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Waiting for Skylake MBP thread
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Apple is bound to do a thinner-and-lighter MBP at some point, taking advantage of what they've learned with the MacBook. If it doesn't come this year, I might have to eke out one more year from my 2012 rMBP, which in all honesty is still working just fine...
http://9to5mac.com/2016/03/11/macbook-ssds-super-fast-octane/?pushup=1
a little sign for the near future
a little sign for the near future
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I really dont understand Macbook Pro's in the second half. Kaby Lake will be out by December time frame, so if Apple releases new Skylake Macbook Pro's in ~July, that's only 5 months till obsolete by Intel products. That seems very strange to me.
KabyLake(its not a tick and not a tock in intel definition) is just slight refresh so nothing to wait for
It's strange that macbook pro 13 will not have debut in march. I understand that they wait for 15' if there will be configuration with dGPU(Polaris)
Seriously I'm having enough of this "lifestyle Apple" I want my "Apple for professionals" back. The Apple watch? Just garbage, crap, a fad to counter the saturated iPad and iPhone markets. The "next new thing" for tech hipsters to go for. Essentialy just being an overpriced, ugly second screen to your iPhone.
Seriously I'm so fed up with this crap. If I wouldn't hate windows with a passion (still, after trying to like it hard) and prefer all the available apps on OSX compared to stinky MS store I'd be gone with an XPS or Precision 5000 in a heartbeat.
God damnit...
Seriously I'm so fed up with this crap. If I wouldn't hate windows with a passion (still, after trying to like it hard) and prefer all the available apps on OSX compared to stinky MS store I'd be gone with an XPS or Precision 5000 in a heartbeat.
God damnit...
I read "by" the second half to mean before the second half, which really means in the first half. Which would line up well with WWDC, for example. Maybe I'm reading that wrong...
Oh another thing, I do practical graphics design, that is brochures, catalogues and newspapers/magazines with plenty of pages, text and imagery in indesign, some light photoshop work, some logos in Illustrator, some webpages here and there. So basically everything 2D, no 3D, hardly any video editing, if at all.
Is there a benefit for me using some dGPU like 960m?
Is a Iris Pro sufficient (would be my choice for cooler more efficient machine really)?
Does a Quadro like in Dell Precision series offer me ANY advantage over the former 2 options?
Anyone's advice with some insight or an educated guess would be greatly appreciated.
Is there a benefit for me using some dGPU like 960m?
Is a Iris Pro sufficient (would be my choice for cooler more efficient machine really)?
Does a Quadro like in Dell Precision series offer me ANY advantage over the former 2 options?
Anyone's advice with some insight or an educated guess would be greatly appreciated.
I have 2012 rMBP as well and was thinking the same thing, but at this point all I'm looking for to make a purchase is a couple TB3 ports. All else doesn't matter as I feel having a pair of those ports will future proof me for the next 5 years.
yes Iris Pro HD 580 will be better than Quadro, and no need for 960M because the differences are not big enough to take risks with a dGpu in a laptop, that mean more heat
Everything relies on software. It looks like CUDA world is opening up, and it may be possible to run CUDA software on... everything basically. AMD GPUs, Intel iGPUs, iOS SoC's, everything. What will matter here is compute power of your GPU. Thats why HD580 with 1.15 TFLOPs of compute power may be faster than Quadro M1000M with only 0.99 TFLOPs of compute power.
There is quite a lot of background story why it all is happening, and there will be quite huge storm over forums, after Polaris and Pascal releases, but I cannot and I will not give you any specifics at this point.
If you don't do 3D or video editing, or hardcore gaming, the Iris Pro is more than sufficient.
About the article of 9to5:
Oh really?! I just thought Apple was considering releasing them in 2017 with the ultrapowerful Tigerlake CPU...
...Seriously?! Come on, take a look at the computer's buyers guide.
It's all red, all their products have gone beyond their usually average release time.
The second half of the year means that all your computer will rot, eventually.
So I have just two words for you, Apple:
f*ck you.
I agree, the XPS 15" is an AMAZING machine: skylake, 4k screen, almost bazel-free, dGPU 960M, 16gb Ram, long battery life, aluminium and carbon fiber, etc. Specwise, it gives MBP 15" a run for its money.
Sigh... I wish I didnt dislike Windows so much
I'm trapped in the OSX/iOS ecosystem!
I agree, the XPS 15" is an AMAZING machine: skylake, 4k screen, almost bazel-free, dGPU 960M, 16gb Ram, long battery life, aluminium and carbon fiber, etc. Specwise, it gives MBP 15" a run for its money.
Sigh... I wish I didnt dislike Windows so much
If I knew for certain there was no 13" rMBP being released in March AND the next iPhone will have no headphone jack I'd sell my Mac today and move on from Apple for a bit.
The way I see it it'll be about five /six days before we will know one way or another if the mbp is happening in March
We've got the Intel thing on Monday, we should hopefully be seeing mega deals on existing stock (for instance iPad Air 1s are getting some big discounts here in the uk) and the delivery times from Apple will start to slip. We may even get a rumour or two by then.
Just one more week people and then we'll know
We've got the Intel thing on Monday, we should hopefully be seeing mega deals on existing stock (for instance iPad Air 1s are getting some big discounts here in the uk) and the delivery times from Apple will start to slip. We may even get a rumour or two by then.
Just one more week people and then we'll know
Damn you Apple. All you're MacBook range is old crap now! Bring us the updates in march! If there aren't any updates at the next keynote I will sell all my apple stuff!
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