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Apple Announces 12-Inch Retina MacBook With Revamped Trackpad, Starting at $1,299

Anyone who is amazed by this is clearly drinking the kool-aid. (and I love most Apple products)

Let's review:
- a single port for all purposes

Say you're at an airport, and your battery is nearly dead. A client wants you to email them some large files that are on a USB thumb drive in your pocket, and they need it fast. Now you have to plug it in and charge it, waiting to get up to maybe 10-15%, and then unplug the charger and plug in the USB drive.

This is just silliness. I hope this model flops.
 
Shocked that there is no fingerprint sensor. Mostly like this device, but will wait to see what the iPad Pro thing is all about. It is easier for me to get around on osx than on iOS, but we will see.
 
Why go with USB-C rather than a Thunderbolt port? Presumably you'll have to carry an adapter or a portable use hub all the time to connect it to anything. And why no SIM card slot? You'll still have to carry a portable wifi device to get online.
 
Hello everyone,

Do you know whether the new MacBook should support 2 external screens ?

I'm not sure i understand right, but it has just ONE USB C port, then answer is automatically no ? ..

I'm so disappointed that the new refreshed entry level MBP retina still has 128GB HDD in 2015, sounds like a joke.. But it seems that someone taking the new MB loses a lot of functionality, besides smaller 12" screen.
 
CaptSaltyJack said:
Anyone who is amazed by this is clearly drinking the kool-aid. (and I love most Apple products)

Let's review:
- a single port for all purposes

Say you're at an airport, and your battery is nearly dead. A client wants you to email them some large files that are on a USB thumb drive in your pocket, and they need it fast. Now you have to plug it in and charge it, waiting to get up to maybe 10-15%, and then unplug the charger and plug in the USB drive.

This is just silliness.
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Totally agree. It's limited for sure. ...and things like that DO happen. I had something like that happen this past weekend for example. And what happens if your adapter isn't around? ouch.

I hope this model flops.
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Sadly, it won't. It'll sell like crazy because of the colors and design (Yes, I'm serious)
 
SlCKB0Y said:
Really? Name another designer or engineer who has more power at Apple than him. He IS Apple design.

He now has design control over both hardware and software UI at Apple.
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He is head of design, but that doesn't mean he's responsible for the actual hardware choices. That's Dan Riccio's arena.

Even still. Why the hate? If you're someone who needs a lot of ports, then you're not the target audience for this ultraportable notebook. A huge portion of users will never use the ports on their existing notebooks, so there is going to be huge market for this too.
 
SuperNova2150 said:
What? The base model that has a 1.4GHz weaker CPU that costs $200 MORE than my Mac mini with the same storage and RAM? WTF!

May be going the Hackintosh route.
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LOL. This actually made me laugh. Apples and Oranges buddy. Actually if you add your Hackintosh to that, its Apples, Oranges, and a can of Spam.
 
CaptSaltyJack said:
Anyone who is amazed by this is clearly drinking the kool-aid. (and I love most Apple products)

Let's review:
- a single port for all purposes

Say you're at an airport, and your battery is nearly dead. A client wants you to email them some large files that are on a USB thumb drive in your pocket, and they need it fast. Now you have to plug it in and charge it, waiting to get up to maybe 10-15%, and then unplug the charger and plug in the USB drive.

This is just silliness. I hope this model flops.
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http://store.apple.com/us/product/MJ1K2AM/A/usb-c-digital-av-multiport-adapter

This adapter allows you to charge and hook up USB at the same time (AND hook up a monitor). I'm assuming there will be many more similar adapters in the coming months that are smaller/cheaper. Granted its annoying to carry an adapter with you all the time but I dont think thats so horrible that i hope it flops.
 
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CaptSaltyJack said:
Anyone who is amazed by this is clearly drinking the kool-aid. (and I love most Apple products)

Let's review:
- a single port for all purposes

Say you're at an airport, and your battery is nearly dead. A client wants you to email them some large files that are on a USB thumb drive in your pocket, and they need it fast. Now you have to plug it in and charge it, waiting to get up to maybe 10-15%, and then unplug the charger and plug in the USB drive.

This is just silliness. I hope this model flops.
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If you are in a job that is likely to ever put you in this (extremely unlikely) situation, I don't think it'd be much of a stretch to think you'd have the 1oz. adapter in your bag that would allow you to do your job. :rolleyes:

This kind of what-if scenario is why so many laptops still have vga ports on them.
 
Swing and Miss! MacBook air 13" retina with faster processor is the big Money cow. Get it out asap.
 
