“Apple, a company that has led the laptop industry in its use of PCIe solid-state drives (SSDs), again upped the ante in performance with its latest refresh of the MacBook Pro, which may be the highest performing stock system on the market,” Lucas Mearian reports for Computerworld. “The early 2015 refresh of the MacBook Pro sported an M.2 (gumstick) form factor, PCIe SSD that boasted peak sequential read speeds of 1.6GBps and max sequential write speeds of 1.5GBps. Computerworld‘s own benchmark tests with Blackmagic software on a 2015 13-in. MacBook Pro with Retina display revealed it could pin the needle at more than 1.4Gbps for writes and more than 1.3Gbps for reads.”
“The new MacBook Pro’s specs smoke its predecessor,” Mearian reports. “The 2016 13-in. MacBook Pro’s specs claim it has sequential read/write speeds of 3.1Gbps and 2.1Gbps per second, respectively. The new 15-in MacBook Pro ups the write speeds to 2.2Gbps, while the reads remain the same as the 13-in.”
“In addition, the newest PCIe SSDs use the NVM Express (NVMe) or Non-Volatile Memory Host Controller Interface Specification, which is a logical device interface for accessing flash storage via the PCIe bus. ‘With regard to PCIe, Apple has been a pioneer when it comes to PCIe/NVMe storage,’ said Jeff Janukowicz, research vice president at IDC. ‘They were the first PC company to broadly adopt it across its laptop portfolio while other companies today are still just using it in a very limited portion of their PC lineup,'” Mearian reports… Janukowicz said he expects to see more PC makers using PCIe/NVMe drives, but he doesn’t expect them to be broadly available until later in 2017. Jim Handy, an analyst with Objective Analysis, believes M.2 PCIe SSDs will ‘sweep’ the new PC market within two years.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Apple leads. All others follow at a great distance. Many never get there at all.
SEE ALSO:
Ars Technica: Apple’s 13-inch MacBook Pro (non-Touch Bar) is an expensive MacBook Air on the inside – November 2, 2016
Hands on with Apple new MacBook Pro with Touch Bar: Huge trackpad offers great palm rejection – November 2, 2016
Phil Schiller: Apple has more orders for MacBook Pro with Touch Bar than for any other professional Mac notebook ever – November 2, 2016
The debate is over: IBM confirms that Apple Macs are $535 less expensive than Windows PCs – October 20, 2016
The key mission of Apple’s new MacBook Pros – October 28, 2016
TIME Magazine: Apple’s new MacBook Pro Touch Bar is an inventive new way to get work done more quickly – October 28, 2016
Apple does touch right and, as usual, Microsoft does it wrong – October 28, 2016
IBT: Apple’s MacBook Pro Touch Bar is the coolest thing ever; will change the way we use laptops – October 28, 2016
Wired hands on with Apple’s New MacBook Pro: It’s a whole new kind of laptop – October 27, 2016
CNET on the new MacBook Pro: Apple’s amazing strip show reinvents the notebook – October 27, 2016
Hands on with Apple’s new MacBook Pro: Looks and feels so good it’s unreal – October 27, 2016
Apple debuts three new TV ads for all-new MacBook Pro with Touch Bar – October 27, 2016
Apple unveils groundbreaking new MacBook Pro with revolutionary Touch Bar and huge Force Touch trackpad – October 27, 2016
Will being years ahead of the PC market enough?
The Mac’s market share has plummeted a staggering 32.8% since April. That is a drop of one-third of net market in six (6) months!
This is especially terrible when PC sales have been on a steady decline – meaning that Winblow’s net market share is increasing as the Mac’s decrease.
Even if every mac user upgrades to the new MBP, it won’t lead to a recouping of share. The new MBP will need to win over existing Windows users and new first time buyers. Does anyone think that people will consider an MBP as their first machine but given the following:
With all the talk (and seeming evidence) of Apple slowly discontinuing the professional but mac lineup in favor of iOS, it’s not will people opt for a “dying breed”?
With the nonexistent Mac marketing, will Apple reach enough people to make a difference? Because word on the street is that Apple could care less about the Mac.
Right, wrong or indifferent, an entire generation is growing up using touch screens and they might want computers with touch-screen, even if that’s a stupid way to do it.
Thoughts?
So how can this be the fastest laptop in the world when there are PC laptops with the next generation Intel Kabylake processors, faster SSDs, and Faster Nvidia GTX 1080 GPUs?
STOCK & cheaper?
Perhaps MacOS is a faster and more efficient OS. It doesn’t need the brute strength of a 10XX GPU?
Nope. Windows 10 and DirectX 12 currently stomp all over Metal and whatever ancient version of OpenGL OSX 10.12 still has.
