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Apple to Update MacBook Pro and MacBook Air in June 2013 with New Processors, All Retina?
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Nobody forces you to buy anything you don't like. Show Apple with your wallet that you don't like higher resolution displays. Personally I love those. Looking at a lower resolution display now is just terrible.
The Air won't see Retina for a while. The price will come down eventually. So when you no longer have a choice, price won't matter. But seriously, Retina is just arbitrary. One could complain about the MacBook Air screen being too high a resolution and wish for a cheaper one with lower resolution. After all, the 13" Non-retina MBP has a lower resolution than the 13" MBAir.
Name one product line that got significantly more expensive than when it was introduced. I can only think of the Mac mini which first started at $499, but now starts at $599. Most got cheaper.
Simple solution: don't buy every update. Skip a few and then you have exactly what you want, less frequent but bigger updates. In what way is offering more updates more frequently a bad thing, other than to those who feel they must rush out and buy the latest model?
Believe me when I say, there are folks here (speaking for at least myself) that could care less for a retina display.
My work needs a performance machine that can handle normal tasks for business use.
I could care less if my excel spreadsheet has some extra dpi. Give me a better battery in my MBA, and more RAM (8 was a great bump!).
Retina- retina- retina- blah blah blah
My 1080p monitor has just fine resolution, thank you very much.
My work needs a performance machine that can handle normal tasks for business use.
I could care less if my excel spreadsheet has some extra dpi. Give me a better battery in my MBA, and more RAM (8 was a great bump!).
Retina- retina- retina- blah blah blah
My 1080p monitor has just fine resolution, thank you very much.
To buy or not to buy..that is what Shakespeare said. -You pull out the money- " I buy"
Will be the contrarian and say I'll never buy another device that isn't retina. My parents bought one of the new 21.5" iMacs for Christmas. Beautiful machine, but that low resolution screen is unviewable to me now.
Rarely ever use my 27" Cinema Display, but it sits far enough away that it doesn't look nearly as bad as the 21.5" model.
Rarely ever use my 27" Cinema Display, but it sits far enough away that it doesn't look nearly as bad as the 21.5" model.
Unusual, but not unheard of. They kept the white 13" MacBook around at a slightly lower price after introducing the pricier aluminum 13" MacBook.
Cry me a river.
I grew up with this:
I don't think the current generation is 'unviewable'.
Agreed, don't really see why not.
My MBP is basically a desktop that I can take with me with all these features.
For the few minutes I carry it to wherever I go the weight issue is insignificant.
As for Retina , maybe if the price is right.
We lived without Retina all our lives. People forget
Worried
If Intel is dropped for ARM does this mean we have to purchase new software? I am going to wait before buying a new MBP.
If Intel is dropped for ARM does this mean we have to purchase new software? I am going to wait before buying a new MBP.
Unless Apple bought into Boulder (think Project Denver, aka Nvidia), Im guessing any true platform change would be on a processor of their own design. I'd guess that we won't see that for some time however. Apple has an OS that can run on ARM, and the software, compiler, everything ready in one sense. However, it begins a huge transition that people simply aren't ready for. The poor sales of Surface RT are due in part to this-though the people that buy them are likely looking for something both new and cheap and may not care. Probably even bigger an issue with ARM cores is what the technology is looking like a few years out. Processing power is getting to be easier to come by, but Apple is going to have to look at it's own roadmap to see if ARM has what it needs for the products it intends to roll out. I don't think that there is any way to guess on that =).
You need to realize that Apple does everything it can to make things simple for its users.
If a user needs more RAM or a bigger hard drive, they simply buy a new laptop. The friendly Genius will be happy to migrate all the data for you.
The need to go under the hood and get your hands dirty is un-Apple-like. It is simpler to simply buy a newer and ever-simpler machine.
It'll be interesting to see if prices will come down. Seems like the folks that purchase the 13" cMBP will have to move down to the Air... that won't be fun.
Yes they will...but not because of ARM...More because x86 becomes more power efficient over time and will be included in an iPad Pro at first and later even on the iPhone. I'm sure tablet running Windows 8 and x86 will be a huge competition for Apple, because - wow get this - you can actually do some productive stuff on them, since their processors are just much faster.
People on MacRumors blow ARMs power way out of proportions lately. Intel still runs circles around ARM and they have a lot more money to spend to cut down power even further.
From a cost standpoint right now it has probably been more advantageous to design their own ARM processor for Apple. In the long run it will be cheaper to just buy off the shelf products from Intel or other companies.
We lived without Retina all our lives. People forget
Yep...but I just went home to my folks for the holidays and they had a SD in one of the rooms...holy crap on watching SD TV now...makes you realize how ****** it was.
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Actually what there's no reason at all for is thicker laptops with or without retina displays. Yes, it's beneficial for you - I'm not disputing that. But it's not beneficial for Apple, and ultimately they're in business for them, not for you.
This isn't surprising at all. They'll dump the cMBPs and make the MBP exclusively Retina. And it will look exactly like the retinas now. No reason to make another whole new design, when it just came out.
The Retinas should be Pro-only for now. People are paying a premium for these products and the Retina screen should stick to laptops at the higher price point. If people want a cheaper laptop, the Air is good for 95% of users out there.
The Retinas should be Pro-only for now. People are paying a premium for these products and the Retina screen should stick to laptops at the higher price point. If people want a cheaper laptop, the Air is good for 95% of users out there.
People keep talking about Apple TV as the next big thing, meh. I think apple already has something better in the pipeline. An Arm based MBA starting at $500. I think that would double mac sales year over year for at least 2-3 years (they'll give us NON-retina first, retina 2nd year, maybe a mini or nano 3rd year).
You saw Jonny IVE testing Aperture on machines in your local Mac Store?
Gosh, this management shake up and retail u-turn is much more radical than any could have guessed.
Hat off to Tim COOK, he really is his own man.
Bottom line: Eventually we all have to update s/w regardless.
I've been though every one of the Mac's changes, from the 680x0 to PPC then from PPC to Intel then mix in all the Apple s/w that required specific graphics chips. There is always something to throw wrench in the workflow.
But that said, Apple transitions aren't that painful. Frustrating if you are an early adopter, but Apple doesn't require that. It's not like they depreciate h/w and s/w one night and next day everything is new. It's much more evolutionary and the transition is spread out over several years. Your existing h/w will continue to be useful for it's normal lifespan. And some sort of virtualization will keep older s/w on life support in new machines.