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Waiting for Anand's Haswell rMBP Review Megathread
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Updated my 750M drivers to 331.65 now. Sadly it changes nothing about anything. Maybe performance is better in some games I don't own. Still no boost. Still impossible to change anything about the clocks even manually. I can adjust the memory clocks but not the core clock.
At 925Mhz the performance should be just about identical to the 650M and even DDR3 750Ms in Windows notebooks can beat it at times.
Since the driver update I cannot start hardware monitor anymore. It just crashes. GPU-z still works.
Compared to the last gen rMBP the model with the 750M gets you 1GB more VRAM and more problems with bootcamp. Also even though my Mac says it isn't eligible for the EFI 1.2 update that fixes some 750M issues on OSX. I feel like they still show. I got once today better performance on Iris Pro in SC2 than with the 750M. It was a fairly quite (fans didn't seem to think they were needed) but rather slow gaming 25 fps where Iris got 40 and 750M should get 60.
This all should be software issues but why they have so many problems on a virtually identical new model is beyond me.
I understand when people still haven't purchased a MBP, but I am more pointing to those who have already purchased and ordered their rMBP, yet still saying waiting eagerly to read Anand's review. How's the review going to alter their decision when they have already purchased/ordered?
I can answer for myself. I receive the rMBP maybe on the 21th. And I have 14 day return period. So it can change my mind. Of course I can test things myself too.
And even if I don't return my rMBP it is STILL interesting to read the review. Learn what is good and bad. I'm interested in technology - no matter if I own the product or not. Maybe the review makes me feel that the purchase was especially good etc. So plenty of reasons to read the review. And it takes way too long...
Some of us don't treat reviews as purchase guides but as a way to improve the knowledge on our systems. Many do not have the time or knowledge to investigate like Anand's team will, that's why they will expect this review even if they already own the system.
We enjoy technology, knowledge, it's not about making a buying decision, I doubt many of Anand's readers need a review to know if the system they are getting is good for them or not...
The battery life on my 2.5-years old iPhone 4 is still better than my wifes iPhone 5. What am I doing wrong?
p.s. sorry for off-topic
Anand will generally tell you things that you didn't already know about your laptop, like does it throttle when performing a certain task or how a certain component has multiple vendors/differing quality.
One has to be sceptical when approaching Anand's analysis as a certain case of goodness cannot be generalized. Eg. MBP 2012s throttle around 5% in HL2 hence all games will only see minor throttling at most. When in fact people have seen significant throttling in games which are CPU/GPU intensive.
Basically it gives you a whole new scope to which you should judge the goodness of your product, perhaps through it, a method of romanticising or appreciating the machine may come to play. Or you could be one who ends up with the shorter end of the stick and realize that AT has sooth-sayed exactly what you are suffering from (as with throttling mentioned earlier)
Oh, I truly am. I simply counter-argued the claim that states bad usability of one-two-year-old devices due to their worn-out batteries.
Agree and I made my decision I put my money down and could care less what someone else thinks. I look at his and other reviews to find out about the system, what its good at and more importantly find the weak areas and maybe try to improve them for my needs. Or sometimes more important avoid issues like loading a software that just is not working with it well. Right now my raw processing software is buggy. I hit the crop tool and try to rotate a image and it crashes. These kinds of data points are good to know and try to avoid.
We also have a new OS and a new box on it so there are issues we need to solve and get correct.
There are far more people buying iPads so they will get more hits with an ipad review then a Mac Pro.
I'm quite surprised that the iPad Mini review is already up but no sign of his Haswell 15'. I hope Anand is not having problems with his unit.
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Of course. How can he review the Mac Pro when it's not even released yet.
I'm quite surprised that the iPad Mini review is already up but no sign of his Haswell 15'. I hope Anand is not having problems with his unit.
I don't find it surprising that Anand would publish the iPad Mini review ASAP since it's going to get a lot of attention over the holidays, but I also find it a bit strange that the Haswell MBP will have been out for a month Tuesday and still hasn't been reviewed. I think the average turnaround for previous MacBook reviews has been closer to 10-14 days, and there have been a number of reviews posted for fairly niche products (GFX cards, displays, etc.) in the interim.
I'm quite surprised that the iPad Mini review is already up but no sign of his Haswell 15'. I hope Anand is not having problems with his unit.
He probably got an advance model before the iPad actually came out.
Over a month since release day and still no review...?
I don't particularly care, but I do find Anand's silence curious to say the least.
I don't particularly care, but I do find Anand's silence curious to say the least.
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