Yes, that's what I keep telling myself every day as I voraciously look for any evidence of when and what the Haswell upgrade will consist of
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Waiting for Haswell MBP Mega Thread
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Yes, that's what I keep telling myself every day as I voraciously look for any evidence of when and what the Haswell upgrade will consist of
Ah I'm not worried about it I'm getting a new MBP soon as these Haswell ones release.
I sold my 2012 MBP a few months ago in anticipation of the rMBP update, which obviously didnt happen!
It now feels like Ive been waiting ages!!
Will be throwing down the cash for a max spec rMBP as soon as its available!
Im not too bothered for battery life, as it'll be connected to power most of the time (will be used as a video editing machine primarily) but Im after the other developments as well (wifi ac, better on board graphics chip, etc).
I dont game on the mac, so I dont mind on board graphic, as long as it can video edit with ease! I'll be happy with an on board chip as long as it at least equals what the current system is capable of!
It now feels like Ive been waiting ages!!
Will be throwing down the cash for a max spec rMBP as soon as its available!
Im not too bothered for battery life, as it'll be connected to power most of the time (will be used as a video editing machine primarily) but Im after the other developments as well (wifi ac, better on board graphics chip, etc).
I dont game on the mac, so I dont mind on board graphic, as long as it can video edit with ease! I'll be happy with an on board chip as long as it at least equals what the current system is capable of!
Can you get iris pro on a dual core or is it only quad?
RMBP 13 might meet my needs if it had iris + quad!
RMBP 13 might meet my needs if it had iris + quad!
There are dual-core parts with Iris, but not Iris Pro. The difference is just the 128mb of L4 cache.
The 'leaked' benchmark for the 13" rMBP shows it using the dual core 28W CPU with Iris.
Just putting Haswell MBP aside for a second, anyone here waiting eagerly for Mavericks?
Personally, I am coming over to OSX for the first time and must say I'm very impressed with OSX's constant improvements. Just makes the wait even more dreadful!
Personally, I am coming over to OSX for the first time and must say I'm very impressed with OSX's constant improvements. Just makes the wait even more dreadful!
Just putting Haswell MBP aside for a second, anyone here waiting eagerly for Mavericks?
Personally, I am coming over to OSX for the first time and must say I'm very impressed with OSX's constant improvements. Just makes the wait even more dreadful!
Mavericks will be the best release since Snow Leopard. Looking so much forward to it!
I sure am!
I've been a Mac User since 2003's Mac OS X Panther and the operating system just keeps getting more refined.
I'm looking forward to Mavericks Multiple Display stuff, better notifications, tagging and finder tabs. I actually already use an app on Mountain Lion to give my finder tabs but I think Apples implementation will be better.
Definitely! It will be the 6th version of OS X on my old trusty 2007 MBP. It keeps getting better and better.
Thank you so much for that explanation. I've actually never bothered looking up why there was an 8GB limit for the 13"I assumed it was some sort of marketing reason.
Lucky for me I realized that I actually want a 15" instead of a 13", but for the 13" having a 16GB RAM option was my main feature request. (I was already planning to "force" myself to upgrade to a 15" if the option wasn't available.) Plus, I'm all for no dGPU so I at least am going to be a happy camper.
Haha no absolutely. I think it is more than enough performance for almost any student. And I myself wouldn't bother spending more money for the screen, but tech is basically the only thing I splurge on when it comes to spending money.
I thought we decided it would be worse performance for video editing
After 4500+ comments, I'm starting to go a little bit crazy (relative to my normal state).
How many years do you think it will be till we have something similar to this:
15" retina in a MBA form factor, 16GB RAM and a quad core processor. That's pretty much my ideal computer at this point...
How many years do you think it will be till we have something similar to this:
15" retina in a MBA form factor, 16GB RAM and a quad core processor. That's pretty much my ideal computer at this point...
You just described the 15" rMBP, so I imagine you mean the 13"? I think we'll see that pretty soon. Supposedly the necessary memory modules are just coming out and Broadwell (ETA early 2015?) will have suitable quad-core processors. The thinness is up for grabs, but I imagine the Air line will improve as well in the coming years (I wouldn't be surprised if there's a chassis refresh next year).
Well noticed.. I edited my post a few times before submitting it, and hadn't realised that in the end it's pretty much 'How long till we have the 15" rMBP in a MBA form factor'
Right now I'm torn between the form factor of the 13" MBA and the screen and power of the rMBP.
Well noticed.. I edited my post a few times before submitting it, and hadn't realised that in the end it's pretty much 'How long till we have the 15" rMBP in a MBA form factor'
Right now I'm torn between the form factor of the 13" MBA and the screen and power of the rMBP.
If you're going for the 13" rMBP and you have the cash, I think the extra pound and whatever thickness makes it well worth the screen and slight CPU boost. That said, if you're not dying for a retina screen and you're not going to keep your laptop for 4-5 years, you might as well save the money until the real retina Airs come out.
I'm deciding between the 13" and 15" rMBP (I do plan on keeping my laptop for 4-5 years, so the unfortunate cash hit I think and hope will be worth it... What's the saying? When you buy a nice thing you only cry once?), and was initially leaning toward the 13" for the portability until I realized that it basically sits on my desk except for when I'm going to/from work. And in that case it's the same weight as my current 13" MBP. So I decided I'm going to go ahead and get the more powerful 15", again also because I want it to last 4-5 years and a dual-core processor and 8GB RAM isn't going to do that as well.
I'm down to 4GB of RAM because my 2009 crashes constantly if I leave the second module in. It's painful.
First, I wanna tell people who were trying to speculate from the newly added rMBP (Feb 2013) in the stores with 30 business days shipping time, that they were totall wrong. The shipping time now is 1-3 business days
Second, I have a question to everyone who is waiting very patiently for the release of the Haswell version in October and please tolerate my question for the sake of discussion. What would you do if October (no, let's say November) is gone and Apple did not announce any new rMBP with Hasweel, what would you do, would you continue to wait?
Not if something equivalent or better is available... like a Dell Precision M3800.
Ouch. Dells do look nice in their product photos but having been burned a few too many times I have to say their build quality and actual ergonomics leave a lot to be desired. It's kind of a moot point. Apple is not going to skip Haswell in the MacBook Pros.
Just asking but have you ever used a Precision product? I have used many of them over the years and have always had good craftsmanship with excellent on-site support.
Of course, they are not cheap as the last one I had was $8500.00. Two other companies I was at bought dozens of them for high-end 3D and CAD work. They all were about $10k each.
I'm not a fan at all of Dell consumer products, but their pro/business line - I feel- is very good.
The same way with HP. I would not purchase an HP consumer product but their business Elitebook line is excellent too. Of course, they were also $8k to $10k each.
I tried to get people interested in MBPs but without on-site support it was moot point.
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yes, the only ones making workstations right now is dell and hp, and its truly a work of art, lenovo has something that they call workstation called the w530
the problems with that m3800 for me are:
- no dock and no TB
- design wise its terrible, its xps written all over it, I dont like it. if they used the adamo 13 as a basis, damnnn or the latitude Z. I prefer the adamo 13 design wise and it can fit the ethos of the lattitude and precisions and for me its a good design
the other specs and certifications aint yet released so cant comment on those
I think you should just relax and wait untill the new RMBP come out. Guessing around is just a waste of time, and meaningless.
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