Re:Apple should stop selling four-year-old computers
by rayiner on Sunday August 07, 2016 @01:46PM
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By then the CPU in the rMBP will be 9 years old.
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Re:Apple should stop selling four-year-old computers
by vetinari on Sunday August 07, 2016 @02:30PM
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The 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.
Re:Apple should stop selling four-year-old computers
by JonathonW on Sunday August 07, 2016 @03:07PM
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Well, 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).
Re:Apple should stop selling four-year-old computers
by vetinari on Monday August 08, 2016 @05:59AM
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That'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.