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Apple Invites Media to 'Hello Again' October 27th Mac-Centric Event

flyinmac said:
October 27... Tim comes out on stage. I'm sorry everyone. Our calendars were flipped to the wrong page. We thought this was April 1st. We apologize for the inconvenience. As a thank you for your attendance, please pick up a free watch band as you leave the building.
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Now now, Apple would have something in store.

2 hours of watch band mania! There are butterfly clasp bands, flip clasp bands, security clasp bands, buckle bands, large buckle bands, metal band clasp bands. These are available in classic leather straps, contrast stitching straps, double ridge straps, Rally straps, NATO straps, Zulu straps, link straps, link strap type Oyster straps, link strap type President straps, link strap type Jubilee straps, link strap type Engineer straps, Aviator (pilot) straps, Bund straps, Tropic / Rubber straps, Shark Mesh straps, milanese straps, perlon straps, waffle straps, NASA straps, Panerai-style strap.

How can anyone NOT want to sit in an Apple event that talks about nothing but these watch bands!
 
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My review (from what is known)

Pros
Better battery life
Thinner

Cons
No MagSafe
No SD reader
Expensive

Expected
Latest processor architecture

Gimmicks
OLED touchpanel
Touch ID
 
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I will be unpleasantly surprised if the display has a built in GPU (except for the fact that it means Apple will be supporting external GPUs, which is a huge high point of TB3).
 
Here's hoping against hope that the "non-toy" base iMac will come with SSD and the days of spinning hard drives are over.
(The base 1.6 GHz dual core iMac is a toy IMO)
 
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Eddy Munn said:
I remember watching the keynote in October 2008 for the Unibody MacBook Pro. That was my first Mac!
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Codeseven said:
... and I'm 'still' using it!
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I'm still using mine, and it's still awesome (less the battery, which sucks, and the screen). All these people who keep writing things like "time to replace my 2012 laptop!" make me worried: will any replacement ever be the stable workhorse that matches this one? Am I about to spend $1600 to downgrade?
 
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Hello again... Hmm...

You know, Scott Forstall's departure was announced on the 29th of October 2012, if I'm correct. This event is taking place on the 27th of October, nearly four years later... Call me crazy, but could it be......
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I can finally retire (sell) my Mid 2010 MBP. I upgraded the memory to the max 8 GB and put a 500GB SSD in it to keep it going this long. However, it is fustrating that with every OS update I miss out on features. Plus, with all the Photoshopping that I do, it is begining to lag...BAD.

My hope now is that the 500GB storage option is not an extra $200 like with the current line up!
 
62tele said:
Here's hoping against hope that the "non-toy" base iMac will come with SSD and the days of spinning hard drives are over.
(The base 1.6 GHz dual core iMac is a toy IMO)
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As an IT person who has to image machines yearly, yes please!
 
vertical smile said:
My point is, you can't always trust those hardware tests. I had other bad HDDs pass the Disk First Aid tests on my other Macs too.
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I see your point. Actually I don't believe the test. I'm pretty sure there is something wrong with it... but if there's a new iMac coming next Thursday I'll update. If not... well, I don't know what I'll do since I'm not too eager to waste money servicing this machine (I've had problems with the RAM already and it's showing its age now)
 
I wonder how the new Macbook Air would look like.. I hope they would make it into a tablet so that the "Air" moniker justifies its thinness..

I mean MacOS has App Launcher that is clearly designed to be used with finger, rather than tiny mouse..

My another wish list would be OLED display, Oled Apple Logo, 360 degree swivel display.. But I can dream all day right? lol
 
echo1877 said:
I seriously doubt we will see an in-house SOC-based Mac this time around, simply because transitioning macOS to ARM is a huge undertaking and would require significant prep work with developers.

Having said that I am fairly confident that this is where it's headed. Macs running on Apple ARM-based CPUs and GPUs. The performance is already there, just look at iPhone 7 and iPad Pro CPU and GPU benchmarks! Those chips have a TDP of 5W or so -- imagine what they can do with 25 or 35W TDP which is what they've traditionally had in MacBook Pros.

It makes perfect sense, especially given the brick wall Intel seems to have hit with their architecture.

But not next week. MAYBE in 2017.
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So basically "not now it would take a lot longer" and then you write...next year. You don't think Apple may be a year ahead in your thinking and can really change things this time and that maybe the entire reason it took this long to update macs is basically this is the most significant update we have seen in a long time?
 
keysofanxiety said:
I'm not sure if you've already done this, but from the age of the machine alone, the HDD may be failing. Even if it's fine, the latest iterations of OS X don't run well on spinning drives.

Have you considered swapping out the HDD with an SSD? Honestly, it will make the world of difference. :)
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It's the reason my 2008 pre-unibody MBP is still going strong. The SSD made a world of difference. I'm planning on getting a new 15" to replace this one now that it's been 8.5 years. It's going to be hard to retire the old one. Have had it 1/3 of my life lol, and it was my first and only laptop.
 
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MICHAELSD said:
Leaks as far as images of the chassises of these devices are concerned. The MacBook Pro and Air could use some radical new innovations. I'm led to believe there's a lot to come.
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Okay can you elaborate on what you think might be coming?
 
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