melgross - Tuesday, October 06, 2015 - link
Ridulous! Grow up. Reply
nandnandnand - Tuesday, October 06, 2015 - link
Meanwhile non-Ultrabook non-2-in-1s could come with an i7 under $1000. You had better care about form factor if you are willing to double or triple the price.
I am waiting for Intel to release its GT4e Skylake parts... Reply
this M3 is much more powerful than the I3 in SP3 (I own one) and it makes it fanless (you will see in benchmarks) Reply
tipoo - Wednesday, October 07, 2015 - link
I'm starting to think the 2x was some arbitrary merger of CPU, GPU, and G5 chipset, since quads are unlikely in this. Reply
Laxaa - Tuesday, October 06, 2015 - link
I'm getting this to replace my girlfriends 15" 2011 MBP which I am currently borrowing for studies. The 15" is awesome and very capable, but the 5 pound weight is slowly killing my back alongside the heavy books.
I wasn considering the Surface Book for a moment(seroiusly impressive) but the option with 16GB RAM and the dGPU was a bit out of my price range. Reply
soliloquist - Tuesday, October 06, 2015 - link
Pretty good bet that CPUs are:
Will be interesting to see what the Core M option is. Also what the impact on battery life will be moving from m3 to i5 to i7. Reply
The Core m3-6Y30 is the only m3 that Intel has announced, isn't it? Reply
ydeer - Tuesday, October 06, 2015 - link
I waited a long time for this product and certainly didn't expect Microsoft to be the first one to deliver it.
Apple has painted themselves into a corner with their two platform philosophy - they can't easily copy this with ARM/iOS vs x86/OSX unless they a.) allow OS X to have touch input (hell will freeze over before this happens) or b.) do a monumental platform rewrite and merge iOS and OS X (virtually impossible) or c.) strap an iPad to a Macbook Air base, both running their native OSes with some form of data syncing between the two.
Meanwhile Microsoft has a very elegant solution here. Unlike Windows 8.0, Windows 10 is an acceptable OS in both modes.
Having the CPU & battery in the screen and GPU & battery & ports in the keyboard gives them more battery capacity and more room for heat dissipation. Theoretically this would enable them to use significantly higher TDP parts than a traditional Macbook at no tradeoff (but weight and cost). Reply
They don't want to. So far, Microsoft's idea hasn't proven to be popular. Reply
http://i49.tinypic.com/sy44zq.jpg Reply
melgross - Tuesday, October 06, 2015 - link
Ridulous! Grow up. Reply
nandnandnand - Tuesday, October 06, 2015 - link
Meanwhile non-Ultrabook non-2-in-1s could come with an i7 under $1000. You had better care about form factor if you are willing to double or triple the price.
I am waiting for Intel to release its GT4e Skylake parts... Reply
this M3 is much more powerful than the I3 in SP3 (I own one) and it makes it fanless (you will see in benchmarks) Reply
tipoo - Wednesday, October 07, 2015 - link
I'm starting to think the 2x was some arbitrary merger of CPU, GPU, and G5 chipset, since quads are unlikely in this. Reply
Laxaa - Tuesday, October 06, 2015 - link
I'm getting this to replace my girlfriends 15" 2011 MBP which I am currently borrowing for studies. The 15" is awesome and very capable, but the 5 pound weight is slowly killing my back alongside the heavy books.
I wasn considering the Surface Book for a moment(seroiusly impressive) but the option with 16GB RAM and the dGPU was a bit out of my price range. Reply
soliloquist - Tuesday, October 06, 2015 - link
Pretty good bet that CPUs are:
Will be interesting to see what the Core M option is. Also what the impact on battery life will be moving 
from m3 to i5 to i7. Reply
The Core m3-6Y30 is the only m3 that Intel has announced, isn't it? Reply
ydeer - Tuesday, October 06, 2015 - link
I waited a long time for this product and certainly didn't expect Microsoft to be the first one to deliver it.
Apple has painted themselves into a corner with their two platform philosophy - they can't easily copy this with ARM/iOS vs x86/OSX unless they a.) allow OS X to have touch input (hell will freeze over before this happens) or b.) do a monumental platform rewrite and merge iOS and OS X (virtually impossible) or c.) strap an iPad to a Macbook Air base, both running their native OSes with some form of data syncing between the two.
Meanwhile Microsoft has a very elegant solution here. Unlike Windows 8.0, Windows 10 is an acceptable OS in both modes.
Having the CPU & battery in the screen and GPU & battery & ports in the keyboard gives them more battery capacity and more room for heat dissipation. Theoretically this would enable them to use significantly higher TDP parts than a traditional Macbook at no tradeoff (but weight and cost). Reply
They don't want to. So far, Microsoft's idea hasn't proven to be popular. Reply
http://i49.tinypic.com/sy44zq.jpg Reply