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Waiting for Skylake MBP thread
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The CPU is the same as the ones from last year with the addition of the integrated 580/550 graphics. You're not getting a faster or newer CPU. I could care less about the integrated graphics, I want dedicated GPU so they could have released them last year with dedicated graphics.
I'm finding this rumor hard to believe. It's kinda weird how Ming predicts this and then Mark and other analysts follow almost instantly. I feel like this whole rumor is just to have something to say. The actual strip itself sounds like something Apple wouldn't do. Perhaps it's in a prototype that they're testing but it seems like it's too early for Apple to be implementing the tech into their notebooks. Also, why would they release Q4 2016 which is probably around November in time for holiday shopping season (given that they need 10.12 for that tech)? If that were the case, wouldn't they just have updated at least the 13" as chips were out late 2015? Wouldn't they have released the 15" with some repackaged version of broadwell?
This strip just sounds like a gimmick like the iPhone with a keyboard projector that rumor sites have been reporting on since the iPhone 4S. I think there's still some hope of seeing something at WWDC or late summer.
This strip just sounds like a gimmick like the iPhone with a keyboard projector that rumor sites have been reporting on since the iPhone 4S. I think there's still some hope of seeing something at WWDC or late summer.
But you have no idea how this strip would work. It's not even sure it'll work as described..
If you don't care about CPU, neither iGPU, and you also seem to neglect the upcoming Polaris/Pascal discrete graphics, why are you moaning instead of buying a MBP now? I also think that Apple could have released a Broadwell 15" MBP, but I really prefer this upcoming one with Skylake + new ports + redesign. Whatever you want or I want, that won't change the fact that i7-6770HQ won't be an old CPU but the lastest CPU in its range once Kaby Lake starts appearing for tablets/ultrabooks.
Yes, it seems some people still resist to understand Kaby Lake can't be in 2016's MBP's.
I care very much about the CPU. But the Skylake in the many laptops that came on the market late 2015 is the exact same CPU we are waiting on minus the integrated Iris Pro. They could have upgraded to those last year with dedicated graphics. The wait for Iris pro capable CPUs has seemed pointless. The re-design and Polaris will be welcomed additions but I would have bought in November 2015 if they had just upgraded processor and port.
It is not exactly true. Skylake brings some significant battery saving features.
Everyone is fearing it will look and act like the touch bars of the old Dell/HP laptops when they should have faith in Apple. If they are implementing this it will be designed well to blend in and complement look/feel of the computer. It will also provide a use that we probably never thought we needed.
I guarantee most of the people saying that they would never want a touch bar or doubt its usefulness will be changing their minds once they actually begin using it.
This won't be a gimmick. In fact I think it might become a feature that we will one day wonder how we ever did without it.
I guarantee most of the people saying that they would never want a touch bar or doubt its usefulness will be changing their minds once they actually begin using it.
This won't be a gimmick. In fact I think it might become a feature that we will one day wonder how we ever did without it.
...what if their source is actually basing its prediction on Gurman's prediction?
So the source of Gurman is basing on Gurman which is basing on the source which is Gurman himself.
MIND BLOWN!
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First look at the touch stripe 
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Wow, you guys sure have been active. This thread is so busy that it gets posting 24/7!
(To me, the function keys are just as useful as the space bar.)
(To me, the function keys are just as useful as the space bar.)
I find it interesting that the touch strip rumors also mirror Yulen Darlington's posts based upon chinese forums (feng.com) from right before the ill-fated March watchband event. Note that the sapphire blue part was definitely wrong, so take that with a massive grain of salt. It could be that there is an actual leaker in Asia fueling both sets of rumors, random but convergent spitballing by multiple parties, or the new Kuo et al reports being based upon the "scuttlebutt" going around the asian rumor mill but without concrete sources.
I find it interesting, if nothing else ("interesting" being graded on a curve of course, with so little concrete info these months).
I find it interesting, if nothing else ("interesting" being graded on a curve of course, with so little concrete info these months).
Maybe I didn't see it or my Google translation is bad, but the post says "I heard that the keyboard function keys are hidden in shadow, but also engage in touch, OMG." I don't see anything about an actual touch screen. I interpreted it as those buttons on laptops that you can touch, like this.
No one has delivered OLED keys that are better than physical keys. If Apple does it, they will be first. And if they can do it, then just do all the keys otherwise you are admitting that the physical key is better. I hate it when Apple or anyone tries to make a laptop something it's not. Laptop needs physical keys. Feel free to innovate and make better (other) products that don't need physical keys.
This is kind of my fear, that Apple wants to take the MBP and make it something like a Surface Book or Yoga (albiet with higher TDP cpu/gpu than those examples), some sort of laptop/tablet type device. To me, this is not how I use the MBP, and not what I want in a laptop. If they're going this route I'd like to see two different products...a multi-function type device and a traditional "Pro" Apple laptop.
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In the case the OLED display was to be placed on the metal hinge, it may save some space and allow a smaller footprint. Keeping a 13'' screen within a structure meant for a 12.6''...What do you think ?
I'm actually really pleased if these rumours are true. It looks like everybody gets what they were asking for. Latest Skylake processor. Polaris dGPU. Thinner and lighter. Announcement at WWDC with release in a month or two following.
My only slight worry is that they are going to screw up the keyboard and make it like the MacBook's. But I just don't believe they'd be that dumb.
Re the touch strip, not sure I get all the grousing. At best, it will be cool and useful. At worst, it will be a gimmick that doesn't really make anything worse.
My only slight worry is that they are going to screw up the keyboard and make it like the MacBook's. But I just don't believe they'd be that dumb.
Re the touch strip, not sure I get all the grousing. At best, it will be cool and useful. At worst, it will be a gimmick that doesn't really make anything worse.
The dGPU they'd have put in wouldn't differ much from MX370 or GT750m, maybe 10-20% more power. Apple wouldn't ever put a GTX980m on a MBP. So if you really care about dGPUs, this is the year, not 2015.
While I agree the gains are negligent still it's not exactly the same - Iris Skylakes have L4 cache which helps in non-iGPU tasks as well.
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Well, I started using Force Touch two weeks ago. I still want my mechanical trackpad back.
So you can't be sure.
18 more days until more disappointment guys, 18 more days.
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