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2011: The year Apple gave up.
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They gave up? Are you mental? 
I'm going from a 1st Gen MB Air to
15" glossy hi Rez screen
500 mb 7200x
QUAD cord i7! Hell ya!
Thunderbolt
7 hour battery life under what appears to be "real world" testing
I'm fraking THRILLED! Keep giving up Apple! I'm diggin it!
I'm going from a 1st Gen MB Air to
15" glossy hi Rez screen
500 mb 7200x
QUAD cord i7! Hell ya!
Thunderbolt
7 hour battery life under what appears to be "real world" testing
I'm fraking THRILLED! Keep giving up Apple! I'm diggin it!
What you been smoking? That's some crazy thinking right there. Wafer-thin? No optical drive? Yeah right, maybe Apple should replace Snow Leopard's disc as a USB stick?
gave up huh
Than why don't you go buy a dell or sony?
Apple has always been and always will be cutting edge with something. Design, new features, or its OS. You can not expect a new shape or something fancy all the time. Apple likes to give it to us one at a time and than combined what they created. And eventually its all put in one great package. I think it would suck if they just gave up and put w.e out and thats all she wrote. But instead we always get something new something better something stronger.
And the current pro lines are amazing design wise why change it? It works so well its what is in its apple. Performance honestly do you forget its a laptop? Its a means to have portability when your away from your desktop aka big man on campus. I think most people are happy with the macbook pro lines.
Yes I did rant a lot and go on and on with bad sentence structure, but I am annoyed by unaware annoying people. The op just needs to think it over would you rather be a PC?
p.s.
apple out of ideas?
really you breathe air do you walk around do you have brain functions that create ?
I think you do and you better believe apple has the best of them always ahead of the crowd.
p.s.
this is the same guy that asked
are pc users dumber than mac user
fail
fail
fail
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/867725/
omg new idea
Yahoo answers may be the best place for you on the net go join
sorry if i am harsh
Than why don't you go buy a dell or sony?
Apple has always been and always will be cutting edge with something. Design, new features, or its OS. You can not expect a new shape or something fancy all the time. Apple likes to give it to us one at a time and than combined what they created. And eventually its all put in one great package. I think it would suck if they just gave up and put w.e out and thats all she wrote. But instead we always get something new something better something stronger.
And the current pro lines are amazing design wise why change it? It works so well its what is in its apple. Performance honestly do you forget its a laptop? Its a means to have portability when your away from your desktop aka big man on campus. I think most people are happy with the macbook pro lines.
Yes I did rant a lot and go on and on with bad sentence structure, but I am annoyed by unaware annoying people. The op just needs to think it over would you rather be a PC?
p.s.
apple out of ideas?
really you breathe air do you walk around do you have brain functions that create ?
I think you do and you better believe apple has the best of them always ahead of the crowd.
p.s.
this is the same guy that asked
are pc users dumber than mac user
fail
fail
fail
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/867725/
omg new idea
Yahoo answers may be the best place for you on the net go join
sorry if i am harsh
AGREED! Apple giving up my a$$ - I mean, look at the 15 and 17 inch machines - friggin' BEASTS!
I do not agree at all. The case design was/is so directional and still ahead of the game that there is no need to change for some time. It's a work of art and will serve them a lot longer I believe. I don't actually want it to change. It's very robust and the best looking thing out there. Exceptional design does not change. Take a look at a Porsche for example.
The Macbook AIR is so flimsy - twist the case and you'll see what I mean. With hard core pro use this won't last. I hope the Pro never goes this route. If it looks great, fine. My core concern is not if it looks pretty or not.
I would have liked to see more in the way of processor clock speed though. I think 2 GHz is low regardless of cores. But no advancement on the 8GB of RAM is my biggest concern. I need absolute minimum of 16.
The Macbook AIR is so flimsy - twist the case and you'll see what I mean. With hard core pro use this won't last. I hope the Pro never goes this route. If it looks great, fine. My core concern is not if it looks pretty or not.
I would have liked to see more in the way of processor clock speed though. I think 2 GHz is low regardless of cores. But no advancement on the 8GB of RAM is my biggest concern. I need absolute minimum of 16.
