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Waiting for Skylake MBP thread
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If there's no WWDC16 update, I'd say Surface Pro 4 is the MBA replacement, Surface Book is rMB replacement, and Dell XPS is rMBP replacement.
I usually just browse the internet (on my rMBP), no hard core editing or anything. Also I use iTunes once in a while and maybe photos.
Sounds like a good laptop for those purposes. I like the Macbook. I'm torn about purchasing the current one. I do some photo editing too but it doesn't matter to me whether it takes 4.2 seconds or 5.9 second to open a file really. I'd prefer 4.2, but form counts for something too.
I don't know why you guys want skylake. most of the skylake laptops are nothing but trouble, just look at the issues with xps15, surface book etc. the power management is really ****. the performance difference is not that much anyways, i would pick a haswell machine anytime over skylake at its current state. go to any hackintosh community to see how people are struggling to run OSX on skylake mobile, hell even intel NUC has problems with skylake. avoid.
I'll take a Skylake prompted discount on a Haswell MBPro as a backup plan. It's just worth waiting to see what transpires IMHO.
I read everywhere of the problems that the XPS 13 has (on the Dell-website, Dell-Forum, notebookcheck etc.). I would like to change to this laptop but I don't think that his reliability is good as on macbooks. What a pity.
[doublepost=1460700491][/doublepost] Finally a new rumor
https://www.macrumors.com/2016/04/15/macbook-ultra-thin-hinges/
My co-worker got a XPS 13 inch InfinityEdge...let me tell you...Apple better come out with something by July or else I am going back to Fedora/Ubuntu on a Dell. Price tag is a bit much tho...
[doublepost=1460700491][/doublepost] Finally a new rumor
https://www.macrumors.com/2016/04/15/macbook-ultra-thin-hinges/
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I'll leave this here:
Source: http://jackgmarch.com/2016/04/11/the-end-of-apple-macbook-ipad-air-brand/
Link of September 2014 article: http://jackgmarch.com/2014/09/22/exclusive-12-macbook-air-design-details/
A thinner rMBP than the MBA...I'm excited
I read everywhere of the problems that the XPS 13 has (on the Dell-website, Dell-Forum, notebookcheck etc.). I would like to change to this laptop but I don't think that his reliability is good as on macbooks. What a pity.
[doublepost=1460700491][/doublepost] Finally a new rumor
two great news. The thinner MBP than MBA means that the thickest part 1,7 cm will be decreased to 1,5 cm (or 1,4 cm) and probably using the new battery technology as was presented in rMB 12 - the end of body could be sharper and thinner (or not at all).
Finally a new rumor
Came here to post that as well! Hurray! The mill is open for business!
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All of these issues are software based, both with the Dell and the hackintosh.
Furthermore, I wouldn't compare the hackintosh community to a fully developed product with a specific architecture in mind as whatever Apple releases will surely be.
You CAN do it: I worked with a specific mac (Macbook Pro 13, than Air 11) for years, since last year I bought a gaming pc to use further as main work-system at home, where I use to work as PhD student. Now, I can say that my hackintosh is 100% stable, I NEVER had a major problem, just at beginning because I didn't have idea how this works, but now I've everything (!) works (of course: filevault not but I never cared about it...).
What happens when your hackintosh stops working a week before your submission date? What happens if your hackintosh filesystem gets corrupted the night before your presentation? If you're happy to take that risk, best of luck.
What happens when your Macbook stops working a week before your submission date? What happens if your Macbook filesystem gets corrupted the night before your presentation?
Have you ever used/built a Hackintosh?
personally I'd trust a legitimate Mac much more than a Hackintosh with an important assignment.
How about I rephrase and say that it wouldn't be fair to compare hackintosh machines running on unsupported architectures. Having experience with that scene myself, the key is to use as few unknowns as possible for a safe/complete experience.
Any OS is capable of those issues. Yes there is additional inherent risk using unsupported hardware/software combinations. Unsupported does not however mean it does not work. Would I use a hackintosh as a "production" machine? No. But some people will take that risk, and with the necessary precautions (backups, additional machines) can be very capable.
Good point, just as I thought when I read his post, can happen to any machine, in any configuration.
