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Waiting for Skylake MBP thread

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hollyhillbilly said:
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That's pretty awesome.
 
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Aditya_S said:
They have two Core i5s that are 28W, and they are both priced the same, but one is slightly faster than the other.
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I would try to go for the i7 option if available, which appears to be in the Vaio Z at 28W. I found a comparison of the 2015 13" MBP with the 2016 Vaio Z flip, and they are pretty similar performance-wise according to one review. That makes me wonder what Apple can do with the skylake processor (big improvement over broadwell, or not so much).
 
harync said:
I would try to go for the i7 option if available, which appears to be in the Vaio Z at 28W. I found a comparison of the 2015 13" MBP with the 2016 Vaio Z flip, and they are pretty similar performance-wise according to one review. That makes me wonder what Apple can do with the skylake processor (big improvement over broadwell, or not so much).
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The GPU is a very large increase. ~2X or so. The CPU improvement is very minimal however.
 
does anyone find it significant/slightly hopeful that shipping times of build to order 15" mbp's have slipped to about 10 days?
 
The evil part of me can't help thinking how easy it would be for someone to mill a piece of aluminium on a CNC machine and take some dodgy cellphone photos, just to watch the global rumour machine explode. Wouldn't be too hard.
 
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x-evil-x said:
Yea I understand that. Do you provide serial numbers to show its legit? How much is less than expected? 256 or 512? My 2011 13" is fine. Just never opened the 15 because I've been waiting for this new one to drop.
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I wasn't comfortable providing a serial number ahead of time simply because someone could register it without physical possession of the computer. Is that a big deal? No. Might it complicate the eventual sale to a real buyer? Maybe. You see people posting pictures of the MBP box labels all the time on eBay, with serial number...so I may be paranoid here.

I let a 256 go for $1650 after over a week of jerking with Craigslist. Having bought and sold MBPs on CL for well over a decade, and occasionally made money on the transaction by selling an older model to someone willing to pay top dollar and buying a newer model at retailers with good prices, I can safely say that it's become much harder to get high values for laptops in the past few years. So this may have just been an artifact of that trend rather than people being suspicious of it being new. But in the old days, I could have fetched $1850 for it easily (and yes, that's despite several retailers selling it for $1799).
 
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