Hmm, What Is Apple Doing?

manch · July 16, 2018, 11:00pm

Apple is so cheap I don’t think it will give anybody 15% discounts on its brand new flagship laptop.

hanera · July 16, 2018, 11:01pm

We shouldn’t work based on what we think. Ask and you’ll be given. Don’t ask, get zilch.

manch · July 16, 2018, 11:03pm

OK. @wuqijun you get deals? I can still cancel I believe. Mine is still getting assembled I think. Except for 2T instead of 4T storage, mine is the top of the line.

harriet · July 16, 2018, 11:04pm

If your birthday is coming up Best Buy used to send out 10% off coupons via email. I got my iMac last year for 10% off.

wuqijun · July 16, 2018, 11:08pm

I do myself through friends and family program. I ask my excoworker to buy stuff for me. Unfortunately I don’t think I can extend that to other friends who don’t know my ex coworkers. Sorry about that

Roy321 · July 16, 2018, 11:08pm

@manch your reason/s for upgrade?

hanera · July 16, 2018, 11:12pm

Is there a downvote?

manch · July 16, 2018, 11:12pm

I am using a 2010 17". It originally came with only 4GB RAM. I put another 4 in, and change the HDD to flash. That was fine until 1) my kid broke the screen ledge so the screen can no longer stand by itself and 2) the motherboard crapped out and I have to take out the additional RAM. 4GB is just not enough…

Roy321 · July 17, 2018, 5:14pm

Great upgrade!

I’ll wait a couple of years… hopefully by then we get the rx580/8gb video cards inside the chasis.

Roy321 · July 17, 2018, 7:22pm

The 2018 MacBook Pro is the most substantial upgrade (at least regarding performance) since the introduction of quad-core processors in the 2011 MacBook Pro.

https://www.geekbench.com/blog/2018/07/macbook-pro-performance-july-2018/

manch · July 17, 2018, 8:08pm

They ported a bunch of stuff from the iMac pro. The T2 chip is amazing I heard. The IO performance is out of this world. Got 2 more cores in both 13 and 15. And most important of all finally, I mean bloody finally, 32GB RAM.

hanera · July 17, 2018, 8:17pm

What kind of programs are you running that need 32GB?

tomato · July 17, 2018, 8:17pm

Chrome, duh.

hanera · July 17, 2018, 8:18pm

Then no need MBP since not much processing at client end.

manch · July 17, 2018, 8:32pm

First law of RAM: there’s never enough RAM. The more the merrier.

Roy321 · July 17, 2018, 8:49pm

@manch is running image recognition ML datasets ?

Roy321 · July 17, 2018, 8:49pm

yepp… Google is listening

tomato · July 17, 2018, 9:02pm

you have no idea how much of a memory hog chrome is, clearly.

Even i don’t need a lot of ram as most of my compilation happens in the cloud

marcus335 · July 17, 2018, 9:19pm

It sounds like you own shares of a company that makes RAM

manch · July 17, 2018, 9:27pm

Micron and intel are cooking some sort of RAM/Flash hybrid that’s supposed to knock the socks off of NAND storage. That’d be a total game changer.

I have pretty big spreadsheets and many safari tabs open. I learn to avoid chrome but given 32GB I may give it another shot.

OMG I CAN’T WAIT!!!