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16-Inch MacBook Pro Debuts With New Magic Keyboard, Physical Esc Key, Up to 64GB of RAM, and More
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if i wasnt editing photos from a 61mp camera i'd wait too.. but its time. Apple does have a good no questions asked return policy for 30 days. we'll see if my gamble pays off.
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32 is plenty.
i got 5ghz processor, 32gb ram,upgraded video card, 2tb ssd + applecare
i budget/plan for it to last 4 yrs, if it lasts longer awesome.
Yes and nobody better than Phil the LAST of the ol' guard to deliver in a video about it! Makes me remember the 2012 pre-release announcement how wow we all felt then.
Psst ... pray for a 14" MBP with dedicated video card and same heat-sync and cooling improvements
Yeah I'm VERY shocked! I honestly thought this was to replace the 15" but after mid 2020.
Apple is on a CRAZY-One's mad success run this year:
AppleTV+ for everyone
Mac Mini major update !!
Mac Pro - delivering ultra greatness.
now MBP 16 !! :O 'can't innovate anymore my ass'
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I'm sure Apple is thinking about YOU the users' Longevity of use. I've yet to see a MBP lightly dropped with a dinged screen edge and the screen being cracked (of course) yet NOT working flawlessly.
Borders I love for good reason .... limitations in hardware I don't!
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Lol. Is it your theory that Jobs-era Apple listened to its customers?
is there some sort of alt-history timeline where we are rocking flash on iPads, have touchscreen macs with removable ram and disk, FireWire ports, and neat mid-tower macs?
Shut up and take my money. When it comes to other countries (South Korea)? Any information?
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16Inch i9 base model is 288,800yen + 10% tax. That is $2,656.96 + 10% USD. But its often possible that it will be even more cheaper if buy using credit card etc. And available to order today as well
US equivalent model price is $2,799.00 + ~10% tax.
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Not really true. Quite often happens that in Japan is a bit cheaper.
16Inch i9 base model is 288,800yen + 10% tax. That is $2,656.96 + 10% USD. But its often possible that it will be even more cheaper if buy using credit card etc. And available to order today as well
US equivalent model price is $2,799.00 + ~10% tax.
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Having the very same mid-2012 MacBook Pro Retina, of which they said for many years it is the best laptop ever made.
BTW, mine is 7 years ;-).
(2019 - 2012 = 7).
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But how tempting this 16" is!
Everything seems to be in the right place, issues solved & fixed, listened to the wishes, etc.
The only bad thing about Apple's laptops is they are so damn good: my 2012 MBP still works like a charm, so I guess I can wait for the 2nd version.
I just saw that it's got a 96W power supply, dang that's getting quite beefy. I wonder how much extra weight the power supply is going to add. Is Apple ever going to start using GaN tech to get the size and weight of their power supplies down?
Yep, good luck in selling one of these for any decent price once the keyboard warranty has gone.
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Yep, my 2015 15" is still working sweet. When it finally dies, or when I finally need more than 16GB RAM, I suppose I'll see if Apple's RAM/SSD prices have come down to something near sane, or I'll buy a second hand 2019+ 16".
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First of all, the $2799 model is not $3900 in Sweden.
It’s 35000 SEK which is about $3600.
Secondly, that includes 25% (!) of value added tax.
The tax free price is $2880.
The markup is less than $100.
Macbook Pro 15 inch starting at $2400+ has never been the most popular Mac. The vast majority of macs in the wild are Airs, 13 inch Pros and Minis, that is, the cheapest mac models Apple has in its line. In fact, it is the Air that really pushed Mac expansion when it was revealed more than 10 years ago. Apple should focus more on high quality affordable notebooks, rather than on high end machines such as the Mac Pro, iMac Pro and the these new 16 inch Macbook Pro. The vast majority of the users wont pay more than 1500$ for a notebook, so any new mac above this price point is a nitch product, especially outside the US.
If you go back to the 1990s, then $7000 was not that unusual for top spec laptops. Apple did it, IBM surpassed it and niche non-Intel producers like Tadpole charged a small fortune for theirs. People coughed up because that is what technology cost then and $7k 20+ years ago was a worth a lot more than it is now. Apple's prices look immense now only because the cost of consumer laptops has plummeted since but none of those is offering 8TB of NVMe storage or 64GB of RAM.
Relative to virtually any other notebook brand. With a budget of $2600+ you can literally buy a top of the line Dell XPS (the top choice in the recent years). Actually, you can buy two of these.
90% of the notebook market globally is focused in the 600-800$ price range. So, yes this new MacBook Pro 16 inch is an expensive nitch product within the budget of the 0,1% of the people that are currently looking for a new notebook. Apple would hardly earn any meaningful profit or gain any additional market share.
