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15-Inch MacBook Pro With Touch Bar Has Non-Removable SSD
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It also has the fastest drive in any laptop in the world, but you know - lets rile the forum members a bit more
Let's see, what has more utility? A computer with 500gb of non-upgradeable storage or a computer with 20% slower but still stupid fast 2x M.2 slots upgradeable to ... well what will we max out in a 3-4 year computer lifespan? 3TB m.2?
Fastest on the planet... I'm sure editing your 5 minute final cut pro video at 4k will be fabulous on your $2000 machine! Oh wait lol you can't get a good GPU in that 13". My bad. You need a $2400 15" with a laughable 256gb storage and 2gb VRAM and less than a 1.2 tflop vid card (GTX 1080 is 9 tflop, and the 5 year old radeon 7970 is 3 tflop). You would fill that up in about 30 minutes of 4k video (when you factor in that you need an OS)! Don't worry though, it's got a smaller battery and since you'll run out of room so fast, you will get great battery life when you go back to your facebook feed after only being able to do 30 minutes of work.
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or, more likely: what if SSDs go way down in price and you want more than 250gb of storage in your $2,400 laptop?
It's gonna be sad in 3-4 years when 2tb ssd is $100, no one will be able to upgrade these machines. So sad.
What a disappointment with fixed SSD. If logic board failed, you lost everything. Poor design by Apple in order to make the MBP thinner. And the newer Apple products have serious reliability issues.
Not in mine.
When all the 2011 MBP Radeongate fiasco Apple Mexico asked me for about $1500 USD to replace the logic board. With only 90 ****ing days of warranty over the repair.
What if your SSD goes bad after 3 yrs(assuming AppleCare), change of logic board ?
Wait a minute, he's got a maxed out mac pro (his words) -- so that means he's got a 12 core with dual D700 (6 Tflop graphics) and he is using a freaking laptop with less than 2tflop GPU and probably 1/4 the processing power?? And he's using his mac pro for a freaking NAS????
Far be it from me to insult this clearly financially successful guy but he just set a stupid amount of money on fire (like over $15,000). He could've gone PC, taught himself to use the [much better] apps on there, and saved at least half on all that. On top of that, the hardware you could get for even half that amount of money would be CRAZY, even back in 2013 when he probably bought his mac pro. I have an awesome job but even I couldn't justify that level of ridiculousness.
If this massive fanboy is having problems with the new laptop, you know you're in trouble, Apple.
I would never buy a laptop that had the hard drive soldered to the mainboard lol. Good luck with that guys better hope it doesn't turn out like the nvidia video card issues.
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Very good point there with regard to data.
Our iMac was backed up to Time Machine and a USB3 drive but I trusted the apple repairer so didn't restore to factory settings.
After diagnosing the repair they phoned me to explain the iMac needed a new logic board. I asked 'will the data be okay?' he said 'it should be'.
There wasn't any sensitive information but when the machine was returned my relief that I could enter password and it just booted up was palpable.
No need to faff with restoring. But if this was a 2016 rMBP the data as you say would have been binned with the logic board.
That maybe be a big problem for some, I was lucky the iMac let me do one final backup before it went for repair.
Some folk might not have done a backup and would lose precious data if their machine wouldn't allow to get pass the on screen explaination mark before sending for repair.
Cheers
ps
apple never asked whether I'd backed up which I thought strange.
I have a feeling I know why now.
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I'm starting a movement: MAGA = MAKE APPLE GREAT AGAIN!
Who's with me?
We need to get Cook fired. He's absolutely the worst CEO in tech today! He's destroyed everything I loved about Apple. He needs to retire.
Who's with me?
We need to get Cook fired. He's absolutely the worst CEO in tech today! He's destroyed everything I loved about Apple. He needs to retire.
Lets start with Phil Schiller, the statements he's made recently show how out of touch that guy is with the mac community, he's gotta go fast.
few days = yes. few weeks = your pushing it, but bring them chocolate and they'll say ok ..... Apple often has a sweet tooth,.
Hahahaha.You cant be serious Apple.A pro laptop which is basically a disposable commodity for 2K bucks.Lmao
And here my $1300 gaming PC is being upgraded for years on end and it puts is machine to shame
And here my $1300 gaming PC is being upgraded for years on end and it puts is machine to shame
To quote the great Steve Jobs
at Macworld in 2009, Steve Jobs said, “Our pro customers want accessibility: […] to add memory, to add cards, to add drives.”
www.wired.com/2012/06/opinion-apple-retina-displa/amp/?client=safari
I wonder what Steve, based on the above quote would think of this.
at Macworld in 2009, Steve Jobs said, “Our pro customers want accessibility: […] to add memory, to add cards, to add drives.”
www.wired.com/2012/06/opinion-apple-retina-displa/amp/?client=safari
I wonder what Steve, based on the above quote would think of this.
Pretty sure Jobs was wrong. Obviously what Pro customers really want is for their computers to be a few mm thinner. Screw replaceability and top of the line parts.
Why didn't you buy a MBP with the specs you needed? You ended up paying $800 for SSD alone and still didn't have the use for the full lifespan. That sounds expensive. ;-)
"Grabbing Apple by the cords!"
*Cords is a single USB3-C cord not included. Available for $49.99 on the Apple Store.
Except thats not the point of the original post so...
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Yes. You have less to fear for you SSD failing than ever in life before.
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Um. The original post is about the SSD. If other components fail on your LB and you mail it in for a repair without backing up your data then you are an idiot. You should never, and Apple tells you this, mail in you lappy for repair without backing it up. And why encrypt if you have nothing to hide? You and many others on here are imagining a fear where one does not exist.
In the UK John Lewis Partnership offer a 2 year warranty as standard on ALL products (well except flowers).
Every three months or so on select apple products they offer an extra year FREE making it three years.
I bought my rMBP 2015 from
JLP based on this 3 year warrantee promotion.
I wouldn't even consider buying a rMBP 2016 without a 3 year warrantee based on this article.
In fact I would hold out and hope apple U turn next year and make the SSD upgradable.
You are out of luck.Apple never reverses their decision.The only option now is to switch full time to Windows machines
Oh dear and this article was less than 12 months old http://www.laptopmag.com/articles/upgrade-ssd-macbook-pro-retina-display
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They do reverse their decision when I said on this forum back in June / July
''they will include an adapter with the iPhone 7 FREE in the box'' I was ridiculed.
"apple never give adapters away free, they didn't when they moved to lightning, they wont now"
etc etc etc
apple do U turn.
ps
We all have XP, W7 W10 on our Macs with Parallels
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They do reverse their decision when I said on this forum back in June / July
''they will include an adapter with the iPhone 7 FREE in the box'' I was ridiculed.
"apple never give adapters away free, they didn't when they moved to lightning, they wont now"
etc etc etc
apple do U turn.
ps
We all have XP, W7 W10 on our Macs with Parallels
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