More likely June but yah at this point wait it’ll be well worth it.
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Waiting for the 2018 MBP
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I don't think it will be a "revolutionary new concept"; the form factor of the MBP is unlikely to change for another year or two. But it may be a significant difference in performance if they implement a quad-core processor in the 13" or a hexa-core processor in the 15", which is possible.
Let's hope for a kickass graphics card that will make gaming on the Mac (...book) great again.
Has it ever really been great? I mean, I know they’ve had some decent games across the years but it’s never really been something Mac has been known for and pretty much no major game is available on Mac at launch these days - or at least it feels that way.
Have you looked at your Steam library recently? It's quite amazing just how many games are actually available on macOS now. Sure, some of the come a little later than their Windows version, most of them run worse then they would under Windows, and some big titles are missing entirely, mainly from EA, Activision and from many Japanese Publishers.
But there's still a HUGE library of games out there. 111 of the 152 titles in my Steam library are available for macOS, and most important for me, most big strategy games and Blizzard games are available. Sure, you'll need the occasional Parallel's / Bootcamp for playing games like Anno or Spellforce, but it's really not that bad imho.
Now with eGPU's becoming a thing it will only get better.
I was talking about gaming via Bootcamp mostly. Many high end titles are playable... even the MBP base model can play them very well with low settings in Bootcamp.
But with a kickass GPU we could have some 60 fps and at least 1080P super fine quality.
How come? Even though no one "really" knows, i heard a lot in here talking about march release as being most probable because of the Dell competition...
That's what I thought too, but Intel still didn't announce anything, and rumors point towards Q2 releases for their H-series CPUs. Dell is using Kaby Lake G, which Apple will probably avoid due to the bad performance compared to a combination of a new Vega based 35W GPU and a six-core H-series CPU.
Could be. Lots of discounts right now.
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Kaby Lake R ? Already out too
Yep, but only 15W ones with GT2 iGPUs. Not the best option for the Touch Bar 13" MacBook Pro and certainly not suitable for the 15" one.
Was thinking about ntb but right need all options available for other machines.
I need to purchase a new MacBook Pro, but I don't want to buy a 2017 at this point. I noticed a few weeks ago that if you configure a 13-inch Touch Bar model with a 1TB drive, the delivery date is over 2-3 weeks away. I wonder if that's an indication that new models are due soon, but all other configurations, including 15-inch models, still seem to be shipping fairly quickly. Not sure what's going on with the 13-inch with 1TB.
Just bought the base 2017 Non TB, totally happy with it, in face I am incredibly happy with it. Theres realistically nothing they are going to do that would make me regret not waiting. I don't want to go without a laptop for almost half a year and this thing is more then powerful enough for me.
I was looking at the NTB models. Not sure why TB models showing longer. Different SSD manufacturer or manufactured different location so stock different.
If you try to customize a 12-inch MacBook, every combination also shows Feb 14-21, which is odd.
I honestly don't see why you find this odd, they only sell a couple hundred thousand MacBooks a year or something small like that, they don't just have customized versions sitting on the shelf ready to go. I wouldn't expect a new Pro until June, if you don't want to wait then don't, you won't be disappointed with the 2017, it's hardly more then half a year old.
The only reason I'm waiting is because of all the questions and chatter surrounding the reliability of the 2017's keyboard. If the 2018 model is basically the 2017 model without the risk of a dodgy keyboard and service nightmare, I'm okay with that. Vega GPUs and hexa-core CPUs with power-saving ARM co-processors would be nice, but the thing has to be reliable.
I'd like to see some Ryzen/Threadripper versions come out especially after the release of the new AMD updates in March/April but hey we can all wish, lol.
I personally am just waiting to see when the 2018 is released, if not this Q2/3 then I shall just wait even longer. My existing model is the 2016 version 15" i7 @ 2.6, Radeon Pro 450 and 256GB ssd but hey I'm happy with my new iMac Pro anyway so I am using that much more anyway.
Good things come to those who wait someone once said!
The 2016 had reliability issues,sinve ive changed all of them to 2017 model no issue anymore
Fortunately I don't use Adobe anymore, I fired them!Just be warned that 64 GB RAM is not nearly enough for Adobe's sloppy coding.
(Screenshot taken on an iMac 5k a few minutes ago)
Davinci Resolve and Media Composer for me now!
For my photo work I use Capture One Pro 11 & Media Pro SE.
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I had issues with mine but got it replaced after the initial repair. I'm in the UK and Apple were surprisingly very cooperative and even suggested getting it replaced under our UK consumer law AFTER the first repair so when it failed again I got them to do exactly that, Job done within 2 weeks! I think I've been extremely lucky and so far my replacement is fine but then I'm not keeping it. I just don't trust it. I am using my new iMac Pro much more now.
In the past, most of the time it wasn't always worth waiting because the performance gains were so small. This time around though, IMO, it's an obvious WAIT. Why? 1. Horrible keyboard issues, 2. Two extra cores with a massive performance jump.
It's a no-brainer to wait this time unless you have a broken machine and need something ASAP.
Well, the question is, are you willing to pay the premium for that? I hear in the past, that premium would be +20% to +50% of comparable Windows hardware. Nowadays it can be 200% to 300%!! I do go for "fancier" stuff every now and then (e.g. my phone costs $220 instead of a flip phone that could be had for close to free), but I've more and more appreciated what you can get sometimes without having to shell out extra funds.
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Just be warned that 64 GB RAM is not nearly enough for Adobe's sloppy coding.
(Screenshot taken on an iMac 5k a few minutes ago)
100 GB of space, + 96 GB of RAM occupied!!
That reminds me that I don't even recall how much RAM my system has! (I had to look it up... 8 GB of DDR3 SDRAM @1333MHz, 2 sticks of 2 GB)