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Upcoming 13-Inch MacBook Pro Models to Use Intel's 10th-Generation Ice Lake Chips
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So you're suggesting that Fake News is now the de facto standard that we should expect from all "journalists"? What about from commercial revenue-mill websites designed to generate profit through clicks and views?
I do hope the 13" is released as suggested. New keyboard would make it attractive. MagSafe would make it a sure thing.
Apple won't have anything to lose if it adopts AMD CPU and ZEN 3 is already on track to deliver for the OEM.
I think a 14" inch model would be much bigger than the 13" model. If you just reduce bezels and put in the same body a 6 core i7, you will experience thermal problems. 16" models are much faster in those terms because of the bigger design and the new thermal dissipation. So, a 14" model would be great if:
- they do a new improved design focused on thermal dissipation
- is equipped with a 6 cores or better
- has a reduced screen bezel
- is NOT equipped with 128GB SSD (base config)
- they do a new improved design focused on thermal dissipation
- is equipped with a 6 cores or better
- has a reduced screen bezel
- is NOT equipped with 128GB SSD (base config)
... because AMD’s mobile processors are still trash?
Wow that's cool. I bet you have a lot of stories you could tell. A couple of legitimate questions and observations.
1. If OEMs like Apple never give AMD a chance when they're ahead doesn't that become a self fulfilling prophecy? (If Intel sells great even when it's behind and AMD fails to gain traction even when its ahead it seems natural AMD will fall behind again due to eventual lack of income to reinvest in long term success vs an Intel always flush with cash)
2. Are you saying you feel AMD has some kind of (company) cultural failing that predestines it to fail and do you think this might have changed since you left?
3. If a couple of developers working in their spare time (see AMD-OS X or InsanelyMac) can get macOS working on AMD hardware perfectly fine, what makes you think it would be that much extra effort for a company as large as Apple?
4. Do you really think a switch to ARM is desirable and makes more sense than moving from Intel to AMD? If so, why?
Or we’ll start measuring everything in millikelvin and It’LL bE EvEN MoRe PrEciSe!
LOL. All you said was "As a former AMD CPU designer, ". No idea what you designed since you didn't say. I'm sure they have designers working on all aspects of the chips. So you can take your attitude and go away.
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That's funny. Performance of current ones is a little behind as is power consumption. But they still work well and have slightly better iGPUs. And it's not like Apple has never released poor performing laptops before....Cough 12" Macbook... Cough...
That he might have retired before the x86 era would be a plausible argument. That he might have worked on a different aspect of the chip is a bit of a weird position to take.
no matter what he did and when, he knows probably far more about CPU design and how they work than anybody of us
I feel the TouchBar has failed because a lack of developer support.
It just doesn't do anything besides the multi-touch version of keyboard shortcuts.
For the record, I started there late in the K6 era. I designed parts of K6-2 and K6-iii, then moved on to K8 (which became opteron and athlon-64). On the 64 bit chips there were only about 17 of us at that point. I owned the scheduler and integer execution units, and the floating point execution units at various points. Since we had no architect at first, I did the initial definition of the integer 64 bit instructions myself (later a real architect took over). I was also one of the two or three people responsible for global issues - floorplanning, power grid, clock distribution, etc. Once the team staffed up a bit, I shifted to methodology and became the person responsible for providing the tools we used for the design and determining the steps that would be performed to design, integrate, and test the chip’s design. It was a fantastic team, extremely small, even by AMD standards, with each person able to do multiple jobs. Most fun I had as a chip designer.
somewhere on the internet is an interview with Fred Weber where he explains how the 64 bit architecture came to be after a dozen or so of us met at a French restaurant in Saratoga to decide whether or not to just all resign or Not. Fun story.
I was a bit surprised to see the 16" coming with the TouchBar, its almost like they've doubled-down on it despite it not being a massive hit. Its a feature which is in to its fourth year now and hasn't really been developed in any significant way since its release. Only a minority seem to really like it with the vast majority of users being "meh" about it.
A new MBP 13" with scissor-switch keyboard would be an instant-buy for me, but I would really like an option to have one with four ports and a traditional row of function keys.
A new MBP 13" with scissor-switch keyboard would be an instant-buy for me, but I would really like an option to have one with four ports and a traditional row of function keys.
My biggest gripe about the touchbar - aside from it being useless for touch typing - is the phantom touches I get when I'm not even using it. I've triggered siri countless times because some finger on my right hand, which should not be triggering anything must be too close to the siri 'button' on the touchbar. In that sense it decreases productivity...
I've never had an issue with "phantom touches" as such, but occasionally find myself triggering whatever I've set in the right-most part of the Touch Bar. It seems to be better on the 16", maybe because they've tweaked the spacing around it, but I could honestly do without it.
Actually, I've just remembered a very useful function - picking emojis based on text like you get on the iPhone and iPad. That's useful. Just not sure its something to be shouting about on a MacBook Pro though!
Would be more useful if the bar was in the plane of the screen and not in the plane of the keyboard, where I’m not looking.
It’s always been a silly gimmick. At least they got rid of the 3D Touch crap on iPhones.
At least with 3D Touch i seldom triggered it by accident, and every once in awhile I triggered it on purpose.
Neither is true with the touchbar.
And I’m fine with that. A customizable context-specific keypad is better than memorizing keyboard shortcuts, anyway. And for your average user it’s better than a row of occasionally-used hard F keys where you have to scrutinize the alt function. And now that there’s a physical Esc key, even coders have less to complain about. Sure, devs could do more with it, but it’s just fine. Certainly not deserving of the vitriol found here, as is true with most MR forum targets, like bezels and notches. The TouchBar hasn’t failed. It just is.
It added significant cost to the product for near zero additional benefit.
That’s a big fail in my book.