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Buy a MacBook Pro now or wait until Intel’s Skylake?

“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.'”

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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

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