“Due to changes in my personal situation, I’m thinking of selling my MacBook and 5K iMac with Retina display and living with only one Mac: a 15-inch MacBook Pro with an external display,” Dennis Sellers writes for The Apple Daily Report. ” If I go this route, should I buy one of the new models are wait until Mac laptops with Intel Skylake processors are available?”
“It’s a conundrum. I though the latest refresh of the 15-inch MacBook Pro would replace the Haswell chip with a Broadwell processor. It didn’t,” Sellers writes. “So it seems likely the next rev of the laptop line will skip Broadwell and go straight to Skylake chips, which, according to Intel, ‘will have the biggest PC innovations in the last 10 years.'”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: As always, it depends upon whether you need it now or if you can wait – perhaps into next year.
SEE ALSO:
Macworld reviews 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro: ‘The force is with Apple’s workhorse laptop’ – May 27, 2015
Apple’s new 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro hits SSD throughput speeds of 2GB/s – May 23, 2015
Apple introduces 15-inch MacBook Pro with Force Touch trackpad and new $1,999 iMac with Retina 5K Display – May 19, 2015
I’m waiting. “Need” is relative.
Why is there a Nazi pinching some soldier’s nipple above this text box? Oh that’s supposed to be an ad!
As someone who reads MDN every day (and as often as you post, it seems as though you do as well), I would highly recommend that you buy the AdBlock browser for iOS. No, I don’t work know or work for the dev (I believe he’s in Germany).
This browser makes viewing MDN a pleasure again. Not only will not have to deal with nipple-pinching Nazi ads, but you also will NOT have to ever again witness Safari get hijacked while at MDN, and then be redirected to another site or some game on the App Store.
Yep!
Adblock + Ghostery eliminates SO MUCH CRAP.
Sometimes I have to turn it off and I’m always shocked by the amount of junk that returns to my screen.
The amount and type of ads at MDN is staggering. I too am absolutely floored when I visit this site without my ad blocking software on.
Anyone who reads this site regularly without blocking the ads is beyond foolish.
I use an iPad 1st gen (OS5) -its so old the ads never appear !
What do you expect from a site that exists by copying content from other sites and also supports that disgusting Rush Limbaugh child molester and druggie.
Agree regarding Limbaugh- far more offensive and repelling than any spam I’ve ever seen.
Thank you Synth… This site just got much more usable. The Safari hijack still happens on the iOS version of Safari, but at least my desktop browsing is now cleaner.
Ad Blocking software deprives legitimate web publisher of their livelihoods. You wouldn’t approve of anonymous withdrawals from your bank account, so put up with the ads or browse somewhere else.
I agree, Dusty. To a point.
I don’t want to deny MDN that bit of income. But it does get out of hand here. MDN is 100% of the reason I use an ad blocker. It is the *only* site I visit that is downright unusable much of the time without an ad blocker. If there were less of it, many of us would be on your side.
AdBlock plus doesn’t block all Ads, just the ones that hijack your site. Their goal is to help advertisers understand the proper way advertise their goods and services.
Acceptable Ads
https://adblockplus.org/en/acceptable-ads
Actually the “proper way” from AdBlock’s point of view is that the advertisers need to pay up to AdBlock too. AdBlock is hijacking your revenue stream from the publisher and extorts ransom from the advertisers.
http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/02/over-300-businesses-now-whitelisted-on-adblock-plus-10-pay-to-play/
AdBlock is even more evil than pirates, as pirates are giving up the stolen content for free, but AdBlock is reselling it.
Go away troll.
free safari extension: adblock
The next model will always be better. I find it easier to upgrade to the very next model that becomes available after the expiration of my Apple Care. This keeps your machine protected and fresh.
If it happens to fail after expiration but before a new model is introduced, well you’re technically already in the market for a new machine anyway.
You don’t want to wait much longer than that though, or you end up having very outdated tech (which is also fine, if all you do is read Facebook or watch YouTube).
If you really believe that Skylake will ship this year rather than slipping to mid-2016, you haven’t followed Intel very much. Intel has been terrible lately at keeping their launch dates. Broadwell shipped about a year later than Intel said it would.
