Apple Launches MacBook 2016 With Intel Skylake Processor, Longer Battery Life

Apple, on Tuesday, announced a refresh for its 12-inch MacBook laptop. The 2016 MacBook comes with an Intel Skylake processor -- sixth-generation dual-core Intel Core M model, offering up to 1.3 GHz clock speed with Turbo Boost speeds of up to 3.1 GHz, faster 1866 MHz memory, and a 'rose gold' color variant. Apple assures 10 hours of wireless Web browsing time, or 11 hours of movie playback on a single charge. The new model will hit retail stores on Wednesday. It starts at $1,299 for the 256GB SSD and 8GB (up from 4GB) version, and goes all the way up to $1,599 for the top-of-the-line model which offers 512GB SSD.

A couple of points: the first-generation MacBook didn't fare well with reviewers and plenty of users alike. Second, today's announcement also hints that the MacBook Air and the MacBook Pro lineups won't be getting the Intel Skylake upgrade for at least a few more months -- which is really sad, because, at present, they come equipped with almost three-year-old processor and graphics chips. No wonder, Oculus executive made fun of Apple's computers.

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Price Point

[Anonymous Coward]

If Apple cut their outlandish prices for their mediocre products by 50% or more I might consider buying one. I was almost sold on a Mac Mini until I found out that you cannot upgrade the RAM in the newer models.

Apple, you suck.

Re:Price Point

[Anonymous Coward]

I had to learn the hard way to avoid the primary "sacred cows" here. Soon after setting up my first user ID here, I expressed some sort of negative opinion about Richard Stallman (the most sacred of all cows here) and the karma of that user ID became so damaged as a result that I had to start over with a new one. The sad part is that I was expressing my honest opinion, not trying to cause any trouble. (Isn't that what comments are for...?)

Lesson learned: folks here are all in favor of "free as in software" but not "free as in speech". I now use AC whenever I post my contrary opinions about Stallman or any of the other dogma here, e.g. Snowden (dogma: good), NSA (dogma: evil), Microsoft (dogma: evil), Linux (dogma: better than Windows), etc.

BTW, wouldn't it be nice if they renamed the "Troll" rating to "Violates Dogma?'

Apple fanbois

[Anonymous Coward]

And watch the Apple fanbois try to justify the ridiculously overpriced outdated hardware in Macbooks. It's a shame because OS X really is a solid operating system, but the hardware in every Apple product lags well behind their competitors. All the Apple fanbois will stand in line for hours at the nearest Apple store while those of us who care about getting work done will use something else. Can we please stop worshiping Apple does? They haven't done any real innovation at least ten years. If you want good marketing and hype, go with Apple. If you want to get work done, choose something else.