Here is hoping Apple upgrade their offerings on the BlackMagic enclosure to include Vega64 in the future.
Of course I could just get the Razer Core, it is just a pain that should anything go wrong, I have to ship it internationally...
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Waiting for the 2018 MBP
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Here is hoping Apple upgrade their offerings on the BlackMagic enclosure to include Vega64 in the future.
Of course I could just get the Razer Core, it is just a pain that should anything go wrong, I have to ship it internationally...
If you mean a Late 2018 iMac, yes, most likely...but if you mean a Late 2018 MacBook Pro, well, you're looking at it now.
Well I think todays release establishes that this guy is making it all up just like the rest of us.
AMD is in-between process changes right now and really do not have anything to offer Apple until next year. So either Apple launches the 4-core and 6-core CPUs now and people complain about the lack of update to the GPU offerings or they wait until better GPUs are launched and listen to people complain about no 8th Gen CPUs and only 16GB of RAM...either way, they cannot win. Personally, I am glad they chose to update the CPUs and give users the option of 32GB of RAM on the 15". Clearly, you are not as happy about that decision.
The quote is not loyal to Kuo's original viewpoint. His report said that mbp only have spec bump. The display side attached to other macs.
Perhaps he was referencing to TrueTone, although is that significant?
So still shoving the touch bar down our throats when we want a 15” model?
That’s the biggest disappointment for me. I don’t want to pay for that consumer bollocks.
That’s the biggest disappointment for me. I don’t want to pay for that consumer bollocks.
Talking with the family, the consensus is that we get the MBP, so I'll be leaning that way
Yes, TrueTone is significant, probably esp. for multimedia creation types.
It's less important to me though, as mainly a business user. (I use a 2017 MacBook, which isn't even wide colour gamut.)
That was fairly expected though. I was concerned that they'd even discontinue the 13" nTB. Though by not updating it, they more or less did I guess.
Why do we pay European surcharge? What have we done to you, Apple? I am comparing the prices without VAT. It is ridiculous.
I wouldn't be surprised to see a nTB 13" update in 2019 though. It has now become the "cheap" Pro model. The 2015 models no longer are sold. They could keep the nTB going for a couple of years before finally killing it.
Good to see Kaby Lake remains the real-world baseline for 4K HDR support BTW.
I was pleasantly surprised to see the 32G RAM option. GPU a bit disappointing, but not really a big deal. Keyboard remains an unknown I guess, but nice that it's quieter. I'll wait a few months to see initial reactions, then we'll see. I switched over to desktop earlier this year as a stopgap, and I'm starting to quite like it 
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It does not.
So keep in mind in the US an additional 8-10% is added for our "VAT" except in 3-4 states like Oregon. I do agree the difference is striking and this has bene going on tho for a long time.
Aside from US prices being 8-10% higher, the EU has VAT up to 25% and perhaps import duties. Not sure what the EU charges Apple to import each unit.
I like option 2 as well, simply because its the most maxed, and in theory would last the longest. I'm just unsure of whether the processor will become dated before the RAM is really utilized, if that makes sense?
Yes, business expense, no to iMac. I can't remember which year the iMac is, but I'm guessing 2016, with 16gb RAM and a 1TB SSD that I installed.
The dollars don't really matter, it's just a matter of what's more "reasonable" for the money. If option 3 would work just as well for the $400-ish savings, then that $400 can be used elsewhere.
We don't store any photos locally. We have a Lacie Rugged that we store all photos that are being edited. There are also two different NAS drives on the network, as well as cloud backup. The one thing I don't like, or at least am unsure of if I like it or not is the display. We have a matte display on our 2011 MBP.
That's kind of my thought as well. Our 2011 MBP does a decent job still today, but it starts to struggle when you've got lightroom, safari and possibly photoshop elements all running simultaneously. As mentioned above, this is a business expense, and we can afford any of the options, but I like to be reasonable when buying things.
Thanks everyone for your opinions! I think I'll go with Option 2, future proofing as well as increasing resale value if I decide to upgrade in a couple of years.
Uncertainty is the answer
, similar to the fate UK has experienced. Yes we bounced back a bit, but they are probably hedging that we are still in an "unstable" period, Brexit et al.Not gonna wait this out a bit and see how some early adopters react to the changes?
I am expecting Polaris (5*0X) in both sizes of the iMac, definitely the 21.5" I don't see Apple redesigning the innards of the 27" iMac, although they have done most of the hard work with the iMac Pro. Given the lack of a suitable GPU upgrade for the Pro at this time, I suspect Apple is not going to want to put a Vega anything in the regular iMac and erode a possible upsell to the Pro.
The flip side of that is that if Apple releases an updated iMac along with the Intel Core i9-9900K (8-core) as a BTO option, they might just give us the option of the RX Vega Nano, which would not overlap too badly with the iMac Pro. Again, I think Apple may drop the 8-core Xeon, make the 10-core the base and add the 22-core if Intel has it ready and in Xeon-W configuration, not just Core-X. I also expect that Apple may drop the Vega 56 8GB and move it to a Vega 64 8GB.
Fingers crossed, need to upgrade a lease, but not leasing 2017 iMacs at this point, period. Should be a fun couple of months wait.
I may need to wait only from the perspective of not having the time to visit the local apple store. My family seems to be wanting the MBP over the Dell or Razer, so I'm like a fish swimming up against the current.