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This is the article headline in the Guardian:
"Apple launches new MacBook Pro laptop with Touch Bar for instant emoji"
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Well you're not wrong...
This is the article headline in the Guardian:
"Apple launches new MacBook Pro laptop with Touch Bar for instant emoji"
To quote: "Passengers must at all times follow the airline crew instructions"
Reality is, airline instructions have always been that electronic devices must have wireless connectivity be "switched off or kept in airplane mode" for the entire duration of the flight. On every intra-european flight I have had since then (granted, I wouldn't exactly qualify as a frequent flier but I do fly every one or two months, on average, with probably half a dozen different carriers every year).
All the old inputs are all still there. The images on the bar are just a bonus - you don't need to look down because as you are swiping the screen is changing. I am not sure it is great but your complaint is just not understanding how to use it.
Prices are a joke no matter how good they are.
Not sure why people need to upgrade their laptops anywhere. Mine will last me a good 5-7 years.
Not sure why people need to upgrade their laptops anywhere. Mine will last me a good 5-7 years.
- Eye watering price, may no longer represent value for money for many,
- This is meant to be a pro machine. Having to carry round adapters and dongles is not convenient or efficient and adds yet further cost to the already extortionate price.
A laptoo that has USB-A ports on it isn't innovation. A laptop with FOUR, 40 Gbps, Multi-Function Ports on it, IS innovation!
And it isn't an "Emoji bar", FFS!
Good observation, judging from the overwhelming majority of comments here about limited ram, high prices and gimmicks etc which I agree with. The lights have gone out for apple. Will buy Hp or Dell when I need to upgrade.
This is the way that Apple used to be.
People here forget that the first generations of MacBook Air introduced by God Jobs cost $2000 or more for a well equipped machine, and that was with very little RAM and slow processors. This idea of "MacBook Air" as an affordable machine was an anomaly, and Apple likely realized that they could not re-introduce a revamped Air priced at double the current one, so are allowing it to float off into obsolescence. The middle class in America is dying, and Apple is clearly re-positioning itself towards the upper class with these Pro machines. Why should they chase volume with cheap products now?
While it cost a bunch, I for one am happy with the new machines and have no doubt that it will last me 6 years or more. I wished they weighed a little less, but I am not willing to drop down to one port and a slow processor to shave a pound.
You DO realize, of course, that is what MICROSOFT CLAIMED on an UNRELEASED PRODUCT, along with their CLAIM that it is "Three times faster than the top-of-the-line MacBook Pro".
tl;dr "Anybody can CLAIM anything on an UNRELEASED PRODUCT"
Apple can never get more simple than allowing us to put the charge connector in the vicinity of the charge port and it magnetizes in place and starts charging.
Plain stupid. Hopefully enough complaints will go out so they'll bring that back like the 4" screen.
The issue you have with Windows 10 is certainly between the keyboard and the chair. Windows 10 in not just the best Windows ... like, ever... but it's better than OS X now, more versatile, more compatible, more stable, more reliable... just objectively better. That was not the case. Now it is. Sucks to be an Apple Macintosh fan these days, truly.
Wow. That's great, but you don't seem to understand the difference between a fully fledged desktop GPU and a mobile GPU and that with increased VRAM there's increased power draw. Putting 12GB VRAM in a laptop just means it's a stationary laptop, plugged in the wall.
Also your Titan X will cave to this rather modest Radeon Pro mobile GPU in double precision FP. Because a Titan X is a gaming GPU for people who don't know better. It's a gimped Quattro and gimped in all the bad ways if you're going to use it for professional work. Titan X doesn't even have EEC RAM. But it has 12GBs of very power hungry RAM that is not going into any laptop until @6nm process. Which may be never.
Ah, oops, sorry about that. I really should have caught the irony, even without the tag.
Audio Ports!?! F'n Hell Apple. Now I have to carry one set of lightning headphones for my iPhone7 and a separate pair of analog or usbC headphones just for my mac?! Such a fail!
This is the biggest reason why lightning headphones are a bust. NOT even apple is committed to lightning earpods!
Personally, I love my Bose wireless headphones, but think the omission of a lightning dock a HUGE fail in my opinion. It's like Apple want's to promote USB-C headphones. You are right, you will have to carry around two freaking headphones or another dongle. But to be honest, you better have a bunch of dongles for the next couple of years if you buy a new macbook pro.
But the whole audio port product misalignment is WHY I HATE Tim. This fool has no attention to detail. Do you know the real reason he doesn't present products? Because he doesn't even bother to know about them. He is too busy promoting some social cause.
Cool laptop though, but you are right, audio is a fail!
Would be nice to be one of those kids with the $140K Audi and multimillion dollar condo. Can you buy that stuff for me? Thanks in advance.
Apple has never been about value for money. If that was the case, they had clearly lost their way.
exactly! I may well be telling people to get the Microsoft Surface Studio now. I never thought I'd say that in a million years, but there you go!
That's funny; I was reading a website that listed all the NON-APPLE laptop computers with TB 3. It was a quite impressive list!
Ah, here it is:
http://www.ultrabookreview.com/10579-laptops-thunderbolt-3/
TB took awhile to catch on; but with TB3 and USB-C sharing a connector, it seems to be finally starting to live up to its promise.
And once Kaby Lake and later get going, it will soon be as common as bog-standard USB.
Then, maybe we can start seeing some non-asininely-priced TB peripherals, eh???
Me, too. I use the SD card reader several times a day sometimes. It was such a brilliant addition. Now....
Which MacBook should I buy?
I need to finish an iOS app and sometimes it is really hard to manage it with my i5/4G/128G 11" 2012 Air... is an 13" 2015 Air 8/128G for ~ 900€ worth it? Other option is 2015 13" MacBook Pro 16G/256G for 1900€. I need at least 2* USB, 1 miniDP and charging. I am a student, it is my part-time job and these new prices are just insane...
I also need to work with MCUs so I simply need ports (I wouldn't mind USB-C, 3rd party branded USB-C to A adaptors are available for aproxiamately 10€)
OT: Our national bank is keeping exchange rates at 27 CZK / EUR since 2013 (!) instead of 23-25 where the exchange rate would be otherwise, so we "suffer" similarly to GB, but in our case it "supports companies focused on export"...
I need to finish an iOS app and sometimes it is really hard to manage it with my i5/4G/128G 11" 2012 Air... is an 13" 2015 Air 8/128G for ~ 900€ worth it? Other option is 2015 13" MacBook Pro 16G/256G for 1900€. I need at least 2* USB, 1 miniDP and charging. I am a student, it is my part-time job and these new prices are just insane...
I also need to work with MCUs so I simply need ports (I wouldn't mind USB-C, 3rd party branded USB-C to A adaptors are available for aproxiamately 10€)
OT: Our national bank is keeping exchange rates at 27 CZK / EUR since 2013 (!) instead of 23-25 where the exchange rate would be otherwise, so we "suffer" similarly to GB, but in our case it "supports companies focused on export"...