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Re: Updated MacBook Pros

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Post by hyperliner »

Udo wrote: post #15

I'm seriously wondering what my upgrade path is supposed to be. I have an ancient 2011 15" MBP, which was also the last user-upgradeable Apple laptop ever, but I remain hesitant to buy a new model. There is just not enough storage in the new ones, or in models that come close to my old one (1TB+) it's prohibitively expensive. At some point soon, my old MBP will probably disintegrate or get stolen, and it has features…

The fact that you are still free to upgrade and mod it awesome. What kind of work do you do that would cause it to break? Just B E C A R E F U L. It's like owning a vintage car. Everybody will be envious.

Re: Updated MacBook Pros

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Post by mdda »

seanmcdirmid wrote: post #22
SandB0x wrote: post #14

Am I right in thinking you need to buy the top ($2500) model if you want to do any CUDA work? Or am I misreading the table and all the MBP models have both the Intel and nvidia GPUs?

For CUDA HPC work, you really need a desktop/server Linux machine that you can use remotely from your laptop. Only the highest end MBP has a discrete nvidia GPU.

Yes to the more reasonable px/performance of a desktop/server Linux backend for HPC. OTOH, if you were doing OpenCL instead of CUDA, the i5 would happily run that as an OpenCL target (albeit more slowly), so that you could do compilation/test dev on any newish laptop.

Re: Updated MacBook Pros

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Post by weiran »

deusebio wrote: post #13

Looks like you can get the 13" at close to the specs of the 15" now. Seriously considering downsizing on my next one.

Lack of quad core is the only serious issue I have with the 13" now. Hopefully Broadwell will let Apple put a quad core into the 13".

Re: Updated MacBook Pros

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Post by ghshephard »

jedanbik wrote: post #38

I'll upgrade when I start seeing 32 GB RAM options.

Note for application performance (as opposed to Data Usage), OS X seems to scale a lot better than my Windows 7 system (more effective use of shared libraries? I have no clue). I've got a Dell Desktop with 16 GB of Ram - and, when I have roughly the same app load as my MacBook Air with 8 GB of Ram - the Windows 7 system starts running low on memory (Google Earth is a common culprit), whereas I never seem to have memory pressure with my MacBook Air for baseline application usage.

Obviously, applications that need the data space (as opposed to executable), will greatly benefit (Oracle, Scientific Apps, Analytics, etc...) - but my 2010 MacBook Air continues to be a rock solid performer with an average of 20 Apps running. I will certainly benefit from the greatly increased SSD storage performance, but I'm not really that interested in a 16GB system anymore.

I used to say I was going to hold out for a 16 GB MacBook air to upgrade, but, the reality is 8GB is sufficient for my reasonably power-user-intensive ways.

Re: Updated MacBook Pros

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Post by Udo »

hyperliner wrote: post #41
Udo wrote: post #15

I'm seriously wondering what my upgrade path is supposed to be. I have an ancient 2011 15" MBP, which was also the last user-upgradeable Apple laptop ever, but I remain hesitant to buy a new model. There is just not enough storage in the new ones, or in models that come close to my old one (1TB+) it's prohibitively expensive. At some point soon, my old MBP will probably disintegrate or get stolen, and it has features…

The fact that you are still free to upgrade and mod it awesome. What kind of work do you do that would cause it to break? Just B E C A R E F U L. It's like owning a vintage car. Everybody will be envious.

> The fact that you are still free to upgrade and mod it awesome.

It is, although of course the downside is sheer heft. Compared to the new models, that thing is a huge and heavy aluminum brick. But yeah, I can cope with that in exchange for the convenience of more storage and upgradeability.

> What kind of work do you do that would cause it to break?

I'm just carrying it with me 24x7, basically. This laptop has seen the world, and it shows.

> It's like owning a vintage car. Everybody will be envious.

Doubtful but it's an interesting take ;)

Re: Updated MacBook Pros

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Post by andyfleming »

ezzaf wrote: post #8
benaiah wrote: post #3

Does anyone know what the previous prices were?

Archive.org does: https://web.archive.org/web/20140722172840/http://www.apple.... The new base model has double the RAM and a .2ghz bump for the same price.

Yeah, a small bump, but still nice. It was already rumored that we wouldn't see a new gen of processors until next year.
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