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Waiting for Cannonlake MacBook Pro

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xdragon

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Cannonlake is Intel’s codename for 10 nm Skylake microarchitecture.

It will be used with Intel 200 Series chipsets (Union Point). This will be Union Bay platform.

Expected to have support for 3D XPoint NVM that will be up to 1,000 times faster than flash memory and will have 10 times lower latency than NVMe SSD.

Release date: 2H 2017


Can’t wait to see MacBook Pro with these technologies!
 
Maybe we should wait for kaby lake first, 2016 Q4 :) It will be used with Intel 200 Series chipsets and 3D XPoint NVM.
 
Ries said:
Maybe we should wait for kaby lake first, 2016 Q4 :) It will be used with Intel 200 Series chipsets and 3D XPoint NVM.
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Do you think that Kaby Lake chips for MacBook Pro will be ready 2016 Q4 ?

I think all these technologies won't be ready for 2017 MBP. It will be just refresh before 2018 Cannonlake MBP.
 
Samuelsan2001 said:
Kabylake is just a rebranded skylake with a slight GPU upgrade.
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Depends on what you mean with slight...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaby_Lake

Kaby Lake will add native USB 3.1 support, whereas Skylake motherboards require a third-party add-on chip in order to provide USB 3.1 ports.[5] It will also feature a new graphics architecture to improve performance in 3D graphics and 4K video playback.[6]

Kaby Lake will add native HDCP 2.2 support.[7]

Kaby Lake will add full fixed function HEVC Main10/10-bit and VP9 10-bit hardware decoding.[8]

  • 200 Series chipset (Union Point)
  • Support for 16 PCI Express 3.0 lanes from CPU, 24 PCI Express 3.0 lanes from PCH (LGA 1151)
  • Support for Intel Optane Technology
 
r6mile said:
Skylake MBPs aren't even out yet and you're already thinking of the next thing!
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Well... Yes! I think we will wait a looong time for 7 nm processors to come (year 2020 and beyond). So I am thinking of Cannonlake first... :)
 
Ries said:
Depends on what you mean with slight...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaby_Lake

Kaby Lake will add native USB 3.1 support, whereas Skylake motherboards require a third-party add-on chip in order to provide USB 3.1 ports.[5] It will also feature a new graphics architecture to improve performance in 3D graphics and 4K video playback.[6]

Kaby Lake will add native HDCP 2.2 support.[7]

Kaby Lake will add full fixed function HEVC Main10/10-bit and VP9 10-bit hardware decoding.[8]

  • 200 Series chipset (Union Point)
  • Support for 16 PCI Express 3.0 lanes from CPU, 24 PCI Express 3.0 lanes from PCH (LGA 1151)
  • Support for Intel Optane Technology
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All fine and dandy but nothing takes advantage of any of that currently and being able to use 4K now and slightly better in the future doesn't mean much there still is very little content and until people buy into it more there will continue to be little content. In late 2017 this may be worth something but by then you'll want canon lake anyway.
 
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Samuelsan2001 said:
All fine and dandy but nothing takes advantage of any of that currently and being able to use 4K now and slightly better in the future doesn't mean much there still is very little content and until people buy into it more there will continue to be little content. In late 2017 this may be worth something but by then you'll want canon lake anyway.
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Nothing takes advantage of it because it is not available yet. Nothing takes advantage of what-ever new Cannon Lake brings either, so why wait for that then?
 
Mattsasa said:
The cannon lake iGPUs are going to be insane![/QUOTE
Ries said:
Nothing takes advantage of it because it is not available yet. Nothing takes advantage of what-ever new Cannon Lake brings either, so why wait for that then?
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No good reason to wait for it or any tech for that matter buy what you need when you need it and get something new when what's you have no longer does what you need.
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Can't wait for the transparent floating screen coming with cannonlake :)
Redefining portability.
Bring a tiny cube anywhere and just press on the apple logo to boot it up. What whaaat
 
Can't wait to see this thread reaching 240 pages and storms of users claiming the lack of rumors, predicting releases based on nothing, and trolls with a friend of a friend which know when and how it's going to be released.

Good luck with that, I'll go with the Skylake (whenever Apple release it...)
:D
 
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WRONG said:
Can't wait to see this thread reaching 240 pages and storms of users claiming the lack of rumors, predicting releases based on nothing, and trolls with a friend of a friend which know when and how it's going to be released.

Good luck with that, I'll go with the Skylake (whenever Apple release it...)
:D
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You... You... You... Partybraker! ;)
 
The upgrade culture has gotten so bad that people are expecting things 2-3 generations in advance. What has Apple created? lol It's not even guaranteed that we'll see skylake macbooks this YEAR.
 
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With the rumors circulating that the Macbook Pro won't be refreshed with Skylake until 2016 H2, I'll just wait for Kaby Lake. I'd rather have the full fixed function HEVC Main10/10-bit decoding acceleration & VP9 10-bit decoding acceleration and native HDCP 2.2 support.

I have no faith in Intel being able to deliver 10nm architecture before 2018 at the earliest.
 
There won't be a Cannonlake, by then we will all be working on our cheap plastic pink iPhone 7SE's!
 
I happily bought my 15" MBP this year, knowing that it appears to be a tried and tested format with hopefully all niggles corrected. Good luck with all that super duper new tech... ;-)
 
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