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Apple Unveils New 13-Inch and 15-Inch MacBook Pros With Retina 'Touch Bar'

2799 euros for the 15 and 1799 for the entry 13,ok Apple you made it,i'm out,its way too much,you have lost your Magic.Ive,Cook and Shiller you have definitely ruined all and thinned to death my patience-Its very sad and you seem really old and far from the reality or maybe just from my wallet.You're not able to innovate anymore,retina display and then i have to kill my eyes on that Strip-Bar as well with my wallet and then the last,you left the old 15 with Thunderbolt 2 and not the thunderbolt 3 'cause you knew a lot would have choose it instead of those ones with touchy strip..I'll go for a discontinued Air and yes that Surface Studio tells a lot to me,you have just one thing the MACOS still,ok Ive lets kill that too.
 
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oneMadRssn said:
By leading with emojis, they lost the respect of the audience.
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They had live demos with Final Cut Pro, Photoshop, and a pro DJ audio app. I think they provided a pretty good overview of it from a pro perspective within a limited time frame.
 
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jimmyrocker said:
Great laptop but the prices have become astonishingly bad! UK prices are especially insane! I understand that Apple products carry a premium but still... Imagine in a year or so they are still going to peddling these models at these prices :eek:
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Goldman Sachs Guy clicked Algorithm of Disapproval on British Pound.

You must not vote in opposition to your masters!
 
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James Bondo said:
I'm very disappointed. I have an early 2012 macbook pro retina with an aftermarket 1TB drive.
I use the function keys quite often, and I use the USB-A ports quite often...
I'd much rather have a current pro retina with 32GB RAM and m.2 upgradable storage, USB-A ports and function keys than this.
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The function keys are stil available, USB-A is old and is being replaced by USB-C apple is just going to be the driving force behind that migration, and I think Apple hasn't used the standard m.2 connector for a few years now. The 2015 rMBP uses a custom NVME connector that puts sata3 to shame.
 
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MacFather said:
What ruined Apple wasn’t growth … They got very greedy. Instead of following the original trajectory of the original vision, which was to make the thing an appliance and get this out there to as many people as possible, they went for profits. They made outlandish profits for about four years… What that cost them was their future. What they should have been doing is making rational profits and going for market share.

- Steve Jobs
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Someone else pointed out here the lit up apple logo is gone. The light has really gone out for apple, how fitting. Sad
 
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MacsRuleOthersDrool said:
On Windows, 8GB would be barely usable, you're right.

But this is OS X, and does MUCH better with lower RAM (...)

Windows, OTOH, has a penchant (by design, BTW) of eating up ALL available RAM as a kind of "cache". So, there is a pretty direct correlation between amount of RAM and performance in a Windows system. But OS X doesn't do that
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While that might have been true 5 or 10 years ago, it simply just isn't any more.
8GB on Windows is far from unusable.
And OS X will "eat up" as much memory as it can for cache.
Which is actually a good thing, if done right.
 
I "loved" that touch bar demo scrolling through an entire library of photos to find the one he was looking for. Seriously Does he think there are customers with photo libraries containing fewer than 100 images?

A touch bar isn't going to help anyone in the real world navigate Photos.

I saw a couple of instances where someone who can't type might be able to benefit from the touch bar, but for most of us it's an overpriced gimmick that will get used even less frequently than my F18 button (yes I have a full sized KB).
 
What the ....!

I thought they had "courage" and were going to ditch the "Old fashion" audio jack ?

I guess in a few months the Bluetooth 4.2 will be obsolete with the new Bluetooth 5 standard.
 
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blackhand1001 said:
Laptops with Microsoft precision touchpads are very good. Your work laptop likely has something else. Tons of PC's have Microsoft precision touchpads now. You just need windows 8 or newer and the touchpad functions are all built into the OS.

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I'm going to have to try some now.

I've stated before that for me, Apple trackpads are like crack-cocaine: highly addictive.

It was the biggest thing I'd miss, should I switch platforms.
 
<irony>The new MacBook Pro seems awesome! Why is everyone hating on it, like the USB-C?
Here are some easy solutions:</irony>

Have an SD card? buy a USB-C - SD Adapter
need HDMI output? Buy USB-C - HDMI-Adapter
need Gig-Ethernet? Buy new USB-C - Ethernet-Adapter
need USB-A? Buy USB-C - USB-A adapter
have an iPhone/iPad? Buy a USB-C - Lightning Cable (or use that flimsy Adapter above)
Have like 5000$ worth of Audio-Interfaces with Firewire ONLY? Buy a Thunderbolt 3 to Thunderbolt 2 Adapter, connect that to your Thunderbolt -> FireWire 800 Adapter, connect that to the Interfaces and pray to Steve that it will actually work...

So you have your super lightweight and mobile laptop, but you carry with you 6 Adapters worth 200$....This is absurd.

Also, can anyone honestly say that charging 2k$ (incl. tax) for a 13" notebook with 256GB space and 8GB RAM is justified or okay in any way in 2016? I paid less than that freaking 3 years ago for my Late 2013 MBPr 13"! How can a notebook with the same SSD/RAM spec as a 3 year old model be so much more expensive... This is - IMHO - complete and utter nonsense.
 
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AppliedMicro said:
Not true.
They are still offering the 13" Air.

Ok, agreed, they are still offering the OLD macbook air. I should probably rephrase my disappointment: they didn't release a NEW entry-level macbook air. I would've wanted to see a new entry level machine, not the same old.


I'd say the idea very much depends on software support.
Apple will surely have an edge over Lenovo in this regard, and they have already convinced MS to add support to Office itself. We'll see how it pans out.
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I agree, Apple will surely do a better job at this than lenovo.
 
Santabean2000 said:
Vote with your dollars; don't buy this crap.

Screw you Apple, greedy lazy bstards!
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I'm going to guess that you're not one of the kids who drove onto the lovely campus at Stanford today in his/her $140,000 Audi and won't be doing his/her studying this evening at their own million dollar condo.

Once upon a time the USA was not another third world country occupied by the Pentagon.
 
gnipgnop said:
They had live demos with Final Cut Pro, Photoshop, and a pro DJ audio app. I think they provided a pretty good overview of it from a pro perspective within a limited time frame.
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Correct. But they lead with emojis. First impressions are important. In this instance, the first impression was "gmick" and "not related to work." Showing pro perspective after that is starting from a self-imposed disadvantage.
 
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The negativity is ridiculous from some of you, you literally sound like grumpy old men that need to be wheeled back to the retirement home, maybe new technology is not something your atrophied brains can handle anymore when every single innovation automatically inspires hostility from you.

Great laptops as usual, but no doubt the prices are absolutely horrific.
 
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