And just because Intel releases Skylake doesn’t mean it will instantly appear in a new Macbook. There has often been a 4-6 month lag between Intel releasing a new processor family and that processor showing up in the Macbook.
There is always something better, around the corner. So, if you can wait, then wait, but never ever fret.
Hey, if you NEED to upgrade from an older machine and the next large update isn’t going to be here for 6 months, then go to eBay or Apple’s special deals.
Preferably get an Apple refurb w/Warranty for a serious discount and then resell the older one when the new ones come out.
The performance of the new MBP will be similar to the 5K iMac. The MBP will obviously be a speed demon compared to the MB.
As far as performance goes for future macs it is hard to say what Apple will implement.
So if the guys needs mobility more then going with the new MBP makes sense. I’ve been waiting for this new upgrade but with the lack of a new processor I am thinking of going for the previous model and snagging one with the extra graphics for cheap.
FWIW my base rMBP (first edition) is still screaming and is nearly 3 years old. Far the best mac I’ve ever had. So these machines have legs and will perform well for multiple OS updates.
Disk in the new Macbook Pro is dramatically faster on the MBP than the iMac which doesn’t have four lane PCI.
Change in “personal situation” requires going from having a very mobile Mac plus a stationary Mac, to having a larger heavier mobile Mac plus a generic stationary external display?
Sounds like not that much of a “change” in the situation. The solution is to happily use what you have now, and buy later when that newer “Skylake” MacBook Pro is a real product.
This is the same conundrum I am in. I am working off a 2011 MBP which works perfectly fine for what I do 80% of the time…but I couldn’t definitely use a product refresh. The retina display, USB 3.0, thunderbolt 2, force touchpad, an amazingly fast SSD. It will definitely leave my current computer in the dust…but I am concerned the one coming right after will have huge sweeping innovations in it that will double or triple the performance of the one that has just came out. PLUS, its still running only 16GB’s of RAM, and I use motion and cinema 4d on a daily basis….32 GB of ram would be nice.
I’m writing this on the new rMBP.
Easily the best Mac I’ve owned and used. The storage is so fast you have to pinch yourself once in a while and remind yourself that you are actually editing 4K even though it’s as easy as DV footage.
If the next rMBP isn’t faster then Apple aren’t doing their job but who knows how long the wait will be. I couldn’t wait another six months and I’m blown away by this thing anyway.
The force touch track pad is a revelation, it’s so much better than the old trackpad. It just feels right.
I’m planning to purchase my first ever apple computer (rMBP) this year. The PC situation that I’m dealing with is abysmal at best (2010, 4GB RAM, dead battery). Should I wait for the Skylake rMBP or just pull the trigger already? The info out there is kind of all over the place about the Broadwell/Skylake, and when it may be available in the rMBP. What’s the best course of action here? Any help is appreciated!
Buy when you need it. Waiting for the next greatest thing deprives you of years of happy computing with the latest technology. If I needed a new laptop now, I’d buy just after the newest revisions hit the market. Apple won’t refresh again for a year beyond that point.
While Intel is saying they are going to start production runs of Skylake in the 4th calendar quarter of this year, as others have said here, it is very likely that this will slip to the 1st quarter of 2016.
Further, the reason Apple did not upgrade the rMBP with Broadwell is that the four core Broadwell chips necessary for the 15″ rMBP are not in full production yet — almost a year after they were initially predicted (shortly after Haswell went into full production) to be shipping in production quantities.
Even if initial Skylake chips start shipping in the 1st calendar quarter of 2016, the situation is likely to run similar to Broadwell with the four core chips that show up in the 15″ rMBP shipping several months after the ultra low power and two core chips. Thus it could be this time next year (or later) before Skylake chips necessary for the 15″ rMBP are shipping in enough quantities for Apple to announce a Skylake based 15″ rMPB.
I’m waiting on a 15 inch model in Space Grey 🙂
I have a mid 2012 rMBP that works well…but the upgrades (speed and force touch) are compelling. I love the form factor of current rMBP and it has been solid (this thing has been used daily, usually at work then home). I am tempted to wait for skylake- but if it turns out they are going to do away with thunderbolt and reduce the USBs I would prefer the current refresh…
Buy now, then next year, sell it and buy the new one.