AppleInsider podcast talks MacBook Pro and Bluetooth headphones
This week on the AppleInsider podcast, Victor and Mike discuss the MacBook Pro, why it wasn't more generously equipped, and Bluetooth headphone options.
AppleInsider editors Mike Wuerthele and Victor Marks wrap up the latest Apple Watch and iPhone releases:
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AppleInsider editors Mike Wuerthele and Victor Marks wrap up the latest Apple Watch and iPhone releases:
- Deals!
- AirPods said to ship this year, says our source
- will.i.am, Kendall Jenner, and Naomi Campbell's i.am plus Buttons Bluetooth headphones in Apple Retail
- Master and Dynamic's Bluetooth headphones released
- New MacBook Pro has more orders than any Pro Apple product before it
- New MacBook Pro drops the optical audio function from headphone port
- AppleInsider unboxes the new 13" MacBook Pro
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- Deals: High-end 15" MacBook Pro for $1,899 ($400 off, Mid-2015); 13" MacBook Pros without Touch Bar in stock (no tax, Late-2016)
- After missing October debut, Apple's AirPods remain on track to launch this year, sources say
- will.i.am, Kendall Jenner & Naomi Campbell launch Buttons wireless earbuds at Apple stores
- Master & Dynamic launches metal-and-leather MW50 Bluetooth headphones
- Phil Schiller: New MacBook Pro has more orders from Apple than any other pro model ever
- New MacBook Pro drops optical audio out through headphone jack
- Watch: Unboxing Apple's late-2016 13-inch MacBook Pro
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Comments
People often say they are holding onto old machines because the new ones aren't good enough but the 2008-2009 discrete GPU was the NVidia 9400M. The Iris 550 in the new 13" MBP isn't that far off an NVidia 750M (2013):
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-Iris-Graphics-550.149937.0.html
http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GT-750M.90245.0.html
There isn't even comparison games with the 9400M because it's so low down, there's some here between the 650M:
http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-9400M-G.11949.0.html
http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GT-650M.71887.0.html
WoW is 11FPS on high on the 9400M and 90FPS on the 650M so the new 13" is easily over 5x the old 2008/2009 Macbook GPU. The 15" GPU is going to be another 2x or more but it doesn't make sense to have an old GPU just because it's a dedicated GPU.
The dual-core CPU is 4-thread so it behaves like a 4-core CPU, it's not the same as an old dual-core. There are numbers here, click on the multi-tab:
https://browser.primatelabs.com/mac-benchmarks
The old Macbooks are right at the bottom and the 2016 MBP is about 3.5x faster, not far off the 2011 quad-i7 MBP. Again the 15" is near double this but the 2016 13" is still a very capable laptop with a 2011 MBP quad-core i7 CPU and a 2013 MBP dGPU.
So I'm not knocking you guys at all but I am disappointed with these latest choices by Apple.