Specs of Next Gen Macbook Pro

[RebeccaBlack]

The display is nice, but remember.. if you want this for gaming, it's like a double edged sword. Trying to render modern games at that resolution will either not work at all, produce glitches, or will bring that puny NVIDIA GPU to its knees. It also gives you no benefit when it comes to watching video, aside from the fact that it's an IPS panel.

The thing's geared towards content creation, not so much content consumption.

I just don't get that with the content creation, though. Wouldn't content creation mean it should be focused heavily on the CPU before it bothers with that kind of resolution? It's nice that it turbo boosts as high as it does, but still.

[Yoorah]

There's plenty of CPU power and then some. When you work with graphical media in the professional field, the limiting factor is the display quality in terms of colour reproduction and resolution. Professionals usually have expensive, large IPS panels in their offices for that kind of work. I'm guessing that the goal of this laptop is to get as close as you can to the quality those professional screens offer, although I really have no expertise in this field so I can't really say anything with certainty! It could well be just a shiny feature to attract random people with more money than sense.. which it probably does regardless of how useful (or not) it would be for professionals.

[RebeccaBlack]

I'm not terribly familiar with how Photoshop and 3D modeling are done professionally and what they require and I guess I could be pretty biased because I do focus on CPU-heavy programs that do the same "kind" of professional work in other fields. Because I don't know what I'm talking about for that, I guess it could be made for them. I think some of this is just me wanting laptops to be more powerful than they are for the price. I suppose it is amazing that they can fit so much in such a tiny package, though.

[Chockeh]

A lot of games are starting to be made for MACs, though thats not anything to hold out for.

When this releases, you can buy yourself a pre owned macbook pro for like 60 dollars as all the apple fanatics hurrily try to cash in on their outdated product for the new one. I say this looks like a great opportunity to get me a cheap laptop.

...Good idea. Wonder if there's going to be sellers in the local starbucks. 8D

[Balenciaga]

A lot of games are starting to be made for MACs, though thats not anything to hold out for.

Even those games for Macs, you'd be better off running it on Bootcamp since most games will be optimized better on PC.

The display is nice, but remember.. if you want this for gaming, it's like a double edged sword. Trying to render modern games at that resolution will either not work at all, produce glitches, or will bring that puny NVIDIA GPU to its knees. It also gives you no benefit when it comes to watching video, aside from the fact that it's an IPS panel.

The thing's geared towards content creation, not so much content consumption.

I don't use my MBP for gaming anyways. I mostly run light to medium usage of Adobe Suite on it.