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Waiting for Skylake MBP thread

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A few more hours and this will officially be the LONGEST RUNNING 15" MACBOOK PRO in the past couple of years. Either they x the Macbook Pro line completely or they will come out with something insanely great.

My wallet and body are ready.
 
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It's getting bad for me. The wife got a hold of my rMBP 13" and now uses that for her work. I don't work at all during the week so now I am without a device for my leisure time.

She wants a 13" or 15" rMBP and I want my freakin computer back. If I don't hear something asap I'm in a pickle.
 
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snc said:
Uh it wold be really hard to see difference in every day scenario http://pclab.pl/zdjecia/artykuly/radek/2015/skylake/charts/def/internet.png
i know its not mobile version but it shows the difference between skylake and haswell architecture gain
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I'm not sure I understand the graph. Could you translate what the scale represents please ?

We could argue for long on pure perf, but when you look at OS reactivity and autonomy, there is a huge leap between 2012 and now. The added reactivity of the SSD may not appear in benchmarks, but it is very much a change in daily life user experience. I went through that myself.
 
AgentMcGeek said:
I'm not sure I understand the graph. Could you translate what the scale represents please ?

We could argue for long on pure perf, but when you look at OS reactivity and autonomy, there is a huge leap between 2012 and now. The added reactivity of the SSD may not appear in benchmarks, but it is very much a change in daily life user experience. I went through that myself.
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average performance: internet, office, multimedia.

lack of leaks could be explained by low interest, assembly in USA, nothing new.
I see march event as a minor update and September event as a major update if it will ever be.
 
One thing is for sure though. If the stars and the moons align just right and the rMBP is announced in March, there is no way in hell they are going to release an upgraded version just 3 months after. We might see a 3 month gap between the release of the 13 and 15 inch rMBP but a new upgrade 3 months later, that's just gonna destroy Apple's reputation and make a LOT of customers angry
 
Ries said:
Waited so long, might as-well wait for kaby lake at end of this year. Full hardware accelerated 10bit H.265 / VP9.
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Whilst 15w Kaby Lake CPU's are likely to be available in Q4 2016, the 28w/~45w CPU's used in the MacBook Pro's wont be available until around a year from now. You can always be perpetually waiting for the next big thing from Intel, ultimately people need to eventually make a decision when to pull the trigger & buy.

I'd say that Skylake based machines will be an ideal and large upgrade for anyone who owns a pre-Haswell based machine. Anyone who owns a Mac from late 2013 onwards won't notice a huge difference in performance apart from a large leap in performance with the integrated graphics.
 
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PKBeam said:
remember the iPad 3 -> iPad 4?
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The iPad 3 was ********. The performance wasn't optimized for this huge new retina screen. That's why they had to update is as soon as they had better processing power.


nicovh said:
One thing is for sure though. If the stars and the moons align just right and the rMBP is announced in March, there is no way in hell they are going to release an upgraded version just 3 months after. We might see a 3 month gap between the release of the 13 and 15 inch rMBP but a new upgrade 3 months later, that's just gonna destroy Apple's reputation and make a LOT of customers angry
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We have already waited so long. So don't worry! They hear us. I bet they're also reading this forum.


Dead0k said:
average performance: internet, office, multimedia.
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You could also buy an iPad Air, iPad Pro or golden Macbook for these tasks.


frosse said:
Yea, and what about the 13"? It's been over 350 days!!
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Wow, that's almost a year!


volcomvenom said:
Hope

I really hope not.
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And almost one million views I guess!
 
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shareef777 said:
How's your battery? My 2012 doesn't even get 3 hours. While the current rMBP would suffice, I'm holding out purely for USBC/TB3.
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I'm not quite sure, it's usually plugged in to a power source. I'm constantly hammering it with lots open (photoshop, browser tabs, lots of dev tools, coding stuff, etc..) and have a phone charging from it.

It would be good to know, I think i'll do a general usage test, I suspect it will be similar to you, around 3 hours.
 
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Uplift said:
Yeah you a


I'm not quite sure, it's usually plugged in to a power source. I'm constantly hammering it with lots open (photoshop, browser tabs, lots of dev tools, coding stuff, etc..) and have a phone charging from it.

It would be good to know, I think i'll do a general usage test, I suspect it will be similar to you, around 3 hours.
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I have a MBP early 2011, I swapped the hard drive for an SSD and upgrade memory to 16GB one year ago and after that is like a new computer. I use it mostly for complex financial models with Montecarlo simulation in Excel under Windows with Parallels. I replaced the battery this year as it hardly lasted 30 minutes.

I might consider to change to a new MBPr but I am a bit concerned about the retina as I usually make reports to be read in PDF, I like the good design and typography but as retina is not mainstream it could look great in my computer but not sure on the customer's eyes…
 
csicilia said:
I have a MBP early 2011, I swapped the hard drive for an SSD and upgrade memory to 16GB one year ago and after that is like a new computer. I use it mostly for complex financial models with Montecarlo simulation in Excel under Windows with Parallels. I replaced the battery this year as it hardly lasted 30 minutes.

I might consider to change to a new MBPr but I am a bit concerned about the retina as I usually make reports to be read in PDF, I like the good design and typography but as retina is not mainstream it could look great in my computer but not sure on the customer's eyes…
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If you are using vector objects and fonts, no matter on what computer, it'll be optimized to their screen. If you insert an image, it can get trickier. But if the image is high quality, you shouldn't have any problems.

There are a lot of professionals who also make complex PDF's and I assume a lot of them have an Apple computer. So I wouldn't be too worried about it.
You could always purchase a cheap monitor or find a good deal on one so you can hook it up and compare it to a non-retina display.
 
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