Tell me how you use your open MBP so you can see/use the Touch Bar AND use that nifty 5k monitor? MBP off to the side? Monitor off to the side? OR clamshell and pass on the Touch Bar?
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Apple Unveils New 13-Inch and 15-Inch MacBook Pros With Retina 'Touch Bar'
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. I'm very sad. Also, these prices are nuts.
Let me get this straight. To use your iPhone with your new MacBook Pro, you have to buy a USB-C to Lightning cable for $35? Apple didn't include that?
Also: RIP, MagSafe. You saved my MBP more times than I can count.
Also: RIP, MagSafe. You saved my MBP more times than I can count.
I'd rather see a touch screen than a touch bar. Microsoft Surface Studio won in terms of product introduction and usefulness.
Neither nvidia nor AMD offer official or unofficial drivers in Bootcamp. They're all written (or at least adapted) by Apple for Bootcamp and they rarely compare to the real thing - i.e. authentic drivers on a supported PC setup. Which is why Bootcamp is a fine shunt, but it is not a PC replacement.
Also if you didn't get the memo, Apple does not support CUDA. Only OpenCL is supported by Apple and it's not Apple's fault nvidia can't make a decent OpenCL GPU. You seem to be quite the fanboi, why haven't you sent the Mothership complaints about their lackluster OpenCL support?
Basically in this department Nvidia sucks rocks compared to AMD, the parallel computing power of AMD GPUs is a magnitude over Nvidia. Kinda lackluster in games, but they put Nvidia to shame when it comes to compute.
edit: referring to AMD as ATI, what does that even mean?
http://www.nasdaq.com/press-release...hics-processors-20161027-01262#/ixzz4OJrVvDaX
It's very much new and it is top-of-the-line actually professional series GPUs (as one never knows with Apple what they consider "pro")
The Radeon Pro line is a rebranding of their Fire Pro line, and equivalent of Nvidia Quattro GPUs. These GPUs are *not* made for gaming.
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Everything from China is going up.
Of course, there will be no cost of living increases for Americans. Harpers magazine did an article about six years back that revealed the corrupt US government inflation figures that if not so rigged would have Social Security checks going out that were three times larger than they are now.
And of course, your needs/habits are everyone's needs/habits.
I for one think it's pretty damned cool. In fact, me and my non-retina 2013 MBP are pretty jealous.
You could just use the Lightning cable included in the box, with a USB-C to USB-A adapter (less than 10 USD). For example:
https://www.amazon.com/nonda-Adapte...=1477601565&sr=1-3&keywords=usb-c+usb+adapter
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I guess it's kind of petty but I just made an account to have my say.
And that say is that my next laptop will not be a Mac.
The Apple we knew and loved is gone.
An emoji bar at the expense of being able to plug LITERALLY ANYTHING in to a 'pro' machine that starts at $1500.
Laughable.
I know nobody cares, least of all Apple, but my next laptop is now going to be a PC. And that's just sad, because they've forced me and so many others into this. None of us wanted it.
And that say is that my next laptop will not be a Mac.
The Apple we knew and loved is gone.
An emoji bar at the expense of being able to plug LITERALLY ANYTHING in to a 'pro' machine that starts at $1500.
Laughable.
I know nobody cares, least of all Apple, but my next laptop is now going to be a PC. And that's just sad, because they've forced me and so many others into this. None of us wanted it.
I'm very disapointed in the new Macs.
I consider myself to be a power user as I develop complex web-based solutions (big databases, numbers chrunching, UX, front and back-end etc.). I run Windows in parallel(s) and I constantly switch between the OS's as part of my daily routine.
I am the happy owner of a mid-2014 RMBP base model which I now appreciate even more.
I went for a laptop as I sometimes work from home, in the weekends or at strange hours and it's complicated to sync all the data.
So now that I described my profile, here are my complaints:
1. 8-10 hours/day (at the office) I use my laptop in clamshell mode hooked up to an external 4K monitor which also acts as a docking station for keyboard, 2nd backup drives etc. While the new touchbar looks cool (to me it seemed laggy and slow-responsive in the live demos) it cannot justify a price increase and definitely will not improve my productivity
2. I have a high-speed SD card of 256GB all the time in the slot. I keep on it all the non-essential, rare-access files. New model: gone!
