrading it past 256 GB gets pricey quickly. Folks are putting dual-SSD/HDs in the MBP (using the optical bay) which seems like a nice compromise.
I am still using a 2007-era MacBook Pro (Santa Rosa) and the reason it is still serving me well is because I was able to upgrade its RAM and HD a few years ago. I would love if whatever new Mac I get this year (if any) would also last 6-7 years.
Before getting my rMBP, I had similar concerns. What decided it for me, was the realization that I no longer need on-computer storage like before. The SSD drive is very fast for what I do need it for, but for everything else, I find a WiFi NAS pretty convenient. And much, much more flexible and feature-rich than a simple hard drive.
And as for the RAM, 16 GB still feels like over the top, and as long as it doesn't become a bottleneck within the next 3-4 years, I didn't really need the upgradability since that's my natural computer upgrade cycle anyway.
After about a year, my 256 GB SSD has 110 GB free without even trying to be conservative or doing any house cleaning.
The broadband world has also changed computing a lot. I stream all music from the Internet, for example. All movies are of course on my 2x2 TB auto-backup NAS, since I only need speed good enough for streaming.
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I was skeptical of this report... but then i saw that KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo predicted this as well. I'm inclined to say it'll happen.
i dont see why people get so irritated about not being able to upgrade the rMBP i personally have never upgraded any laptop just my desk top and even then you are limited by the hardware support,
also with the all lines of the MBP they can only be upgraded so far in terms of ram once its maxed out thats it yes you can put your own bigger SSD in it for cheaper but even then thats kind of it, or am i missing something ??
just my opinion :')
And why is this on the Blog page and not front and center? I know Macs are the bastard products of Apple but they are getting more iOS-ified and should therefore rate a front page rumor every now and then.
+1.
I don't see why this is relugated to second rate news when we got almost hourly updates on bloody gold/champagne/tacky yellow iphones
I work at a freight company and can confirm that apple has been getting stock ready! Many tall pallets full of apple products are coming in daily!
Who knows what exactly is in them, but I'm sure it's due to new products launching soon.
Who knows what exactly is in them, but I'm sure it's due to new products launching soon.
I want to be able to upgrade because...
Macbook Pro 15" from Apple
+256GB SSD = $400
+4GB RAM = $100
Install myself
+256GB SSD = $180-200
+4GB RAM = $45-50
Been waiting for a new iMac with Haswell plus the 802.11ac wifi upgrade too. Kind of ridiculous at this point that Apple is still charging the same price for a year old machine.
whoops!
You're completely right, and I just corrected my previous post, sorry for the oversight.
You're completely right, and I just corrected my previous post, sorry for the oversight.
13in rMBP come to papa!
i7 Haswell, 8GB, 256GB rMBP will knock the pants off of my i5 Sandy Bridge, 4GB, 128GB MBA
Bummer that it'll probably be released after the B2S promo ends. Guess I'll just use my corporate discount, heh
i7 Haswell, 8GB, 256GB rMBP will knock the pants off of my i5 Sandy Bridge, 4GB, 128GB MBA
Bummer that it'll probably be released after the B2S promo ends. Guess I'll just use my corporate discount, heh
You're completely right, and I just corrected my previous post, sorry for the oversight.
No problem. It's just a funny thought.
Quite often, a business will only do this directly with the primary vendor; i.e., they'll pay for the laptop but, even if you tell them you can save them a few hundred or more dollars by upgrading yourself, they won't allow it, for a number of reasons, both good and bad.
Bottom line, this is why, what feels like a hundred years ago, a company I worked with paid Xerox over $800 for a 256MB RAM chip that I could have gotten from a vendor for about $115.
A lot of people don't just stop there, though, upgrading "over the years." If you add it all up, the cost benefit dwindles, to say nothing of the performance of the actual parts being used (soldered Retina vs. removable Classic).
17 inch MBP? If only!
It is probably a long shot, but it sure would be nice to have the 17 inch MBP back with a retina display!
It is probably a long shot, but it sure would be nice to have the 17 inch MBP back with a retina display!
I still think nothing is going to be released during the iPhone 'halo' time in September. I don't believe this rumor. I'm betting on October.