I look at it as, each gives me 75% of what I need/want, meaning I buy 150% of what I need/want at, twice the price. I wound up sticking with my Air 2 rather than an Pro because it just doesn't get there and for all practical purposes it's a 13 inch laptop by the time you put the kind of keyboard I'd want on it.
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I look at it as, each gives me 75% of what I need/want, meaning I buy 150% of what I need/want at, twice the price. I wound up sticking with my Air 2 rather than an Pro because it just doesn't get there and for all practical purposes it's a 13 inch laptop by the time you put the kind of keyboard I'd want on it.
Macs rarely get leaked because they produce them in far smaller yields.
For such a big item for Apple, the Mac Book Pro I believe will come out soon, maybe 5/19. I don't know why they don't come out with the full line, 13,15" at the same time with the new Skylake set up.
Most likely it's a full MacBook-like redesign, which they'd want to show off at WWDC.
I'd think the same thing, but there weren't any leaks about the new rose gold rMB, were there? I feel like that would have been a significant enough thing for a leak.
Not sure tbh but today I got a 1.1ghz MacBook in silver for about a grand Canadian to tide me over until the new Mbp comes out. Hopefully something solid will come sometime soon in regards to a rumour or picture.
The only real "leak" that occurred was the discovery of a reference to 12" MacBook (Early 2016) in OS X Server:
http://9to5mac.com/2016/03/23/2016-macbook-os-x-server/
(By convention, Mac computers have always been dated as "early" when released between January through April, "mid" between May and August, and "late" between September through December.) Then on the weekend before the release, stocks of MacBooks at Best Buy were noticed to be dwindling or not available. This corroborated the OS X reference, and sure enough, they were released April 19th. It is highly unlikely we'll see leaked photos of a new MBP, but instead evidence like we got with the MacBook.
Found this gem on my external hard drive, thought I'd share since we're close to WWDC.
Found this gem on my external hard drive, thought I'd share since we're close to WWDC.
I almost spit coffee all over my keyboard at work when I saw this.
Well done.Found this gem on my external hard drive, thought I'd share since we're close to WWDC.
As someone who did their PhD on mitochondrial metabolism, I think you did a decent job of describing the operation of ATP synthase. This is the second mitochondria reference I have seen in a tech blog post in the past week. Weird.
Oh, no, I didn't create this. I don't even remember when I saved it to my disk, but it must have made me laugh at the time.
I think we can safely say, that the non-retina MBP will be history after WWDC.
Not to be negative but there is a possibility that the MBP will be history?
Over the years, they have silently dumped things like the larger screen 17, stopped proposing monitors, let their pro station lag behind. If you see the economics behind the whole company and where it wants to be to continue growing in the next few years, how important is the MBP? Is it more important than the 17" was 5 years ago? Even large companies have limited resources of talented research people and may decide to put them on projects where the growth is. Not trolling here, I am sitting with my great 17" of past days waiting for the one update my new job will get me. Tim Cook did not have a word on computing at the Cramer show the other day.
Considering there's still many things that the iPad can't do, I doubt Apple will end the MBP anytime soon
CPU wise the 13" Retina is around 1.5 times faster than the 12" iPad Pro in Geekbench (not representative throughout though), the 15" is around 3 times faster than the 12" iPad Pro. So yeah until they get that up to speed and give the iPad OS X like control over files and handling external drives, external screens and a mouse/keyboard you need a notebook for various tasks.
10 years to be precise.
Tbh I would hate for MagSafe and the glowing logo to go.
I'm ok with the glowing logo being removed. I would hate for the magsafe to be removed though. I don't care if I have to plug in two cables (mag safe and USB-C).
They are popular in Education, some people just have to have the Internal Superdrive. That said as a Sys Admin in an educational environment, we are now strongly pushing our users to 2015 rMBP 13" or 2015 MBA 13" with external DVD drives when necessary. The 2012 MBP is really showing its age at this point, and El Cap runs like a dog on 5400RPM spinning disks.
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Big Advantage. No need to mill out a port for it. It can be placed, flush, even on a thin chassis.
My soon to be heading to college daughter loves her 13" MBP non retina optical drive beast. Not interested in an upgrade because of the optical being built in on the one she has. She cares not about weight, size, retina display, processor, etc. She also said if this one meets a catastrophic ending, she would like the same machine. Which is good as I use most of the family computer budget anyway.
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