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The current Macbook Pro was updated in 2015. And I was being conservative, I'd imagine you'd realistically get 6 years with it.
by IBM 10y ago
The current Macbook Pro was updated in 2015. And I was being conservative, I'd imagine you'd realistically get 6 years with it.
- rayiner 10y agoBy then the CPU in the rMBP will be 9 years old.
- vetinari 10y agoThe CPUs in 2015 rMBPs are Broadwells, for example i5-5287U used in rMBP13 was introduced in Q1'15. The author of the article was writing about non-retina MBPs, which are still for sale.
- JonathonW 10y agoWell, sort of. The 13" got Broadwell in 2015; the 15" rMBP didn't-- its 2015 update retained the Haswell 4[7/8/9]80HQ from the previous year's model, since Broadwell quad-core parts were late coming out and the ones that did come out weren't really an upgrade. A mid-2015 15" rMBP purchased today is running a two-year-old processor from a three-year-old architecture. And the GPU, should you get the discrete GPU option, is from a four-year-old architecture (it's a GCN 1.0 part).
- vetinari 10y agoThat's interesting... Good to know. Although if the Broadwell parts weren't really an upgrade, then it does not matter. The old ATI part would be more annoying. I also kind of understand why Apple didn't go with Skylake yet. Seeing all the problems with power management states in Linux and Windows land, it looks like they decided to skip this generation until that gets fixed.