Apple’s Next Gen MacBook Pro 2012

[Tehben Dean]

Ahah thanks.

Both the MBP and MBPR use identical CPUs. The 2.7GHz processor on the MBPR does indeed have an 8MB L3 cache.

[Benedict Heinzl]

As the meme says: Shut up and take my money ;)
Was hoping that the "no internal ethernet/fw800" rumors were wrong, but this way (adapters) we can live with it.
So its the time to screw the mac pro and take this one ;)
is there any information about the two TB ports? 2 lanes or one?

[Andrew PC Smith]

Anyone else sad to see the 17" go away?

With that resolution you could easily have gone to a 27" screen, (a la iMac) but with a 15" frame dimension I doubt the human eye's ability to fully appreciate it.

[Benedict Heinzl]

Anyone else sad to see the 17" go away?

Not really, I don't like 17" ...
But for that resolution it would be of use...

[Sven Seynaeve]

This is totally not what I was waiting for, Mac , you have dissapointed me once again... I know you can do MUCH better.... common, al the other manufacturers have a system up to date, you had so much more time, less pressure....and still you couldn't pull it off..
so many professionals asking for more , more , more power...

[Bruce Allen]

Personally after having a HP laptop with pressure-sensitive Wacom pen support and touchscreen support, I'm not interested in downgrading to this :P

But then I do a lot of storyboarding and also flipping through scripts, etc.

Hopefully Apple fixes this for next year's model?

SSDs will be much cheaper by then anyway and there will be nVidia GPUs with good computer capabilities... so should be good!

Bruce Allen
www.boacinema.com

[Brian Iannone]

As the meme says: Shut up and take my money ;)
Was hoping that the "no internal ethernet/fw800" rumors were wrong, but this way (adapters) we can live with it.
So its the time to screw the mac pro and take this one ;)
is there any information about the two TB ports? 2 lanes or one?

Each Thunderbolt connector on any system, regardless of how many there are on the motherboard, are always dual-channel.

[Brian Merlen]

just talked to apple tech, no 3rd party ssd or ram upgradability for Mac Air or MBPR! regardless i'd love a retina display and might buy

[Benedict Heinzl]

Each Thunderbolt connector on any system, regardless of how many there are on the motherboard, are always dual-channel.

I meant the PCI-E lanes not the 2 Channels each Thunderbolt port has.
Furthermore I wanted to know how many external GPUs, RedRocket, I/O can be added.

[Tehben Dean]

I meant the PCI-E lanes not the 2 Channels each Thunderbolt port has.

I want to know this as well... are the two ports on the same card or are they each capable of 2 10gbps channels simultaneously?

I went ahead and ordered the 2.7 as this is going to be my ONLY machine and the extra L3 Cache should theoretically improve Photo and Video rendering....