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I'm interested in this as well. My biggest frustration with all the USB-C hubs is that they only include ONE USB-C port for charging, and I actually use USB-C for my external drives and monitor as well.
Yes, one with a pass through USB c port and a secondary USB c port would new great. Not to much of an issue as the Mac book has four of them itself.
I think it's a good move and I intend to do the same. In 2011 I got my MacBook Air with 4 GB. I think that was the most I could get at the time but anyway, It seemed like WAY more than I'd need, as then OS X easily ran on 2 GB with room to spare. I'm still using that machine today and I have to tell you the 4 GB is now a problem. The OS itself needs more resources, photos are much higher resolution and require more RAM to view and edit, and there's a whole bunch of things I load at boot now that I didn't then (many of which didn't even exist), such as iCloud Drive, Dropbox, Google Drive, iStatMenus, Chronosync, Time Machine, and more. The result is the machine now starts compressing RAM almost immediately after booting, then swapping, killing performance.
8 GB is fine today for many uses, but I'd make a strong bet that in 4+ years, it will not be. Even with Apple's price gouging on RAM, I think it's well worth the extra $200 today for a little future proofing, unless you only keep your computers for a short time. I would pay extra for the RAM upgrade before I'd pay for a slightly faster CPU upgrade any day, if I had to choose between them.
Exactly the case with my 11" MacBook Air w/ 2GB of RAM. My parents could only afford to get me that at the time, and while it served me well back in the day... the RAM really bottlenecks everything in today's world. Looking at the Activity Monitor now, the mem usage sits at 1.5-6 GB used out of the 2. Figured it was due to the same reasons you listed, which ultimately told me what I had to do.
I feel we're at a point where processor performance is starting to "hit the wall," which -- at least for me -- blurs the lines between the i5 and the i7, anyway. Given this, RAM and storage upgrades > processor upgrades in my mind, as well.
EDIT: I also can't stop looking at the Order Status page every so often: still says "Processing Items".
I'm hoping it ships fairly soon, since I'm going on a trip next week. Would be nice to play with my new toy while on the plane!
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Been doing the same myself for the past five days. Finally changed to preparing to dispatch around an hour ago. 19th-21st June delivery estimate still stands
Been doing the same myself for the past five days. Finally changed to preparing to dispatch around an hour ago. 19th-21st June delivery estimate still stands
Ordered my rMBP 2017 15" base model with upgrade SSD to 512Gb 2 hours after the keynote. Estimated delivery date 19th-21st June as well. "Preparing for shipment" since last friday very early (about 2AM). I keep checking my order status every 30min haha I can't wait. It's my first Mac device ever.
Been doing the same myself for the past five days. Finally changed to preparing to dispatch around an hour ago. 19th-21st June delivery estimate still stands
That's interesting: I contacted a rep to up the RAM on my original order and ended up cancelling that reorder and reordered again to correct a mistake she made on it -- and my delivery estimate is still June 16th-20th. Some models must clearly be more popular than others.
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This has worked well for me for the last 8 weeks, MINIX NEO C, USB-C Multiport Adapter with HDMI – Space Gray [GEN 2] (Compatible with Apple MacBook and MacBook Pro).
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01N2LYC5P/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o08_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Make sure you get the GEN 2 version as it has faster Ethernet support
The only thing it doesn't have is another USB C, but good enough for me
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Fantastic! Thank you!
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My new MBP has shipped. There was apparently some delay getting out of Shanghai though. It was supposed to be here tomorrow but it looks like it won't be here until Wednesday. Fingers crossed I get lucky and it comes a day earlier. I need to transfer my data and ship my old MBP out to get some cash for it.
I can't believe it's been over 7 years since I ordered by first Mac and it's still chugging along (with upgrades). I'm finally replacing it with:
2017 15" Touchbar MBP with 1TB SSD and 3.1GHz quad core i7.
My 13 3.3/256/16, ordered Thursday morning, went from processed to preparing for shipment last night. Then at 6am I received a text saying that it had shipped. UPS shows it departed Shanghai at 6:02pm. Which roughly corresponds with the text time. So I'm not sure if it's on a plane yet, but I'm thinking it will be here as estimated on the 15th.
Went to the Apple Store to pick up my 15" MacBook Pro with Touch Bar and Touch ID yesterday afternoon. I spent the evening getting everything transferred over from my old MacBook Pro and I'm just about done with that now.
This is now my third MacBook and I'm on roughly a 4 year upgrade cycle, though I had my last MacBook Pro (I believe the first generation Retina MacBook Pro) for 4 years and 8 months.
I wasn't going to upgrade but my MacBook was starting to show its age and I was either going to do clean install of High Sierra when that came out in the fall or buy the new MacBook after the Kaby Lake refresh and bring everything over. Then I got an email from Discover advertising 5% cash back at Apple Online so that was what made me pull the trigger.
Absolutely loving the performance bumps and the touch bar is just great.
This is now my third MacBook and I'm on roughly a 4 year upgrade cycle, though I had my last MacBook Pro (I believe the first generation Retina MacBook Pro) for 4 years and 8 months.
I wasn't going to upgrade but my MacBook was starting to show its age and I was either going to do clean install of High Sierra when that came out in the fall or buy the new MacBook after the Kaby Lake refresh and bring everything over. Then I got an email from Discover advertising 5% cash back at Apple Online so that was what made me pull the trigger.