But it comes in a package that weighs 7 lbs, will last an hour on battery, and is 2 inches thick 😉
Maybe… If you winblows machines can get past the boot screen.
mac nerds haven’t used windows since the dark ages.
its laughable…
i’m a mac nerd, but windows 10 is pretty slick. i am impressed. and i normally hate windows.
get your heads out of your asses.
i’d still rather use osx, but all your rhetoric stinks. windows 10 is actually good for once.
Windows 10 is okay, if you turn off the user activity monitoring that Microsoft enables by default. (Some options cannot be disabled)
The title of this article is a misnomer, as there are plenty of much faster laptops on the market, replete with the most widely used ports avaiable… unlike this under-engineered, overpriced netbook appliance from the ever GREEDY Tim Cook.
Like many others, I’ll pass. I decided to upgrade the RAM and the mechanical HDD to an SSD on our 2010 MBP, rather than give greedy, lazy, incompetent Cook one more dime of our money. Our machine is a better laptop than this one anyhow.
For $3200 you could buy a Razer or an Area 51 computer, or several other comparable gaming/video editing systems that are not only faster but they’re machines that have REAL Nvidia/AMD gaming GPUs. As opposed to the weak, entry level GPU offering from AMD in this so called Macbook Pro, plus more ports, higher resolution screens, with the latest Intel CPUs available (even if you have to pre-order).
Tim Cook is a joke as CEO and should’ve been shown the door at least 5-years ago.
That is why our 2012 Mac Mini is still in use. Quad core i7, 1 TB SSD (plus 1 TB internal HDD for Carbon Copy) with 16 GB RAM. Quick enough… and still faster than many newer Mac’s. Geekbench multicore score = 12,346.
Me too, 2012 MM with similar storage. Going strong. But I despair of any Apple desire to make a faster replacement. If Apple cannot provide, I will build my first Hack.
Your post attempts to give the impression that you are trying to be sincere in your questioning of the health of the Mac, but it largely just comes across as promoting FUD.
The Mac has been gaining market share from Wintel PCs for years, and you somehow believe that those gains were wiped out or worse in just a quarter or two. Complete idiocy.
Then you claim that :…Even if every mac user upgrades to the new MBP, it won’t lead to a recouping of share.” Even worse idiocy!
Then you perpetuate the “talk” by posting the “talk.”
Apple can and will do better. But Q3 2016 was not nearly as bad as some are painting it. The FUD and bias largely stems from greed and ignorance.
Source: netmarketshare.com.
Numbers don’t lie.
No, but people like you can cherry pick any number they want to spin a bullshit argument. There’s lies, damned lies, and statistics. King Mel is correct, you are wrong.
Fine. Post your numbers. Post kingmels numbers. Post any number showing Mac’s vs PCs in the last six months.
If you can’t, it’s because no numbers show mac gaining marketshare. But sure, go ahead and bury your heads in the sand and sing “lalalala everything is just peachy lalalala”.
Do you count chrome books as PC’s? They’re not, but they have taken massive share in education and for some are all they need in a laptop.
Well netmarketshare is hardly the expert on accurate figures so do takes its numbers with a pinch of salt, its bias is always loaded towards the PC corner on numbers.
However you are right about the poor performance from Macs over the past 6 months or so, whatever the actual percentages. Which it seems is mostly down to the appalling lack of updates from Apple this past couple years, based on I can only presume complacency over years of steady share increases in a declining market.And equally no doubt to make these new machines look better by comparison to the old (ignoring competing laptops), while saving the pennies on bothering to update current models and I fear a cynical intension of forcing buyers to find the extra cash these will cost, through need and desperation waiting for the new product. That attitude stinks and no doubt we will get the same, as and when the new iMacs etc arrive, with the repetitive spiel about how much more powerful they are than the previous one, so empty your bank accounts guys.
This really isn’t what I expect from the company (apart from the bad old days in the early -mid nineties that nearly destroyed the company) and it concerns me that this drab approach may be moving back to the core values.
Im mostly concerned about the propagation of macOS into mainstream use and for it to become the dominant OS in use. I hate traveling for business and 90% of the offices I enter say “oh, you have a Mac… Let’s ask IT if it will work here.” They are so ignorant about the Mac, it’s stupefying.
I don’t care about innovation as much as propagation. Innovation doesn’t really motivate the masses like marketing does. Apple used to run genius advertising….genius.
Remember those mac vs PC commercials? Hilarious AND perfect for the average consumer:. PCs are lame, unreliable and prone to viruses while macs are cool, smooth and secure. THATS the message Apple has to drive into society’s minds, but lately it’s like Apple forgot its roots and leaving the mac on life support while giving iOS the star treatment. It’s very frustrating.
