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Waiting for Skylake MBP thread
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Wow, talk about setting the bar low. Over 100K employees, over $200B in cash, and they tweak the pro a little. If true that they kept the screen resolutions the same, then I hope they made the same pixel area and energy improvements they made to the rMB screen, which looks amazing.
What rumor mill?
Thunderbolt isn't going to be nixed. It'll be incorporated into the USB-C ports with Thunderbolt 3.
Why?
There is no indication of Nvidia GPUs apart from Kepler ones in OS X builds.
P.S. For those who would like to understand why it is better to have AMD hardware now i suggest reading this whole thread: http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2462951
And paying attention to posts from Zlatan and Mahigan.
Zlatan is PS4 game developer, and Mahigan brought a lot of understanding on the matter of both architectures.
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Oh please no. I want a bigger canvas...
My favorite screen size is 19".
I would love a 19" screen in the form factor of the 15" MBP .
Apple, could you figure that out please?
HHKBs seem like awesome boards. Personally I can't see myself on anything smaller than my TKL, but apparently the feels on the HHKBs are unparalleled.
I don't see the point of refreshing with Skylake and then redesigning again with Skylake, if they have planned to redesign them with Skylake (quite probable) instead of Kabylake/Cannonlake or whatever comes next, the redesign will be all in once with the release of Skylake Macbooks. Why would Apple do a minor refresh knowing their redesign obsesion, now that they could do it with Skylake? It's like wasting a good oportunity. I see more probable a redesign now, and a minor refresh in the fall/early next year before next CPU gen that will probably be delayed a year like Haswell-Broadwell story.
Like you said, I cannot see them doing a spec bump and then another redesign at WWDC. They either update in March with a redesign or wait completely until WWDC when a redesign is ready.
Seems like no one have read my precedent post...
The point of upgrading to Skylake now and then redesign coming in June could be because of Apple adding another portable-computer line, the MacBook-something.
Anyway this is just my theory, since now we can just wait for three weeks and see what's happen.
I NEED to replace my current 2010 MBP 15, and so this update NEEDS to be in MARCH : FULL STOP !
I have a strong feeling you will be let down in March..... But that's just a gut feeling
Something else to consider is the launch of both the ipad Air 3 and the 5se. That is going to take up a lot of time, meaning a redesigned macbook is even less likely. I would think that is something they would want to really focus on. WWDC seems like a perfect time to talk about the new IOS, OSX, and Mac lineup.
I agree that the WWDC might be a fair option to introduce new Macbooks. But March event isn't even remotely interesting right now. iPad Air 3 is just an updated iPad Air 2, can you really talk that long about an updated tablet? And the 5se, that's basically a 5S with some features of the 6S. Doesn't seem like a long talk about this one either.
New Macbook's would really save the event IMHO.
A 19" screen cannot fit in the current footprint of the 15" at all; a 16:9 monitor would require 16.5" of horizontal space which is greater than the 14.13" width of the 15" Macbook Pro. Even a 4:3 monitor would take 15.2 inches (and would increase the other dimension considerably.)
A 16" 16:9 monitor *would* barely fit, although you'd have just 2mm of space on either side of the screen.
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...o-feature-improvements-to-photos-app.1958293/
OSX leaks coming too early, Maybe apple will announce the new OSX in march event along with new macbooks
OSX leaks coming too early, Maybe apple will announce the new OSX in march event along with new macbooks
They could run demonstrations of the new features, or game devs coming up on stage to show/promote their app. Although nothing groundbreaking, it can take up more time than you think. A musical performance is also a possible way to fill up some time.
And who said that Apple had to fill in 'X' amount of minutes during their own keynote?
Nevertheless, I too hope something exciting happens for the mac line in march.
I don't want to hear anything about June either nothing even if it's positive which none of it really can be.
You guys are gonna kill me... but to past the time until skylake rMBP, I've done a quick hackintosh to test OS X El Captain, and I find it really obsolete in design terms compared to the new W10 UI (the parts that aren't in beta lol) and APPs ie Photos vs Photos, iTunes vs Groove also after 5 minutes trying to get some APPs (word) in Safari I get infected WTF never had a virus in 8 years. The dock bar is far behind from W10 taskbar for example when you pin APPs, OS X doesn't show recent files used for the APP. You can unistall APPs like chess I mean seriously? There's no right click create document (I use this a lot) only folders,
I don't know, please someone tell if I'm doing something wrong, or anything of this is due the hackintosh, because if not I think they really need to do some heavy work cleaning the Finder, Dock, and the general design of the UI and APPs on OS X 10.12 ... The hardware is beautifull, and I can't find anything better in other brands (I hate the carbon fiber), but after testing the software I'm not sure if I should keep waiting at this point...
I don't know, please someone tell if I'm doing something wrong, or anything of this is due the hackintosh, because if not I think they really need to do some heavy work cleaning the Finder, Dock, and the general design of the UI and APPs on OS X 10.12 ... The hardware is beautifull, and I can't find anything better in other brands (I hate the carbon fiber), but after testing the software I'm not sure if I should keep waiting at this point...
It is only UI. You will get used to it, one way or another. I find OS X less complicated to use and more reliable than Windows. And for sure it is less annoying. But those are my preferences. As you can see, everything is based on individual preferences. Nothing more, nothing less.
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