MacBook Pro (2018): What's changed and what matters mostDo you really need the latest, greatest 2018 Coffee Lake MacBook Pro or can you keep on keeping on with earlier models?
The new MacBook Pro, launched in 2016, came with Intel's Skylake architecture. The second iterations, launched in 2017, updated to Kaby Lake. Now, in 2018, we have Coffee Lake.
Other than that, all of the latest generation MacBook Pros are similar. So, are there really any differences worth upgrading for?
Which MacBook Pro should you get?
Skylake vs. Kaby Lake vs. Coffee lake
Once upon a time, Intel was on a tick-tock processor clock. One year it would shrink the process, and the next year it would revamp the architecture. But then things got hard. So now Intel is doing tick-optimize-optimize-optimize... maybe even tock. The result is that, while processors are still improving, those improvements are composed of several small steps instead of a couple strides.
Coffee Lake throws cores at the problem
Kaby Lake added little to Skylake. It ran a bit faster, ...
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MacBook Pro (2018): What's changed and what matters most
