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Waiting for Skylake MBP thread
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Being better informed would help you out in this decision. See you in 2018
Pretty much, yeah.
Then again, I'll probably just suck it up and buy it about 8 weeks after launch (in case they f*ck it up). I like to have the latest stuff. Always doing ones best work is a psychological thing for me.
Oh hello there liebe Oppenheim!
How are you?
We missed you!
Are you enjoying your old legacy flimsy 3.5 mm Jack + SD reader?
Also, are you ready to wait 3 years for next Coffee Lake MBP?
No, I'm guessing 32, but 24 is not going to happen, as it would not be dualchannel. 6, 12, 24 is stupid and should be blocked by mb manufacturers.
looks like I am getting my iPhone 7 before the new MacBook Pro! delivers on Tuesday 10/18! maybe we will see invites the same day I get my new iPhone
maybe we will see invites the same day I get my new iPhone 
That's not how it works on the Mac. Do you seriously see that happening with Adobe CS for example?
That's how it works on the Mac App Store...but nobody should use it.
I agree the best tools make work much more of a pleasure.
But Wrong is right - Coffee lake not out for a long time so the next update can only be minor. Buy the one coming up soon and keep for a while.
You'll be lucky if they offer over 16 to be honesta) Could ARM have designed something we don’t know about ?
b) Could another company ?
I’m not trying to stoke the fires of rumour, just get some educated responses to talk I hear from other Apple pundits. And yes, I’m waiting for a 15-inch MBP and yes, I want all the ports and 24GB RAM minimum.
Praying Apple don’t sacrifice functionality to skinny design – if they want to make anything thinner and lighter it should be the fugly brick that isWatch.
Sigh if we get no invites this week I'm buying a 2015 model
Invites 18-20th for 25-27 event? Please...
Invites 18-20th for 25-27 event? Please...
That Photoshop CC must surely be a RAM hog! Be careful about taking raw memory figures. The active memory and memory pressure are more relevant to performance.
I have 16 GB in my rMBP and never noticed lack of RAM to be much of a problem. Only once did I see full usage when running two data-heavy computational tasks simultaneously in 64-bit apps in Windows and even then the software most likely just used what's available out of convenience and because it could. It didn't suffer any major performance penalty from hitting the memory ceiling so far as I could tell and doubtless having 32 or even 64 GB would've made massive gains in this instance. I don't work with video though so not sure how demanding that is.
I find it's generally only poorly coded and inefficient apps that have problems. Well coded apps should be able to handle themselves gracefully even if they run out of RAM. Heck, there are some people that say FCPX is usable on an 8 GB retina MacBook!
Having said that, at this point and especially if you do a lot of heavy lifting, 32 GB is probably recommended for future-proofing a high-end laptop. I'm happy with my 2015 rMBP but I'll most likely want 32 GB in my next one in a year or two.
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If there are no invites next week is there a possibility that there will be a November release!?!?
Yes it is, and who's said they would ditch Intel Macs? If they never made another Intel Mac you would still be able to buy them for years anyway if you need to run a specific application which isn't supported by any new architecture.
That'll show Apple. Now they get money from you on outdated hardware.
Assuming they do send invites on Thursday and have a release the following week (say, the 27th), what's the likelihood they'll actually ship before November? Is it usually fairly immediate for MB releases or does it take a few weeks? I need to have a MBP in hand by 10/31 at the latest and I'd really love for it to be a new model and not a 2015 model.
For sure, and its the last thing I want to do. But what is the alternative for those of us on hardware that is on its final leg.
I have been using a 2011 MBA (with a smashed screen) connected to an external monitor, and is getting slower by the day.
Ship, or available in-store? It would be a good chance they're available in-store maybe even the next day, while custom models take longer to ship.
It doesn't work like that with most Adobe products, thankfully. The apps themselves, for as long as I can remember as I began using Adobe software during the 4.0 days, was that it had a memory scaling feature. This tied into history states. It wasn't much of an issue in the days of 32 bit programs and not being able to address a whole lot, but it's different now. You can set an Adobe product to constrain itself to however much RAM you'll allow it. I've got 64 GB myself and have mine set to 12 GB with a mere 12 history states, as I don't need a whole lot to go back and fix an error. Even in today's world with SSDs, m.2 or PCI-E SSD, you won't find many using it as a RAM disk over a traditional Caviar Black or a 10-15K drive setup. The amount of data an Adobe program like Photoshop or Premiere or After Effects can do during complex work would put your writes on your SSD to around 30-50 GB a day. If you're a professional, it wouldn't be too hard to write terabytes of data compared to other people.
If I'm editing video I've taken myself from family events, I'll slide the RAM scale up and within a few seconds of encoding a 1080p or higher video, it'll easily use 40 GB of RAM. I've toyed with the idea of setting up a small offload network in my home office with a PC setup up with dual M4000s, but I don't do a lot of video editing and the investment wouldn't be wise in the long run.
Long time reader, thought posting here would help because shared agony is better right?
I don't fully get one thing: A keynote on the 27th would be a Thursday.
When has Apple ever done a keynote on a Thursday? All the ones that I can remember off the top of my head were on Tuesday or Wednesday (WWDC being the exception on a Monday).
I don't fully get one thing: A keynote on the 27th would be a Thursday.
When has Apple ever done a keynote on a Thursday? All the ones that I can remember off the top of my head were on Tuesday or Wednesday (WWDC being the exception on a Monday).
This years March event was on a Monday also.
They held an event to announce iBooks Author/iTunes U on a Thursday a few years ago, I dont recall any actual hardware announcements but theses no reason why they couldn't.
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