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Waiting for Skylake MBP thread
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I just did the same thing and bumped my ram up to 8. Holding out for later.... or buy an NA Miata for around the same price as a new Mac.... choices
How much will the value of the 2015 15" rMBP drop if and when the next generation comes out?
I have just ordered 16GB RAM and a 500GB SSD for my 2011 MBP - just so that I can keep it going in a usable state for when(ever) the new MBPs are released. A roughly A$300 upgrade.
Hey guys. I've been lurking here for quite some time, probably since last summer actually. I've waited all this time for Skylake, but after the last event I couldn't wait anymore. I bought a used MacBook on Craigslist for $780. Maybe I'll flip it whenever Skylake comes, but I'm done waiting. Good luck to everyone still hanging around.
If you waited for the pro but settled with the MB, you didn't need the pro
Define need. Most people in this thread don't need a new Laptop as much as they need water and bread Although some people think they do
Although some people think they do 
Haha I knew this was coming. I have a PC already with a quad-core Sandy Bridge chip, 16 GB of RAM, and an SSD. That'll still handle larger tasks. I've just been wanting to make the jump to Mac and the wait got too long. I'll probably upgrade to the Pro when my PC dies, but for now I'll have my MacBook for light use and PC for heavy duty work.
Yeah but dudes, come on, some of us have had it SSSOOOooooo..... good for over 30 years. Yeah some highs and lows, but I am a happy Apple/Mac/i user...
I have nightmare sweats of having to live my life over and having to live my life in the Windows world...instead of the Mac world... scary...I means it's bad enough!
With all the highs, it's hard to just keep "giving us" some great NEW THING...
I have the same config and made a Hackintosh out of it which is running absolutely flawless. Windows totally lost it after Windows 7. No idea how any sane people can claim that Win10 is so great.
/Sidetrack off
/Sidetrack off
I am one of those who are still holding on.
My late 2008 couldn't handle my development workload anymore so I have borrowed my wife's mid 2012 13'. Hopefully, the new one comes out in the fall and offers options for 32gb RAM and external GPU. Otherwise, I will upgrade RAM on my wife's laptop to 16gb, already upgraded the disk to 256gb samsung 850 pro recently and build a hacknitosh. I need to make use of gtx 980 (bought last year and it's still sitting in the box) and the 2nd monitor.
My late 2008 couldn't handle my development workload anymore so I have borrowed my wife's mid 2012 13'. Hopefully, the new one comes out in the fall and offers options for 32gb RAM and external GPU. Otherwise, I will upgrade RAM on my wife's laptop to 16gb, already upgraded the disk to 256gb samsung 850 pro recently and build a hacknitosh. I need to make use of gtx 980 (bought last year and it's still sitting in the box
) and the 2nd monitor.
Windows 10 IS great compared to the hot garbage that was Windows 8. I'm on it now since 7 lost its support. Never did move to 8.
Just curious and wanted to ask you this, so you say you will use your MacBook for Light use and PC for heavy duty work, but I also see in your signature that you also do have an iPad Air 2 right ? So where does the iPad fit into your use here then ?
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GPU upgrades on a laptop?
Naa, I don't think so.
Everything in AMD's lineup is a rebrand except the suposed RX 480M and RX 490M. The RX 480M seems the only one feasable for the next rMBP
Upgrades as in "when purchasing, for additional $900 we will make your soldered GPU with non-standard connector 4% faster", in case that wasn't clear
Maybe I could be wrong (yes I am!) but Polaris drivers referencing RX 480 were found in Sierra.
And at this point, I don't really see any plausible reason for skipping again the MBP release, if not waiting for Polaris.
RX 480M or RX 480?
RX 480 could be used on an iMac. or on the suposed Thunderbolt display with eGPU inside.
RX M480 is 35W TDP. The current R9 M370X on 15'' rmbp is 50W. Unless the RX 490 is 50W, Apple will probably use the RX 480M on the rMBP 15.
Yeah sorry, I meant RX 480M.
As you say, TDP is 35W, so I strongly hope/believe Apple will use it for the 15". That would be great.
But drivers of the RX 460M were found on Sierra, too...
Please, Apple, use a decent dGPU this time.
You can do it.
RX 460M?
Didn't knew that one existed. There is an R7 M460, but that is a rebrand of the R7 M360. That is weaker than a 920M from Nvidia. Meaning the Iris iGPU's would be better.
The RX 460 tho, the desktop one, should use the same chip as the Rx 480M. So when benchmarks of the RX 460 come out, we should pay attention to see what the rMBP could end up being like.
Didn't knew that one existed. There is an R7 M460, but that is a rebrand of the R7 M360. That is weaker than a 920M from Nvidia. Meaning the Iris iGPU's would be better.
The RX 460 tho, the desktop one, should use the same chip as the Rx 480M. So when benchmarks of the RX 460 come out, we should pay attention to see what the rMBP could end up being like.
Pro users will drop big money on a Macbook Pro, thats why so many people are so pizzed off. If we were talking 500$ laptops no one would care, but when we are talking $2500 or $3000 for laptop, we expect something good.
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Sony phones since 2012 have been waterproof, and still all have headphone sockets.
As for thinness, who needs a wafer thin phone - if applce could remove the absurd bezels on their phones that would be better - jesus they're a so big its a joke.
Sorry for the misleading, I was sure it was mentioned a RX 460M, instead is a RX 460, so for desktop option.
But seems like it is really weak, and "the smallest member of the Polaris family that we’ve seen yet, [...] geared towards MOBAs such as League of Legends."
Ugh!
Anyway it doesn't fit for laptops, so hopes still remain with the RX 480M, that early benchmarks define as "slightly faster than a Nvidia GeForce GTX 960M. "
Bring it on, Apple!
Until Z5 (I think) there were flaps covering mini-USB and SD card slots, now mini-USB and headphone socket are fully exposed... and still waterproof. And there's two-day battery life. But I have to admit they are thicker than iPhones. What can I do?
My life is so empty and THICK.Does anybody think the Skylake MBP will be waterproof??? (Now that would be innovation I could stand behind...)
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