3. MagSafe!!! At least 3-4 times it saved me from desaster, that's once every 6 months!!!!
4. USB and I am thinking ordinary Sticks. Guess what? My customers use them all the time, I use them all the time (ex: charging my iPhone or iPad with the "right" voltage, as I always confuse the power adaptors)
5. Saved the best for last: PRICE. I always cattered Apple as a company who is providing new hardware every year for the same price (due to tech advancements and price decreases, it's a fair business model). Seems they took some really bad strategic decisions as no power user will improve its productivity not even by 10% due to the touchbar. I know I won't and I am sure 99% also won't. It caters to a user profile which is actually the opposite of the "Pro": messaging, cool, trendy - yes, a pro can do all that but guess what? I'm busy working.
6. I should also mention the lack of RAM upgrade option, the only one which cannot be substituted by external SSDs.
Overall: very disapointed in the new Macs. More money for gimmicks and less options/compatibility "as it is"
I consider myself to be a power user as I develop complex web-based solutions (big databases, numbers chrunching, UX, front and back-end etc.). I run Windows in parallel(s) and I constantly switch between the OS's as part of my daily routine.
I am the happy owner of a mid-2014 RMBP base model which I now appreciate even more.
I went for a laptop as I sometimes work from home, in the weekends or at strange hours and it's complicated to sync all the data.
So now that I described my profile, here are my complaints:
1. 8-10 hours/day (at the office) I use my laptop in clamshell mode hooked up to an external 4K monitor which also acts as a docking station for keyboard, 2nd backup drives etc. While the new touchbar looks cool (to me it seemed laggy and slow-responsive in the live demos) it cannot justify a price increase and definitely will not improve my productivity
2. I have a high-speed SD card of 256GB all the time in the slot. I keep on it all the non-essential, rare-access files. New model: gone!
3. MagSafe!!! At least 3-4 times it saved me from desaster, that's once every 6 months!!!!
4. USB and I am thinking ordinary Sticks. Guess what? My customers use them all the time, I use them all the time (ex: charging my iPhone or iPad with the "right" voltage, as I always confuse the power adaptors)
5. Saved the best for last: PRICE. I always cattered Apple as a company who is providing new hardware every year for the same price (due to tech advancements and price decreases, it's a fair business model). Seems they took some really bad strategic decisions as no power user will improve its productivity not even by 10% due to the touchbar. I know I won't and I am sure 99% also won't. It caters to a user profile which is actually the opposite of the "Pro": messaging, cool, trendy - yes, a pro can do all that but guess what? I'm busy working.
6. I should also mention the lack of RAM upgrade option, the only one which cannot be substituted by external SSDs.
Overall: very disapointed in the new Macs. More money for gimmicks and less options/compatibility "as it is"
Let Apple buy Tesla ... then put Elon Musk as CEO of Apple .... let the innovation begin !
I'm just looking at the Apple website and this OLED bar is so f'n stupid. In the Photos App you select the picture you want from thumbnails in the bar. But the same thumbnails are on the screen. So to use this p.o.s. you have to stop looking at the screen, find the thumbnail on the bar, then look back at the screen. It's so pointless!!! The mouse or trackpad did this simply, effectively, efficient and at a fraction of the cost - it's classic Apple, just adding expensive shiny pretty junk for the sake of it. Next Macbook Pro is going to have laser machined cup holders with drink detector pad and OLED Retina Validation OLED - "COFFEE'
We are totaly f* in Germany. Non-TouchBar starts at 1.699 Euro!
And then we still need probably different adapters etc. makes another 150-200.
Even for Students the price still pretty high starts from around 1.495 Euro.
I checked the best maschine from the page and endet up with maximum confirguration at 5.000 Euro!
I think I will buy Thinkpad or Dell XPS and add a really nice 25-27" display to work at home on pics and videos.
I think, I'm done with this company. The price just kill it.
And then we still need probably different adapters etc. makes another 150-200.
Even for Students the price still pretty high starts from around 1.495 Euro.
I checked the best maschine from the page and endet up with maximum confirguration at 5.000 Euro!
I think I will buy Thinkpad or Dell XPS and add a really nice 25-27" display to work at home on pics and videos.
I think, I'm done with this company. The price just kill it.
True, but I would think that Apple would want to make 100% sure that their users could use their iPhone with their Mac immediately out of the box.
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I couldn't agree with you more. The displays on laptops with touch screen are cluttered with those controls and your hands cover large parts of the screen when clicking.
The coming iMacs will of course be delivered with Touch Bar keyboards.