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Apple Planning USB-C iMac and Faster Notebooks in 2017, Mac Pro and Touch Bar Magic Keyboard in Question
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Except that the dongle won't be free.
We have to wait another 100 years before they tell us that's it over.
"free dongle"? LOL We're talking about Apple here
It is truly a shame to see the Mac and MacOS languishing to the point of irrelevance due to Cook's management. There's still "something" special there (in macOS) which makes it better than the rest, and its disappointing that no one at Apple seems to care enough about it.
PS>> I'm sick of hearing Cook talk about what's in the pipeline. Hes been doing it for 2 years now. I've even given up on watching those keynotes, because almost everything leaks months before anyway.
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It may not qualify as a "radical redesign", but I find it hard to believe they'll add USB-C/Thunderbolt 3 to the iMac without changing the case design a bit. Perhaps it's just a slight reduction of the bezels and chin (which I'd be happy with) and the changes aren't noticeable enough to be considered a major redesign in the supply chain.
Regardless. As soon as there is a USB-C/Thunderbolt 3 5K iMac, take my $2 grand.
[Side note: It is a major problem for a company if there are consistently people willing to fork over >$1,000 to you at any given time and you can't come out with a product to capture that revenue.]
Regardless. As soon as there is a USB-C/Thunderbolt 3 5K iMac, take my $2 grand.
[Side note: It is a major problem for a company if there are consistently people willing to fork over >$1,000 to you at any given time and you can't come out with a product to capture that revenue.]
Bryan - I understand your sentiment but not sure I see any organizational catalyst for Cook to change. The Board of Directors appears uninvolved in any meaningful way and Timmy keeps blabbering on about great things in that totally constipated pipeline - nothing changes. Cook has created the Apple Black Hole - huge resources go in and very little comes out.
Microsoft is constraint by the same processors.
That didn't stop it from release innovative products in its Surface line.
I know a lot of folks on here have been saying the same, but it's hard to look at it any other way. It just seems they're being purely business focussed - the iPhone / iPad has better margins and ships in higher volumes, so why waste time on the Mac? It sucks for those who have invested into the Mac desktop ecosystem and are now being left hanging
Really hope they release some killer new desktops in 2017.
In the long run, diversification works best (i.e. they should be spending more effort on their other products). Like most companies, Apple is looking to maximize profits now at the expense of later.
Given the track record of Apple and how much better MacOS AMD drivers have been than Nvidia, I really hope you don't get your wish.
I find it funny that you mention this as it's what finally broke the camels back for me with windows 10. my gaming tower would randomly turn itself back on.
It's kind of pathetic that Apple does not understand the consumers and prosumers see that they have dramatically reduced the amount of people who work on and develop mac hardware.
It's as if they only have one team, and they are only concerned with reduction of size and don't care about power and allowing owners to add ram and otherwise do basic upgrades which is normal to virtually any other computer line.
We want yearly updates to each line and not have Apple pretend like they are selling current technology. They are not.
It's as if they only have one team, and they are only concerned with reduction of size and don't care about power and allowing owners to add ram and otherwise do basic upgrades which is normal to virtually any other computer line.
We want yearly updates to each line and not have Apple pretend like they are selling current technology. They are not.
I could not care less if the Mac Pro is made in the US.
Apple ceased being an American company years ago. It's a multinational. Multinationals only have allegiance to the bottom line.
Wherever the Mac Pro can be produces with the best quality at the cheapest price is where I want to buy it form.
While my notebooks have been Macs for well over a decade now, I can't bring myself to buy an iMac - the displays are gorgeous, but it's weird to pay such a premium for last year's hardware, with a mobile video card, no upgradability whatsoever (unless you buy the top of the line model, and that only gets you accessible RAM slots), etc.
I guess I keep hoping for the impossible: to build my own and be able to install OSX on it legally and without fuss, like we have to do it with hackintosh builds.
I guess I keep hoping for the impossible: to build my own and be able to install OSX on it legally and without fuss, like we have to do it with hackintosh builds.
To answer the question.
This is the lineup going forward. This is what they refer to as the mac line up from the apple site. Mac mini gone, Mac Pro gone.
This is the lineup going forward. This is what they refer to as the mac line up from the apple site. Mac mini gone, Mac Pro gone.
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"Modest updates"...
And people wonder why some have a hard time believing Cook's line of "having great products in the pipeline" nonsense
And people wonder why some have a hard time believing Cook's line of "having great products in the pipeline" nonsense
Steve Jobs describing what's wrong with Apple today
It might of been said but instead of "new" graphics from AMD, how about installing great graphics from nVidia?
Those two jobs are not even closely related and a clean room suit is not necessary for the position you are thinking of.
https://www.bls.gov/ooh/production/assemblers-and-fabricators.htm
For one, given the choice more people would probably choose an assembly/fab job than a retail job almost all of the time. Second the American workforce (as evidenced by this election cycle) is too focused on backwards employment in industries that are low-tech which is partly because of the low math and science education levels of the average American workforce. Third, because the Asia/Pacific region has been investing in both infrastructure and manpower for decades to support technology jobs they have far more people not only familiar with the work but have the opportunity to jump straight into it directly after graduating high school.
I really don't get what's the problem with releasing a tower-based Mac Pro, like in the old days. Investment would be almost zero compared to any other Mac model, because you'd use a lot of COTS parts and would need very little custom design investment. You wouldn't harm iMac nor MacBook sales. Nearly zero investment for keeping the pros onboard, and they won't do it. Nonsense.
Apple designed S1 to be cheap. It's a simple ARM processor that can cost under 10 USD to make. It will run it's own OS. And putting touchID to the Ultra Magic Touch Keyboard it is not a challenge at all.
Apple will sell it for 199 USD.
I do not know what more innovation people want minus a touch screen laptop. In the iMac space your right MSFT was highly innovative.
So I think this also goes to the schools of thought MSFT is all about slobbering over the screen even when the UI does not really support it. Apple is about classic interfacing at the cost of creative solutions like the surface studio.
I think neither is right 100%. I think the surface studio is amazing and if apple had made it I do not think it would wobble so badly. I also think they need to allow apps to have touch screen access to the iMac. We can bicker on if you think the laptop should or should not have a touch screen. I think we can all agree the surface studio is amazing. I think the new iMac needs to leap frog it with a better hinge and beefer internals and let me use the Apple Pencil 2.0 to interface with the screen and just kill the Wacom guys right off.
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I would say none of the above. Ballmer mucked about screwing up product lines for zero reason. Tim is just not updating as fast not actively running things. Scully helmed a sinking ship.
I would equate this to more like a car company like Nissan. They were hot to trot in the early 2000's then by failing to keep pace with design they have fallen out of favor but still make loads of cash.