the Dell XPS still offer the best value right now with the correct hardware
but their support is sloppy, really depends on your luck and location
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but their support is sloppy, really depends on your luck and location
Lol @ these prices!
Gonna keep my current Macs and buy an Apple watch to compensate for the TouchID feature, so I can login with the watch.
Will probably invest the remaining £1500 that I've saved and buy a rMBP once I've got enough returns on it in about 20 years.
Gonna keep my current Macs and buy an Apple watch to compensate for the TouchID feature, so I can login with the watch.
Will probably invest the remaining £1500 that I've saved and buy a rMBP once I've got enough returns on it in about 20 years.
Its Polaris 11 GPU. Most likely two versions of the GPU. Radeon Pro 450 is most likely low clock, 14 CU design(896 GCN cores) with 2 GB of RAM. Radeon Pro 455 is the same GPU with higher core clock, and Radeon Pro 460 is 16 CU design(1024 GCN core) with 4 GB of VRAM.
But again, this is only my understanding of what I have witnessed in behavior of the Polaris GPUs used in macOS sierra(RX 470 with 32 CU design working only as 16 CU design).
Config the base model to what I have proposed(2.6 GHz CPU, 16 GB of RAM, 512 GB SSD, Radeon Pro 460) and check how it fares in pricing to the high-end model.
Guys why do all of you think that 16GB is not enough? Except those who run VMs or Video editing software. But the rest of surely 80% use them for daily surfing and mails with a little bit music. Not quite enough requirement for 16GB
Paying a 2600$ laptop for daily surfing and mails with a little bit music. Yup, seems right.
Welp, order placed, eyes bleeding, credit card melting.
Cisco VIRL router simulations, virtual F5 appliances, just regular servers. VIRL itself could use 48GB RAM. Merging large panaramas in Photoshop and adding layers has frequently eaten 24+ GB in my iMac. Again, just because you don't need more RAM doesn't mean others don't need it. Heck Photoshop can easily use over 100GB of ssd scratchdisk too so that's why people want bigger SSDs as well.
Jeez. Very underwhelmed by this. Won't be picking it up. Price is spiked and Touch Bar is a gimmicky joke.
If they're the kind of person who would have been happy with a MacBook Air, that would be my recommendation. The non-Touch Bar MacBook Pro might not be for you or me (I just ordered the 13" with Touch Bar myself), but there is a market for it.
Then it still does not add up. What are taxes there, roughly 10% right? Obviously depending on state. Regardless, glad I don't have pounds in my bankaccount.
Same idiots who'll take a one plus phone with its 6gb of ram over the iPhone 7
Order placed! It's my first ever Mac of any kind and I maxed it out - 4gb 460 card, 2tb SSD, max CPU. Came to £3000 with it being vat free and a student discount. I don't envy other UK customers who've paid more
Students paying 3k for a computer. No wonder our country is a mess.
Hmmm so glad work is buying me one now. don't know what config it will be. but this 16gb ram is a bummer.
Base cpu, 512gb ssd, 32gb ram is what i was keen on. ram for multiple vms. don't need a graphics card for the programming i do.
Now i get to hold off purchasing until i quit or new ones are released
Base cpu, 512gb ssd, 32gb ram is what i was keen on. ram for multiple vms. don't need a graphics card for the programming i do.
Now i get to hold off purchasing until i quit or new ones are released
Running virtual machines (Linux) to develop website for example. I hoped for this too. But ok, the SSD got faster so that might help.
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