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Waiting for Skylake MBP thread
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So does anyone with a MacBook Pro with a dgpu have issues with like chrome or anything? I heard about some people saying that chrome would use the dgpu and cause their MBP to get loud and heat up. If that's no longer an issue then I'm seriously considering getting a dgpu this year
My colleague has a 2014 model, I can hear the fan pretty constantly, I don't know if that's normal for 15" Pros. I can never hear the fan in my 13" unless I fire up a game or FCPX.
Think I'm just gonna go with the igpu. The most intensive game I play will probably be Cs:GO lol. Also I don't plan on bootcamping anyways so I won't be able to play most games
I'm probably going with the base model iGPU, despite the tradeoffs in performance. I want the most quiet and reliable laptop possible.
Thanks for the answers guys! Another question I have is, do we know for sure whether the 13" will have a dual core processor like is traditionally the case? Or is quad core a possibility?
Ok, so most of you guys seem like you've worked with Macs before on a consistent basis. I haven't.
What's some key things I should do once I get my first MacBook Pro? Like, protection-wise, both physically and on the actual OS. Any helpful transition guides from Windows to Mac? Any shortcuts, applications, programs, that are essential to being productive and efficient on macOS?
What's some key things I should do once I get my first MacBook Pro? Like, protection-wise, both physically and on the actual OS. Any helpful transition guides from Windows to Mac? Any shortcuts, applications, programs, that are essential to being productive and efficient on macOS?
Protection wise, nothing.
Coming from Windows, you might need Paragon or Tuxera NTFS to enable you Mac to read and write to any external USBs you might have that are formatted for Windows (NTFS).
You might wanna dedicate an external drive for Time Machine (automatic backup from which you can restore, and very handy when switching from and old Mac to a new Mac). It should be formatted to macOS journaled format or something, don't remember.
Shortcuts, you might wanna google, there are thousands.
If you have a Windows specific app that can't run on Mac but you absolutely need it, Parallels is the way to go (virtual machine software). It can run Windows and Mac in parallel flawlessly unless you intend to play PC games on it, then you'd need to bootcamp (dual boot).
As for the rest, let us know what you usually work on...what kind of apps do you need?
Edit: as Imom said, VLC is a must for video playback. It comes embeded with all possible codecs.
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I second the recommendation of a dedicated Time Machine disk, especially if you can run it as a network drive. All the basic productivity tools are included in MacOS. I'd also definitely recommend VLC as your video player. Parallels is fantastic for running Windows.
Protection-wise, a condom, definitely. Upon first glance one has no self control over the molestation of their Macs.
I think things will grow on you through use. Discovering something in a real-world scenario is so much more useful than reading about a new shortcut here and forgetting about it.
I will sit with my credit card and wait the 27 October.
I want badly a Mac Book Pro 15.
Apple please keep SD-card reader and MagSafe and if you go USB-C please at least for of those (come on Ives!!! be a good boy now)
While you are at it please make the keyboard water resistant as their have been 4 Mac Book Pros wrecked in my family by water or soda. I am happy that my iPhone 7+ 256 GB can deal with water in a decent way.
I want badly a Mac Book Pro 15.
Apple please keep SD-card reader and MagSafe and if you go USB-C please at least for of those (come on Ives!!! be a good boy now)
While you are at it please make the keyboard water resistant as their have been 4 Mac Book Pros wrecked in my family by water or soda. I am happy that my iPhone 7+ 256 GB can deal with water in a decent way.
No need to do it right the first time, if that's even possible. Pop the box open, observe the new unit and use it to your hearts content. As you discover the needs a quick google search or pop a question on this forum someone will help you out.
No use suggesting a bunch of apps or processes that you may not need. Just try to use what's baked in and expand from there. I mean, I like these apps and recommend to anyone:
BusyCal
DiskWarrior
Omnifocus
Office Suite
Creative Suite
TextMate
PathFinder
LittleSnitch
Moom
VMWare Fusion
Symantec Whole Disk Encryption
Devonthink Pro
But that list of stuff is probably meaningless to you cause everyone's workflow is different. Well ok Little Snitch might be "mandatory" cause so many devs trying to ship "things" back to home base. Nope. "denied".
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Invest in a nice microfiber lined sleeve. Your new Macbook is a scratch and bump magnet and a sleeve is great during transport. Cases are a bit excessive unless you're really on the move all the time. In that case, stick with a legitimate company like Incase.
im dicey between a maxed out 15inch model with or without dgpu
can anyone tell me how much is the average loss in battery life in the dgpu model
can anyone tell me how much is the average loss in battery life in the dgpu model
I edit 4K video several days a week and I would absolutely get the model with a dedicated GPU.
None if you leave Automatic graphics switching on in OS X.
It's hard to know in Windows, but the AMD dGPU has a low-power setting (configurable via Power Options and enabled automatically for the "On battery" setting by default) that provides decent battery life at the expense of performance. I can get 6-7 hours in Windows vs 8-9 in Mac with the 2015 rMBP with dGPU.
The integrated graphics may provide a better low-power experience than a heavily constrained dGPU in Windows, but I don't have experience of an iGPU-only MBP to test the difference in battery life or performance.
I will say however that that 6-7 hours is with many other battery-saving settings enabled as well, and the experience in Windows is pretty poor when trying to get maximum battery life. SSD speeds in particular are heavily impacted (almost feels like going back to magnetic sometimes). Apple does so well in maintaining a much better user experience and getting even longer battery life.
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The only utility I absolutely need is Jumpcut. It's a free clipboard history app. Very light, just a menu. (But I will likely switch to Pastebot when it's out of beta.) Everything else I need is pretty much baked into the OS these days.
But other apps I use:
Scrivener
Tweetbot (no, this doesn't help with productivity)
Fantastical (the old widget-only version)
Dropbox
Soulver, best calculator IMO. You just type.
iStat Menus, for keeping tabs on CPU usage.
Superduper! - this makes drive clones, which are nice to have in addition to Time Machine backups.
If you want to help with organization, some people swear by Hazel. It auto-files stuff for you. I've been meaning to try it but haven't gotten around to it yet.
Shortcuts...you can edit Menu shortcuts in the keyboard system preference pane. The only change I've made is "Paste and Match Style" is now Command-V, so I don't have to fix formatting issues.
Yes - I work with this stuff everyday. I also work with all 3 of the companies mentioned here everyday. For example last week I was out at Apples EMEIA headquarters in Cork - the week before I was in Dublin at Facebooks EMEA HQ.
Facebook were pretty transparent about what would be shared between whatsapp and them - your phone number, type of device (IOS/Android) and usage pattern. You also had the chance to turn it off.
If you understood the encryption you would realise that they still can't read your messages etc. It's like the post office knowing I've sent a locked letter. They can see what car I rock up in and what time I was at the post office but that's it.
You want a free service - there is a trade off, but in this case a very limited one and a pretty good deal
. No such thing as a free lunch though
People should only consider the dGPU if they need to do proper gaming or really GPU intensive work, not just some 4K editing or minor encoding etc - which even can be done on a 12" retina Macbook (Albeit slower). To get a dGPU so these things are slightly faster, is not worth the downsides that a dGPU has (and it has many).
So at all costs, waiting a few more seconds rendering/encoding/medium settings on game on an iGPU is the way to go unless you are doing some really high volume level of gpu intensive tasks/graphics demanding gaming on a regular basis.
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