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MacBook Pro 2016 Release Date REVEALED? Skylake Running Apple Laptop To Come With OS X El Capitan Out Of The Box?
http://www.jobsnhire.com/articles/2...-come-with-os-x-el-capitan-out-of-the-box.htm

Everyday is quoting Neurogadget who is saying: "...Rumor has it that these laptops will come out in the month of October...".
No one is saying anything about March 2016, too much trolling is going on, like the GTX 980 GPU
 
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Some things don't really add up for me. Why switch back to the 950GTX? Since the ATI cards can handle OpenCL better? Why "focus" on gamers? Apple hasn't done that before (atleast not that I know of). Just to name a few. We'll see about the month of release, march sounds about right to me.
 
Most of these websites (Yibada, VCPost) that are quoting predictions on MBPs are low-quality clickbait sites with equally low quality tech writing. Neurogadget writes about MBPs and Y series Skylake chips in the same sentence, which is absurd; those chips are suitable only for MBs. That Jobs & Hire website quoting MBPs will have U class chips with a GTX 950 is also nonsensical. Websites like those constantly pump out clickbait headlines on Apple products because they know that generates web traffic.
 
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I've been hedging on pulling the trigger on a new rMBP 15" for a while now and decided today to not play the wait game and just get one. I found it odd that NONE of the NYC stores have the 2.8GHz model in stock, not a single one. But BestBuy and B&H did. Is it normal for Apple stores not to stock the upgraded model or should I read into this that store stock is diminishing in preparation for an Oct update? I don't think Skylake will make a meaningful difference to what I do (software development), but if the drop comes a few days after I shell out $3k I'm going to be a bit annoyed.

Should I care that Apple stores don't have any in stock or not? Thanks!
 
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I've been hedging on pulling the trigger on a new rMBP 15" for a while now and decided today to not play the wait game and just get one. I found it odd that NONE of the NYC stores have the 2.8GHz model in stock, not a single one. But BestBuy and B&H did. Is it normal for Apple stores not to stock the upgraded model or should I read into this that store stock is diminishing in preparation for an Oct update? I don't think Skylake will make a meaningful difference to what I do (software development), but if the drop comes a few days after I shell out $3k I'm going to be a bit annoyed.

Should I care that Apple stores don't have any in stock or not? Thanks!
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Can't comment on NYC as I worked for Apple in Glasgow, but we only ever had 1/2 of the top spec models at a time, if at all.
 
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I've been hedging on pulling the trigger on a new rMBP 15" for a while now and decided today to not play the wait game and just get one. I found it odd that NONE of the NYC stores have the 2.8GHz model in stock, not a single one. But BestBuy and B&H did. Is it normal for Apple stores not to stock the upgraded model or should I read into this that store stock is diminishing in preparation for an Oct update? I don't think Skylake will make a meaningful difference to what I do (software development), but if the drop comes a few days after I shell out $3k I'm going to be a bit annoyed.

Should I care that Apple stores don't have any in stock or not? Thanks!
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You do have a two week return period once you buy.
 
Seems like all of the news stories are jumping on the october bandwagon! I hope they're right! It mostly seems like everyone is citing someone else who are in turn citing 'fan speculation' so it's far from concrete.
 
Someone tell me I'm not mad to buy a 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display tomorrow, maxed up to the 2.8GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7 and 1TB PCIe-based Flash Storage. Will I be bitterly regretting not having waited for some paradigm-smashing Skylake magic next year?
 
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Someone tell me I'm not mad to buy a 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display tomorrow, maxed up to the 2.8GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7 and 1TB PCIe-based Flash Storage. Will I be bitterly regretting not having waited for some paradigm-smashing Skylake magic next year?
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there's a saying: if you desperately need one, buy one.

skylake is a pretty big deal, though. that's why i'll wait for it (even though my 2010 model is kind of croaking). if you can, wait until the end of october.

edit: depends on what you're doing but my experience (as a software developer) is that paying 300 bucks for sort of 500mhz more is not worth it.
 
I'm willing to wait til next Spring for the tock. I'm really hoping Metal and ATi will have a baby.
 
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Not sure what people think have changed. There's still no suitable cpu available. So, no, there's (most likely) no october release.
 
Apple may use Skylake i7 processor with intel 530 HD graphics and put a dedicated GPU equivalent to the performance of Skylake iris pro then it's a win-win for everyone.
is this possible ??
 
I'm patiently awaiting these Skylake MBPs. I want to switch from a dying Lenovo Y480 and can't wait for the performance, battery life, and slim form factor.

I likely won't be able to deck this thing out fully. A 256gb is a no brainier for me since I want to dual boot Windows. My question is, with the improvements Skylake and its iGPU brings, would I be ok saving some cash and sticking to the base processor speed and 8GB ram?

I used a guide somewhere on these forums and it seems like that config should last me for 4-5 years since I only want to game with light titles and won't be doing video editing or virtual machines. I'm mindful that once you buy you can't upgrade after the fact. Any thoughts from this group?
 
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All the media seem to think something has changed. Can't we have the Skylake without iris pro and then later a silent iris pro update?
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Then the low end option wouldn't be available... Also the battery life claims come from using the Iris Pro graphic which they wouldn't' be able to advertise if they didn't include it.
 
Those claims should be the least of apples worries. They're falling too far behind the game with the 15 inch. At least they could advertise skylake, the redesign and all that jazz. I went to look in the store the other day and the current macbook pros are almost identical to mine. I'm surprised they haven't upgraded the plastic hinge to metal as that seems is the weak point. The current macbook pros don't feel or look special anymore, just standard. I don't want to feel like i'm buying exactly the same thing as I did 7 years ago with only intel driven performance increases. Where are the apple design innovations?

sixstringedmatt - I'd go with the base model as performance increases are pretty minimal for the price you pay and really over the years its all going to incomparable to new tech whichever model you went for. 8GB of ram should be fine but that is probably where i'd upgrade if you feel you'd need it (although i haven't used a machine with more than 4gb) - It sounds like you could get away with macbook or air for what you want to do. My 7 year old macbook pro will do that and produce electronic music and the current range is 5x more powerful according to geekbench. I think we've got to a stage where unless your into your heavy video editing, music producing or intensive gaming any mac would be more than capable.
 
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Someone tell me I'm not mad to buy a 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display tomorrow, maxed up to the 2.8GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7 and 1TB PCIe-based Flash Storage. Will I be bitterly regretting not having waited for some paradigm-smashing Skylake magic next year?
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I did that and am underwhelmed by the improvements between 2012 and 2015. I mostly needed a ram upgrade, kind of mad that its almost 4 years later and I still can't get more than 16gb unless I get a pc. Just running parallels and having 10 tabs open in firefox uses 9gb ram.

Where is apple's performance laptop that can handle anything you might want to do with a laptop? I half expect them to come out with a slimmer laptop with barely any speed or graphics upgrade and no ram upgrade :(
 
U really think from that article the next macbook pro skylake will come out in October of 2016? We'd be waiting exactly a year for the next revision.
 
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Not sure what people think have changed. There's still no suitable cpu available. So, no, there's (most likely) no october release.
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Only suitable Broadwell revisions (5750, 5850 and 5950) to replace the Haswell version with. Not a big update apart from the 0,3ghz upgrade for the base model. For graphics they could upgrade the M370x to a M375. Any other option with a similar TDP isn't around (from ATI) I believe.

For the time being I'm rocking my third 2011 2.2 i7 with ATI 6750M Logicboard so I'm set for another 4-6months of heavy use! I just hope it's enough ;).
 
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