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Comment Re:Devil's advocate (Score 1) 295

Car analogies only at /. please!

This is like a car dealership putting the price of the car on the outside of the windscreen, you go up to the car and changed the ticketed price by changing the price form £9,000 to £8,000 by joining the 9 up. You then go tot he salesman and purchase the car at the price you changed it to, salesman sell it to you at that price. You later tell the dealership they should put their pricing behind the glass in the locked car so the price cannot be manipulated.

Comment Re: Walk before you run (Score 1) 267

Well, Apple didn't invent, Acorn did. ARM was at the time Acorn RISC Machines. Apple did however co-develop the ARM processor with Acorn in the 1990's, and had huge shares in ARM Ltd that they created with Acorn and VLSI. Desktop ARM processors in the early to late 90's performed quicker than 386, 486 and Pentium 1 processors, then Acorn went bump.

Comment Re:Actually Very Comparable (Score 2) 315

Both have 16GB RAM, the nVidia 965m is rated as approximately the same as the Radeon Pro 455 (which is the fastest one available for the MacBook) and with the performance base is claimed to have a 16 hour battery life. I can't find the CPU specs for the surface book but the chips are the same generation. While the MacBook has a touch bar the Surface has a touch screen plus a pen and can function as a tablet as well but only a 13.5 inch screen. In Canada it also costs ~$500 less than the 15" MacBook Pro with maxed out GPU. It also has a USB-A port.

The new Surface Book uses the i5-6300U and i7-6600U CPUs, they are the U series so have 15W TDP. Apple have gone for the i7-6820HQ and i7-6920HQ HQ over Iris Pro versions as the HQ allows all four cores to go in to Turbo Boost at the same time whereas the Iris model only alllows one core to be in Turbo mode at a time, to keep the TDP at 45W. GPU is impressive in advertising but it is a 'variant' and we're yet to know how it really performs.

They're different tools. MacBook Pro as limited it seems to be, is a powerful machine and the 4 Thunderbolt ports opens it up. Just those freaking dongles!

I'm struggling to get a Lenovo P50/P70 or Dell Precision 7000 series to cost similar to a MacBook Pro. Massive and bulky, cost more for a similar spec, or you can go overboard and get Xeon CPUs and spec a laptop for £13k!

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