Like take out the back light in the keyboard, take out all ports including hdmi, aux (3.5mm), and even the trackpad and they'll have everything by mind powers.
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Waiting for Skylake MBP thread
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Bless you for blessing him. Bless both of you.
There's now also a Lenovo 13" ultrabook with the 6560U available. Skylake is real.
Oh sure. I believe so as well. But if these compromises lead to a product I don't like to use, than I'm out.
And the keyboard is a very important part of that. I do not like the MacBook butterfly switches at all.
That's just my personal opinion, but it makes me kind of angry that Apple seems to force every design decision on every product line these days.
Hm, you're right. My bad. For some reason I thought 13" only include i7 like 15" but they do use i5 as well.
I would love to have an Apple equivalent to the Dell Precision 7710...I know that won't happen, but a man can dream..
Yes, its not gonna happen. I've seen plenty of laptop manufacturers include adapters, Apple is not one of them. The rMB includes one f*cking USB-C port and they STILL didn't include an adapter.
Agreed.
lol wut? Why are you buying a 15" rMBP when you want an Air? What proof do you have that 15" users want thinner and lighter on an already thin and light machine over performance?
This thread makes me drink more. Who's with me!?
It wouldn't surprise me at all if they move the 13" Pro to 15W chips this year. The benchmarks show this year's 15W they would likely use (6260U) is only 1-3% weaker than last year's base model CPU, probably the iGPU is better.
Going to 15W would allow them to make significant reduction in size of the machine while providing the same battery life.
Smaller machine = less shipping costs. The kind of micro-optimizations that a Tim Cook style CEO lives for.
The combination of Jony Ive and Tim Cook trends towards smaller machines whenever possible, Tim doesn't geek out over the specs like Jobs did.
Going to 15W would allow them to make significant reduction in size of the machine while providing the same battery life.
Smaller machine = less shipping costs. The kind of micro-optimizations that a Tim Cook style CEO lives for.
The combination of Jony Ive and Tim Cook trends towards smaller machines whenever possible, Tim doesn't geek out over the specs like Jobs did.
Anyone else notice how 
Watch and Music are in the bold San Francisco font, and both have in front of them. Why is it that iPhone, MacBook, iMac...etc. are all in a light Myriad font without the logo. I know this all seems superficial in comparison to the matter at hand, BUT, I'm a sceptic for these little details. What's going on with that?
And what's up with the elongated esc key on the new MacBooks. it looks out of place...and forced. Elongating the power key makes more sense.
Sadliy, it seems their marketing and design aren't coherent anymore.
Watch and Music are in the bold San Francisco font, and both have in front of them. Why is it that iPhone, MacBook, iMac...etc. are all in a light Myriad font without the logo. I know this all seems superficial in comparison to the matter at hand, BUT, I'm a sceptic for these little details. What's going on with that?And what's up with the elongated esc key on the new MacBooks. it looks out of place...and forced. Elongating the power key makes more sense.
Sadliy, it seems their marketing and design aren't coherent anymore.
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Whatever you guys do, don't wander to the "i just bought a refurb" thread. Reading about all of those guys with their latest model rMBP at crazy low prices nearly made me fold. Must. Stay. Strong.
All this hype, you guys make it out to be like the new MBPr will cure deadliest diseases.
Reality is, it will just get a 10% performance bump, new TB3 and slightly lighter with an extra hour of battery. Maybe a choice of colours. The 15" will just get another slightly less garbage dGPU.
I can't wait to read all your disappointed comments in 36 days.
Reality is, it will just get a 10% performance bump, new TB3 and slightly lighter with an extra hour of battery. Maybe a choice of colours. The 15" will just get another slightly less garbage dGPU.
I can't wait to read all your disappointed comments in 36 days.
What you want my friend is a MacBook Air. The Pro losing Quad Cores... and I am gone!
I don't care about all the other things. I am also a hardcore Mac user and I loathe Windows. The reason I bought my 2011 17" MBP were the new Sandy Bridge Quads. Dual Core in a pro-level machine is absolutely laughable.
Nah, Apple makes me want to drink. This thread is my therapy.
Count me in, my friend!
Not deadliest, but surely this wait is a disease.
And do not forget that many people here have a MBP from 2009/2010/2011.
They will see a lot of improvement.
If people (non Mac users by all accounts) want to compare apples/oranges/pears/lemons start a MBP/Dell/Lenovo/SurfaceBook thread.
Apple cannot be compared to X. If you want a PC, go and buy one. Apple will give us what we need. We accept it because Apple engineers know what's best for us. If you think you can blackmail the product/engineering team by choosing some other device with feature X, then you are not a Mac person. Go and save yourself $1000 and buy a PC with whatever GHz and compatibility you need.
Apple cannot be compared to X. If you want a PC, go and buy one. Apple will give us what we need. We accept it because Apple engineers know what's best for us. If you think you can blackmail the product/engineering team by choosing some other device with feature X, then you are not a Mac person. Go and save yourself $1000 and buy a PC with whatever GHz and compatibility you need.
save 10c$ on shipping costs, charge you 200$ for a 128GB ssd upgrade.
...not again.
Please.
Come on, Oppenheim.
It's sunday.
It's springtime.
The sun shines, even here in Germany.
Go out and enjoy life!
Bless you for blessing them. Bless all of you.
I agree the wait is a disease, especially when your friends turn up with fully spec'd Dell XPS 15 using Skylake and proper dGPU etc on a newly innovated bezel less design.
I love my Macs, but I've been a LONG time user to know whats coming, nothing special I guarantee you. My point was people are over HYPING this way too much.
As the instruction set becomes longer and longer with more exotic functions available, the core count isn't as significant. 16 cores != four times the performance over quad core (i.e. Amdahl's law).
If you have GPU type instruction units (dumb cores), doubling the core count can give approaching double the performance. But Skylake/Kabylake cores are much much more complicated and are coupled increasingly tightly to the proprietary Intel compiler to get the best performance.
Going more than quad core for general purpose computing (i.e. a laptop) doesn't make any sense these days. Especially if the machine is battery powered.
It's a bit like putting six engines on a 747 - more performance, sure. But the fuel bill will make flying the thing uneconomical. The 767 transatlantics I go on are all two engine.
You said something that was objectively incorrect. Someone told you that you were incorrect. It's ok.
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