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2011: The year Apple gave up.
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If you're doing all that, I'm sure you're not mobile. Just get a USB hub.....they're like $10.
That is just completely and utterly false. It is the first MAC quad core laptop. There have been many PC quad-cores, especially the higher end gaming ones. Heck, they even have multiple discrete video cards.
But yeah, I agree with everyone, the OP is a troll. He/she has no idea about anything from Apple design history. My early 2008 MBP looks the same as just about every Apple PowerBook / Macbook Pro from the early 2000s through it's release. Only later that year did they switch to the unibody. And if you know anything about Apple desktop design, you'd see black keyboards on their older desktops too. In the art world, everything goes in cycles. With variation of course, and sometimes improvements, but cycles regardless.
No, it isn't. The first quad core laptop hit the market in 2007.
Well I was late on this reply.....Wow lol
It's simply more convenient to have more ports. For example, TM drive should basically be plugged in constantly. That takes one. Add a flash drive, two. iPod, three. Printer, four. Even without the iPod, that's three USB ports that you may need to use at once, not to mention they are so close together that it's impossible to use both with a lot of flash drives. Poor design choice.
So basically your complaint boils down to "wahhh Apple didn't change the asthetics!!" 
Really OP? End of innovation and ingenuity? Did you happen to miss the freaking thunderbolt port? Not to mention that these were some absolutely fantastic "incremental" upgrades. Hello, quad cores!
And as far the lack of a case redesign goes, Apple may or may not be working on implementing amorphous metal alloys in a future MBP. However, R&D takes time. I don't know what you wanted in the MBP's, but I'm sure your expectations were much higher than they should've been.
Or maybe the explanation is much simpler and you're just upset that the new one looks like the 2010 model and now you won't look as cool as you were hoping in front of strangers because your MBP looks the same as everyone else's.
Really OP? End of innovation and ingenuity? Did you happen to miss the freaking thunderbolt port? Not to mention that these were some absolutely fantastic "incremental" upgrades. Hello, quad cores!
And as far the lack of a case redesign goes, Apple may or may not be working on implementing amorphous metal alloys in a future MBP. However, R&D takes time. I don't know what you wanted in the MBP's, but I'm sure your expectations were much higher than they should've been.
Or maybe the explanation is much simpler and you're just upset that the new one looks like the 2010 model and now you won't look as cool as you were hoping in front of strangers because your MBP looks the same as everyone else's.
Dude.. I have no problems with this design. In fact, its probably one of the best laptop designs ever made. It's awesome, sleek and beautiful. They changed the insides more than the outside.
This isn't a car, where they add better headlights, fog lamps and a compass on your rear view mirror.
And +1 to "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". The thing I would fix is the glare and that's really it.. Aesthetics wise.
This isn't a car, where they add better headlights, fog lamps and a compass on your rear view mirror.
And +1 to "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". The thing I would fix is the glare and that's really it.. Aesthetics wise.
Why change the design? most if not all the reviews i have seen in the last 2-3 years have never complained about the design, infact it's been applauded over here by reviewers in the uk. I have had many laptops ( mostly windows) in that time, alienware.........garish. Asus.......plastic, pcspecialist........plastic, sony.......getting there.
I always looked at people with a macbook pro in envy at the cool design as i pull out my laptop in plastic black!
I always looked at people with a macbook pro in envy at the cool design as i pull out my laptop in plastic black!
january 2003:
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september 2003:
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april 2004:
see september 2003
january 2005:
see september 2003 and april 2004
october 2005:
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january 2006:
april 2006:
october 2006:
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june 2007:
+
february 2008:
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'nuff said. The upgrades this crop of Macs got is nothing to scoff at. Design or no design revision - it's a laptop I can proudly say how much I paid for it.
Why change the design? most if not all the reviews i have seen in the last 2-3 years have never complained about the design, infact it's been applauded over here by reviewers in the uk. I have had many laptops ( mostly windows) in that time, alienware.........garish. Asus.......plastic, pcspecialist........plastic, sony.......getting there.