Absolutely loving the performance bumps and the touch bar is just great.
Mine's just been shipped too. But still in Shanghai, I guess. I don't really understand UPS shipment progress info :
> Order Processed: Ready for UPS
> Origin Scan (Today at 18:17)
> Departure Scan (Today at 21:13)
> Arrival Scan (Today at 22:13)
Location is still the same : Shanghai, China.
Days feel like weeks !
> Order Processed: Ready for UPS
> Origin Scan (Today at 18:17)
> Departure Scan (Today at 21:13)
> Arrival Scan (Today at 22:13)
Location is still the same : Shanghai, China.
Days feel like weeks !
Ordered 13" rMBP/16/512 Tuesday 6th.
First Apple scheduled delivery for June 19th.
When sent June 9th changed delivery for June 16th.
Now UPS set delivery for June 14th.
In Germany now...
Time goes by so slowly.... (Madonna dixit) Hahahaha.
Scheduled Delivery:
Wednesday, 06/14/2017, By End of Day
Last Location:
Arrived - Koeln, Germany, Sunday, 06/11/2017
LOCATION DATE LOCAL TIME ACTIVITY
Koeln, Germany 06/11/2017 6:11 P.M. Arrival Scan
Almaty, Kazakhstan 06/11/2017 3:26 P.M. Departure Scan
06/11/2017 2:02 P.M. Arrival Scan
Incheon, Korea, Republic of 06/11/2017 10:59 A.M. Departure Scan
06/11/2017 9:18 A.M. Arrival Scan
Shanghai, China 06/11/2017 6:21 A.M. Departure Scan
06/11/2017 12:32 A.M. Export Scan
Shanghai, China 06/10/2017 10:23 P.M. Arrival Scan
Shanghai, China 06/09/2017 10:08 P.M. Departure Scan
06/09/2017 10:03 P.M. Origin Scan
China 06/09/2017 7:27 A.M. (ET) Order Processed: Ready for UPS
First Apple scheduled delivery for June 19th.
When sent June 9th changed delivery for June 16th.
Now UPS set delivery for June 14th.
In Germany now...
Time goes by so slowly.... (Madonna dixit) Hahahaha.
Scheduled Delivery:
Wednesday, 06/14/2017, By End of Day
Last Location:
Arrived - Koeln, Germany, Sunday, 06/11/2017
LOCATION DATE LOCAL TIME ACTIVITY
Koeln, Germany 06/11/2017 6:11 P.M. Arrival Scan
Almaty, Kazakhstan 06/11/2017 3:26 P.M. Departure Scan
06/11/2017 2:02 P.M. Arrival Scan
Incheon, Korea, Republic of 06/11/2017 10:59 A.M. Departure Scan
06/11/2017 9:18 A.M. Arrival Scan
Shanghai, China 06/11/2017 6:21 A.M. Departure Scan
06/11/2017 12:32 A.M. Export Scan
Shanghai, China 06/10/2017 10:23 P.M. Arrival Scan
Shanghai, China 06/09/2017 10:08 P.M. Departure Scan
06/09/2017 10:03 P.M. Origin Scan
China 06/09/2017 7:27 A.M. (ET) Order Processed: Ready for UPS
Showing weird status in China (and other points they go through like Incheon) are very common for Apple shipments from China. I wouldn't take that as a sign that it's going to be late. I don't think I've ever had an Apple order be late. With iPhones they very often seem "stuck" until the last day there, but then show up on time anyway.
I ordered right after the keynote and my order shipped last Thursday. It arrived in Louisville, KY yesterday morning and has sat there since. UPS says my delivery date is 6/15 but normal delivery from the Louisville Hub is next day for me. I am hopeful the package leaves Louisville today and I have it tomorrow.
Which config did you order and where are you shipping to? Mine arrived in Louisville yesterday morning as well (10am), with scheduled delivery June 16th. I'm shipping to Toronto but its possible our MBPs are part of the same shipment.
Ordered on the 8th and this afternoon moved to Preparing for Shipment. 13"/3.5 i7/16GB/512HD
Just got my 2017 MBP with AMD 460 model
I am used to a Late 2014 high end model (Nvidia GPU 750m)
- the keyboard is not bad
- I can live with the port issue
- the trackpad doesn't seem to cause problems typing
Things I'm adjusting to:
- Touchbar. not sure about this one...
Things I for sure like:
- Feels more solid.
- it is lighter but it wasn't that heavy before.
- new color is sorta nice?
Things that seem the same and I'm sorta sad:
1. The screen looks the same to me. Can;'t tell the difference from 3 years ago.
2. the power/ speed of everything so far feels the same. The Amd 560 should be way better than the Nvidia 750m from late 2014.
- Bootup etc speed about the same. Es verdad???
I am used to a Late 2014 high end model (Nvidia GPU 750m)
- the keyboard is not bad
- I can live with the port issue
- the trackpad doesn't seem to cause problems typing
Things I'm adjusting to:
- Touchbar. not sure about this one...
Things I for sure like:
- Feels more solid.
- it is lighter but it wasn't that heavy before.
- new color is sorta nice?
Things that seem the same and I'm sorta sad:
1. The screen looks the same to me. Can;'t tell the difference from 3 years ago.
2. the power/ speed of everything so far feels the same. The Amd 560 should be way better than the Nvidia 750m from late 2014.
- Bootup etc speed about the same. Es verdad???