I think you have 2 out of those 3 right...Come on Apple show this off next month.
- Matte Black
- Kaby Lake
- DCI-P3 Retina Display
October it's coming rightttt?
Tim Cook telling us to "Stay tuned"? Get off your ass, please.
Rumor: Next MacBook Pros to have OLED touch strip, Touch ID in Q4
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Tim Cook telling us to "Stay tuned"? Get off your ass, please.
SynthFetish
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Aplenty will give us 4 more shades of gold before we will get a black laptop again.
More rumors, still no actual release info: job listings suggest Nvidia is hiring people to work on upcoming Mac GPUs.
Given that they are just now hiring for a future project, these listings are almost certainly not related to the GPUs in the next MBP update, which are heavily rumored to be AMD. But I know many - including myself - have wanted Nvidia GPUs to return to the Mac given AMD's lackluster mobile GPUs as of late, so hey, silver lining.
Given that they are just now hiring for a future project, these listings are almost certainly not related to the GPUs in the next MBP update, which are heavily rumored to be AMD. But I know many - including myself - have wanted Nvidia GPUs to return to the Mac given AMD's lackluster mobile GPUs as of late, so hey, silver lining.
RandomExpletive
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Macbook Pro's with 1080s confirmed 
Would be cool to see one of Nvidia's new cards in a macbook though
Would be cool to see one of Nvidia's new cards in a macbook though
The One Who Knocks
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It's something at least. Getting very desperate to update my laptop so I'm hoping 'late' is a bit of an exaggeration and it's more towards the middle of the month.
LyleLanley
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I thought the processors Apple wanted weren't going to be available until early next year. I wonder if this means they're getting them earlier than everyone expected or if this means Apple is using older tech.
infiniteloop
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I think we know the answer to that.
LyleLanley
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Has Apple received Intel processors this much earlier than the competition before? The only thing I can think of similar to this was the original MacBook Air.
I think the correct answer is that they're going to use older hardware
It's probably gonna use sky lake. They may hop right back with a kaby lake version early next year but this'll be sky lake most likely.
Tony Iron Man Stark
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How are AMD Polaris graphics compared to Nvidia Maxwell?
faceless007
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I'm just hoping (probably in vain) it doesn't have the paper-thin rMB keyboard; the current MBA and rMBP have perfect key travel for me. If it does I'll probably just pick up a current-model MBPr and live with that.
My guess is it will have something akin to the Magic Keyboard, which is kind of a midpoint between the 12" MB and the current rMBP.
LyleLanley
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Does that use the same 45W processor the MBP is expected to use?
I believe Kaby is available now but the version that would be appropriate for the 15" Pro (historically speaking) isn't supposed to ship until 2017.
biosnake20
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Ah ok.
Zeyphersan
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Late October also aligns with the launches of the AirPods and Nike Apple Watch. Definitely points to a big launch
Tony Iron Man Stark
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I don't mind Skylake MacBook Pro 15". It's a good upgrade from Haswell/Crystalwell, which is 2 generations behind (2013)
Hmm my thought was that AMD is getting the contract this cycle with Nvidia getting it in the future, maybe around Volta time for a refresh?
Mr. Wonderful
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Sandy Bridge was a month or three ahead of competition. Used to happen fairly often in the heyday.
If the 13" gets a resolution bump AND Kaby Lake, I might consider going with a 13" again. Would need a GPU with an L4 cache, however, and I don't think that's an option even in the dual cores yet, IIRC?
XPS 13 uses MBA-class 15W chips.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/10683/dell-updates-xps-13-intels-kaby-lake-cpus
Tony Iron Man Stark
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Wow, the new XPS 13 looks pretty good.
Intel HD 620 graphics is a major upgrade from 520. 620 is almost as good as MacBook Pro's Iris Pro graphics.
Leona Lewis
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WTF 22 hours of battery life!? If that's what 60W on Kaby Lake gives at 1080p, then 24 hours of battery life is going to be a reality very soon.
...I'll be really pissed off if Apple misses out in favor of needlessly shaving off another couple of millimeters in thickness.
Crazymoogle
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Yeah but those are not Anandtech measurements, but Dell proclamations.
It's "up to 22 hours" on a 1080p display, or "up to 13 hours" on a QHD+ display (3200×1800). And that's with a 56wh battery. Per how they did battery ratings last year, that means if you use the BrowsingBench test and run the display at 40% brightness, which is pretty silly.
Compare that to the existing 13" MBP which has a 63wh battery, a 2560x1600 display and Apple's realistic measurement, of 10hrs wifi browsing / 12hrs video, and reviews peg say, Netflix (video + wifi) at around 7 hours.
Realistically Dell is saying you can get up to 4 more hours @1080p, but under realistic brightness settings it's maybe half that. If anything I would expect to see a bigger gain on the MBP since they use a bigger battery anyway (except on discrete graphics, of course)
fierrotlepou
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I can hardly wait for these new Macbook Pro's. It's been way too long.
Tony Iron Man Stark
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Better be 480M. If 15" doesn't with come with Kaby Lake, then at least 480M would be a huge boost from M370X. M370M was used with a Fermi architecture (2012)
Apple, my Discover card is ready to buy the new MacBook Pro 15" 2016.
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