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Waiting for Skylake MBP thread
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they took 'computer' out the business name a few years ago..........
Don't worry, Tim is very dedicated and working maybe harder than you in order to give us the best MacBook ever created.
Seriously now, I think Apple don't give a @&& about its customers now
My name is rezwits:
I purchased my first INTEL MacBook in 2007, it was the Black 13" 2.0 GHz (Late 2006), after the trackpad when a little bonkers, I had to get a MacBook Pro 13" Unibody 2.26 GHz (Late 2009), in 2010, as a temp, which I took care of to sell. I wanted a 17 inch, but I wasn't willing to drop $3,000 till it had 4 cores + 4 virtual cores inside. So I waited until the Late 2011 was notified as the last of the 17" MacBook Pros and picked up a MacBook Pro 17" 2.2 GHz (Early 2011), in 2012, when the (mid 2012)'s were announced, from MacMall for $2,200! Great deal...I joined the thread because I am addicted to high quality laptops that run macOS.
I went from:
2007 to
2010 to
2012 to
2016 now, with the last greatest retina MacBook Pro 15" 2.2 (Late 2015)
I am shooting for 2018-2019 for a great deal, but I need help!!! I can't stop!!
The trackpads are lasting longer nowadays and I am feeling a lot better
but the desire is still there because more features keep getting added.
retina was a wicked drug, I could have probably kept going with the 17"
but I had freezes once or twice a month with the iGPU and dGPU not getting along.
I went with having one last old school ports MacBook Pro, with at least 4 cores
and no dGPU to have the minimum possibility of any crashes.
So far in a month I haven't had one. Fingers crossed. BulletProof!
If the new 2016 Retina MacBook Pro 15" or 16" has touchID to login and
use Apple Pay it's going to be a rough 2-3 years for me I know this, I am looking for help.
If the new 2016 Retina MacBook Pro 15" or 16" has an OLED bar, where
you can use the fn key in the bottom left, for (fn `) for esc, or fn 1 for F1, fn 2 for F2, etc
It's going to be an even harder 2-3 years.
I know I can do this I am pretty sure I'll be OK...
HAHA
I'm in the same boat as you. I'm willing to wait until the end of October, but after that I seriously need to consider the possibility of just pulling the trigger on the 2015 rMBPI've been waiting for almost a year now. I would have jumped ship but I need Xcode for work...
I am only willing to wait until the end of October otherwise I'll be forced to buy the old 2015 model
You forgot DJs, Photographers, Politicians, Students, North Korean Dictators, Starbucks Patrons, Will i Am, That 9 year old coder girl at WWDC, Donald Trump, Rich Kids of Instagram, evangelical christians, and President Obama (using Macbook Pro Force 1).
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I pre-ordered mine on the 10th and it says the order should arrive around October.
Maybe it would be better to say "don't pay FULL PRICE" for the old model.
At $1,000, I would still buy the current 15" rMBP in a heartbeat.
Nobody knows since there's absolutely no information about it whatsoever.
Probably though, no.
Well, I didn't get anything...
There were about 40 persons standing in line when I arrived and only 7 standing in line for the watch. I wanted the 42mm silver "aluminium" and they didn't have any silver color left. I only saw one person in front of me that bought the silver with white sport band.
When I bought my iPhone 5 four years ago, I had to stand in line at 1 AM just to be placed number 40. At the opening time there were about 400 people and I couldn't even see the end of it because they went outside the mall. This was just for the iPhone 5, no watch! Thank you so much Angela, this is the last time I will stand in queue to buy an Apple product!
At least I know I have to preorder the MBP fast.
There were about 40 persons standing in line when I arrived and only 7 standing in line for the watch. I wanted the 42mm silver "aluminium" and they didn't have any silver color left. I only saw one person in front of me that bought the silver with white sport band.
When I bought my iPhone 5 four years ago, I had to stand in line at 1 AM just to be placed number 40. At the opening time there were about 400 people and I couldn't even see the end of it because they went outside the mall. This was just for the iPhone 5, no watch! Thank you so much Angela, this is the last time I will stand in queue to buy an Apple product!
At least I know I have to preorder the MBP fast.
For a moment I was like "what has Merkel done to you?!"Thank you so much Angela, this is the last time I will stand in queue to buy an Apple product!
I wonder if the popularity of iP7 is fake (i.e. purposefully limited inventory) or real (see, nobody gives a poo about missing headphone jack). Imagine the queues for new Skylake MBPs! *tumbleweed*
Well, I didn't get anything...
There were about 40 persons standing in line when I arrived and only 7 standing in line for the watch. I wanted the 42mm silver "aluminium" and they didn't have any silver color left. I only saw one person in front of me that bought the silver with white sport band.
When I bought my iPhone 5 four years ago, I had to stand in line at 1 AM just to be placed number 40. At the opening time there were about 400 people and I couldn't even see the end of it because they went outside the mall. This was just for the iPhone 5, no watch! Thank you so much Angela, this is the last time I will stand in queue to buy an Apple product!
At least I know I have to preorder the MBP fast.
I have an 830am reservation and plan on showing up at 8am. Did you see people with reservations having to wait long? Or did they go right in?
