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Apple Has Received More Online Orders for New MacBook Pro Than Any Previous Generation
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Ive checked and it seems hackintoshing notebooks is a bad idea because some connectivity won't work and suchSounds nice....
Can it be Hackintosh'ed?
I have an older Razer Blade laptop. Very well made and solid machine.
I checked it out on San Francisco store of Razer and liked it very much. I saw people playing pretty heavy games on it too in Ultra settings and it was handling it pretty good.
Wait - isn't the whole point of a laptop that it's portable? Carrying that extra box around just so I can download photos from an SD card in the field is hardly ideal. Plus, it's $150... plus tax. So we get a laptop without the ports we need, Apple increases their prices, AND we need to spend another $150 to lug around another box when Apple could have included these ports if they weren't so focused on making their tools pretty instead of functional? Not convinced.
Well that's a little extremist. Clearly if you were taking the laptop "in the field" you would bring along a single USB-C to SD card adapter. Looks like you can get them for under $10. I think the point of the "docking station" is that you can dock your machine when you're at your desk at home, not to lug the thing around with you wherever you go. And I'm sure you know that, too.
No, no, no.
Based on the (Apple-initiated) argument that "lifting your hands off the keyboard to touch a screen is unnatural", it is THE most valid of arguments. You're just parroting their marketing garbage and missing the point:
Apple is contradicting itself.
Whether or not the Mac OS is not optimized for touch is another argument entirely.
I believe the reason Apple has not done a touchscreen Mac is not because of "greasy fngers" or "unnatural hand position" bull-s.
It's because they'd rather sell you 2 devices instead of one for the same price (like Windows convertibles).
I venture to say it would take (relatively) very little effort for Apple to build a convertible laptop that runs macOS when in L-shape and runs iOS in tablet form.
The only OS integration required would be on the filesystem access, etc.
So it's not that it's impossible, it's that Apple refuses to.
It's a philosophical disagreement (the whole "combining a refrigerator and toaster" argument) with the concept.
I think this'll bite them in the long-term. The success of convertibles in the PC landscape attests to the majority of computer users' (not Mac users, mind you) expectations.
So much for consumers sending Apple a message, I guess the rank and file are eating this **** up.
I think the 2012 MBP will be my last mac, they couldn't even keep the glowing logo in this soulless garbage they are producing now.
I think the 2012 MBP will be my last mac, they couldn't even keep the glowing logo in this soulless garbage they are producing now.
Not to mention it is another bunch of things to keep track of. If you have an important job and want to grab your laptop, better make sure you have all the stupid dongles as well.
And guess what? I have needed VGA and DVI adapters for a long time now. I STILL need them for old projectors and monitors. I didn't stomp my feet and whine all day long when those ports were removed. Life is too damn short to freak out like people are doing here.
It is not about freaking out, it is about being unhappy with the direction of things. I don't think it would have killed Apple to have kept the SD card slot and one USB3 port to ease the transition. For a company about total integration you need a dongle for just about everything right now, and that simply is inconvenient. But I mean we got touchbar right, mind blowing innovation right there.
Although this might cause a riot... running a finger over the seams, seals, and screws of my neighbour's Razer Stealth... the fit and finish seems better than my 2015 MBP or 2013 Air...
I hear the anodised coating can chip though, if whacked.
For all these years I haven't seen any thread agree on the same things for this amount of time. Look at it we are page 37 and still talking about the same subjects. If I was working at Apple, I would definitely be worried.
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You can make the 2017 Keynote with those words...
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And other 90 minutes of filler (aka how cool we are
I'm sorry, but it's not a $500 price bump. If you wanted 256GB of storage on a MacBook Pro, it was $1500. It still is.
I am not surprised at all. It is pent up demand. Similar to what happened with the iPhone 6+. Don't forget that their MB"P" iSales had been in the iToilet for a while. I don't see this as a net win for Tim Cook(ed). This is a huge opportunity for other PC makers by simply creating a laptop and computers that outperform Apple and making sure they publicize the heck out of it. It is probably time to invest in M$ again.
The 13" rMBP:
Touch Bar and Touch ID
2.9GHz Processor
256GB Storage
$1799
I have an early 2015 rMBP that is a little over a year old with the same storage and memory. Since resale values are so low right now and the fact that I don't need it means I will be waiting...unless Best Buy has some killer Black Friday deal...
Any idea what mine is worth? It's in great condition and has AppleCare. It's never had any problems and has never been in for repair.
Touch Bar and Touch ID
2.9GHz Processor
256GB Storage
$1799
I have an early 2015 rMBP that is a little over a year old with the same storage and memory. Since resale values are so low right now and the fact that I don't need it means I will be waiting...unless Best Buy has some killer Black Friday deal...
Any idea what mine is worth? It's in great condition and has AppleCare. It's never had any problems and has never been in for repair.
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Sure, that's what I'd assume. But I'm just trying to understand what the best solution is to replace the now nonexistent ports and that was the product suggested to me.
So now, as you're suggesting, I should have a separate card reader too? Ok, it's not much money, but I already have one with the old USB connection and now I would need to buy a new one. It's more money, more stuff, when if Apple had just left an SD card and old USB port (alongside the USB-C), users could have purchased peripherals with USB-C when their old ones broke. Instead, we're expected to either buy new everything or buy a bunch of adapters/dongles.
It just seems to me a very, "**** you, we're doing what we want." attitude from Apple, and I can't see how that encourages customer loyalty.
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Not that I recall. They're under no obligation to do that. They don't even have to release unit sales info. Samsung, for example, doesn't release unit sales numbers for their mobile phones and Amazon doesn't report the number of Prime members.
Because of that, I wouldn't be surprised if those market share reports from the likes of IDC/ Gartner/ strategy analytics, etc. are way off the mark.
hey bud, stop thinking about yourself. should apple have included the CF slot and microSD slot I use frequently? NO.
look at the big picture, go eat some ice cream, and calm down.
And it wouldn't have killed Apple to keep VGA and DVI around. I need to use that FAR FAR FAR more than I need to use an SD card (never). Single use ports need to go away FAST. Now I need to get new adapters for USB-C because I had adapters from single-use ports instead. USB-C is universal. You can get an adapter if you need to use and SD card. Having these single-use ports are not a good thing anymore.