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With that price you get "twice as powerful as the latest MacBook Pro. ...up to 17 hours of video playback. That’s 70% more than the latest MacBook Pro."

• j4kp07 9y ago
  I'll believe those figure on battery life when someone independent confirms it.
• rayiner 9y ago
  The “twice as powerful” is almost certainly just about the GPU. The CPU is a U series part versus the HQ series part in the MBP.
  • rdslw 9y ago
    Industry secret: apple throttles those cpu to 20W.
    • rayiner 9y ago
      Source?
      • rdslw 9y ago
        LOL. This very discussion on HN. And dozens of results after googling with 'apple cpu macbook pro TDP'.
        • rayiner 9y ago
          http://lmgtfy.com/?q=apple+cpu+macbook+pro+TDP http://lmgtfy.com/?q=apple+cpu+macbook+pro+TDP. Don’t see anything in the first three pages...
  • JBiserkov 9y ago
    The 8th gen U-series i7 in the SB2 is a quad-core, 8-thread beast with TDP-up of 25 watts, 8 MB cache and 4.2 GHz turbo. https://ark.intel.com/products/124968/Intel-Core-i7-8650U-Processor-8M-Cache-up-to-4_20-GHz https://ark.intel.com/products/124968/Intel-Core-i7-8650U-Pr...