Hi Rob Do you follow MacRumors.com? While the 13-inch models moved to Intel's latest Broadwell processors, the 15-inch models continue to use the same Haswell processors from the previous generation, as Intel has yet to release quad-core Broadwell processors suitable for the larger model.
http://www.macrumors.com/roundup/macbook-pro/ That is why it is very similar in specifications! Brian Sent from my iPhone6 Plus iOS 9.0 🏊🏻 On 21 Oct 2015, at 22:23, Rob Phillips <[email protected]> wrote: Hi everyone I'm a little bit confused/annoyed. I bought my 15" Macbook pro (2.6 GHz I7 4 core, 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD) late in 2012. Since my 3 year Applecare is running out, and the machine is slowing down, I'm looking at 'upgrading' to a new laptop. I went in to Macworx today to see what was available. The top end machine available was a 15" 3.1GHz Dual-core Intel Core i7, 16Gb RAM and 512GB 'storage'. Most of the tech specs seem hardly changed - what happened to Moore's Law? The price doesn't seem to have changed much either - if anything it has gone up. What is even more disturbing is that the storage has decreased from 1Tb to 512Gb - in the top-end machine! Are they serious??? My current system uses 650Gb - 350 Gb in photos. I can't upgrade without splitting up photo libraries or deleting old photos. This is 1990s thinking, and the Apple hardware is forcing me backwards. In almost 30 years of Mac use, I can't recall storage capacity going down. What are my options for a portable machine which exceeds to capability of my current machine? A few years ago I heard that it is possible to install OSX on non Mac hardware. Is this still an option? Hoping for some creative solutions... Rob -- Adjunct Associate Professor Rob Phillips School of Education, Murdoch University, Perth, Western AUSTRALIA [email protected] Phone: +61 (0)416 065 054 Life member, Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Fellow, Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