I have Apple Watch S4 and I've been using this feature from day one. Not as instant and seamless experience as I'd like it to be. Besides, I'm not always wearing the watch, my face - yes.
Apple Introducing New Mac Pro, Pro iMacs and External Display Over Coming Years
“If we’ve had a pause in upgrades and updates, we’re sorry for that — what happened with the Mac Pro — and we’re going to come out with something great to replace it.” Apple Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing Phil Schiller is talking to a small group of reporters. The purpose of the...
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2 1/2 years ago, the laptop/desktop split for Apple was 80/20, and their customer status showed "pros" (by use of "pro" apps) overwhelmingly used laptops (or notebooks, in their terms).
There is no breakdown available that I can find of what models specifically are most popular, but I'm going to call ******** right away on the mini being in the "vast majority" category. It's a great machine but it's not beating out MBPs or MBAs for popularity.
They've arguably been doing that for the last.. 5 years?
The response from actual professional users, who are not fickle about which laptop is $10 cheaper, was deafening.
So, no. Apple have focussed plenty on what the armchair facebook browsers all want to 'look trendy'. It's past time for actual pro-level hardware options.
Never have I understood the need for a touchscreen on a laptop. Ergonomically it sounds like such a bad idea and I don't want to have to clean my screen all the time.
CPU upgrade not worth it, 32GB is enough, 8GB GPU... big question is 1TB or 2TB... hmm... decisions, decisions.
Well you can buy 5TB of external thunderbolt storage easily for that money you save when you choose 1TB. Probably for the best anyway.CPU upgrade not worth it, 32GB is enough, 8GB GPU... big question is 1TB or 2TB... hmm... decisions, decisions.
I wishInt
i think it’s because Intel doesn’t offer a chipset for this class of course which supports it yet. This class if cpu is still their 9th Generation
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i think the only item which has reasonable potential are the wifi6
Because Thunderbolt is a point-to-point single computer connection, i.e. you can only connect a single computer to the storage in most cases. 10GigE enables multiple users to be connected to the same storage.
Define high-end camera. If you are talking large or medium format digital cameras, these are really, really in the minority. Most photographers don't use kit right at the high-end, simply because they don't need it but also because the price is out of reach for many. Anyone shooting on a low-end DSLR or any of the Sony mirrorless systems will be using SD, and there are a LOT of these photographers, especially with low-end DSLRs. Mid to high-end Canon/Nikon use CF or CF/SD combo. However the majority is SD because most photographers use what they can afford to get the job done and bodies using SD are often cheaper but yet good enough. I'd say it's also shifting in favour of SD over other formats with the rise of mirrorless cameras and their smaller bodies.
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I did, I bought a thinkpad! There should be no concessions on a 16" laptop as it is built as a work tool and is in direct competition with other mobile workstations which do have plenty of ports. Even when comparing with thin laptops like the XPS 15, even that has more than TB3 ports. Okay it has no ethernet, but it has USB A and an SD card slot along with USB-C/TB. Basically it has more than 1 type of port and little need for dongles.
Spending £3k+ on a laptop and then having to buy adaptors is not acceptable. Adaptors are NOT the answer we must stop allowing manufacturers to get away with this nonsense!
"Creativity is intense, but casual....." and "For me, creativity is 'how far did you go to stretch yourself.'"
What the Hell are these people even talking about?
How ***** pretentious can you be?
Can you take yourselves a little more seriously?
Wow.
What the Hell are these people even talking about?
How ***** pretentious can you be?
Can you take yourselves a little more seriously?
Wow.
I mean if you can't see the logic behind apple NEEDING to change the keyboard EVEN if the 2018/2019 completely fixed them than its beyond me.
Even if the 2019's are 100% fixed the name butterfly scares people. Apple really had no choice here...
They couldn't just sell the butterfly even fixed and say it was because of the tainted name of it.
It also gets more sales for apple so its win win(minus the repair program of course).
Also, Nobody knows this new keyboard or machine will be better than a 2019 machine and are risking that based on what? Its better to not even buy this year to see how well it does but hey people like to jump on sorta new products...
They ditched it completely?? lol Yeah, I'll believe that once it migrates down range to the MBA and other, cheaper machines. Until then, I'd save the gloating.
(From Phil Schiller's interview with CNET)
"Can we expect to see the new Magic Keyboard in the rest of the MacBook lineup? Rumors suggest yes, but Schiller isn’t ready to make that announcement. “I can’t say today. We are continuing both keyboard designs,” he said in the interview."
I have to wonder if that's something which is being saved for what would've been a 2020 redesign (now probably pushed back to 2021/2 at least) - different design language, XDR, ProMotion mini LED display, custom ARM CPU etc?