Apple Plans MacBook And MacBook Pro Kaby Lake Refresh For WWDC
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Re: Apple Plans MacBook And MacBook Pro Kaby Lake Refresh For WWDC
#2Arg, kills the resale value of my Dec 2016 pro.
Re: Apple Plans MacBook And MacBook Pro Kaby Lake Refresh For WWDC
#3Didn't see any word as to if this refresh would also be improving any of the other criticisms of the 2016 model like the RAM for example. Does anyone have any inside information or insight on that?
Re: Apple Plans MacBook And MacBook Pro Kaby Lake Refresh For WWDC
#4Kaby Lake laptops started rolling out a week or two after the new Macbooks were available. Apple must have decided it wasn't worth waiting that extra week or two? Or was there something else going on?
Re: Apple Plans MacBook And MacBook Pro Kaby Lake Refresh For WWDC
#5Kaby Lake laptops started rolling out a week or two after the new Macbooks were available. Apple must have decided it wasn't worth waiting that extra week or two? Or was there something else going on?
It probably takes more than a week or two to update the product.
Re: Apple Plans MacBook And MacBook Pro Kaby Lake Refresh For WWDC
#6Kaby Lake laptops started rolling out a week or two after the new Macbooks were available. Apple must have decided it wasn't worth waiting that extra week or two? Or was there something else going on?
It probably takes more than a week or two to update the product.
You're misunderstanding my point: the laptops should have had Kaby Lake to begin with.
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#7Seems like fake news. Apple rarely introduces new hardware in WWDC. And the ammount of references to the Surface Laptop make it read a bit like sarcasm, even though it surely does not seem intended.
"Part of the motivation with these upgrades is to remain competitive with Microsoft and its newly introduced Surface Laptop"
Re: Apple Plans MacBook And MacBook Pro Kaby Lake Refresh For WWDC
#8Kaby Lake laptops started rolling out a week or two after the new Macbooks were available. Apple must have decided it wasn't worth waiting that extra week or two? Or was there something else going on?
Probably a big difference between "available" and available at the quantities needed to satisfy the millions(?) of people waiting for an updated MBP
Re: Apple Plans MacBook And MacBook Pro Kaby Lake Refresh For WWDC
#9Didn't see any word as to if this refresh would also be improving any of the other criticisms of the 2016 model like the RAM for example. Does anyone have any inside information or insight on that?
The ram issue was purportedly about battery life. The 2016 mbp uses LPDDR3 ram, which limited the device to 16GB.[0] They couldn't use LPDDR4 ram, even though it was available at the time, because Skylake chipsets didn't support it.
If the rumors are true that this year's model will use Kaby Lake, which will open up for the possibility of LPDDR4 and higher capacities.
[0] https://www.macrumors.com/2016/10/28/new-macbook-pros-no-32g...
Re: Apple Plans MacBook And MacBook Pro Kaby Lake Refresh For WWDC
#10Kaby Lake laptops started rolling out a week or two after the new Macbooks were available. Apple must have decided it wasn't worth waiting that extra week or two? Or was there something else going on?
Probably a big difference between "available" and available at the quantities needed to satisfy the millions(?) of people waiting for an updated MBP
Yeah, that's very possible. I was just surprised at the time, because I bought a Kaby Lake based laptop from Asus in early November, but they don't move units like Apple does.