Not a question meant for me, I know. But I have installed (but not specifically built or stuck with) 3-4 hackintosh machines since the original 10.4.4 'deadmoo' image I installed on a Pentium 4 based laptop as a way to trial OS X prior to purchasing a new machine for college (I ended up buying a Black MacBook in 'late 2006').
I'm running a Hackintosh as one of my computers and the only time I lost my files was when I was trying to format the third hard disk I installed in it and somehow managed to format the main drive despite all warnings. Praised be Gods (i.e. Apple) for Time Machine, I recovered everything. But I had to change my underwear.
With my 2009 iMac I broke it when trying to clean the screen, I tried to access the Time Machine drive and guess what, it decided to brick itself at EXACTLY the same moment. Luckily I managed to extract the iMac HDD and copy data from it. But, again, underwear needed to be changed. Now I have Time Machine, periodically copy stuff to a HDD that's living upstairs and I have an offsite backup. If I break another computer it will be OK, well – I'll have to spend money, but that's it. If I lost all my data... I don't want to even think about it.
With my 2009 iMac I broke it when trying to clean the screen, I tried to access the Time Machine drive and guess what, it decided to brick itself at EXACTLY the same moment. Luckily I managed to extract the iMac HDD and copy data from it. But, again, underwear needed to be changed. Now I have Time Machine, periodically copy stuff to a HDD that's living upstairs and I have an offsite backup. If I break another computer it will be OK, well – I'll have to spend money, but that's it. If I lost all my data... I don't want to even think about it.
IF this happen – but it NEVER happened not even after updates – I have a backup of all my osx-files on two differently hard drivers, on a usb stick – time capsule – and in a 256-bit encrypted image file on iCloud. I have all this synchronized with the program "Sync Folders Pro" which mades a backup every 10 minutes and hours. So, IF this happen I recover everything within many minutes!
IF this happen I have a pronto usb installation with which I can rescue El Capitan within 15 Min. Also I have a working partition with windows 10 and a usb installation for win. So I have access to the osx-files. So, IF this happen I can work anyway.
By the way: When I had the Air 11 I suddenly LOST (!) the files of the osx and I had just an older backup. The Air had one week life. Why was this happened? Because this model of hard driver was generally known from Apple as malfunctioning!
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If I need to explain to you why organisations and individuals require support, you are operating at a different level.
The risk seems acceptable at level you operate at.
I would have to question a PhD student who uses a hackintosh (not to mention someone who says his hackintosh is "100% stable").
If you want a free opensource operating system, go use Linux or FreeBSD or something. Why even attempt to use a hackintosh?
I want a free open-source OS not at all, but a stable OS with the right programs, that windows and linux doesn't have – unfortunately
I really would like to switch to windows-linux/android because – just for example – I get bored of the apple (price) philosophy, of the bugs and functionality of the iPhone and iPad, the bugs of microsoft's programs on osx (Pages and Mail are just very bad and not stable compared to Word and Outlook which works very well just on windows). Since years has El Capitan the same Finder, Mail-Bugs and graphical glitches which windows doesn't have. My Iphone 6s and iPad Pro has lags and stuttering problems. I hate that!
The problem is that I don't trust the reliability of windows laptops and I don't think that at the moment exits a better tablet than the iPad. So I don't want to work at home with os and on the way with windows/linux/android. I made the switch if they were produced and I can have the same OS everywhere.
This is your original post:
I don't see anything about organisations and individuals requiring support. I built my Hackintosh myself, made everything work myself, and I am my own support.
I've got a degree in maths, luckily. Phew!
Because I use Adobe Creative Cloud software. (And I spent half of the time with my Linux Chromebook fixing issues that popped up all the time. I'm in love with my Macbook Air simply because it works.)
Also, I just looked at which thread this is and we are wildly off topic. Can we agree to stop here? You win the discussion.
how much thinner they can make the MBP? lets see..how thin is the display from the 12" Macbook vs the displays from MBP? i think here we can expect some 2-3mm thinner lid.
and from bringing only thunderbolt 3-usb-c here are maybe another 2-3 mm
So in total around 5-6mm thinner and i hope not more than that because from heating purposes
and from bringing only thunderbolt 3-usb-c here are maybe another 2-3 mm
So in total around 5-6mm thinner and i hope not more than that because from heating purposes
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