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Next month!?!?!?!? What the fish, we were promised Pros this month, and I want them this month!!!!!
Hp just announced their new spectre x360 with kaby lake, thinner bezels and design and windows hello functionality. Come on apple, gimme the invite!
Nice looking machine, honestly. Wonder if it will also be available with an OLED display at some point like the previous one...
More info here: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016...pectre-x360-adds-thunderbolt-3-windows-hello/
According to this listing of Apple events, listing every event going back to 1998, Apple has never had an October event past the mid point of October.
http://aaplinvestors.net/marketing/events/
WTF is Apple doing to the Mac line ?
http://aaplinvestors.net/marketing/events/
WTF is Apple doing to the Mac line ?
Might want to re-check October 2013, October 2012 and October 2010 there. They're all past the mid-points of October.
SSD is not for mass storage but fast access. Plus, you think the company who offered 16gb in their smartphones til the last generation as entry level will be the first laptop company to introduce such big SSD space? Haha.
Besides that: current upgrade price from 256GB to 1TB is $800. The 1TB SSD costs around 200-300 dollars in the customer market. From a financial view they would take double the price. You still believe they WILL offer up to 2TB?
Show me a new <300$ PCIe SSD with 1TB and >2000MB/s r/w and I will personally gift it to you. Maybe.
If it's really going to happen this month, Gurman and/or Ming should know something, right? When were their last statements? They're to quiet too if you ask me...
Help me guys! I'm slowly losing faith it is going to happen in October.
Help me guys! I'm slowly losing faith it is going to happen in October.
Ming is supply-chain related so the only thing he would know is if the new MBP is in volume production or not. Gurman said in the facebook video posted like a few pages back that he knows it will be in October, but does not know whether it will be an event or a press release or "something"
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Ming has much more knowledge than supply-chain related stuff. Production didn't start in March/April when he released very detailed reports and dates of the upcoming Macbook Pros. He may get informations from supply-chain but it's much more than that.
Well, how do you know production didn't start in March/April?
Maybe not volume production, but even CNC sampling.With the rMB starting at 256, the 128 rMBP will likely go. That leaves room for 256/512/1TB, and maybe a 2 TB tier. I don't disagree that prices will remain outrageous, however.
@Branflaakes that's common knowledge. Apple produces their prototypes themselves until they are ready for mass production (http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/01...top-secret-product-development-process-works/). We are talking about laptops not iPhones. The quantity is much lower and so is the production time. It makes no sense to produce items 6-7 months before they are released. Plus: if they would have been ready you sure would have seen leaks or copies.
okay: I can edit my post, too I was refering to mass production not prototype samples which can be changed by Apple all the time.
okay: I can edit my post, too
I was refering to mass production not prototype samples which can be changed by Apple all the time.
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I'm so far gone I am imagining the event in detail, with storage capacities showing up as 128/256/512 and then "no, not those" and dem babies turning into 256/512/1TB. "At the same price! Except for the price bump we had to introduce because of OLED bar, of course".
SEEERBAAAANNNN!!!! *breaks down*
You're not getting the gist of what I'm saying. The leaked shell was from a Cult Of Mac May 31,2016 headline. You're telling us Ming Chi-Kuo gave us the news in March-April, which is all but 1-2 months earlier. How do you know that the shell did not leak to Ming before it leaked to Cult of Mac? For it to have chinese writing on the shell itself, then it must have been a prototype produced in China/Taiwan(most likely China). Then it was VOLUNTARILY leaked by someone to Cult of Mac. My argument is that SUPPLY-CHAIN SIDE it could have been leaked to Ming a month earlier than Cult Of Mac (which is obviously more than plausible since it's Ming's JOB to search for leaks, whilst Cult Of Mac is a mere rumor site that has a "Tips? Email Us!" section), hence he still gets his sources from the supply chain.
Just gonna leave this here for the day it comes...
Is he the fusion between Mark Gurman and Serban?
(Wait, a had a vision! imagine the fusion between our three best analysts! Coming in three prototypes:
1 - Mirk Gerban Kuo
2 - Mang Surban Kuo
3 - Mark Serman
...what exactly do you mean with "nothing" ?
Ok, true that we don't know for sure what's gonna happen, but the previsions we have are 99% sure
1 - we have the leaked chassis
2 - we know about the OLED
3 - we know the type of CPUs that will be used
4 - we know the mechanism of the keyboard
5 - we know about the dGPU
6 - we know about new metal hinges
Geez, what's more?!
Yeah, sure, Apple charges extra. That's nothing new, to be fair. My point was to show that not all SSDs are the same, or of equal quality (and price). You may find Samsung SSDs for that price, but that's going to be a 2.5'' SATA-SSD and not a M2 formfactor PCI-e enabled SSD. The differences not only in price, but in size and mainly performance are huge; PCIe SSDs are in some way to normal SSDs what normal SSDs are to HDDs. So, it's no fair (or logical) comparison to look at say a 850 Evo and a 950 Pro and say they are the same.
Are there M2-formfactor 2TB SSDs out yet? Samsung f.ex. only produces up to 1TB (https://tinkertry.com/samsung-960-pro-and-960-evo-and-SM961-m-2-nvme-announced), the only one I could find was a server model from Seagate that is comparably slow (http://www.anandtech.com/show/10517/seagate-expands-nytro-enterprise-ssd-family-with-2tb-m2-xm1440). So the question maybe is not if Apple wants to include a 2TB option, but if a 2TB option is technically possible at the time.
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