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Waiting for Skylake MBP thread

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At this point with virtually 0 big rumours I have lost all hope or expectation that Apple will reveal a new MBP at the WWDC and if it does it will be an underwhelmingly boring update. Maybe I should just purchase a Windows Laptop now :(
 
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knassar said:
Hey :)

Basically, I see it as a gimmick.

Think about the usage situations that arise in a phone vs a computer.

You take out your phone often, use it for brief periods, lock it, and put it back in your pocket. You really have to go through to workflow of unlock-use-lock many many times a day. This is much less true for computers, where you unlock it once, and tend to use it for longer periods of time at a time, and then leave it aside (locked) once you're done. The time saved by unlocking by fingerprint sensor on a laptop is not that significant in this case, because you tend to do it much less.

Since I view it as somewhat of an unnecessary feature, I consider that any design/mfg/parts resources Apple spends on it are resources it could probably spend elsewhere, and for better return.

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Apple Pay, like others said, come back from screensaver lock (think that I tend to use with 5 finger tip to lock my computer when there's other "known" people arround), use 1Password on webs to avoid typing all passwords all time, identify yourself like certificates on some webs (to avoid an ID Card and ID Card reader...)
 
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I've been waiting for this for a long time now... A matching retina desktop display to plug it into would make my year :)
 
Benchies got me feeling like

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But its whateves, i'm in too deep now. Besides if Skylake can outperform (even marginally) with much lower power then how cool is that.
 
C'mon, desktop skylake benchmarks are so old and it wasn't secret that boost over haswell archiceture is not impresive and you guys thought that mobile version that apple use in new macbook pro will be a different story?
 
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