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Apple to Announce New MacBook, MacBook Pro, and Possibly MacBook Air at WWDC
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I'll buy one of the new MacBook Pros if (in order of importance):
If not, I'll hang onto my 15" rMBP from 2013 for a few more years. The thing still flies.
- they offer a model without the TouchBar and with traditional F-keys + Touch ID.
- they offer a model in a black finish (ala the iPhone 7)
- they drop the price $500 per model
If not, I'll hang onto my 15" rMBP from 2013 for a few more years. The thing still flies.
And way better. I don't understand why people love the crappy air. Worst Mac I ever owned, and I've owned dozens.
Who cares, the Macbook Pro lost its pro-ness when Apple decided to stick a toy keyboard to it. My Surface Pro 3 keyboard is more pro than the MBP keyboard. Apple has chosen form over function in the worst ways possible recently for the sake of "innovation" and to please its shareholder. The days of Apple producing the best hardware seem to be coming to an end, it's not a big problem for someone like me who is OS agnostic, but I'd be pretty pissed if I were a loyal Mac user.
When Jony Ive was given too much influence to run Apple like a minimalism design contest.
If you are a software developer for the OS X platform, for example, you could utilize new features (i.e. touchbar) for demo purposes. Fair enough?
Smart move. And anyone else who bought one earlier should try to sell theirs on ebay or craigslist or wherever now, before the rest of world realizes the late 2016 MacBook pro was the ''Edsel' of this Apple era.
I remember seeing the article here a while back about rumors of a new XEON iMac possibly in the works.
Seems like DELL now has that new iMac-killer in their Precision 5720 . Looks like a spectacular system with XEON Quad CORE CPU, 8GB AMD Video, 64GB RAM and room for 3 drives. PLUS, a 4K screen (both touch, or not-touch). All upgradable, including the CPU. Just slide off the back.
I won't mention the 10-speaker built-in audio. Then there is the new Dell Canvas. It all just melts my wallet.
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Sadly, these days I think the best thing would be if they just left Macs alone. Particularly the MacBook. It would be very disappointing if they mutilated it with that darn touch bar or flaky USB-C/Thunderbolt 3 port. Its the only reasonably modern, solid and reliable Mac in the range right now. And even though iMacs and of course the Mini are in need of upgrades, recent history indicates that "updates" might be worse than ageing hardware specs.
Waited and waited for the last years new MBP's and was horrified when I saw them for a variety of reasons.
I rushed out and bought the last ever high spec out of date earlier version as fast as I could.
It has magsafe.
It has a slot I can put my camera card in.
It has USB ports and thunderbolt and HTMI
I can plug it into things.
It seems pretty fast (I do 3D rendering for a living) and among all the computers of all the people I've met and worked with, the only new spec Macbook pro I've seen belonged to a guy who is currently trying to get the company I'm currently freelancing for to make all us freelancers install Sophos on all our macs without our being able to control the password or what damage it might do.
It short, the guy with the touchable macbook pro is not a white hat.
I rushed out and bought the last ever high spec out of date earlier version as fast as I could.
It has magsafe.
It has a slot I can put my camera card in.
It has USB ports and thunderbolt and HTMI
I can plug it into things.
It seems pretty fast (I do 3D rendering for a living) and among all the computers of all the people I've met and worked with, the only new spec Macbook pro I've seen belonged to a guy who is currently trying to get the company I'm currently freelancing for to make all us freelancers install Sophos on all our macs without our being able to control the password or what damage it might do.
It short, the guy with the touchable macbook pro is not a white hat.
screw macs and the stupid iPad. Forget the iphone for that matter. I want more watch bands!
Good move. I bought two of the 2015 models for the same basic reasons (and the ability to easily upgrade the SSD)
Oh yea, and they were brand new $350 off msp at best buy for a while there too, so I got two of them for almost the same price of a single 2016 model.
So while those suckers who bought the late 2016 mbp were dicking around with the touch bar, trying to figure out how it was worth the uptick in price, I was actually getting work done, and so was my daughter (who got the other 2015 MBP)
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Got mine brand new on Ebay as there were none left at all in the UK of the top spec graphics cards anywhere by two days after the new ones came out.
It has a US Keyboard, which I've adapted to, and it was UK 1900K which is pretty good for the top spec old style version (and about half the price of the equivalent new style version)
And the apple lights up!!
I'm just retro!
I was talking Revenue, This has nothing to do with costs / profit.
Apple claimed this quarter that their Mac lineup hit a record for Mac revenues.
HOwever, when looked at the estimated volume of Mac sales over the year, they were not significantly up. This meant that the bulk of revenue growth Apple experienced in Mac sales was due to increase in prices across the Mac lineup, in Addition to roughly 30% price increase on most international markets.
But yes, With the increased revenues from higher prices, coupled with decreased cost due to economies of scale and being generally older in technology, Apple's margins on their Mac lineup was good.
Yes.
I couldn't see what the touch bar was supposed to do, as it wouldn't support any of the software I use, and I need my mac to earn a living.
It's not a toy, it has to work.
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Well yes, they jacked the prices up hugely for no significant gain to the punter.
I cannot imagine the sales have been that impressive,
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What does the touch bar actually do?
They got 1 letter wrong:
Apple will release a macbook arm, not air
Would be nice though: a " low price" macbook with an arm soc instead of x-86, apple' s chromebook!
Arm isn't what's going to get you a "low price" macbook. You can already see what Apple envisions an Arm based computer to look like with the Mac Book Pro. Apple has hedged a lot of money that the iPad Pro is a suitable replacement for OSx on ARM. I think they're wrong, and so does the market (Tablet sales have been decreasing for everyone, including Apple, the Pro had no bearing on this)
The price isn't high because of the CPU tech right now. There are viable M3/M5 based PC's for < $1000, many of which also offer some additional features like touch screens, 2-in-1s or "yoga" style flips.
Much of the price of the MacBook is Margin, and Apple does make great quality devices.
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Don't have the exact number off the top of my head, but it's estimated that Apple did increase sales a bit this year (~100k units). overall, no changes really happened to their market share either. considering the overall shrinkage of the computer market overall, apple is still amongst 2/3 other vendors who are managing to remain growing.
So overall a decent year. Not a record year for volume of sales, despite record year for revenue.
I like this rumor and the air should get a breath of life pumped into it.. it's one of the best portables ever made. It's a shame they didn't ad a Retina display to it and call it the MacBook 
Gives you the ability to do the same things you could do on the screen itself, or with keyboard shortcuts, but instead makes you look down and hunt and peck for whatever functions it's showing at the moment that it thinks might be useful to you.
Translation: In other words, it's toy, that's great for people who think they're all 'cutting edge' using something that's 'new', even though it does nothing to actually improve their productivity.