rMBP incremental update to include 800, thoughts

[ZLurker]

Hi all,

I'm looking at the rmbp and think i'll buy one in the near future and have some thoughts about it. Im trying to find information to decide if i should buy the current one or wait.

Since it seems like the intels broadwell aimed for the rmbp won't come until 2015Q1 i don't see a redesign this fall. But one thing that might show up is the new geforce 800 maxwell graphics.

Is there any previous example where Apple put in a new graphics platform in a mid cycle update? Together with price drops for upgrades in SSD and RAM i think that could be a sweet midcycle upgrade.

Razor Blade is one example where the new 800 chipset is used.

What are your thoughts?

 

[thundersteele]

This has not happened in the past. The best I can offer is an upgrade of the GPU within the same platform, e.g. the 6490M was upgraded to 6750M in the late 2011 models.

 

[yjchua95]

Hi all,

I'm looking at the rmbp and think i'll buy one in the near future and have some thoughts about it. Im trying to find information to decide if i should buy the current one or wait.

Since it seems like the intels broadwell aimed for the rmbp won't come until 2015Q1 i don't see a redesign this fall. But one thing that might show up is the new geforce 800 maxwell graphics.

Is there any previous example where Apple put in a new graphics platform in a mid cycle update? Together with price drops for upgrades in SSD and RAM i think that could be a sweet midcycle upgrade.

Razor Blade is one example where the new 800 chipset is used.

What are your thoughts?

Never ever going to happen.

Apple will only update both processor & GPU architecture together, and not either one.

 

[hallux]

Considering a new GPU will require redesigning the traces on the board, they'll want to hold off on the GPU update until they're doing a new board design. A CPU spec bump won't require re-routing traces, just a simple swap of the CPU package they place on the board.

 

[maflynn]

I think introducing a new GPU for a speed bump is probably more work, cost and not worth the investment. That is the chipset will be replaced by Broadwell why spend a lot of money designing a new logicboard layout and buying new GPUs for something that will get refreshed later this year (or early next year).

 

[ZLurker]

Thank you all for the input,
i totally agree that it would be out of character for apple to do it.
One could hope though 🙂

I just wish that the lowest pricepoint for a discrete graphicscard wasn't so high. I think i'll wait untill next week to see if there is any updates when/if they do something with the iMac lineup.

Otherwise ill just go for it.

Thanks!