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12-Inch Retina MacBooks Discounted $300 for Limited Time
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Stop trying to make this overpriced unpowered thing happen and give us the Macbook Pro's.
I really do believe, that Apple chooses this high prices on purpose. This happened with the iPad Pro, the Retina iMac and the Macbook (and years ago with the Original Macbook Air) to prevent the non-Apple-geeks to purchase it by mistake. This leads to higher costumer Satisfaction. The original Macbook Air had no DVD Drive (Steve Ballmer complained about this), the Retina iMac had (in the first months) no sharp content zu show (even some Websites were fuzzy), the iPad Pro has no real Pro-Apps and the Macbook (which I think is the future of the broad consumer Laptops; not for prosumer) has only one USB Port, which is fine, if you think of it as a iPad with a Keyboard and OSX (and bad if you compare it to a MBP or MBA).
Just getting rid of old stock before the new arrives.
We all know v2 will be what v1 should have been from the start. Still not worth $999.
Funny because it's mostly true. It's as if Apple is taking features away and raising prices to see if we all will actually pay and buy this crap. 2012 was the last year Apple got any money from me, the original rMBP 15". It's still a fine piece of hardware and I'll be using it until it's dead.
then there's always "this guy"..."oh no, mine doesnt do that, mine is super ridiculously awesome!"
It's a measely 1.2 GHz Core M processor....its going to be sluggish. stop with the nonsense already.
And it probably means early adopters of apple products will once again be screwed by apple.
A couple of points. One, i'm sure best buy will match b&h on the sale price, and you can pay it off over a year, and 2, a big discount like this suggests the rmb has not sold well, and that there is big inventory sitting around. Screwed will now be those trying to sell their used rmbs. But it could be a buyers market for a used one. With new at 999, i wouldnt pay more than $700 used on ebay or cl.
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Because early adopters paid full price, and its apple thats authorizing the low sales prices, and i'll bet the version 2 will start at 999, not 1299, and have lots of updates. Thats how it begins to make sense, brother.
Nothing worse than tech snobs. Just because this machine isn't for you doesn't mean it doesn't deserve to exist. And last time I checked MacBook Pro's still existed...
If one is on the fence you should definitely wait. The improvements are going to be worth it. If you can't wait get a 13" mba it's my current recommendation for my friends and what I did last year w my mba 2015
The price discounts aren't horribly bad, although I think it's still over priced. It's a beautiful looking low powered laptop with a gorgeous screen and no ports. Call it what it is.
I'm not quite sure why you think this is the case, but Apple doesn't control the price to the consumer. That's entirely up to the retailer. It simply depends on how much profit they want to make. B&H, Best Buy, etc. are Apple's customer in that instance. Apple makes it's money when the product ships to the retailer, not our hands.
Early adopters don't get screwed. They make a choice to purchase an item knowing there will be an update with more features. They can choose to wait or decide the current offering fits their needs. Always has been, always will be. The 2nd gen MB will have more features than the 1st, the 3rd more than the 2nd, and the 4th more than the third.
Oh my goodness that is hilarious. I laughed almost as hard as the "Apple engineer" in the video. Thanks for sharing.
I won't be laughing nearly as hard though, if Apple tries to sell us on a dongle for the new 2016 MBPs. Not. At. All.
Yea the M processor is a step up from an iPad so I'm surprised that's the only processor option they put in the MacBook. It's small, light, and has retina which makes it nice but the moment you need any power pass typing a paper you may as well get an Air or Pro.
Nice laptop though for the avid traveler who is not a power user.
While I agree on most except the price point. This needs to be priced $200 more than a mba. They can't cannibalize sales from their different versions of laptops.
IMHO: They will bring it down to $1199 and add one port more plus better processor. Easy fixes and similar to what happened with the mba after processors finally catched up w slim designs like the Mba. Then 2-3 years from now the mba and MacBook will be one. Leaving the pros as the other choices.
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While I agree on most except the price point. This needs to be priced $200 more than a mba. They can't cannibalize sales from their different versions of laptops.
IMHO: They will bring it down to $1199 and add one port more plus better processor. Easy fixes and similar to what happened with the mba after processors finally catched up w slim designs like the Mba. Then 2-3 years from now the mba and MacBook will be one. Leaving the pros as the other choices.
That video is hilarious. I hadn't laughed this hard in a long time.