Even if every mac book owner upgrades, there will NOT be an increase in market share BECAUSE THEY ARE EXISTING USERS. 10 million mac users switching to MBP2016 is STILL 10 million users. It doesn’t double.
So what are you suggesting happened to all those 10M machines that people upgraded from? For your conclusion to be valid they ALL had to recycled into component parts.
Hang on that would be 10 million sold machines, I am sure Apple would be more than happy with that especially as to that you would add some new users too. The big ‘criticism’ of Apple has always been that its machines last too long as compared to PC’s generally and thus flattens the market for new machines and profit on those sales. For Apple its about selling new machines surely, especially as they seem to be keen to obsolete older machines more than they used to, after all it gains little from older machines directly, especially where those machines and OS can’t buy into the services that are the new earnings growth vehicle for the company.
Sadly to my perception, they seem to be more interested in milking these factors more than doing anything but paying lip service to innovative and focused new products of late. Im still hoping this is temporary but Cook no longer fills me with confidence, he just seems to thrive on ‘safe’ and fear of the unknown, more scared to make wrong decisions than make decisions at all.
I call BS on this headline…
The MBP proprietary PCIe SSD is slower than Samsung M.2 NVMe SSD modules found in PC notebooks.
The MBP uses slower Intel processors than some PC notebooks.
Don’t see the speeds you mention anywhere in reports online – faster than 3.1Gbps read and 2.1Gbps write? And where are those standard issue on stock laptops? I can’t find that anywhere, either. An upgrade option, maybe. Not stock.
Sure, there are faster processors. Not many. Not at this price. Not stock – i.e. the base model of the line.
And those all still run Windoze.
I must admit I did go check out the highly rated Spector and Razor Blade and they were not quite as impressive as I had expected, when you consider the balance of qualities involved in any device. Balance of good specs and some resulting downsides, getting that balance right depends upon your perspective I guess. Certainly few PC laptops seem to be offering Kabylake as yet, though that chip is mostly style over substance anyway. My main concern mind is that many Laptops WILL start to update by Feb and March, while I suspect that Apple just won’t bother and sit on its present specs for a lot longer. Don’t like that approach. The company just doesn’t seem to get perception these days.
That’s a much more valid point – the article says that Apple will be years ahead here, but that will surely *not* be the case. Feb and March is probably about right, and others will then leapfrog Apple, who will sit by silently for the next two years.
To assume that these sites that state they really know what’s going on in market share is silly.. its a guess at best based on limited data.. Many companies don’t reveal certain details of sales for a reason, just like MS doesn’t reveal Surface sales.. Its determined based on other factors that may or may not be remotely accurate.
It’s not about sales, it’s about usage. Mac’s that connect to the internet are perfectly quantifiable.
There is SPEED, Speed and speed.
The MBPro is so fast for any tasks I do, I don’t care.
All I want is a super durable MBPro.
This was true of the previous gen for many of us as well, but pro-creative types, i.e. video editors, 3d designers, heavy photoshop users, will always welcome more speed.
The reviewer concludes on the M.2 (gumstick) performance saying: “So that leaves boot. Not something to write home about!”. In this M2 HD format move I am totally on Apple side.
But also the title is sensationalist because he is just talking about the M.2 HD vs the SSD use in laptop pcs and MBP.
A friend just got a brand new PC laptop, that out performs the new macbook pro in every way (except for touch bar functionality of course)..
i’m just talking RAW power and speed here.. no OSX of course, but he uses a Windows only (for now) DAW 99% of the time.. the thing has had working TB3 since early 2016, along with 3.1gen2, 32GB of DDR4 ram, 2 (TWO) user replaceable m.2 drives (IIRC they are the 950evos that are basically the same spec as the macbook pros are) and room for a 2.5inch drive.. sure, its a little thicker, and requires more power… but its a pro machine, for a pro user. PC LAPTOPS HAVE HAD M.2 FOR AWHILE NOW. I even have it on my hackintosh desktop.. but mine is one spec behind, so its not quite as fast as the new ones in the macbook.. but fast enough that everything is almost instantaneous..
Apple. NO longer leaders, but followers for profit.
Sounds about right.
Tim’s been reading from Balmer’s playbook.
Apple as the leader, will drop a in house, A series CPU, Intel isn’t getting the job done in recent years, just like Motorola and IBM before them.
I guess.. if you all you like to do is consume media and browse the web.
Well we keep hearing different opinions on that one so only time will tell how useful such a machine would be. I would like to see new Airs next year that test the ground of this concept, combining good performance for a low end machine, exceptionally light and relatively affordable and Apple only functionality due to the A series. But if you are right and there is little software for it, then combined with Cook’s lack of vision that might be just a dream.
Yes I sadly can’t deny that these days and very Balmeresque and that gives me a shiver.