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Apple Announces 12-Inch Retina MacBook With Revamped Trackpad, Starting at $1,299
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No, you're looking down because you're trying to locate a ridiculously expensive adapter to attach to your revolutionary piece of awesomeness.
i was curious why extra ports are a deal breaker for people?
ive had my macbook air for 5 years and use it for work as well as i am a software developer.
i have never used any of the ports except for headphone jack.
Thus as this is a 'portable' machine, the removal of ports makes sense to me.
ive had my macbook air for 5 years and use it for work as well as i am a software developer.
i have never used any of the ports except for headphone jack.
Thus as this is a 'portable' machine, the removal of ports makes sense to me.
Looks amazing. But the gold MacBook should have had white bezels. And the pricing is crazy 
You clearly pay for design and not the hardware.
Anyway... Seems Im getting a new MacBook in April... Now if only they'd make a gold iMac
You clearly pay for design and not the hardware.Anyway... Seems Im getting a new MacBook in April... Now if only they'd make a gold iMac
The Dell xps13 which has been all the rage is considerably larger and heavier than this. This is a 2lb laptop! The Surface Pro 3 is 2.4lbs with its type cover!
LOL I guess it is a figment of my imagination that I am currently running Chrome with 8 tabs, MS Word, Excel, Mail, iTunes, using Duet to make my iPad a second monitor, iMessage, calendar and pdf editor and am comfortably in the green on memory pressure with a measly 4GB of ram.
I cannot understand how people still think you need 8Gb of ram minimum on a Mac.
The tradeoffs on this are okay, but certainly not great. Pricing is more or less a wash (an 11" air with the same RAM and SSD is $100 less, a 13" air with the same specs is the same price, and a 13" rMBP with the same specs is $200 more). Battery life is also pretty much in the same ballpark for all of these machines (the 13" Air is the best overall, but all are close and all are good).
So the meaningful difference is that this gives up a significant amount of power and ports in exchange for being smaller and lighter. But with the existing products already being very thin and light (2.38 lbs for the 11" Air, 2.96 lbs for the 13" Air, 3.48 lbs for the 13" rMBP), I see it as the worst value for your dollar in Apple's lineup.
So the meaningful difference is that this gives up a significant amount of power and ports in exchange for being smaller and lighter. But with the existing products already being very thin and light (2.38 lbs for the 11" Air, 2.96 lbs for the 13" Air, 3.48 lbs for the 13" rMBP), I see it as the worst value for your dollar in Apple's lineup.
Thank you - a really useful link. I'm reassured that it suggests that there is no need to worry about the built-in GPU. We all know that pretty much any new core based CPU will handle any reasonable workload without breaking a sweat, but the massive increase in pixels had me worried. It won't be a gaming powerhouse, or handle 4k editing well, but thats not what its for.
What has me hopeful is the resurrection of the Macbook name. I can't overstate how much I love my maxed out 11" 2013 MBA. I don't use it a great deal, but if I want to take something with me, it's always the one I choose and it's been perfect, even handling some low-res Portal 2 and 1080p60 video editing when travelling. That machine, with the new screen and even more battery life would be absolutely perfect.
This looks like the first iteration of what might end up being a great line of MacBooks. But hopefully nobody on this forum will be daft enough to buy one unless they absolutely have to - the first iteration of new Apple kit has always been a bit patchy. Rev. 2 is where things start to really get interesting for people who actually want to use this stuff.
My bet is the next revision will fix the inevitable teething problems with the trackpad, fix the speed issue and bundle a dongle somewhere for an extra USB port at the very least.
My main complaint is that Apple's naming scheme has gone totally off kilter. The new MacBook is in reality the new MacBook Air (heck - the compromises it's making bear a striking resemblance to the ones made in the very first Air!) and the MacBook Air is the new MacBook - a cheap entry into the portable Apple world. I guess there's not much in a name.
I wouldn't mind losing the whole MacBook moniker entirely - it's a clunky portmanteau that has never been as nice a name as the PowerBook line it replaced.
My bet is the next revision will fix the inevitable teething problems with the trackpad, fix the speed issue and bundle a dongle somewhere for an extra USB port at the very least.
My main complaint is that Apple's naming scheme has gone totally off kilter. The new MacBook is in reality the new MacBook Air (heck - the compromises it's making bear a striking resemblance to the ones made in the very first Air!) and the MacBook Air is the new MacBook - a cheap entry into the portable Apple world. I guess there's not much in a name.
I wouldn't mind losing the whole MacBook moniker entirely - it's a clunky portmanteau that has never been as nice a name as the PowerBook line it replaced.
This is only the beginning, Should be a plethora of quality and cheap 3rd party options all over the place before this machine even ships on the 10th of April
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I'm sorry to say, the Dell XPS13 is looking better and better at $800 with more ports, nicer screen, better graphic power, faster CPU and comparable battery life.
It's not OSX but Windows 10 is looking pretty good. I'd have to think a lot of people would be willing to give this a try. Only ONE PORT is a total freakin' joke.
It's not OSX but Windows 10 is looking pretty good. I'd have to think a lot of people would be willing to give this a try. Only ONE PORT is a total freakin' joke.
What is the scenario where 1lbs and 0.16 inches matters?
How are either the MacBook Air or Pro not already extremely portable?
When I saw the soap bubble on the screen I was sure a hand would pop up and pop it... Touch screen... But no :-(
Actually there's no Ethernet accessory, just VGA, USB and HDMI in different combinations. You will be forced to use Wifi only until a third party releases the Ethernet adaptor
First I have a hard time believing this is going to happen with any kind of regularity.
More importantly, there are almost innumerable FREE applications that take the place of USB drives. I have more than 100 GB of free cloud storage. I keep all of my data there. I can access it from my phone, my computer, your computer, your phone, literally anywhere I want to. So if I had this computer I wouldn't have a USB drive...and I wouldn't have this problem.
The people who will buy this computer have either figured out how to move their data to the cloud or just don't us USB ports in general. How is that so unbelievable?
I have a Surface Pro 3 and an iPad Air. Have you ever held these two devices? The difference between them is about the same (a bit less than 1lb in fact), but the Surface feels like an absolute brick in comparison.
Agreed. I wouldn't want 4GB, but 8GB is plenty for anything outside massive number crunching. OS X uses all the memory it can get. Just with loads of tabs in Safari, Mail and iTunes running, my 15" MBP often uses all 16GB, but that's mainly cache etc and I never notice it slowing down.
Huh?
I was expressing my shock at how bad I feel this device is.
That was my opinion.
You're free to have your own opinion, but no need to disregard my opinion.