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It's not artificial. Never was, never will be. Demand is just going up. The number of smartphone users has exploded over the past decade. There will be millions of people upgrading year after year.
MBP release will also see a one month and longer delay as well.
My goose quill challenges your typewriter to a hipster-duel! Blunderbusses at 50 yards!
I propose a Mexican standoff between your typewriter and goose quill and my wonderful Antikythera analog computer!
My loyal photography pigeon will immortalize the event!
If the devs of that game offer Metal support (Apple's graphics API) you may be able to get decent playability on macOS with a dGPU.
If you're running Windows on the MBP, that would be even better because the graphics APIs are better. I'm not sure how demanding Assasin's Creed is, though.
@Dydegu, your signature:
"Apple needs to maintain an entry-level laptop and the MacBook isn't ready for that title. It took 3.5 years for the MBA to topple the MB in 2011. Until the MB's price comes down, either the MBA stays, or the 2015 13" MBP gets the price cut."
I fully agree. But MBA is sooooooo overpriced for what it is. If it was up to me, which it isn't, I'd make the rMB a bit thicker – just enough to accommodate proper keyboard, add a 14" option with microSD and second USB-C, drop MBA, update the rMBPs and lower the rMB price to start at $1099. Full refresh of the line. There is a need for a light, small laptop at "budget Apple" price, and there is no reason why that laptop would have a potato screen.
I think that keeping the 2015 13" would be a bit messy because it's, well, for 2016 standards, thick. Their entry level laptop should be thin. If the rMB was made larger, had a less bang-y keyboard and wasn't so damn expensive I'd buy one for all tasks that don't require much processing power (let's face it, if I need power I have my Hackintosh for that).
"Apple needs to maintain an entry-level laptop and the MacBook isn't ready for that title. It took 3.5 years for the MBA to topple the MB in 2011. Until the MB's price comes down, either the MBA stays, or the 2015 13" MBP gets the price cut."
I fully agree. But MBA is sooooooo overpriced for what it is. If it was up to me, which it isn't, I'd make the rMB a bit thicker – just enough to accommodate proper keyboard, add a 14" option with microSD and second USB-C, drop MBA, update the rMBPs and lower the rMB price to start at $1099. Full refresh of the line. There is a need for a light, small laptop at "budget Apple" price, and there is no reason why that laptop would have a potato screen.
I think that keeping the 2015 13" would be a bit messy because it's, well, for 2016 standards, thick. Their entry level laptop should be thin. If the rMB was made larger, had a less bang-y keyboard and wasn't so damn expensive I'd buy one for all tasks that don't require much processing power (let's face it, if I need power I have my Hackintosh for that).
Since revelations is the 2011 iteration of assassin's creed, you should have no problem playing it on acceptable to great graphics settings at good frame rates. But you might need to turn the resolution to non-retina, e.g. 1280x800 on 13" instead of 2560x1600.
MBP is for scientists and technicians who does high end programming
Air is for managers and analysis.
Macbook as above and also for school kids to show off in their class similar to iPhone
MBP is for serious programmers and computing.
What happens if you're a programmer in school of management?
Well shoot, I better return mine then or give it away to a charity that will rehome it to a suitable scientist or technician.
Thank you for your clarification on this, Apple must have made a mistake when they sold it to me by not doing a thorough background check.
Photographers/may be movie makers I have to agree, with the cut pro software albeit Dell XPS 15 with Sky Lake with USB C and a 4 Trillion resolution is their preferred destination for the last one year or so.
For the rest, (minus the 9 year old coder girl) they can be easily more productive with any Windows 10 Laptop. These muppets(including Obama ad Trump) are just showing off, they do not need a MBP.
For them a common MacBook or MacBook Air should be more than suffice, one reason they might go for MBP is the hard disk space, For Majority its tad difficult to survive with a 256 or 512 GB machine...some of them might go for MBP but once Apple upgrades the HD space on other Mac Variants, they all should move away from MBP. For these numpties sleekness matters more than substance.
For Management and Finance Professionals, MacBook air should be enough.
For school girls and teens MacBook should be fine.
MBP are not meant for gaming, they are not going suck additional power and burn out the batteries like Alienware, ROG, MSI etc..So gaming gimps are outta the equation.
For computer scientists and serious programmers like me who extensively script and code in open source MBP is must. I even do that on Windows with equal ease, but always have the feel good factor when working on a high powered Unix Based system.
As for University students it might be of some help but they need more of an all round machine than a high powered professional beast. For instance they do not download high end work specific paid software packages, they can live with a red hat or Ubuntu along with Windows 10 in a dual boot for documentations, occasional gaming and presentations.
If Tim really wants to beef up the MBP he should focus more on OS Sierra, Battery Power, USBC, resolution and processing power, disk space, caching speed, single-multicore split and RAM. (may be one with a 32GB RAM with DDR4) than talking about full blown. horse wank stuff like OLED Panel, Touch ID etc.
He can reserve all these features for Air or the Mac Book school girls and sheeps would lap it up in a jiffy.
MBP consumers are different from majority of iPhone Consumers. We're not fools, its not easy to market snake oil easily.
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