Omg what is this? Is this supposed to be some sort of joke?

Only one USB-C port? ...
No fan? What the heck. Say goodbye to running any games methinks.
SD Card? Nope, I didn't need it anyways, right? (Correct me if I'm wrong on this one)
Okay, now the battery life... WHAT ARE YOU THINKING? You don't downgrade battery life just to make the device thinner.

Okay, say goodbye to haptic feedback.

You guys, don't even quote me. To each his own.
I won't be buying it obviously.
 
this is a homerun for me ! time to upgrade my macbook air 11' (late 2010). It should be 2x faster. :D

Shut_up_and_take_my_money.jpg
 
joeblow7777 said:
So many people are expressing shock and dismay at the loss of the magsafe power connector, and it is really cool and all, but somehow millions and millions of PC users manage to NOT trip over their power cords every day. :rolleyes:

I don't think that this was ever as big a problem as Apple led people to believe it was.
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I agree, As nice as magsafe is, it's mostly marketing in my opinion. That being said,I hope the new power adapter is at least as strong as conventional laptop adapters.
 
What's incredible is that it looks exactly as the mockup posted a good while ago.

www.todaysiphone.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Martin-Hajek-Retina-MacBook-AIr-mockup-2015.jpg

The design is incredible! The bezels are a bit too thick (just look at DELL XPS 13 2015), but otherwise incredible.

USB Type-C is fantastic! Really glad Apple is pushing it, hopefully the next refresh of their other machines will use this port as well. And maybe even the next i devices will too. But, there should've been more of those ports.

Touchpad looks very innovative.

Motherboard is an engineering marvel. And fanless!
 
CaptSaltyJack said:
Anyone who is amazed by this is clearly drinking the kool-aid. (and I love most Apple products)

Let's review:
- a single port for all purposes

Say you're at an airport, and your battery is nearly dead. A client wants you to email them some large files that are on a USB thumb drive in your pocket, and they need it fast. Now you have to plug it in and charge it, waiting to get up to maybe 10-15%, and then unplug the charger and plug in the USB drive.

This is just silliness. I hope this model flops.
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Hmm, it's not that bad. I bet you can charge it for 2-4 minutes (prob get 10+ minutes life), turn it on, unplug the charger, plug in the USB and you're good.

Plus, the instances where this "situation" will happen are rare.
 
All they had to do was add retina, reduce the screen bezel, and add the new keyboard, trackpad. Pretty sure 99% of us would've been happy with just that. Instead we get a severely underpowered and port-less (useless) computer.
 
CaptSaltyJack said:
Anyone who is amazed by this is clearly drinking the kool-aid. (and I love most Apple products)

Let's review:
- a single port for all purposes

Say you're at an airport, and your battery is nearly dead. A client wants you to email them some large files that are on a USB thumb drive in your pocket, and they need it fast. Now you have to plug it in and charge it, waiting to get up to maybe 10-15%, and then unplug the charger and plug in the USB drive.

This is just silliness. I hope this model flops.
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We are still ways away from being completely wireless but this is a single step.

If you dont see all laptops being wireless in 5-10 years, you are the one on kool-aid.
 
Meh... seriously, what am I supposed to do daisy chain 3 $79 adapters to connect multiple displays?

Waiting for the 14" Retina MBA.... with two mini-display ports and 2 USB-C ports....
 
CaptSaltyJack said:
Anyone who is amazed by this is clearly drinking the kool-aid. (and I love most Apple products)

Let's review:
- a single port for all purposes

Say you're at an airport, and your battery is nearly dead. A client wants you to email them some large files that are on a USB thumb drive in your pocket, and they need it fast. Now you have to plug it in and charge it, waiting to get up to maybe 10-15%, and then unplug the charger and plug in the USB drive.

This is just silliness. I hope this model flops.
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I have another argument.

Imagine that your son was kidnapped. The kidnappers say: "You'll only have you son back if you can plug in your computer one USB and one charger at same time".

Well, now you can't. And you lost your son. Forever.
 
OK. I'll bite.

RadiDoc said:
An expensive netbook...
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I'd like to hear which netbook you've been using and how it compares in terms of:

  • weight
    ability to run programs like Sketch if/when needed
    trackpad
    keyboard design
    OS support
    build quality
    environmentally aware design
    display (!!)
 
powertoold said:
Only vibrate. It's basically a vibrating iPhone screen with pressure sensor.
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Interesting. I'm not sure how I'd like that or the new narrower keyboard. I like Apple's bluetooth keyboard because it has some depth to the key presses.
 
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