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Waiting for Skylake MBP thread
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I know that I prefer physical function keys, period. Don't need gimmicks that use power and have no tactical click because that stupid thinner and lighter mojo seems key.
Also for some people typing is very important so it's understandable that some are concerned, with the possibility of adding a bad keyboard without travel.
Yea my mistake. I mean my 13 non retina i7 quad vs skylake 15 i5 quad.
I'm sorry to disappoint, but your 13" non retina i7 has no quad. It has hyperthreading, but is dual core.
Question:
I've been using windows all my life and I'll be switching to the new MBP soon. I don't believe I will be needing windows save for one thing: games. While I rarely play anymore, I do however start up Overwatch sometime and if there ever will be a new Elder Scrolls, I will probably want to play that. So my question is: can Parallels handle gaming or do I need to bootcamp windows?
I've been using windows all my life and I'll be switching to the new MBP soon. I don't believe I will be needing windows save for one thing: games. While I rarely play anymore, I do however start up Overwatch sometime and if there ever will be a new Elder Scrolls, I will probably want to play that. So my question is: can Parallels handle gaming or do I need to bootcamp windows?
I agree that physical keys give better tactile feedback but the potential for the OLED bar is great. App specific menus, toolbars, suggestions etc. It's a bit like adding that one line of suggestions on iOS (you know that line that sits right above the on-display keyboard).
As for tactile feedback, I imagine Apple would use their taptic engine, although that is extra battery consumption I could do without. Nevertheless excited to see the final product.
Parallels can handle Overwatch well supposedly, they worked with Blizzard to make the experience as smooth as possible (or so I heard, haven't tried my self yet).
Alright, thanks for the answers! Final question then: Can I use the same windows activation key for bootcamp and parallels? Or do I have to buy two separate keys?
If it has been 3 years "waiting" for Skylake CPU, then it means this CPU is 3 years outdated, isn't that so?
No, Intel announce their CPU lineup well in advance. We know what *should* be coming out in 2017/2018 but that is subject to change and delays.
Skylake > Kaby Lake > Coffee Lake/Cannon Lake(2017-2018) > etcLake
The reason you don't see a Coffee/Canon Lake thread is because the mods won't allow it.
You can use Edge to watch the keynote.For the keynote, at that moment I will not have the possibility to watch it on my laptop (windows 10), I'll only have my One Plus 3 with me...Anyone has experience to be able to watch it on Android?
I wouldn't read too much into it. Probably just that they refresh a lot of their systems at the same time and not just spec bumps but way thinner cases on the MBP and a re-alignment of product lines at the same time. A bit more effort went into that than into new watchbands and emojis.
Oh right, thought you had your laptop with you but couldn't watch it because it's Windows, my bad.Please read my post again
You mean the one which is gonna come out on the 27th Oct right ? Not like the next one after that ?
Np!
If I had the possibility to watch it on my laptop (which is on the brink of decaying) I would do that. Just searching for an alternative. I don't have an iPhone so.
I loved that and it does make it a unique product, I hope they don't (but I do expect them to)
That sounds really hipster.
"New MacBook Pro? Oh, that's probably something you haven't heard about "
But more probably, is because it's a true update after long time.
I'm curious, why you don't like it?
The OLED bar is reasonable, the shape of keyboards too, and you can bet that the chassis is going to be quite similar to the actual one, just a little bit slimmer.
What's wrong with it?
Anyway
I agree with that
/thought about NVIDIA CUDA vs AMD Open CL. I'm quite ignorant about the matter, but I'm somehow confident in Vulkan.
Is multiplatform, and competition is always a good thing.
I'll welcome AMD GPUs.
I feel the same way. Processor updates, chassis redesign, keyboard redesign are all norms for a MacBook Pro update. Heck I'll even say that if the OLED touchbar they're introducing is considered big, then the 2012 redesign was the biggest undertaking ever cause that introduced the world to high DPI screens on laptops.
There surely has to be something more. Apple Pencil input seems like that, it would be great for artists. But there has to something even more than that.
Or I'm just expecting too much after this wait lol.
Do they? The previous Macs all used an identical keyboard. It seems quite likely that the keyboard on the new MacBook Pro will be either identical to the 12-inch MacBook's, or identical but with slightly increased key-travel.
This has me wondering: are there any graphic designers on this thread that have made UI concepts for the 'Magic Toolbar'?
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MacBook Air - A10X ARM SoC;
MacBook - Kabylake Low Power dual core Intel chip - iGPU;
MacBook Pro 13" - Skylake Hi power dual core Intel chip - iGPU;
MacBook Pro 15" - Skylake Hi power quad core Intel chip - dGPU.
Then, in 2017, MacBook Pro will update to Kabylake
MacBook Air - A10X ARM SoC;
MacBook - Kabylake Low Power dual core Intel chip - iGPU;
MacBook Pro 13" - Skylake Hi power dual core Intel chip - iGPU;
MacBook Pro 15" - Skylake Hi power quad core Intel chip - dGPU.
Then, in 2017, MacBook Pro will update to Kabylake
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