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Waiting for Skylake MBP thread
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Oh come on. Waiting makes it worthwhile. It gives something to look forward to and read about. Plus I'd prefer they wait an extra few months and resolve any issues because lets face it - they're doing a rebuild and are likely to get some things wrong and fix it in the next release in half a year or so (e.g. image ghosting in 2012 rMBP). Take your time and get it right the Apple way.this is the worst wait ever
bogus news article. the most obvious warning signal:
"If speculations are to be believed, the Macbooks will boast Nvidia GeForce GTX 950 graphic card,"
A GTX 950 is 11 centimetres high. A 950M eats a lot of battery and I really don't see Apple sticking it in their notebooks - and it'd only be in the 15", which wasn't specified.
Maybe, maybe not. I mean, if they put the MBP into a Macbook like case, they don't really demonstrate anything particularly new. The force trackpad, slim case, no ports and all that stuff has already been released.
I would not be completely blown away if there was no event, though I agree that probably there would be some event.
On the other hand that would be kind of weak to be the climax of the event and all their music / apple tv / iphone / ipad stuff is already launched and el capitan demoed.
So the idea that there won't be an october event seems unlikely. Some glimmer of hope anyway. I'm so tempted to get a macbook just for its beauty - it's still 2x more powerful than what i'm using according to geekbench but I produce music so need to hold out really even though I can still make tracks on my late 2008. I'm more interested in the redesign than I am skylake itself. My laptop was the first of the last macbook pro redesign - 7 years ago!
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So *the source* has also confirmed that the next iteration launching next week doesn't have Skylake 14nm, but Cannonlake 10nm. Apparently Apple conviced Intel to get them done in the quantity they want. They also come with a thickness of 6.8 mm (thinner than the iphone!!) and comes bundled with unicorn fur for lulz, oh and a GTX 1080. /s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannonlake
According to the roadmap table in Wikipedia, Cannonlake is part of the Skylake family, only thinner.
Wow, that would be great! I hope The Source is right!
No. Per Intel slides from earlier this month, they won't be expected until sometime in 2016.
Uh... wow. I hope you were just being super sarcastic to match the obvious sarcasm of OSX7's post. Did you not see how OSX7 also wrote that the new MBP will have unicorn fur?
And Cannonlake is not part of the Skylake family. It's a processor cycle 2 generations away from Skylake, as in Broadwell, then Skylake, then Kaby Lake, and then Cannonlake. As such, it's not just going to be "thinner," it will have a different architecture as well as be built on a 10 nm process.
Well I am also waiting to purchase my First MBP 15" (For iOS app dev),I believe they will launch in 2015 as the offers on the current gen are way too mouth watering.Either they have stupendous stocks or they are drying their inventory.But,the fact remains we have yet to see any Skylake HQ chips with iris pro graphics.
This Wait is killing me.
This Wait is killing me.
@NJPT @kristoffer4:
They have been announced, but not yet launched. There are three Core i* Us with Iris 550 graphics, so most probably the 13'' will get the Core i5 6267U, Core i5 6287U and Core i7 6567U.
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Cannonlake would also mean Apple skipping Broadwell, Skylake, and Kaby Lake.
Speaking of skipping: How sure can we be that Apple will skip Broadwell? Maybe both of the fractions here are right, and we will see a traditional 15'' Broadwell MBPr in October and a redesigned 15'' Skylake MBPr someday after lunar new year. Let's hope not.
They have been announced, but not yet launched. There are three Core i* Us with Iris 550 graphics, so most probably the 13'' will get the Core i5 6267U, Core i5 6287U and Core i7 6567U.
@NJPT:
Cannonlake would also mean Apple skipping Broadwell, Skylake, and Kaby Lake.
Speaking of skipping: How sure can we be that Apple will skip Broadwell? Maybe both of the fractions here are right, and we will see a traditional 15'' Broadwell MBPr in October and a redesigned 15'' Skylake MBPr someday after lunar new year. Let's hope not.
The unicorn fur completed the vision!
After waiting this long, even false hope is BTN (better than nothing!)
1. Thanks, I suppose I could have been more specific when I said the Skylake U chips for a 13" rMBP weren't released yet, but at this point we don't yet have a street date for those announced chips.
2. And I'm well aware that Cannonlake would mean Apple skipping all of those generations, as I listed them in sequential order on purpose to emphasize that. Obviously, that was a big part of the sarcasm behind OSX7's post, along with the unicorn fur.
3. And yes, I agree a Broadwell spec bump to the 15" MBP in October is not out of the question. More than a little puzzling and frustrating perhaps, given Apple did that half-hearted 15" MBP update on 5/19/15 when the Broadwell chips were released on 6/2/15, but within the realm of possibility.
Why do people keep saying that Apple have skipped Broadwell?
Both 13" rMBP and MB Air have Broadwell processors.
Fair enough.
I just find it misleading to say that Apple have or will skip Broadwell.
Not everyone is in the market for a 15" rMBP and some posts don't qualify that they are only talking about the 15" when referring to Apple skipping Broadwell.
Broadwell is the only option for a 2015 release, no? I mean there haven't been any announcement of suitable CPU's for a 15", skylake MBP?
Correct, Skylake processors suitable for the 15" are likely to be available in large volumes early 2016.
Apple didn't wait for the Broadwell processors when they refreshed the 15" a few months ago. They obviously saw minimal benefit over the existing processor. Therefore hard to believe that they would now introduce a Broadwell model when in a few months time Skylake will be available.
There is no pressing need to launch a new rMBP. Force Touch and considerably faster SSD drives pushed the launch of the refresh this year. Apple needed to get Force Touch out there. The next rMBP will have USB C/Thunderbolt 3 ports, there is no pressing need to bring those upgrades to market, compatible peripherals are currently few and far between. By the end of Q1 or beginning of Q2 2016 there should be a lot more peripherals available so that's yet another indicator that we are looking at 5 months rather than 5 weeks.
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