Skylake Macs will be out this fall(don't believe the doubters!!)

[spatlese44]

Actually, there's a nice table on the Skylake Wikipedia article.

 

[griffmeister]

I was going to post a message about the main differences between the hardware in the latest iMac to that of the new Skylake series.

Would someone be able to break down for me, how Skylake will be better and what component it's replacing?

I nearly bought an iMac only today, until I realised newer ones are due later this year.

 

[patohi]

They could come out this fall and they could come out in 2016. We really don't know what Apple is up too. Just look at the Mac Pro, people were saying for extended periods that apple has to update the line, and apple didn't. They finally rolled out the nMP but my point is that apple goes by their own internal calendar, regardless of what Intel may or may not do. I know they're on the hook for Intel to release the chipsets on time (a la Broadwell) but generally we cannot fully guarantee that new macs will be rolled out in the fall.

The Mac pro uses Xeon chips. The Haswell Xeon chips didn't see much of a performance increase compared to ivy bridge. And since Mac pros don't use IGP, then there really wasn't much of a point to upgrade them.

 

[patohi]

I was going to post a message about the main differences between the hardware in the latest iMac to that of the new Skylake series.

Would someone be able to break down for me, how Skylake will be better and what component it's replacing?

I nearly bought an iMac only today, until I realised newer ones are due later this year.

For iMacs you should see a bump in CPU and IGP performance.
DDR4
Thunderbolt 3
Just to name a few.
If you wanted the 21 iMac with iris pro Intel graphics might be one to wait for.

2016 AMD and nvidia will have GPU die shrinks from 28nm to 16nm. That with possibly of High Bandwidth Memory should see drastic performance improvements for graphics.

 

[Gasu E.]

The purpose of this thread is to inform buyers that Skylake Macs will be out this fall.

Really? Are any buyers now actually informed of that? If yes, who? If not, FAIL.

 

[patohi]

I guess we gonna have to wait till the El Capitan release for the new Skylake macs? Late October sounds right!

 

[imanidiot]

I guess we gonna have to wait till the El Capitan release for the new Skylake macs? Late October sounds right!

Congratulations, yet another thread which has no reason to exist.

 

[dragje]

Yall save that money n get yourself a Skylake Mac this fall!

Only when it would evolve a MacPro....