*** The official 2018 MacBook Pro thread (it has six cores and everything!) ***

I'm currently on a 13" late 2013 MBP and I can't decide whether to go for a custom 13" (with 16GB RAM) or a 15". Given that the new 13"s are a bit smaller than my current 13", I think the 15" probably wouldn't be a huge step up in size. Think I may have to go to an Apple Store to check it out in the flesh.

The extra 2 cores in the 15" would be nice, but I'm not massively bothered about CPU grunt as anything is going to be a step up over my current dual core and 8GB RAM anyway. That said, the fan on my current MBP rarely kicks in and it only usually gets a little warm. Does anyone know what the situation with the 6 core 15" is? I appreciate fan noise is obviously going to be according to load, but I'd quite like it to be quiet and barely warm when just sat browsing the web etc.
 
Phemo said:
I'm currently on a 13" late 2013 MBP and I can't decide whether to go for a custom 13" (with 16GB RAM) or a 15". Given that the new 13"s are a bit smaller than my current 13", I think the 15" probably wouldn't be a huge step up in size. Think I may have to go to an Apple Store to check it out in the flesh.

The extra 2 cores in the 15" would be nice, but I'm not massively bothered about CPU grunt as anything is going to be a step up over my current dual core and 8GB RAM anyway. That said, the fan on my current MBP rarely kicks in and it only usually gets a little warm. Does anyone know what the situation with the 6 core 15" is? I appreciate fan noise is obviously going to be according to load, but I'd quite like it to be quiet and barely warm when just sat browsing the web etc.
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It's quiet and cool on my lap when doing that.

Only time the fan spins up is when it's under heavy encoding load... or with VMs running.
 
Depends how long you're planning to keep it... for a while it might be a little difficult to use the 32GB properly... but in 1-3 years I see it becoming more normal.

Photoshop and Lightroom can benefit from the extra RAM under the right circumstances.

BTW... in case you hadn't noticed, the base model 15" with those two upgrades you mentioned is only £80 less than the model with the upgraded GPU and 512GB SSD already selected... then you get the faster i7 @ 2.6GHz... the cooling system can maintain that speed under load, so it's a noticeable bump for import/export times.

Probably not a huge performance difference... but for only £80, I would get it anyway. I wouldn't recommend the i9 to anyone though.
 
crinkleshoes said:
It's quiet and cool on my lap when doing that.

Only time the fan spins up is when it's under heavy encoding load... or with VMs running.
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Cool, that I can deal with. This may seem a bit of a weird question when I know you have the i9, but have you done any full charge cycles with only light use yet? I'm slightly intrigued as to how long the battery can last with just web browsing stuff. A fair bit of my work is just using web-based management tools so something that can last all day on battery would be nice. My 4.5 year old MBP with 800+ charge cycles on the battery can still give me 5-6 hours with this usage which isn't too bad, but if I can get anywhere near the claimed 10 hours for that kind of use I'd be quite happy.
 
crinkleshoes, is the i9 the one that had throttling issues until they detuned it?
I was amazed to see the cinebench figures tbh, the before and after, but somewhat shocked that mobile top of the range was only beating 9 year old desktop performance.
I guess it is simply the concept of portability.
 
Phemo said:
Cool, that I can deal with. This may seem a bit of a weird question when I know you have the i9, but have you done any full charge cycles with only light use yet? I'm slightly intrigued as to how long the battery can last with just web browsing stuff. A fair bit of my work is just using web-based management tools so something that can last all day on battery would be nice. My 4.5 year old MBP with 800+ charge cycles on the battery can still give me 5-6 hours with this usage which isn't too bad, but if I can get anywhere near the claimed 10 hours for that kind of use I'd be quite happy.
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I haven’t timed it, but it lasts a satisfactory long time under that kind of use... certainly felt like a full day, but can’t promise it.
 
Destination said:
crinkleshoes, is the i9 the one that had throttling issues until they detuned it?
I was amazed to see the cinebench figures tbh, the before and after, but somewhat shocked that mobile top of the range was only beating 9 year old desktop performance.
I guess it is simply the concept of portability.
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All chips had the issue, only the i9 showed the biggest difference between sold performance and actual.

It was the vrms holding it back, allowing it to consume too much power to boost too high for too long which overheated the cooling and it throttled like mad to compensate.

Now it’s within thermal limits.

It feels a heck of a lot faster than a 9 year old desktop ;)
 
Let's hope this CPU range makes into into the next iMac refresh. Should be far easier to cool them given the experience of the iMac Pro.
 
I recently bought the 13" MBP with 16gb of memory and 256gb ssd, and I have to say that after years of knocking apple for the price, I am pleasantly surprised with the experience. Still pricey, but I can see why
 
jonneymendoza said:
LR stores its previews on the internal hdd though and if you move those to an ext hdd it would be too slow to access and edit.You will be wasting the fast ssd potential of whats inside the macbook
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It stores them in the same folder as the catalogue doesn’t it? So depends where you keep your catalogue file.
 
jonneymendoza said:
LR stores its previews on the internal hdd though and if you move those to an ext hdd it would be too slow to access and edit.You will be wasting the fast ssd potential of whats inside the macbook
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That's only a few gig, I don't need an extra 512G worth. I have 1TB SSD in my iMac and that's not even half full after 5 years.
 
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