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The pricing is pretty impressive. Shame no 16 inch pro though. Surely they need to update that quick because who is going to want a 16 inch intel Mac now?
by jonplackett 6y ago
The pricing is pretty impressive.
Shame no 16 inch pro though. Surely they need to update that quick because who is going to want a 16 inch intel Mac now?
- twoodfin 6y agoRumors were it was just behind the initial rollout (though those rumors missed the new Mac mini, AFAIK). Signs point to another event in January, I'd expect it there with a heftier SoC.
- jonplackett 6y agoYeah, strangely no-one predicted the mini, despite them already making a tonne of them for developers. Bit of a no brainer really.
- ghaff 6y agoYes, but they seemed pretty ambivalent about the mini for a long time. Probably easier from a SKU perspective though than coming out with new iMac versions. (Even if iMacs overall outsell Minis--which I'm guessing they do--individual models may not.)
- twoodfin 6y agoI think they're targeting a more powerful SoC at the iMac, or at least they didn't want to announce new iMacs without being able to replace the whole range.
- mantap 6y agoMe and other people who want to run windows VMs.
- jonplackett 6y agoI guess you'll get a good deal now at least.
- Gaelan 6y agoIIRC, the 16 inch MacBook Pro had a discrete GPU. Maybe that’s why?
- jonplackett 6y agoI mean because they're going to bring out another one really soon, that will, presumably, be drastically better. I'm guessing (hoping) that beefing up the graphics is why the 16 is coming later.
- kalleboo 6y agoAfter seeing how big a downgrade these machines are over their intel counterparts (16 GB max RAM, max 2x thunderbolt, max 1 external display on the laptops, no 10 GbE on the mini), I'd absolutely buy an Intel machine now to tide me over until Apple can catch up in a generation or two
- Tepix 6y agoPretty sure most MBP16 are sold with 16GB RAM
- TillE 6y agoI'm going to be pretty sad if they don't keep releasing Intel MBPs, I need to at least be able to run x86 Windows in a VM on my laptop.
- sooheon 6y agoI'm also disappointed by 16g when my current laptop has 64g. However, Apple mobile devices have a history of being way underpowered on RAM specs and outperforming in real usage.
- novaRom 6y agoThat's their typical approach. They released iPad 1 with 256Mb only, then iPad 2 was released in short time while iPad 1 has become literally unusable after next software update. That's the lesson. I am certain they will upgrade CPU, webcam, RAM, and connectivity in the next version very soon.
- willseth 6y agoAnyone who needs more than 16gb memory (me, sadly)!
- whywhywhywhy 6y agoImpressive is not the word I would use when its £200 for 256GB more storage and another £200 for 8GB more ram