Why don't you rent a laptop for those 2-3 months, if it's a must to finish your masters? This, or depending of which kind of stuff you have to do, go for a hardcore solution like renting a computing node/cluster. I mean, if you want so bad to have the new Macbook, just try to find a temporary solution that excludes buying a new laptop.
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Waiting for Skylake MBP thread
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Why don't you rent a laptop for those 2-3 months, if it's a must to finish your masters? This, or depending of which kind of stuff you have to do, go for a hardcore solution like renting a computing node/cluster. I mean, if you want so bad to have the new Macbook, just try to find a temporary solution that excludes buying a new laptop.
I agree completely but that is Exactly what they did with the late 2008 MBP.
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Why do so many people seem to care about the color! it's supposed to be a Pro model not a fashion statement. I don't care what color it is as long as it performs. Maybe these people only care about colors, if so get something in the color you want and don't worry about performance. Space grey or brushed aluminum is fine with me.
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People hate the rMB keyboard because of little travel (at least I think so)
so couldn't Apple just take the butterfly keyboard and give it enough travel to make typing comfortable? or are those two just mutually exclusive...?
so couldn't Apple just take the butterfly keyboard and give it enough travel to make typing comfortable? or are those two just mutually exclusive...?
As this is a forum for discussing rumours of the upcoming Skylake rMBP, let's keep the discussion inclusive and keep our opinions on things like this private; it isn't necessary, and will stir needless conflict.
That's what im expecting from the redesigned '16 rMBP. A butterfly switch based keyboard with travel in between the Macbook and the current Macbook Pro.
They would never release an update then 3 months later release a new form factor. People would be furious.
Don't compare the company from 2008 and from 2016. The world has been changed, so the companies either(CEO, business models, scales etc.) Don't live the history. Even company from 2013 and from 2016 are too different.
Butterfly keyboard was made for thinner models and Ipad covers only.It is just another technology they can implement in devices that need it. There is no reason to degrade standard keyboard class without specific needs (like ultra thin size). Current 13 and 15 models have a lot of space for proper keyboard. Even though these smaller motherboards (with soldered units) for skylake will increase space for batteries. Batteries are still has not been developing enough... thus they add them moreee.
I think a butterfly style keyboard will make its way to the MBP. Why? Well there is very little wasted space in a Macbook these days, and any space freed up by the keyboard will allow for bigger batteries or thinner laptops. I really don't see the downside.
where do you see space? The downside is comfort (even for writers or soft developers/programmers other people who work with texts/typing).
Well if the keyboard as a whole cant make it then I'd at least like the key size, precision backlighting (and font) to be transferred, if the dimensions of the laptop don't change.
Being a hobbyist writer in my sparetime I can only tell you, typing for longer periods of time on that MB keyboard is horrid. There are (in my book) three major factors to writing comfort in a keyboard: key height, key shape, mechanical feedback.
The less distance your finger needs to travel and the keys "reset" themselves after pressing them, the faster you'll be able to type. So technically you should be able to type really fast with the MB Keyboard but oddly, to me, it seems like you need to type "harder" to get some kind of mechanical feedback. Thus you lose speed and strength with every press of a key.
I also have a TurtleBeach gaming mechanical keyboard. It's the exact opposite. The keys have HUGE travel and lots of mechanical feedback, audbile clicks but you can type on it very precisely, because of the shape of the keys (they have slightly risen edges, thus nesting your finger on them). All of it raises writing comfort but speed is superior on the new Magic Keyboard I use on my iMac, which is in my opinion an improvement over the Macbook Air keyboards, because it "tightens" the keys, they have less travel and are "snappier" but still they are not has "hard" as those on the new MB.
Mumble-Jumble yeah, but if you write thousands of words a day, this all DOES make a difference.
rMB is only uncomfortable because of the lack of travel. rMBP has to be thicker than the rMB, so they're going to be able to fit more travel in. The butterfly mechanism does allow Apple to fit keyboards into thinner models, but it also allows you to strike the key anywhere without a wobble.
I believe that's what they did with the Apple Keyboard
http://www.apple.com/shop/product/MLA22LL/A/magic-keyboard-us-english
I think they will wait for Tiger Lake in early 2019...
Just saw this on reddit.
Apple Australia is offering an education promo for free Beats headphones with the purchase of any Mac. The promo happens to end on March 21 (day of event).
source: http://www.apple.com/au-hed/shop
Apple Australia is offering an education promo for free Beats headphones with the purchase of any Mac. The promo happens to end on March 21 (day of event).
source: http://www.apple.com/au-hed/shop
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So Forbes took the buyers guide off of this very website and made an article about it? Genius 
So Forbes took the buyers guide off of this very website and made an article about it? Genius
Every analyst seems to just go onto MacRumors, copy/paste, profit! Mind numbing how people get paid for that.
But they disallow you from even entering the site if you have an ad-blocker on. No thanks, Forbes, I'll move on to other sites.
Internet journalism in general is recycling the same content. Having written a good number of Wikipedia articles I've noticed plenty of times where similar construction has tipped me off to someone just taking content from there and slightly rewording it (of course, without attribution, and even worse sometimes making it seem like the content came from a reliable source and not Wikipedia—leading to errors on Wikipedia getting cited in "reliable" sources which then is used to source the errors. Gah!)
Noticed Dan Benjamin of 5by5 had a tweet asking if anyone had info on when new MBP's would drop, as his usual sources didn't have anything.
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