This is a great head up! My workplace exclusively uses MS Suite, and I cannot tell you how much I despise MS outlook! MS Teams is probably the only useful application that I like.
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Apple Halted M2 Chip Production in January Amid 'Plummeting' Mac Sales
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Speaking from living in China. There all Apple products have a “luxury import fee” costing about 100 dollars more for an iPhone and more for computers. Seems price dependent. People sometimes buy from Hong Kong if they don’t want Apple Care because it’s cheaper and has full functionality without censored features
Nothing less than 4TB of storage and 32GB RAM IMO
Currently having 8TB and 64GB RAM
Hopefully MBP M3 2024 will come with 16TB and 128GB, I'm starting to feel a bit limited.
$999 is a price point that Apple always aims to place a product at (because it's 3 digits instead of 4). They'll cut corners to make it happen at the margins they want. That's why the base model ram/ssd config hasn't changed for years, and now they are now using a generation old SOC and a dated chassis.
Yes, upgrades have always been expensive, but it's worse now because they've been further optimized to funnel buyers upward. Walk in the door for a $999 MBA, add $200 for a current gen chip and modern design, $100 for the 10 core gpu, $200 for 16GB and $200 for 512GB and suddenly the $1999 14" MBP is looking like a good deal at double the price of what the buyer came in to pay.
If you can find a graph of the average selling price of macs not increasing, have at it, but I'm quite confident it has gone up. I swear they used to report this number (and it was increasing), but I'm having a lot of trouble finding it now. Average selling price is a far more relevant statistic than base price, which can be and is heavily gamed.
Tim Cook's Apple is hyper focused on extracting the most value from each individual customer, and does well at it. The profits speak for themselves.
the m2 is an enhanced m1. the m3 is expected to have much more significant changes to performance/battery/temperature. no thoughtful consumer would upgrade from m1 to m2, but an upgrade from m1 to m3 might actually be beneficial
I paid $3,200 for my latest Apple laptop and I'm still pissed that it cost so damn much. It's ridiculous, and the graphics card is still joky Smurf compared to PC discreet graphics cards. And the screens still smash into the keyboards getting oil all over it.
Hate: Apple can sell idiots on efficiency, but that doesn't mean anything when it comes to raw game performance much less 3D rendering.
Love: return of ports really confirm that patience is a virtue. I was heavily debating to buy a m1 because I was desperate for a new laptop but waiting really worked out for me.
Hate: pretty much all the websites are lying about the battery life for the 14-in Max. Unless you're only on the web, this thing will probably get 5 hours doing Photoshop/illustrator. Yet so many reviews claim you're going to get 10 hours out of this thing. Just lies.
Otherwise the laptop is a pleasure to use.
But I think the absolute worst part is that they have turn the MacBook pros into ipads. Buy it, use it, throw it out by another one.
The upgrade for ram prices is still the joke of the industry. They just don't do right by their customers and even though I'm a 20-year Mac user I won't dare buy anything else from them. I just don't like the way that they do business. And a fake tell you that all their choices is just to deliver the best product when it's really the skim every single dollar from you. They don't have to be so ruthlessly bastard like when it comes to prices, but they do. At what point for a company where so much money is too much? I just don't know. I buy my Max and they don't see me again for years.
Lately Apple has been trying to milk their customers for every dollar they can. With a downturn in the economy its going to bite Apple in the butt.
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My biggest concern with this is that the current CPU/GPU performance is way beyond what most people will need for many years. The upshot being Apple might feel the need to artificially shorten the support cycle of M series computers, to try and force users to upgrade more often.
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You work for Apple? They are apparently struggling a bit.
Lately?
Lol They are sham artists. They build products that can't be fixed so you can discard them and just buy a new one.
This shouldn't be surprising. People are holding onto their tech longer than they used to (especially amidst inflation and other economic trouble), and Apple Silicon just adds to that. I guess Apple could come up with new ways of making Macs obsolesce faster, but I'd rather they didn't.
No one needs? Thank you for speaking for everyone on the entire planet or was it just for yourself?
I mean they have done enough. Customers need to consider that the maintenance of their product is controlled by Apple and factor in repairs or subscribe to Apple Care which is usually not worth it. How much is a battery upgrade on a MacBook Air and Pro now?
That thermal paste will dry up in a few years too, I have just replaced mine after it wasn't working effectively and I needed to swap the battery out anyway which was a complete hassle to remove due to the adhesives Apple uses and having to remove the entire logic board to do the swap. It is now running normally and the fan doesn't roar into action on Safari or Finder.
Forget independent repair shops for newer Macs they have now been frozen out and cannot get the parts.
If you use cracked software, "you should get a better, higher paid job" (to use your words) to buy your software legally.
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This isnt accurate at all. Even listing the GPU means that you have no idea what you're talking about.
And please get rid of this most people stuff... "Most people.."doesn't actually mean anything. These products are used by individuals college students small businesses large businesses executives ETC. So who are most people?
What do most people actually need? A Pentium 5? A I5? I7? Absolutely meaningless.
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Little I've seen in the last 10 years has made me want to buy a new Mac, outside of absolute necessity. Apple has let the platform significantly lag behind all their other development efforts, and when they have addressed it, the results have largely been a series of unmitigated hardware disasters (trashcan Pro, butterfly MBP) or a pile of bloated garbage masquerading as software (pretty much all of MacOS Ventura). And you can get all of this disappointment for double the price of the next best thing. The Mac used to be the most reliable part of my workflow and now I swear at it at least 20 times a day. This is exactly how Windows used to work and I honestly cannot think of a worse description for an Apple product.
Are you really telling me that devices with 8Gb are running on green while dealing with 4K video?
This brings up another issue in regard to the costs of running things, software subscriptions are extortionate now.If you use cracked software, "you should get a better, higher paid job" (to use your words) to buy your software legally.
Get a better job? Wages have been stagnating for years. I know there has been a move from startups and businesses to hire people as freelancers and they have to supply their own equipment, software, assets etc themselves so businesses can wash their hands off of these expenditures. It also removes them from proper remuneration if the project succeeds.
Things are more complex now, you need a much higher starting and operating capital to compete with others. It’s not how it used to be when someone with a hope and a dream to start up a creative studio can just do it off of raw talent and hard work.
That will be updated to M3 eventually and will skip M2 due to conflicts with the M2 Mac Pro, they won’t be able to offer a four-die Extreme version of the M2 at the moment so are trying to differentiate the product line.
I do not believe those rumors for one second, they make absolutely no sense. But whatever chip the Studio gets next, that's what I'm waiting for.