Review: Touch Bar MacBook Pros give an expensive glimpse at the Mac’s future
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#3They also reviewed the new Lenovo Yoga 910, which seems to be a good alternative for people that don't rely on MacOS:
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/11/lenovo-yoga-910-revie...
It even has a 4K touch-enabled display.
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#4The comment
"15-inch Pros have enough thermal headroom to fit in quad-core Skylake processors..."
is interesting.
While the current offerings don't meet expectations set for the MBP... maybe this is a long play by Apple?
How quickly will the disappointment be forgotten when 32 gig / quadcore / nvidia GPU's are released?
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#5The comment "15-inch Pros have enough thermal headroom to fit in quad-core Skylake processors..." is interesting. While the current offerings don't meet expectations set for the MBP... maybe this is a long play by Apple? How quickly will the disappointment be forgotten when 32 gig / quadcore / nvidia GPU's are released?
it have quadcores currently. 32gig will come with kaby lake refresh. nvidia, maybe, maybe not, certainly welcome.
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#6The comment "15-inch Pros have enough thermal headroom to fit in quad-core Skylake processors..." is interesting. While the current offerings don't meet expectations set for the MBP... maybe this is a long play by Apple? How quickly will the disappointment be forgotten when 32 gig / quadcore / nvidia GPU's are released?
it have quadcores currently. 32gig will come with kaby lake refresh. nvidia, maybe, maybe not, certainly welcome.
According to Macrumors, there is a compatibility issue which means Nvidia might be out of the picture for a while. Nvidia is only capable of driving dual 5K displays with the Polaris GPUs with DisplayPort 1.3 which is not supported with Thunderbolt 3.
http://www.macrumors.com/2016/11/14/late-2016-mbp-amd-gpus-s...
Re: Review: Touch Bar MacBook Pros give an expensive glimpse at the Mac’s future
#7The comment "15-inch Pros have enough thermal headroom to fit in quad-core Skylake processors..." is interesting. While the current offerings don't meet expectations set for the MBP... maybe this is a long play by Apple? How quickly will the disappointment be forgotten when 32 gig / quadcore / nvidia GPU's are released?
Apple's definitely playing the long game here. When the retinas came out, the absence of an ethernet port was a bit inconvenient for me, but now I don't miss it at all. It's possible that in a few years, when this model matures and goes down in price, the touch bar gets more wide support, and everything uses USB-C, then it will make a lot more sense to get one.
Re: Review: Touch Bar MacBook Pros give an expensive glimpse at the Mac’s future
#8The comment "15-inch Pros have enough thermal headroom to fit in quad-core Skylake processors..." is interesting. While the current offerings don't meet expectations set for the MBP... maybe this is a long play by Apple? How quickly will the disappointment be forgotten when 32 gig / quadcore / nvidia GPU's are released?
Apple's definitely playing the long game here. When the retinas came out, the absence of an ethernet port was a bit inconvenient for me, but now I don't miss it at all. It's possible that in a few years, when this model matures and goes down in price, the touch bar gets more wide support, and everything uses USB-C, then it will make a lot more sense to get one.
And who knows? Maybe USB-C will be the last port ever? The step before everything is radio^H^H^H^H^H^H wireless!
Re: Review: Touch Bar MacBook Pros give an expensive glimpse at the Mac’s future
#9The comment "15-inch Pros have enough thermal headroom to fit in quad-core Skylake processors..." is interesting. While the current offerings don't meet expectations set for the MBP... maybe this is a long play by Apple? How quickly will the disappointment be forgotten when 32 gig / quadcore / nvidia GPU's are released?
Apple's definitely playing the long game here. When the retinas came out, the absence of an ethernet port was a bit inconvenient for me, but now I don't miss it at all. It's possible that in a few years, when this model matures and goes down in price, the touch bar gets more wide support, and everything uses USB-C, then it will make a lot more sense to get one.
Two predictions from me. (1) They sell out and it is the most popular MBP model to date, (2) They don't reduce the price in the future.
Apple is awfully good at knowing just when to extract that little bit more from their customers. And I suspect that similar to the USB-C MacBook the concern over ports will just be from a vocal but tiny minority.
Re: Review: Touch Bar MacBook Pros give an expensive glimpse at the Mac’s future
#10The comment "15-inch Pros have enough thermal headroom to fit in quad-core Skylake processors..." is interesting. While the current offerings don't meet expectations set for the MBP... maybe this is a long play by Apple? How quickly will the disappointment be forgotten when 32 gig / quadcore / nvidia GPU's are released?
Apple's definitely playing the long game here. When the retinas came out, the absence of an ethernet port was a bit inconvenient for me, but now I don't miss it at all. It's possible that in a few years, when this model matures and goes down in price, the touch bar gets more wide support, and everything uses USB-C, then it will make a lot more sense to get one.
Yeah I'm very convinced this is going to happen. At the same time, at least for me, I can't afford to wait for this utopia of single-connectors. I need to be able to plug in my daily cords and the last time I had to deal with dongles I lost them all over the place.
I do think it was a big misstep that their flagship, brand new phone can't connect to their flagship, brand new laptop without an adapter that has to be bought separately. I also think they could have done it in a more phased approach without losing anything. But ultimately it will turn out to be a good decision.