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Just got made work from home permanently (I had heard it through the grapevine a few days back but I was sure that was code for getting fired). Bonus: they've also offered me a new top spec Mac Book Pro so I can still work in the office if/when required...
Just checked out the buyers guide and it's not a good time and, actually even difficult to get excited when the specs of the £5k model are shite compared to my hackintosh and even my current falling apart MBP is an early 2015 and has a better single-core speed.
All the talk is about the new apple silicon models in 2021, but they're now saying Q3 for a 16" MBP so that's not really an option (and not sure I want one of the early ones anyway) so I cant decide...
Are price reductions on intel models all we're going to see until the new processors arrive and I should bit the bullet and get the current top end model?
or
Potentially hold out for a faster Intel MBP later this year/ or better graphics than an 8 gig Radeon Pro 5600M?
or
Something else...
Plz advise.
- Get the new iMac in October. If they want you to work in the office occasionally. Take it in its box. IMHOHayzilla
- iMac looks great but I have a 32" 4k monitor on my hack so don't have the room for another 27"kingsteven
- https://www.apple.co…
Grab a refurbished, mid-line 16" for now.ideaist - Got my 2 y/o iMac just gathering dust on my desk in work ATM too. Trying to offload it to coworkers, I've had two in the current form and both had issues tbh.kingsteven
- To be clear, the new 16" MBP will run circles around your 2015 model. CPU single core speeds are all 4GHz + on the new models despite what you read.monospaced
- mono is correct, that MBP is a beastutopian
- For the price of a decent MBP you could get 50x Raspberry Pis.
Not sure if that helps here.Nairn - hah, i'm all about the teensy boards these days nairn pi's are far too practical. checked out the CPU benchmarks properly and it is quite a jump!kingsteven
- 2256 passmark single core score for my 2.8ghz i7 quad, 2739 for the new 2.4ghz i9 8-core, higher boost speed too. actually not too far off my hackintosh!kingsteven
- i'm only concerned about single core speeds because im a lazy AF coder and planning on using it for the new logic pro :D keep the hack on win10 :)kingsteven
- Bow to your master and accept the mac They give u a lime a prom datedeathboy
- Just remember u work for the man of the capitalist system and are dependant upon itdeathboy
- But greeter than depending on govdeathboy
- Freerer*deathboy
- once again, i work for a PRIVATE university deathboy, my team of 3 brings in 1m + a year in fees and we're the only dept with enrolments up next semester.kingsteven
- and im an anarchist, not a socialist - but i'll take it any day over any left or right free-market ideology based on capitalism as invisible hand of the market.kingsteven
- the single core speeds all turbo boost in to 4GHz or more with much better bandwidth and data handling than a 5 year old generation you're comparing tomonospaced
- fucking idiot deathboy, we're talking about Intel chips you moron, Apple doesn't make thosemonospaced
- ^ yeah i'm surprised as the geekbench score for the top end i9-9980HK as it has similar performance to the desktop version (i9-9900K) thats in my hack.kingsteven
- because my CPU fan is bigger than a macbook pro :Dkingsteven
- Dell XPS 17". It's gorgeous. Get a large screen with the money you save.formed
- ^ my dad has one, it's incredible. getting the macbook will allow me to keep my PC booted in windows, just need a mac for FCP and Logic :|kingsteven