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How bad ARE the new MacBook pros selling? If they had planned this already, these lower peripheral prices would have been the starting point after the event. The only thing that makes sense is this is some kind of damage control...
Perhaps nobody is ordering the 27" because they won't get them before January?
 
Bringing the already expensive prices of a monitor does NOT help the poor design of the new MacBooks so called Pros...

There are so badly designed that you cannot connect your own iPhone or iPad...
[doublepost=1478307380][/doublepost]This is pure damage control for a poorly designed Macbook...

Fastest apple product growing category….Adaptors.

Discounting the price is a lame excuse for a bad MAcbook design.

So bad… you cannot connect your own iPhone-iPad…
It is so Pro that it is limited to 16gb Ram…??
 
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The new macbook Pro… is Pro-Adaptors...
 

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PRESENTING, THE APPLE ITUNES PHONE! PRESENTING THE APPLE LG DISPLAY. UGLY X 2,000,000,000,000,000...

WORST EXAMPLE OF CRAP DESIGN I EVER DID SEE.

WHY WOULD APPLE DESTROY ITS REPUTATION LIKE THIS?????


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The new macbook Pro… is Pro-Adaptors...
Dongle world. Functional, but not pretty.

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It would have been LG anyway, even if it had an aluminum enclosure and an Apple logos on it. I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not.
Not sarcastic. Terrible experience with LG monitors. Not touching them again if I can.
 
I love how they drop the price on the 27" and now it is not available for preorder.
 
Why Apple will partner with LG? At least if you are going to partner, and put the Apple brand name, do a better monitor design.

It looks ugly
[doublepost=1478308353][/doublepost]It is very sad how Apple left all the Pro to the side and only cares about making middle pack consumer product at an overpriced value.
 
I'm excited and happy about the price drop, but being an Apple person, I don't usually buy things in such an ugly enclosure. What to do?
Buy a broken Thunderbolt Display on eBay and put the 5K LG monitor in the aluminum case.
 
LG sure knows how to put the 'GL' in Ugly with this monitor.
Actually I've heard from a guy working for the European Commission who had some inside info on LG that those letters were originally supposed to mean "Looks Good". Quite an irony :)
 
I did a search and saw the latest Intel roadmap leak shows Coffee Lake running 6-core 14nm in laptops around early 2018. What would be more interesting to me is quad-core in a TDP that the 13" MBP could handle, but that doesn't look to be in the cards for some time. However, the 10nm Cannon Lake chips could be pretty interesting in the MacBook and 13" MBP on the lower end. I'd love to have a machine that is comparable in speed to current MBPs in a 13" form factor to accompany a much more powerful six-core 27" iMac.

If people don't absolutely need to upgrade their older machines, such as to get 4K and 5K external displays and a small CPU performance bump, then it might be worth waiting for those 6-core systems. Surely by then they'll have 32GB RAM options and widespread USB-C adoption so we can stop complaining. Either that or Apple will start building their own CPUs for the Mac. Either way it could be worth the wait for those who aren't wowed by this update. They'll probably build-in that customizable keyboard key tech by then too.
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Really sad that Dell is considered "next-gen design" now. Many of their monitors have looked like that for years now.
Do you realize how much Apple will be charging for six cores? $6,000
 
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The sizes are quite small for such high resolutions. I am concerned about the very small fonts.
 
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