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Re:2016 Retina MacBook Pro Caveats by Bud on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @04:00PM (#13017605)
Don't be too sure; total power consumption of the new Skylake CPUs is much lower, as is power use by the display, etc.
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Re:2016 Retina MacBook Pro Caveats by Rezo on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @05:34PM (#13018282)
It really isn't. Base configuration 13" MBP specs:

2015: 2.7GHz dual-core Intel Core i5, Turbo Boost up to 3.1GHz, with 3MB shared L3 cache: 28 W TDP [0]

2016 (Touch Bar): 2.9GHz dual-core Intel Core i5, Turbo Boost up to 3.3GHz, with 4MB shared L3 cache: 28 W TDP [1]

Both chips use the same 14nm process, and there's no free lunch. The "refined" 14nm process for the Skylake chip is put towards a tiny frequency bump.

[0] http://ark.intel.com/products/84985/Intel-Core-i5-5257U-Proc...

[1] http://ark.intel.com/products/91166/Intel-Core-i5-6267U-Proc...

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Re:2016 Retina MacBook Pro Caveats by baobrain on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @09:25PM (#13019463)
Idle power usage is lower. When it comes to a CPU on load there really isn't much difference between the two.
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