Waiting for the 2018 MBP

macagain said:
I'm holding out for this too. I'd like to think that it has a pretty good chance of happening, given that compared to iThings, the mac's pixel is pretty dismal. I'd bet (hope) that having the macbook pro's ship with default res set a scaled setting is driving some of the more detail obsessed people (e.g. Sir Jonny) nuts. The 2880 screens have been around for 5 years now, and the pc's have been shipping with 3200 screens for quite some time now... I'd bet that the 3360 aren't too far away.

Finger crossed...
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Why? Most screens on the market don't have more than 200 DPI.
 
macagain said:
I'm holding out for this too. I'd like to think that it has a pretty good chance of happening, given that compared to iThings, the mac's pixel is pretty dismal. I'd bet (hope) that having the macbook pro's ship with default res set a scaled setting is driving some of the more detail obsessed people (e.g. Sir Jonny) nuts. The 2880 screens have been around for 5 years now, and the pc's have been shipping with 3200 screens for quite some time now... I'd bet that the 3360 aren't too far away.

Finger crossed...
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Yep it'd only be a bump from 220ppi to 250 or so; still less than iPad or surface pro, so there should be no issues production wise with an unprecedented pixel density for the display or the size or whatever...
doitdada said:
Why? Most screens on the market don't have more than 200 DPI.
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it's not about the raw ppi number, but having the display's physical resolution at exactly 4x the effective screen resolution again at the new 'default' scale...
 
doitdada said:
I guess quad core with good enough integrated graphics will be a part of Cannon Lake or Ice Lake since the less heat produced with the 10nm manufacturing process will make it reach low enough temps to fit into the thin bodies of the current lineup. Most of the Kaby Lake revisions with quad core you are seeing now being launched have included a dedicated GPU and most of the models are being released with Nvidia Geforce MX150 or likewise. Heat is still a problem in all 15" with four cores, the fans are never idle and spin continuously at 2000rpm.

If I was Apple I would wait for 10nm in order to avoid problems with heat. The increased potential shown by Intel is probably done with a dedicated cooler on a test bench, and results may vary with different setups concerning space, heat and the builds ability to lower temperatures. One thing is to have the technology, the other part is to make the performance durable and portable.

Most of the machines you will see on the market with the new Kaby Lake S quad cores may also have loud fans and most of the laptops are geared against gamers that also endure quite loud spikes in decibel on their desktops as well as their laptops. They may not be so sensitive to high pitched fan noise from hot components in stark contrast from the average Apple buyer. Mac users have a tendency to uncover all flaws with their computers from launch day one.
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So 2019 ? I saw that a 13 inches non touchbar with i7 and 16 GB is around 2149 euros while the 15 touchbar quad core 16 GB is on 2500...is this correct?
 
TheHurryKayne said:
So 2019 ? I saw that a 13 inches non touchbar with i7 and 16 GB is around 2149 euros while the 15 touchbar quad core 16 GB is on 2500...is this correct?
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In Norway you have to pay around 2900 euros for a baseline 15. Around 1400 euros for a 13" baseline without touch bar. I paid 2050 euros for my 2016 baseline 15" on sale a month ago.
 
Falhófnir said:
Yep it'd only be a bump from 220ppi to 250 or so; still less than iPad or surface pro, so there should be no issues production wise with an unprecedented pixel density for the display or the size or whatever...

it's not about the raw ppi number, but having the display's physical resolution at exactly 4x the effective screen resolution again at the new 'default' scale...
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I want a 16:9 or 16:10 4k resolution to have NATIVE @2x 1920x1200/1080.
Anything below FullHD in points (not pixels) is not cutting it!
 
TheralSadurns said:
I want a 16:9 or 16:10 4k resolution to have NATIVE @2x 1920x1200/1080.
Anything below FullHD in points (not pixels) is not cutting it!
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I’d definitely hate to lose the 16:10 aspect, that’s one of the best things about MacBooks to me!

doitdada said:
I want I want...a Dell.
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That’s such a lame attitude, you don’t want exactly what’s on offer right now so you should go to another manufacturer rather than speculate about what you’d like to see in future editions... in a thread about what you want from future editions! :rolleyes:
 
KarmaRocket said:
IMHO, if Apple does release another update to the MBP later this year, it will only be a slight spec upgrade. If they are taking a more serious approach to the pro platform 6 months might be too little time for a redesign. I think next spring we will see a new redesign of the MBP with slightly beefier specs. It's just a matter of what chips they can get from Intel.
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In this forum many users reported severe issues with the keyboard about which Apple seems to be aware at least. In case they can fix it (if if !!!) it makes sense to have updates machines earlier then usual to minimize cost.

Hmmm - look at this: Geekbench 14.1 MacBook Pro
 
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I am sure this has been discussed before but do we know for sure the 2018 rMBP will have 32GB? My late 2013 rMBP keeps running out of memory at 16GB and I really don't want to upgrade to the same RAM spec...:rolleyes:
 
doitdada said:
In Norway you have to pay around 2900 euros for a baseline 15. Around 1400 euros for a 13" baseline without touch bar. I paid 2050 euros for my 2016 baseline 15" on sale a month ago.
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Yea, but normal salary in norway is 4000 euros
 
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