That is where the Turbo kicks in.
Blame Intel. None of their mobile CPUs support more than 8GB so basically no laptop supports more than 8GB. If you really need that much RAM, take a look at desktops.
You're a ****ing idiot for even saying this to someone with a legitimate problem.
How about you go away or shut up?
Seeing the highly anticipated but actually underwhelming and forgettable "upgrade" to the Macbook Pro line signals the end of Apple's innovation and ingenuity. Seems to me like they have given up on building the greatest ever product with every upgrade and are following the usual "incremental" upgrade paths that most other boring computer companies go with.
Really Apple?
We went from:
to
to
to
Have we really run out of ideas to the point that we're just updating token hardware without any real innovation?
Has anything really changed since 2008 beside some hardware upgrades and the occasional modification of the location of some slots.
No, not really. Looks like we're stuck in time.
What's it going to take for Apple before we succumb to hubris entirely?
2011: The Year the Trolls try their luck.....................
OP, are you serious?
THIS IS A GREAT UPDATE! Thunderbolt alone! And of course SandyBridge
The unibody design is still fairly new.
There's nothing out there that matches the unibody design in any shape or form.
I never expected an overhaul of the current design so soon already.
Maybe mid 2012
THIS IS A GREAT UPDATE! Thunderbolt alone! And of course SandyBridge
The unibody design is still fairly new.
There's nothing out there that matches the unibody design in any shape or form.
I never expected an overhaul of the current design so soon already.
Maybe mid 2012
Quoting the pictures so people can get this through there daft heads. Seriously its not even been 4-5 years...you guys do realize that the MBP case bends over and pounds every other laptops ***? The 13" MBP is like the number one selling laptop. I see MBP's around here everywhere then again I live in a wealthy area, but go on campus every girl and there friends friends and boyfriends has some type of MacBook. I'm a highschool senior and every year including this year my friends going off to college have wanted and gotten some type of MacBook almost always a pro and allot of the type a 15incher. People act like its the end of the world..MacBook pros will continue to be flying off the shelf at ever rising rates regardless of "too small of a tech boost" because the average college student doesn't know anything past hard drive size, RAM and if there decently informed processor speed and I doubt Lucy smith who's majoring in lauguage arts and is just typing up papers is going to need "i5 QUAD CORE ZOMGBEAST PROCESSOR 22.999999GHZ WITH NVIDIA 930M 4GB VIDEO RAM!". If anyone needs performance they will simply go up to the high end 15". Would I like to see beast performance in the 13"? Hell yeah! When I was looking at MacBook's I knew I wanted a high end MBP but I wanted a 13" because 15" isn't big or anything but I'm the type of guy that brings his computer with him everywhere.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:
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February 2008:
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Seeing the highly anticipated but actually underwhelming and forgettable "upgrade" to the Macbook Pro line signals the end of Apple's innovation and ingenuity. Seems to me like they have given up on building the greatest ever product with every upgrade and are following the usual "incremental" upgrade paths that most other boring computer companies go with.
Really Apple?
We went from:
to
to
to
Have we really run out of ideas to the point that we're just updating token hardware without any real innovation?
Has anything really changed since 2008 beside some hardware upgrades and the occasional modification of the location of some slots.
No, not really. Looks like we're stuck in time.
What's it going to take for Apple before we succumb to hubris entirely?
Maybe you just haven't been around long enough yet. There's nothing wrong with the current design. It could last another year if they wanted it to. I wouldnt be surprised if they updated it this October though.
Oh no, does this mean we should heap the same scourn over the Thinkpad T-series design ? (which I just happen to like just as much as the PowerBook/Macbook Pro) Has Thinkpad given up too? Do we all have to run out and buy Dells now?
T20
T30
T40
T60
T400
T500
T20
T30
T40
T60
T400
T500
Good comparison. Take a look at the dogs like the Thinkpad with its little red nipple for a mouse and then it makes you appreciate very much the Macbook Pro's.
Amen!