I always looked at people with a macbook pro in envy at the cool design as i pull out my laptop in plastic black!
I agree - the unibody design is truly one for the history books of excellent aesthetic design.
So I guess we shouldn't think of better designs? We've arrived at the end of the product's evolution?
Why should it have happened now? I haven't seen the reasoning for that from you.
Or you could have: mouse (as some people might prefer it over a trackpad), phone, headphones (yes, some headphones use usb).
It's perfectly reasonable to want to use them all at once don't you think? I mean you might even want to use an external HDD as well.
It is not! I have a Vaio F you can go ahead and write off as a desktop replacement if you want (it's 1.5" thick, but it does weigh about the same as a 17" MBP). However, HP has been selling several laptops (the Envy 14, 15, and 17 come to mind) that have quad i7s and those are the same shape, size, and weight of the MBP line for the most part.
The Envy 15 also has a 1920x1080 screen. Why doesn't the 15" MBP have a higher res option?
Yea, I know, the MBP gets more battery life. However, it is most certainly not the first real laptop to have a quad core CPU. I use my Vaio as a laptop: the only time I have it on a table is when I'm studying in the college library lol... or maybe some quick desk work at home (that's rare!) I usually play games while sitting on the sofa on it >>
The best part is, I don't get 2nd degree burns from playing Crysis.
If you're plugged into a TM constantly, again you're not mobile, plug the iPad/iPod/iPhone into the wall unless your syncing because you can only do one at a time anyway. Plug your printer into your TM and go the wireless printing route. And hell, with the age of drop box, mobile me, and other online services, a flash drive is almost useless (save for larger files). Most computers accept SD cards and they can reach up 32GB these days. I'd just use one of those.
So that whittled it down to one USB port always used with a free one to swap between other peripherals. Problem?
Every product: computers, cars, and etc all have a timeline of a design it shares. Sorry, but deal with it. Next major design revision should be next year. Can't please everyone - but, the market and wallets have spoken that Apple is doing something right.
If you need all those at once, you can always get a USB hub. I prefer the cleaner look with less holes than a laptop that looks like a Swiss cheese.
It's 2011.. people still use USB printers?! Sheesh I've had a networked printer for what.. 5 years now?! My current one even has wifi! You can get Time Machine functionality over the air from a Time Capsule or an airport extreme with a hard drive on it can't you?
The MBP is fairly thin and doesn't have a heck of a lot of room for ports, you certainly don't want them on the front of the machine. I kinda would've been happy with keeping the front-side DVD drive if they could keep the DVI port on the side though!
The MBP is fairly thin and doesn't have a heck of a lot of room for ports, you certainly don't want them on the front of the machine. I kinda would've been happy with keeping the front-side DVD drive if they could keep the DVI port on the side though!
Most idiotic opinion ever.
Apple computer sales have been growing at a massively higher rate than the industry average for the last five years. The picture is actually worse for the PC industry if you compare Apple vs. non-Apple instead of Apple vs. industry average. Enormous growth rate in government and enterprise is being reported. This update has brought what the whiners have been whining about: i5 and i7 processors on the 13", quad core on the 15" and 17". Wide range of hard drives up to 500 GB SSD drives. And instead of USB 3 that the whiners were asking for, a revolutionary new connector that runs at a much higher speed (an external 500 GB SSD drive is already announced).
Clearly, Apple didn't do lots of things that people on MacRumors, without any view to practicalities, were demanding. Which is absolutely correct, because Apple shouldn't try to please the fanboys, but the majority that actually buys the products. This upgrade is a good step into the absolutely right direction and will make sure that Apple ad a computer maker keeps growing far beyond the industry average.
Google for "Porsche 1956". A car design that is essentially unchanged for 54 years.
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What's your genius input on a better design then?
Needs wings so you can also fly with it?
Afaik, the 3 year old design is stil widely considered as the most durable, cleanest laptop design, therefore years ahead of the competition, period.
How's that giving up again?