The 2018 model represents a sizeable update compared to prior years, the keyboard is generation 3 and hopefully the design changes makes it durable and so far early reports are positive. 6 cores, in such a thin laptop is crazy and I'm blown away by the performance increase. For those wanting it, they can have 32GB of ram.
Thanks! Not sure I'm patient enough to wait another 10 months. 🙂
Not all have speaker issue and also what is the T2 crash?
For the 2019 in particular this is going to be the ultimate in this design series - the bugs have been slowly worked out, and the last remaining few with the 2018 should be gone by next year. The whiskey lake CPUs could be to coffee lake what Kaby Lake was to Skylake - very similar but more optimised and cooler running - which would be a particular boon given the thermals of these machines strain against the installed cooling capacity. SSD prices are also slowly starting to fall again after rising up to about December 2017, hopefully by next year they could have declined enough Apple might equip larger capacities across the board, particularly in the base models of each lineup (128 -> 256 in 13” and 256 -> 512 in 15”).
For what ever reason, it seems all PC makers ignore the camera. For my usage, its not something I care at a about. I've only used a handful of times over the last 5 years
To the contrary, this design revision had better thermal properties than any machine that’s gone before - intel just dropped the ball on TDP with coffee lake and I’m certain they will rectify that with some clever optimisations for whiskey lake a la Kaby Lake.
i think the surface line up has the best facetime camera for those who care so much
Realistically, the earliest we could see 10nm Cannonlake in the Mac lineup is 2020 (and that us rumored to be the year we might also see the switch to ARM CPUs, so who knows if it happens at all and to which extend).
As already said 10nm won’t be here until the end of 2019, and at that cannonlake is (or was the last I heard) only being used for Y series parts - this might have been the plan prior to Amber Lake being announced though. Cooler chips aren’t achieved just through die shrinks though, Kaby Lake was significantly cooler running than Skylake, I’m sure Intel can probably tinker with a few aspects of the design and pull a similar trick
I totally agree. That's why I don't want to incentivize Apple to keep making hardwares with very lopsided performance to value ratio by just buying whatever Apple releases. Unlike two companies face off each other like intel vs amd, it's Apple vs consumers. If MBP 2016's sale drop 50% from 2015, you bet Apple will most likely have a redesign by this year with legacy USB port, SD card reader and no touchbar option across board etc. Unfortunately a lot of people complained about those but still gone out and bought one. Some of us have to use Mac only software so there's no choice, but others especially those asking "ssssshould I get 2018 MBP?" then I'll say the answer is NO. If you need it you've already gone out and bought one no questions asked. For others, I'd suggest to just wait.
