Have you had battery or GPU problems with your 15″ MacBook Pro 2016? Let us know in the comments below or on Twitter, Facebook and Google+. I have installed 11.0-RELEASE-p2 on a Macbook Pro 11,3 which is an i7 Haswell with both a GeForce GT 750M and an Iris 5200 Pro for graphics. In the meantime, I am going to send Apple PR email in hopes I may hear something back we can report here. Filmmaker Charles Haine reviewed the new MacBook Pro with Touch Bar for the No Film School Web site and found it lacking.
There are plenty of Apple apologists out there from other publications so it’s important that users help spread the word about these issues by sharing our reports as well as Jon Rettinger’s and TechnoBuffalo. Filmmakers are among the most demanding professional Mac users, so their perspective is valuable when evaluating Apple’s professional-grade hardware. If you are suffering from the infamous AMD graphic card reboot issue with your later 2011 Macbook Pro laptop then I hope this fix works for you. My own $3900USD MacBook Pro is supposed to be here in a few weeks and I’ll be sure to be watching for these problems and report anything that may be wrong. Apple would rather not acknowledge any issues until there are enough complaints that will hurt its bottom line. When I bring up Revit, all the graphics (icons) are not displaying and I get flickering in certain parts of the UI (screen) and sometimes slow performance. The MacBook Pro has an AMD Radeon Pro 460 graphics Card. This is really frustrating for users who have paid upwards of $4000USD for these “pro” machines that are Apple’s flagship laptops.Īpple has yet to address any of this, which is the usual PR stance the company takes in these matters. I have a new 2016 MacBook Pro and am using BootCamp (Windows 10 Pro) to use Revit 2016. The GPU could be part of the problem with the battery issues as well since we haven’t heard about battery issues with the 13″ MacBook Pro, which has an integrated GPU. Kaby Lake CPUs with Inte Iris Pro Graphics will likely not be released until 2017. It will not be using the 7th generation Kaby Lake generation CPUs which are expected to be released in 2016 with 'standard' Intel HD graphics. Apple is using a dedicated AMD Radeon Pro GPU - 450, 455, and 460 respectfully - on the 15″ Pro model. The 2016 MacBook will be using a Skylake generation CPU with Intel Iris Pro Graphics.