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Waiting for Skylake MBP thread
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Some of these rumors almost seem like no brainers. Did anyone think there would be 4 TB3 ports? I think 2 TB3 and 2 USB-C makes sense. Polaris makes sense for the 16".
If 13" starts with 256gb (and not that ridiculous 128gb), it would be $1499-100 = $1399. 12" already starts with 256gb for $1299, so Apple is cleaning up the base SSDs. $100 price difference still does seem small.
I really hope SSD (and RAM) upgrades are cheaper. When you could update it yourself I was fine with their pricing, but since they made them unchangeable, the upgrade pricing is way too high.
Well, I'm getting more confident that it will be announced at WWDC at least. I'd rather have it announced at WWDC and have to wait several months to actually get it than have them remain silent on WWDC. It's the silence and not knowing that's killing me. I can wait for a distant definite date, though.
It was fan art from the third Digimon movie (Japanese). It was Wallace with Terriermon on his head. I'll probably use it again, but wanted a Scott Pilgrim one for now
It was fan art from the third Digimon movie (Japanese). It was Wallace with Terriermon on his head. I'll probably use it again, but wanted a Scott Pilgrim one for now
What if, Apple lows rMB12 pricing too? ahh are a 14"MBP an 16"MBP.
16" instead of 15" wouldn't really be a no brainer.
4 thunderbolt 3 ports isn't either. I find 2 TB3/2USB-C to be more likely.
Also the WWDC launch is really up in the air right now, so if all three of these turned out true on the 13th, I'd be somewhat more attentive towards this person.
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Back in topic, I was thinking, considering the leaked photos and the last rumors from the deep web [], what if Apple introduce the new MBP 13" at WWDC, and later in september | october the 15"/16"?
That could be a thing.
IIRC, it's already happened in the past.
Even if it doesn't sounds good, I consider this a plausible event.
What do you think?
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I think that depends also by the country you are purchasing from.
However, back in 2009, when I bought my current MBP with the educational price, I didn't send any kind of certification.
There is somewhere in the contractual condition a part where Apple say it will randomly check if student purchase are actually students.
Except for that, I think yeah, everyone can buy with the educational discount.
You will just playing with fate.
Back in topic, I was thinking, considering the leaked photos and the last rumors from the deep web [
], what if Apple introduce the new MBP 13" at WWDC, and later in september | october the 15"/16"?That could be a thing.
IIRC, it's already happened in the past.
Even if it doesn't sounds good, I consider this a plausible event.
What do you think?
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I think that depends also by the country you are purchasing from.
However, back in 2009, when I bought my current MBP with the educational price, I didn't send any kind of certification.
There is somewhere in the contractual condition a part where Apple say it will randomly check if student purchase are actually students.
Except for that, I think yeah, everyone can buy with the educational discount.
You will just playing with fate.
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AMD had a presentation at Computex yesterday where they released pricing and availability for the new desktop Polaris chip. Disappointingly they said nothing at all about 'Polaris 11' which would be suitable for notebooks. On the back of this it would be a surprise to me if Apple, on the 13th June, released actual product containing Polaris 11 for immediate launch. Announce but only available in August doesn't seem crazy.
I've seen comments saying that the new MBP definitely won't come out until at least September because Apple will have 'locked in' their product range during the back-to-school promotion... is that the general consensus? Should I completely give up hope for an announcement at WWDC?
No. Apple has twice released a MBP during the back-to-school promotion. It is of course possible that Apple will not release until September to coincide with the holiday season, but I don't think they'll skip out on the opportunity to release a new MBP given the large B2S market. I have to assume Apple sells more MBPs during B2S then they do during the holiday shopping season.
My worst case scenario is 13" released in June (or July) and 15" in the fall. I must have the 15" (gonna be using my iPad for note-taking in class and the 15" as my "desktop" in the dorm), so will suck to have to get it after college starts, but it's better than nothing.
Given the bezel change with the 12" MB, I think 16" is highly likely. 2TB3/2USB-C is highly likely. The only thing slightly risky is Polaris, which is likely. Basically what I'm saying is that person could have generated that "scoop" just by hanging out here for an hour.
Anyone has any speculation to the RAM frequency of the RAM used in the NMBP? DDR4-2133? Will Apple willing to give RAM with higher frequency to not to bottleneck iris pro 580?
Also, any idea toward what will happen to the SSD? Soldered with Apple proprietary NVNE controller? Or they will potentially use with proprietary connector version of the hot new SM 961?
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Also, any idea toward what will happen to the SSD? Soldered with Apple proprietary NVNE controller? Or they will potentially use with proprietary connector version of the hot new SM 961?
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4 Thunderbolt 3 is impossible for NMBP. If I remembered it right, i7 6770HQ only support 16 PCIE 3.0 lane, so Thunderbolt can only take 2x4 lanes, and 1x4 for SSD, 1x1 for the networking stuff.
They are far more likely to just reduce the overall size of the machine.
Exactly, Haswell update happened in the middle of Back to School.
https://www.macrumors.com/2014/07/29/updated-retina-macbook-pro-faster-haswell-more-ram/
I did have an idea which was maybe if the prices were reasonable enough AND this new monitor had a GPU in it and didn't cost as much as an iMac, it could be possible to get a 13" MacBook Pro and use it with the new monitor. Possibly.
No, Intel ALPINE RIDGE DP requires only 4x PCIe3 lines for 2 Thunderbolt3 ports whos share this. a 4 TB MBP would require 4+4 for 4tb3 4 for NVMe SSD, wireless wired to internal usb, the GPU on the MBP16 should be wired to 8x PCIE3 lines, PCIe3 lines available (16).
The wrong with full TB3is that you even need USB3 for Maintenance boot (System Recovery, OS clean install) a clean direct USB3 port its indicated.
Nope, as mentioned by @Mago Alpine Ridge requires just 4 lanes of PCIe3 to drive two ports.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbolt_(interface)
that thanks to the new internal system that issue will be resolved (system recovery, OS clean install)they are in testing with intel for some time now, so i guess they will have that option
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I must have missed a lot. What exactly is this for and what the hell happened haha?
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