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Waiting for Skylake MBP thread
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I'm in the same boat as many of you. Old Lenovo unit is dying and I'm holding out as long as I can for the refresh/update. I do have some gaming requirements namely Blizzard products and some new MMOs coming out (Shards Online, Albion Online). I've read mixed reviews of the performance gains the new iGPUs will offer.
Relative to the current Iris 6100 is the new GPU architecture definitely worth holding out for in this forums opinion?
Relative to the current Iris 6100 is the new GPU architecture definitely worth holding out for in this forums opinion?
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/waiting-for-skylake-mbp-thread.1661246/page-140#post-22472665
This is my post on this topic, just one page before.
HD550 in 13 inch will possibly be 15-20% faster than HD540, and 580 from 15 inch should be somewhere between 50 and 70% faster than HD540.
580 should not be that far from GTX 860M...
Definitely june. Theres no Intel NOR Apple manufacture rumors going around. We would've definitely heard something out that process of getting new pieces.
Don't believe the "macbook manufactory is small than iPhones" ********.
Laptops are just as important and big as iPhones. We even heard *SOMETHING* of the 12inch macbook before it came out.
Hell, just look at the iPhone 7. rumors already...
I should state that I'm looking at the 13" route for portability. Thanks for these details. The article you linked looks to have a good comparison of the iris 6100 to the new gen stuff.
Hang on! Has no one here noticed Intel's announcement of this years edition of their NUC?
They have a new model coming with a 45W, quad-core chip, with IrisPro. Sounds exactly like the chip for the 15" rMBP, no?
When's it coming? Intel says "...we should expect more information... in mid-March" (my emphasis)
See Arstechnica: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016...core-mini-pc-with-iris-pro-and-thunderbolt-3/
First sight of 28W Skylake-U: Core i7-6567U 2C/4T (3.3-3.6GHz) + Iris Graphics 550 (1100MHz + 64MB eDRAM)
Macbook Pro 13" 2016
https://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench3/4895341
Macbook Pro 13" 2016
https://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench3/4895341
Check back about 12 pages, this has been discussed heavily during CES.
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Very nice, June crowd gone be salty. And it's running 10.11.3???? Submit this to the front page NOW
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This has already been discussed. Please see my post #3383 in this thread. There were no significant rumors of the 15" rMBP redesign until 14 May 2012. The rMBP was then released on 11 June 2012.
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Outstanding... front page material for sure. Our first real rumor of the Skylake MBPs.
that model number is sus...SKLCRB1,1, Skylake Customer Reference Board??
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and the proc is still unreleased according to ARK so this is crazy. From notebookcheck.net:
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ark actually says it's been "launched" Q3'15 but unlike for the other iris 550 CPUs, it does not have a "Release" and instead says "Status: Announced". so that's a bit confusing.
13" Skylake rMBP...wow..
Btw please tell me the base model starts at 8GB of memory, what's up with this 6GB stuff?
Btw please tell me the base model starts at 8GB of memory, what's up with this 6GB stuff?
The early 2015 13'' retina macbook pro with i5 5257u is much more faster (2982 single, 6278 multi) than the 2016 model with i7? I dont't think so.
Why do you suppose this to be an apple product and not another brand laptop ?
Is this a trustworthy site with these measurements ?
Is this a trustworthy site with these measurements ?
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I don't know if Apple will hold a special event to announce the Skylake rMBP 15" so there is no event in June as far as the past trend goes and as far as I know either it will announced in March or just before the fall event of iPhone 7 i.e. July-August. But I don't know if Apple will still wait this much long for their 15" rMBP because then it would be almost 3 years without a chip upgrade that will be making them fall behind way too much of the competition.
Could be an indictation of a new, more thermally constrained design, like the MacBook is. Maybe it's a down-throttled CPU?
Or, maybe it's just a test board, as guessed above, that doesn't reflect accurately what the coming MBP setup is? Certainly the reported memory configuration is weird.
Show me a leaked 6850HQ with Intel 580 then I'll get excited. Intel has been releasing the lower CPUs like clockwork from beginning. The high-end quad core i7s have yet to be seen. All the PC manufacturers are just using the baseline 6700HQ. They can of course, get away with it since they are using dGPUs anyway.
Wrong CPU. Intel ARK has the 6267U, not the 6567U.
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Drivers and it being a test machine would be my guess. The 6GB of RAM screams some type of prototype logicboard.
The sad part is, Apple choosing to go with a more thermally constrained design and just letting the CPU throttle is totally Apple-like. Probably the number one reason why I'm partially scared of a new redesign.
Wrong CPU. Intel ARK has the 6267U, not the 6567U.
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Drivers and it being a test machine would be my guess. The 6GB of RAM screams some type of prototype logicboard.
The sad part is, Apple choosing to go with a more thermally constrained design and just letting the CPU throttle is totally Apple-like. Probably the number one reason why I'm partially scared of a new redesign.
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