“When will the next MacBook Pro come out?” Karen Haslam reports for Macworld. “Apple last updated its 13in and 15in MacBook Pro laptops in March and May of 2015 respectively, so it can’t be long till the new line comes out – we expect the new MacBook to come out on 13 June during WWDC event.”
“The new MacBook Pro models are likely to feature Skylake processors, the new, sixth generation chips by Intel. Right now, none of Apple’s MacBooks offer Skylake so it’s highly likely that Apple plans to address this soon,” Haslam reports. “Skylake will bring significant performance gains to the new MacBook Pro, too, making it an even faster machine.”
“The 15in models of the MacBook Pro currently offer quad-core i7 processors, which means they compare very favourably with the 27in iMacs,” Haslam reports. “We hope that the 2016 model maintains these quad-core processors, but when the Mac mini was updated in October of 2014 it lost its quad-core processor options, which could spell the same fate for the MacBook Pro.”
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MacDailyNews Take: How about Gold and even Rose Gold options, too?
How much is “significant?” .5% 2.5% faster? My mid-2014 MBP is still incredibly fast and Moore’s Law isn’t what it used to be.
Moore’s Law is being circumvented in other ways. It’s not just about clock speed.
Like most new generations of Intel processors, Skylake processors contain built-in features that have yet to be tapped by developers. One big features in Skylake are H.265 coding. Xeon Skylake processors will feature the AVX-512 instruction set extensions which are very powerful for vector operations (multiple, simultaneous operations on data).
http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/12/05/intel-corporations-skylake-is-a-bigger-deal-than-y.aspx
Don’t misunderstand me, I WANT there to be real speed gains (in CPU, GPU, CUDA, etc.). Gains that get me excited, not marginal ones that disappoint after all the puffery and flapping of touting PR arms has been exhausted.
Because that’s what Pros want and need: pretty colours. How about a new MacBook pro actually made for Pros. For example a 13″ with a dedicated graphics card. Kind of obvious really. Pro is a meaningless term insofar as it relates to Apple now: Just marketing nonsense.
How about a return of the 17″ MBP please?
I reckon that you don’t even notice a speed improvement on a Mac unless it’s at least 10% faster, so I would reckon that a significant speed increase would need to be in excess of 30%, but that’s just my view. I’ve no idea what Karen believes is significant.
“How about Gold and even Rose Gold options, too?”
Tim Cook’s Apple would be a sweatshop of digital fashion accessories.
How about a Fool’s Gold Macbook?
How about implementing these ideas?
http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/how-would-you-improve-osx.1961714/