Waiting for Macbook 2016. is it worth it?

[MrDLai]

YES - a nice alternative could be: Just stay with your "old" MBP and buy a second-hand MacPro. Put in a cheap GTX 760 GPU OC ( more powerful than any Notebook GPU and with 2x mini display ports) and you have a redundant second system ready for 5k Monitors aside your MBP for about the same money you´d pay to "upgrade" on 2016 MBP… ;-)

Thanks for the tip, although I don't have a mbp right now lol actually mac-less right now as I recently sold my 2009 iMac.

 

[Samuelsan2001]

Yeah fine for picture and sound I would question wether the R9M370X can push a screen of that density smoothly and run graphics intensive apps at the same time hopefully someone will chime in that has got it to work.
This looks hopefull though
http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/apples-retina-macbook-pro-will-now-support-dells-5k-display/

 

[SamIchi]

Unless you're doing some intense video editing or 3D modeling, I wouldn't worry about the latest and greatest. For perspective I'm using my 2011 (top tier) MBP as my professional workhorse for design. I put an SSD in it last year and it was like a new computer.

If you can wait, then no biggie, wait til your hearts content. If you need something to do work then got get a computer, anything, it doesn't matter. If you want the latest and greatest and still need to do work, go shop Apple Refurbished for something that is a little cheaper but still has good resell value. When the new one comes out, you can sell your old one.