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Apple to Announce New MacBook, MacBook Pro, and Possibly MacBook Air at WWDC
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Unfortunately that's true. The Air was more powerful, faster, and better equipped with ports, a decent keyboard and magsafe, but the new MacBook is cheaper to produce without all those extra components, and they can still charge a premium for it because it's thin and light, and that is all that matters anymore. These systems went from being marketed to actually being built as fashion accessories.
A 17" MBA would have been a better MacBook Pro than a MacBook Pro.
OMG, Apple, PLEASE fix the robustness of that terrible keyboard!! My 15" MBP 2016 has been back to the store 5 times now and I'm getting a second new top case as we speak. IT'S HORRIBLE!!! Just the tiniest bit of dust and the keys behave all inconsistently. This is such a HUGE step back in reliability that it is ridiculous. Certainly in this premium price range!
Just ... stop. Its different people.
I can hear you on other topics: "Some people like rap music, others hate it, Some people like skydiving, others think its crazy, Some people love the city, others complain about the crowds"
My god! "PEOPLE" are so contradictory and inconsistent!!!
I'm not sure I'd classify migrating your photos and files as "issues and headaches". You can either get a new portable USB drive, format it exFAT (so both Mac and PC can read/write to it), and copy your files off the old mac to the new PC, or there are HFS solutions for Windows that would allow you to read your HFS drive in order to get your files off.
I haven't used the HFS software, but using another portable drive formatted exFAT is super easy and headache-proof!
The Macbook Air is a tank....nearly flawless. The screen is lower resolution, but very bright. The keyboard / trackpad is the best. The battery is terrific.
For Office productivity and mobility, I can find no flaws. I'd love one with upgraded components, for sure...SSD, 16gb RAM. Either that, or make it as cheap as a Chromebok.
As it stands, it is quite nice.
For Office productivity and mobility, I can find no flaws. I'd love one with upgraded components, for sure...SSD, 16gb RAM. Either that, or make it as cheap as a Chromebok.
As it stands, it is quite nice.
Hope they spec bump the Air, its better than the 12 inch MacBook in almost every way for many people, ignoring the Retina display. Replace thunderbolt with USB c, put the latest processor and you, maybe a Retina display and it would be a winner. Apple will never do it because it would sell better than the 12 inch MacBook and that thing is their 'baby'.
Yeah, they'll probably remove ports, MagSafe, make the keyboard worse, and charge more money.
What you're describing is basically a MBP with lower specs.
I'd buy a retina MBA instantly (at current prices, of course) but I'm afraid is not going to happen. With retina on the MBA a lot of people wouldn't buy the MBP just to have more power.
Doesn't a rumor of new hardware at WWDC show up every year, and it never happens?
I can't see Apple giving the MacBook Air 16gb RAM if they don't even offer that on the higher model MacBook.
Frankly, I doubt they'll do much to it. Why re-tool the unibody for a new ports when you've got millions of existing proven uni-body shells already?
A processor upgrade (or heaven forbid, a downgrade), SSD, the same price or a hundred dollars cheaper is my guess.
I think there's a difference with, release an iPad, release it again, release iPhone 7, release it again, release a macbook pro, release it again. While for 3+ years we've been asking to update our business, our households, with workstations and servers, what about all those hosting companies with super oudated mac minis that would love to stay in business because apple discontinued their 19" rack servers and big choices have to be made. The real world continues, it's not always just about your facebook like clicks.
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I'd be a terrible CEO, but so would you.
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Quite frequently actually. But I don't just use it for browsing brazzers.
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Then your compromise is your video card. This simply doesn't always hold up for the rest of us.
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Not every workstation requires a monitor. A server you can place in the network or at a hosting provider, etc or the 19" rack downstairs, yes, that would be great if it can stop being windows. Placing laptops in there is not the solution.
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By we, I mean the people that have a serious hobby, freelancers, business people, corporations, small to big business, school systems, govs, .. where big data to serious graphic work to prosumer usage comes into play. Not just people that browse facebook and vlog and export a 10 minute video and have hours to do so. Why would they max out a laptop to 5k$ and then add another $1500 for a monitor, when they could just buy a $3500 imac? Or have a range of imacs for the serious work and a mac server in the server room for handling all the rest? Still cheaper than a dozen laptops and monitors, external drives and a windows box for the network. No, we isn't just me. I just want an iMac that's not 2 years old.
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Oh please no.
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If they make laptops aimed at pro users, let them put a real video card in there, it's ridiculous how windows laptops a third of the price but with a pretty good card cuts the work down by 30 to 50% - That the mac is more expensive for the right reasons (and yes that does include the design and macOS and the apple logo, fine by me) but put a card in there that throttles everything down and spits out an extra 15 minutes on everything.. ugh.
So it is just another case of 'It doesn't suit my needs, hence it doesn't suit anybodys needs'?
