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2016 MacBook Pro May Include OLED Display Touch Bar and Touch ID
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Manuelrodrigues
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Please please please no thinner formfactor and certainly no longer battery life. Make a true mobile WORKstation like the PRO name suggest and stop this idiotic fascination with portability and battery life. It's a pro machine please put a pro GPU in it. And surprise! I tend to NOT FORGET MY POWER ADAPTER (as I'm a pro 😉) I don't need 10 hours off battery life. I'm fine with 2.5 hours. Just let me max out the specs so I can render stuff faster just like my buddy's who own a windows based mobile workstation. Their cpu and gpu options are about 50% to 70% faster. Shame on you apple. You should rename the MacBook Pro as it does not deserve the pro label anymore.
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cult hero
macrumors 65816
Guys, the 17" laptop is dead. It's been five years. You need to let it go. You're not getting your old 15" MBP with all the ports either. They're not coming back. If you're holding out for these things, it's time to either compromise on a different Mac or change brands.
Apple isn't going to make these machines easier to repair either. Stop holding out for it. Stop bemoaning the issue. The people that repair and upgrade their own laptops are not a demographic Apple is worried about. You can make arguments that you're the "best" or "most loyal" or whatever customers. Apple has a feedback service, so if you want to complain that would be the place to do it.
I'm not personally thrilled by some of those changes, but there are reasons they have been made. Some of it has to do with style. Some of it has to with power. Some of it probably has to do with a forced upgrade cycle. Okay. Whatever. However, I read these comments and it seems like:
1. Some of you take Apple's business decisions personally.
2. You mistake yourself for a majority customer.
Apple isn't going to make these machines easier to repair either. Stop holding out for it. Stop bemoaning the issue. The people that repair and upgrade their own laptops are not a demographic Apple is worried about. You can make arguments that you're the "best" or "most loyal" or whatever customers. Apple has a feedback service, so if you want to complain that would be the place to do it.
I'm not personally thrilled by some of those changes, but there are reasons they have been made. Some of it has to do with style. Some of it has to with power. Some of it probably has to do with a forced upgrade cycle. Okay. Whatever. However, I read these comments and it seems like:
1. Some of you take Apple's business decisions personally.
2. You mistake yourself for a majority customer.
For a consumers, maybe. For pros, no. If you're mobile but need processing power, there needs to be something stronger in the lineup.
Mate. The MacBook Pro is a laptop.
2.5hrs battery life and not interested in portability. Perhaps you don't need a laptop.
Manuelrodrigues
macrumors member
YESS! That! Exactly THAT! Please!
Give me a big fat nvidia mxm 1080, 64 GB ram, desktop type processor, 2 fisical hd bays, a lot of io ports, a real network port (!)
mildmannered
macrumors newbie
How do Macs fit into the corporate environment? Do they have an equivalent of domains, user profiles and remote desktops, type of features?
My experience/knowledge of OSX is pretty limited, but have a perception that it is aimed towards a single user environment. Is this a market they have neglected?
For the record, I'm a Windows 7 guy. OSX leaves me cold, but think Macs are a thing of beauty 🙂
My experience/knowledge of OSX is pretty limited, but have a perception that it is aimed towards a single user environment. Is this a market they have neglected?
For the record, I'm a Windows 7 guy. OSX leaves me cold, but think Macs are a thing of beauty 🙂
Manuelrodrigues
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polbit
macrumors 6502a
Lol your definition of intense stuff must be typing code really furiously then!
GoodWheaties
macrumors 6502a
The 15" comes with 16GB RAM in all models. Storage, CPU, and GPU are the only things you can change.
Running emulators? Virtual machines? Building large projects? Running Xcode and Android Studio side by side with both emulators? Sounds like you don't know what's running on your computer if your fans are running at a high rate all the time.
Mr. Dee
macrumors 603
Every major company in the US likely has a design department using Macs. Design is not necessarily Photoshop and Illustrator, but AutoCAD, Maya and other high industrial apps. OS X can connect to a Windows Server Domain, but it has to be implemented from the IT side using third party tools. Group Policy also is dependent on third party tools.
So yes, it is still kind of single user nature if its used in a predominantly Windows centric environment.
They need all this time to get hold of enough 2 x 2 GB RAM modules and 128 GB SSDs for the base model configuration 🙄
so glad I didn't pickup the new Macbook. This is probably the one I've actually been waiting for. Seems like a relatively no compromise device.
ghost187
macrumors 6502a
I do like the stability of the new keyboard design, but the MacBook one is too shallow. If you use the mb air keyboard, it feels cheap in comparison. I have the retina macbook, but I want to upgrade if there is something substantially better that isn't much bulkier.
The rMBP keystrokes are a bit too shallow, but workable. The "Magic" keyboard is like smashing your fingertips against a sheet of glass. It is painful after a bit of time trying to type on it. It's more a torture instrument than a keyboard.
That's so 2012. Now they need the time to desolder all the ram chips from SODIMM modules to solder onto their logic boards.
Rain on Parade
macrumors member
If Steve Jobs were alive now he'd be screaming in his grave at this logic.
Yeah, it was capacitive touch. It's not new technology, it's old and proven to suck.
Are you imagining it on the screen just towards the bottom? Why not do a full touch screen then? Very much more useful.
Or I can just not move or raise or do anything and just hit f12 with my pinky and not even look down to see whether or not the volume icon is being displayed and where it is, since without tactile feedback or a shape of a button you have no idea where to press.
I highly doubt this will play out for Apple. They are smarter than that and they analyze the market. If they are going to do something like this, I'm sure they will do it in a way that makes most people happy. But I'll tell you right now, getting rid of the F keys for a capacitive LCD bar (or OLED, doesn't make a diff), will absolutely piss a horde of users off. And I don't mean the regular OMG, the CDROM is gone, I mean a vast majority. Because it's corny and a very cheap useless feature. Or at least that's how reviewers described it on other laptops.
There is even a keyboard that has a lot of keys that are capacitive and the main keys are not since typing on the ipad is not comfortable and kind of hurts your fingers after a while. AWESOME idea, doesn't sell. Looks cool, but in practice worthless hampering feature.
Who knows though... Apple has been surprising me a lot lately.
Yeah, I have to agree; Q4 is just way too late... My pooched-gpu mid-2012 non-retina is really on its last legs. I need a replacement asap, and there's no way I'm going to buy the current one, just to get through. And besides, by Q4 the skylake will be pretty much a year old, no?