Too true... all useless gizmos too. This refresh we got REALY upgrades, not stupid toys like the fanboys all want. I'll take a quad core CPU, AMD graphics, and Thunderbolt IO any day of the week over the lame and retarded "liquidmetal" case that does nothing at all.
Change for the sake of change is idiotic. The current MBP chassis damn near perfect. If you were expecting a refreshed chassis, then state exactly what you don't like about the current one, and what you would improve on.... if you have nothing on that list, then time to Ess Tea Eff Yew. PS. "make it thinner" and other retarded arguments like that don't count.
Seeing the highly anticipated but actually underwhelming and forgettable "upgrade" to the Macbook Pro line signals the end of Apple's innovation and ingenuity. Seems to me like they have given up on building the greatest ever product with every upgrade and are following the usual "incremental" upgrade paths that most other boring computer companies go with.
Really Apple?
We went from:
to
to
to
Have we really run out of ideas to the point that we're just updating token hardware without any real innovation?
Has anything really changed since 2008 beside some hardware upgrades and the occasional modification of the location of some slots.
No, not really. Looks like we're stuck in time.
What's it going to take for Apple before we succumb to hubris entirely?
you better get yourself a lawyer....im going to sue you for wasting 60 seconds of my current life....
try actually looking at history of apple products before spouting some inane rubbish.
on current trends, were not actually due a laptop redesign for 4 years.
go away now...
If I wasn't too lazy I would find pictures of today's automobile and one 50 years ago.
Or today's toaster and one 50 years ago.
You need a screen and keyboard so what are you going to do, oh genius OP?
The MBA represents Apple's version of the future laptop. Ipad also represents a future computing device. As does iPHone.
Or today's toaster and one 50 years ago.
You need a screen and keyboard so what are you going to do, oh genius OP?
The MBA represents Apple's version of the future laptop. Ipad also represents a future computing device. As does iPHone.
A computer is not a fashion statement. If you think it is, go spend some money on some nifty clothes. Their purpose is for fashion.
I personally prefer my computer to be designed for use first with aesthetics second (unless we are talking about how to display the screen cause since htat is what you are looking at all the time on the computer, aesthetics = practicality there).
There's absolutely nothing wrong with current design. In fact, the only time I see people bitching about wanting it to change, it is because they want it for change's sake. That is a *stupid* reason to change a design (unless you are talking clothes or stuff that is purely ornamental. Even clothes, being female, I wish they wouldn't change the pants style every year. I find a pair that works, and then they change it next year because it's not fashionable anymore. I hear guy clothing is starting to be just as bad. Though I'm jealous of my roommate who can go, "I like this pair, it fits me well, I know what size I want. My old ones are getting ratty, I'll just go buy a new pair. In and out of the store." Everytime I want a new pair I have to try a bunch out cause they never have what I had before that worked for me!!!!). So if you ever wonder why females spend so much time shopping for clothes? It's because the industry feels they should change clothing just for change's sake. Many of us don't really want to spend that much time shopping for clothes (I hate clothes shopping. I'd love to just go in, grab what I need, and leave).
If it ain't broke, don't fix it!!!!
I personally prefer my computer to be designed for use first with aesthetics second (unless we are talking about how to display the screen cause since htat is what you are looking at all the time on the computer, aesthetics = practicality there).
There's absolutely nothing wrong with current design. In fact, the only time I see people bitching about wanting it to change, it is because they want it for change's sake. That is a *stupid* reason to change a design (unless you are talking clothes or stuff that is purely ornamental. Even clothes, being female, I wish they wouldn't change the pants style every year. I find a pair that works, and then they change it next year because it's not fashionable anymore. I hear guy clothing is starting to be just as bad. Though I'm jealous of my roommate who can go, "I like this pair, it fits me well, I know what size I want. My old ones are getting ratty, I'll just go buy a new pair. In and out of the store." Everytime I want a new pair I have to try a bunch out cause they never have what I had before that worked for me!!!!). So if you ever wonder why females spend so much time shopping for clothes? It's because the industry feels they should change clothing just for change's sake. Many of us don't really want to spend that much time shopping for clothes (I hate clothes shopping. I'd love to just go in, grab what I need, and leave).
If it ain't broke, don't fix it!!!!
