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  • Kaby Lake suitable for MacBook Pro said to debut at January's Consumer Electronics Show

    devopsChicagodevopsChicago
    So excited to see Apple incorporate this into their 2018 macbook pros!!
    arthurba

  • Pro video editor with hands-on time praises new MacBook Pro for Touch Bar & speed

    devopsChicagodevopsChicago
    to leave the same comment i left 4 years ago about the then-released MBP: now if we could just get video performance that isn't on par with windows laptops from 4 years ago......
    blastdoor said:
    larz2112 said:
    So someone who received a product from a company (possibly for free) before the product is even shipping is spouting high praise. Isn't that par for the course...business as usual...you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours? I'm sure the new MBP is a great machine, but I'll take this particular review with a grain of salt.
    Fair point, definitely. 

    However... I can imagine that this could turn out to be legit, especially for the 15" model. To the extent that SSD speed is an important bottleneck, these new MBPs are extremely powerful. To the extent that the CPU is a bottleneck, they're meh. The GPU is more complicated -- overall, there are better GPUs out there from Nvidia, but if Apple is able to really exploit these AMD GPUs with OpenCL or Metal, then Apple's software advantages might offset the hardware disadvantages of using AMD. 

    So I think this review could potentially hold up for others. we will just have to wait and see. 
    this is a start, but grossly understated. the GPU is literally on par with windows laptops 4 years old. i love bsd, i love OSX, i love mac hardware, but seriously -- they ALWAYS do this with GPUs. I don't know why they insist on going so freaking cheap on GPU.
    propod

  • Apple's engineering in new MacBook Pro paves way for speedy Optane storage in future models

    devopsChicagodevopsChicago
    to leave the same comment i left 4 years ago about the then-released MBP: now if we could just get video performance that isn't on par with windows laptops from 4 years ago......
    singularity