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Waiting for Skylake MBP thread
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From what I keep hearing it's not really worth it. It's better for gaming I think but not like tons better. I rather have the upgraded SSD and ram over the i7. For what I use it for (app and web development) the i5 is plenty and having the i7 won't be a huge difference in performance. Not $300 worth to get 5 maybe 10% more? lol I did think about it too though but in the end decided the i5 is plenty
I can say for sure that palms/wrists will have nowhere to go. You will accidentally touch it all the time.
It's bad enough of the rMB. It's now even worse on the Pros.
Incredibly stupid move.
lmao. I value your opinion but this is my first laptop that has 16gb of ram. before this I had 8gb and I currently using a laptop that has 4gb. I think I'll be able to survive with 16gb of ram for the next 5 years.
All the hype and the excitement have been replaced by a desolate wasteland of bleeding wallets
I can understand the jump in starting price when you factor in the new touch bar and touch ID, but to still include only 256gb as base storage and then charge $400 to bump it up to a more reasonable 512gb (and throw in a very small minimal processor/graphics boost) is ridiculous and high way robbery for 2016.
Upgrades which you wouldn't expect to pay a premium for, considering that they came how many years later?
Some more info on the Radeon Pro chips
http://techreport.com/news/30881/radeon-pro-specs-hint-at-a-full-fat-polaris-11-gpu-in-macbook-pros
http://techreport.com/news/30881/radeon-pro-specs-hint-at-a-full-fat-polaris-11-gpu-in-macbook-pros
All the hype and the excitement have been replaced by a desolate wasteland of bleeding wallets
I don't think so.
Wallets would have to be used to be bleeding and I really don't think these are going to sell well.
So...
- We are getting not the 6870 CPU, but a 6820, a year old CPU
- The GPU is worse than expected, Pro 460 instead of RX 460 (and you have to upgrade to the 460, base is 450)
- Maximum 16gb ram
- Huge price increase
- Battery capacity from 99.5 to 76khw (omg...)
- Same screen resolution (don't even think they managed to equal 100% Adobe RGB/HDR like other manufacturers)
- Already complaints about keyboard
24 hours ago, here I was thinking, I will be completely switching to the Apple ecosystem, already having their watch and iphone.
I was so hoping for an iGPU version of the 15 inch with the Iris Pro but no dice.
The 13 inch, maybe, but at that price, why bother? Even their battery capacity has been reduced from a whopping 75khw to 54.5.
I am now definitely going to switch to Windows PC & Android phone. They have their shortcomings, but I am tired of pretending Apple isn't. Wow, just wow, what a disappointment.
- We are getting not the 6870 CPU, but a 6820, a year old CPU
- The GPU is worse than expected, Pro 460 instead of RX 460 (and you have to upgrade to the 460, base is 450)
- Maximum 16gb ram
- Huge price increase
- Battery capacity from 99.5 to 76khw (omg...)
- Same screen resolution (don't even think they managed to equal 100% Adobe RGB/HDR like other manufacturers)
- Already complaints about keyboard
24 hours ago, here I was thinking, I will be completely switching to the Apple ecosystem, already having their watch and iphone.
I was so hoping for an iGPU version of the 15 inch with the Iris Pro but no dice.
The 13 inch, maybe, but at that price, why bother? Even their battery capacity has been reduced from a whopping 75khw to 54.5.
I am now definitely going to switch to Windows PC & Android phone. They have their shortcomings, but I am tired of pretending Apple isn't. Wow, just wow, what a disappointment.
It sucks but you might just have to suck it up and wait a little longer. The Apple store can not directly swap out the GPU's, they'll have to give you an entirely new Macbook with those specs. The stores will not have them any sooner than the expected shipping date you're getting now, on day 1.
You'd have to get really lucky. Your local Apple store would have to have that exact model in stock (they probably wont).
I think the 460 should have been the first upgrade you went for when choosing.
The 15 inch should come with the 460 by default (which in itself is not a super powerful chip). But it seems Apple was cheaper than any of us could have predicted.
Have you tried the "ship to Apple store" option? It still says 2-3 weeks for me.
mmmm....Dell XPS 15" edge-to-edge 4k display and 32Gb RAM......sounds good about now
The 13 inch non touch bar version is pretty much the retina air people have been waiting for. The only problem is the pricing.
it'll be interesting to see how far the delivery dates blow out once they get more orders.
Have you seen what they have done to the battery on all the new models? 25% less capacity. That is not even funny.
Thinness comes at a price. In more than one way.
That's the problem I have. They want thinner, thinner, thinner, but they're thinning it faster than actual components are shrinking in size, so thus come the compromises.
Courage™. Because function is totally unimportant relative to form.
From Gruber's site, Apple's dev documents for the Touch Bar: https://developer.apple.com/library...n.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/20000957-CH106-SW1
Resolution is 2170x60px and it supports P3 color space as well (intriguing..)
Resolution is 2170x60px and it supports P3 color space as well (intriguing..)
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