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Mac already have 3d touch trackpad
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cmChimera said:
This quote is from the Apple Music article by Mark Gurman on 9to5Mac today. Anyone else find it interesting that OS X is planned to have Apple Pay?
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you have a link to that?
 
Ok guys, it's been fun to read this thread every day! Starting today, I'll lurk and read some other thread...

I'm sticking into my mid-2009 macbookpro:

New battery
8gb of ram (from 2)
500 gb ssd (from the standard spin hd)

More than enough for my needs: word, ppt, browsing, email and photo/music library.
Granted, it's not retina, but guess what, having never used a retina laptop... I won't miss it!!
And I'm gonna save SO MUCH MONEY.

Good luck to everyone waiting, I really hope that WWDC will bring some brand new skylake mind-blowing macs!!
See you when my mid-2009 will finally die!!
Maybe they'll have kabylake macs by that time...! IF iPad does not replace them in the meantime...

... And may the force be with you all :)
 
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yes it is, since in laptops or any desktop you have right click, in ios iphone you have 3d touch.
in ios 3d touch is like a shortcut or black hole , is like you force touch a mail and see a short preview etc
i have them both, believe me.
[doublepost=1462433118][/doublepost]i mean maybe the feel and sensitivity is a little bit different, but the idea and technology is almost the same
[doublepost=1462433359][/doublepost]i think the iphone has 1 more layer for sensitivity
 
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And I'm gonna save SO MUCH MONEY.:)
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I would rather have you say...
"And I'm gonna EARN so much money".

I love innovation, it makes computing interesting. Old times have charm, never relevance.

MareLuce said:
This is still the worst wait ever.
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It's the first time since the original MacBook launch that I care. We are at an end of an era in computing, with downcuts and less innovation. I am curious where this leads us...
 
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I can't see how that would mean they ignore a whole sector of their customer base. That's like Mercedes going all out on a new A class and forgetting the E class altogether!
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why do you think they are ignoring a whole sector?
New laptops will be unveiled at wwdc, because they want to show the new design in an event. And no, they likely were not in time for the march event.

The macpro is long overdue, i agree, but the update cycle for workstations is not as fast as that of consumer computers.
I suspect (pure speculation) that the macpro is more a display item for apple than a product for profit, eg. they would even sell it at a loss, but need the community of artists and professionals to stick with their machines, because that's the image they want to show off to people (think of how ipad pros are advertised, is that what common people do??).
the ad logic is: "cool people use my machines, they are famous and of success, so you'll want one too".

Also, you don't consider the revenues (and mostly the profits!) that the computer sector brings, which is small compared to those of iphones, so it makes sense to invest a smaller workforce.
Let's make another car example: the audi A2, it was a great car, it didn't sell enough, they never updated it, or should they just because few people liked it?

is whining over it ever going change things?
 
Very much off-topic, but since there's little news anyway: why are you guys waiting for the Skylake MBP thread.
I mean, it's obviously already here ... :D
 
Serban said:
but from schetses i think they will reduce the width also , the 15" speakers looks different
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show us those sketches!!! :D
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Serban said:
the new upcoming MBP will have 0.68" to 0.61" both of them. The weight it is 3.16 pounds for the 13" and 4.21 pounds for the 15"
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not going the extreme way thin and light, sounds to me there's enough dough in them :)
btw, didn't you mean perhaps 14" and 16", didn't you?? :rolleyes:
 
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No, it is comparable more likely to GTX 750 Ti ;). 840M which is below is Maxwell GPU with 384 CUDA cores. So look at them ;).

Intel architecture is "agnostic". If a GPU has 576 cores in Intel iGPU it will behave like GPU with similar core count from Nvidia, or AMD, if it is not bottlenecked by software.

But because front end is a bit wider on Intel iGPU than Maxwell GM 107, or Cape Verde GPUs that mitigates the lack of cores. On the other hand - the cores are starved for bandwidth, with which a little bit helps EDRAM.

All of this is directly reflected with what we know about HD540/550 and GTX 840M. HD540 is exactly on par with 840M. And both GPUs have exactly the same amount of cores. But in the higher resolutions it is the HD540 which is faster, due to the wider front end of the GPU.

Look here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_graphics_processing_units#Ninth_generation
And here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_...ocessing_units#GeForce_800M_.288xxM.29_Series

Enjoy ;)

What blows my mind however about HD 540 is that it allows playing in D3 in full HD at 60 FPS. I thought it will be the case of HD 580...
 
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