Yeah, the tables have kind of turned when Dell has a better hardware option than Apple. Hopefully, next year will be better for people who want to stick to the MBP, at least by the time the Kaby Lake MBP is released.
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Yeah, the tables have kind of turned when Dell has a better hardware option than Apple. Hopefully, next year will be better for people who want to stick to the MBP, at least by the time the Kaby Lake MBP is released.
Buy anything BUT a Dell XPS. I have one sitting next to me at this very moment and it is just the worst experience I ever had in a notebook that cost me top dollar.
That's some pretty mess up artifacts .. No lawsuit should be required ever just to fix up a hardware issue... first
It's its a hardware problem, then free replacement.... Apple probably wanted a lawsuit first not because they need a better reason,,, it would be because of "these macs cost heaps to produce"
ya,, so?
At least the FireVault issue can easily be fixed via software update... but also could be related.
I also seem to remember the Surface Book had the same 'green' behavior as well and a firmware fix solved that..
It's its a hardware problem, then free replacement.... Apple probably wanted a lawsuit first not because they need a better reason,,, it would be because of "these macs cost heaps to produce"
ya,, so?
At least the FireVault issue can easily be fixed via software update... but also could be related.
I also seem to remember the Surface Book had the same 'green' behavior as well and a firmware fix solved that..
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Apple is becoming a fashion company lol Team Cooked will record all the MBP and stop the production otherwise this fashion products will join the Samsung Note 7 in the museum lol
The glitch on the 13" non-tb shown in the 3rd video is most probably a resolution scaling issue about the current drivers, had the same glitch in mine after long wake-ups when the resolution was scaled. After returning to default resolution the problem was gone. It is easily fixable with an update but still a bummer.
Premiere was doing the same thing on Mac Pros with Nvidia cards this summer. The solution was to disable the Metal rendering plugin.
The boot up 'glitch' on new MBP is just FileVault switching from the recovery partition to the main partition. When it does that it switches from software acceleration to hardware acceleration, so you see the switch occur on screen.
The boot up 'glitch' on new MBP is just FileVault switching from the recovery partition to the main partition. When it does that it switches from software acceleration to hardware acceleration, so you see the switch occur on screen.
This should be a software issue, since the last beta, my 2013 late 13" has the exact glitches too.
Best 3000$ I have ever saved by not buying this pos 
I was really close to buy one,a 15 for the quad,
but the price,then i accepted it,with the need for adapters as well because you know..ok it runs Osx, i need Osx,the audio glitch,so now i'm back at the price.If only could have been possible to have a 13 quad or just a 15 without a dedicated gpu,but its not because of Intel Gpus,correct me if i'm wrong and this with just 16 GB SOLDERED,as well with the SSD and now this,well such an IRON.y isn't it.Franky i hope Ive,Cook,Schiller to resign or,at least to have courage and say,
ok,we were wrong,let put this to sleep,this is the real mac you were waiting for.But it won't,AND being worried by this is not to be an hater,its just sad seeing that they're just about to stay in silence now,i hope they won't sand ,throttling down by software, it.
but the price,then i accepted it,with the need for adapters as well because you know..ok it runs Osx, i need Osx,the audio glitch,so now i'm back at the price.If only could have been possible to have a 13 quad or just a 15 without a dedicated gpu,but its not because of Intel Gpus,correct me if i'm wrong and this with just 16 GB SOLDERED,as well with the SSD and now this,well such an IRON.y isn't it.Franky i hope Ive,Cook,Schiller to resign or,at least to have courage and say,
ok,we were wrong,let put this to sleep,this is the real mac you were waiting for.But it won't,AND being worried by this is not to be an hater,its just sad seeing that they're just about to stay in silence now,i hope they won't sand ,throttling down by software, it.
Too bad that there is issues with new macbooks. I was going to update my 2013 mid macbook air. Now will definately hold off for future upgrades.
You could also do these things to help it:
- reball the gpu with lead solder balls - this will be more robust than the stupid lead-free solder they use thesedays which is much more prone to cracking.
Apple are not alone in their guilt on this issue. I learned this trick with xbox and PS4 lead reballings
- drill a few hundred small holes in the bottom of the computer - obviously detach it first - very time consuming - but this will dramatically lower temperature
- elevate it slightly to allow heat to flow out better.
I learned this trick with my old powerbook g4 which ran very hot. Too hot really. After drilling the holes and elevating it ran much cooler.
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I am coming from an early 2011 macbook pro and have waited years for an upgrade. I hope its fixed before i get mine on dec 20 , i already sold my macbook pro.
Care to explain why, or we should just take your word?
I played with one, and it seemed like a pretty good machine to me.
Except that the latest round of laptops have fewer features than since Steve first came up with the concept of a laptop computer.
totally unacceptable, it seems like they lost their focus and their direction probably even their motivation, they need to replace the entire team. bring new people that has passion and new ideas because the people that are there now they completely lost it.
You are right about that but I've tried it 3 different machines bought from different vendors and it seemed to solve the problem, of course it still doesn't rule out a hardware defect but a software issue seems more likely.
They won't be over until there's a viable alternative.
Windows isn't something I'm interested in going back to and Google aren't offering anything. For the time being, as much as I want to leave Apple, I'm stuck.