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Mac pro 2017 rumors pro#
Where it used to look futuristic, with the 2016 MacBook Pro built on the same design language, it now looks settled into the product line. The 12-inch MacBook's design remains unchanged from when Apple first introduced it back in March of 2015. Once you have it somewhere you immediately want it everywhere. Touch Bar may still be controversial but Touch ID isn't. Hopefully, that's sooner rather than later.
My guess is we'll have to wait for a bigger update, if not a redesign that moves the speaker and otherwise makes room for all the necessary components, including the embedded T1 chip and the OLED display. Since Apple often pushes new technologies across its product lines, there was some level of anticipation for a Touch Bar and Touch ID-equipped MacBook. The first let you more easily discover and use shortcuts and controls, the second more easily authenticate for access and transactions.
Mac pro 2017 rumors for mac#
Last year, when Apple introduced the redesigned MacBook Pro, the company introduced the Touch Bar and Touch ID for Mac along with it. That's the reason I've always liked Apple laptop keyboards, why I like the 12-inch MacBook keyboard, and why I like it even better now with the second-generation switches. For me, the less travel and the more gravity can power my typing process, the better. An entire cottage industry has cropped up to support those who still miss the Apple Extended II. Some people like deep, clickety-clackety keyboards. My review unit only has 8 GB but, given the increased power, matching it with increased memory should let the 12-inch MacBook stretch across a wider variety of workloads than ever before. Where the 12-inch MacBook was previously capped at 8 GB of RAM, now it can go to 16 GB. Memory is also up this year, albeit as an option. The 12-inch MacBook's storage is getting fast enough where swapping out is becoming almost unnoticeable. This year, Apple's increased SSD again and by up to 50%. Last year Apple increased SSD sequential reads by 20% and writes by 90%.
There is one area where the updated 12-inch MacBook's performance is especially impressive, and that's the solid state storage.
Mac pro 2017 rumors series#
It remains to be seen what Apple will do in the future, but it's tough not to imagine the A series taking the lead when it comes to ultra-mobility. When compared to what Apple's silicon team is doing, Intel Y seems to be chugging along rather than racing ahead. I did have a chance to benchmark Apple's new ultra-low power A10X, the chipset inside the new iPads Pro: I haven't had a chance to test the Core i7 Kaby Lake version yet, but I intend to as soon as possible. That's better than the Core m3 Skylake version from last year:Īnd it's competitive with the top-of-the-line Core m7 Skylake from last year as well: Still, when 4K HDR content starts to become more commonly produced and consumed, Kaby Lake will help you produce and consume it as power-efficiently as possible.Īpple sent me the Core m3 Kaby Lake version to look at. It skews towards the decode rather than encode part, which again is fine given the MacBook's target market. Kaby Lake-Y provides hardware acceleration for both decoding and encoding, though not to the extent the higher power chips do. Given the MacBook's intended workload, though, that's still a win. In other words, you can burst fast but can't sustain it for long. Those differences are as follows: The small increase in baseline frequencies and bigger increase in turbo frequencies are still bound by the tight, thin, fanless design of the 12-inch MacBook, and the thermal realities it imposes. At worst, it comes off as a way to trick people into ignoring the differences between the standard and ultra-low power, 4.5-watt chipsets. At best, it comes off as an attempt to show that the higher-end Kaby Lake-Y can hit the higher performance levels of the standard chips. It's a branding change that's made for more than a little confusion. The middle and high-end versions use the Core i5 and Core i7 branding, which looks identical to the branding used on the higher power chips found in the MacBooks Pro.
This year, though, only the lowest-end Kaby Lake-Y uses the core m3 branding. Previously, for Broadwell-Y and Skylake-Y models, that series was marketed as Core m3, Core m5, and Core m7. It's yet another architecture update, yet another improvement in power efficiency, though this time around it also adds H.265 high-efficiency video coding (HEVC) support.Īpple uses the ultra-low-power Y series of processors for the 12-inch MacBook Pro. But getting down to 14 nanometers was harder than Intel imagined and, so, we now have the extra tock that's Kaby Lake in the mix.
Mac pro 2017 rumors update#
In a perfect world, Intel would have gone from the tock of Skylake to the next big tick of Cannon Lake much as it had done every architecture update to subsequent die-shrink in recent memory.
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