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* Updated on Februwith adds to the 15-inch MacBook Pro discussion.Why a used & refurbished MacBook Pro is the perfect budget laptopĮver since it first hit the shelves, the MacBook Pro has been a favorite of many due to its stellar performance, build quality, and reliability. And you'll definitely get better battery life if you opt for the lower-resolution FHD (1,920-by-1,080) version of the XPS 13. ³T hat's based on my own usage patterns, which tend to be battery-intensive. The list is too long of applications that benefit from quad core. ²I use a mid-2017 15.4-inch MacBook Pro on and off as my daily driver. If you're a typical user with one laptop, once you go quad-core it's hard to go back. Of course, Apple could surprise us too by doing an accelerated introduction.

It's possible that Apple decides to delay the introduction of new processors until Intel has sorted out the Spectre Meltdown mess. ✝epending on Intel's response to Spectre Meltdown issue and whether it brings out updated silicon in a timely manner. It's also possible that Apple taps the new 8th Gen Intel Core quad-core processor with AMD Radeon RX Vega M GL Graphics, as Dell is doing with the new XPS 15 2-in-1 coming out later this year. The Coffee Lake Core i7 8700 is being reviewed currently as a desktop gaming CPU. See the rumored specs here for the mobile version of that processor. That's amazing.Īnd what about the 2018 15-inch MacBook Pro? While it isn't as certain as quad-core in the 2018 MBP 13, it's possible that the MBP 15 goes from quad-core to six cores, aka, the Intel Coffee Lake processor. I see battery life on the quad-core XPS 13 (4K display version) of between 6 and 8 hours³, the same, if not a little better than the prior-generation 7th gen Intel dual-core XPS 13.īoth PC World and MobileTechReview found that battery life actually beat the prior-gen dual-core XPS 13. That also was a watershed.Īnd the other thing that has been really surprising for me is that battery life doesn't take a hit. I can remember far enough back when Intel switched to dual core ( circa 2005) for the first time from its longstanding single-core processors. Why it's a big deal: This is a watershed because, for the first time, svelte 13-inch laptops are able to tap into Intel quad-core performance.

Intel 8th gen Mobile U series quad-core processor.

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