Apple's New 12-Inch MacBook Now Widely Available for Store Pickup

[ARK]

If I had the money I would actually buy it, it would be the perfect machine for me.
#budgetlimitationssuck!

iPhone 6S+, iPhone 5S, iPhone 5, Macbook Air 11", Macbook Pro 13", Macbook 13" (2009), iPad Pro+Pencil, iPad Mini, AppleTV 4, AppleTV 3, iPod touch 5th Gen, iPod Shuffle, Mac Pro G4

So wait. You have all of the above but can't get the 12" Macbook because of budget? Do what I do. Sell the old then buy the new.

 

[yaxomoxay]

So wait. You have all of the above but can't get the 12" Macbook because of budget? Do what I do. Sell the old then buy the new.

ehehhe the yearly budget for tech has been expended into iPhone6S+ and iPad 12.9"... I've got a wife

 

[MacRS4]

Sell the stuff, upgrade wife.

Job done.

 

[pyrois]

No it doesn't, and I have the 1st gen.

It does when you have more than 1 browser tab that has a video present on it (i.e. YouTube), and you have initiated play-back on both videos, even if the video in the "background" is paused or stopped. The longer I leave a video that has been "initiated" in a background window open, the worse the stutter gets until I have to restart Safari.

This, btw, is without flash installed.

I would attribute it to a memory leak of some sort, and if you're saying that this doesn't happen to you, then perhaps my hardware is damaged somehow (although I've brought my computer into the store multiple times, and they've done full OS reinstalls and hardware scans to no avail).

Basically, the 1st gen Macbook is suitable for some casual users, but not all. I just ordered an m7 refreshed version that I hope won't suffer from this issue. If it still happens, then it just means I'll have to move back to a Macbook Air until they come out with some hardware that can support the way I browse the internet (i.e. having 5-6 tabs open simultaneously).

If you only use your browser one window at a time, without tabs, I doubt you'd encounter video stuttering.

 

[rmuddana]

It looks like the silver Macbook got a sunburn.

See the comparision with Macbook It is clearly lagging in all aspects except weight (of course a different FF). I would say it's Apple's Chromebook lol.

 

[wozmatic]

This is great news, my grandparents really want a MacBook for surfing Facebook.

Starting to realize a MacBook Pro is never gonna happen...

 

[pyrois]

This is great news, my grandparents really want a MacBook for surfing Facebook.

Starting to realize a MacBook Pro is never gonna happen...

It's actually not fast enough to surf Facebook...

It stutters if you scroll too far down on your News Feed.

 

[xDKP]

Not sure why anyone would buy this over the air, guess for the screen but this is only for light casual usage.. This thing even stutters watching streaming video on youtube..

Well I've had it since December and use it a lot every single day at my business and some at home as well. It never stutters viewing YouTube and I've yet to experience it doing it with anything else I do as well. For people like me, that work with low-CPU-intensive tasks this is a dream to use and work on - haven't regretted it for a second

 

[Eggtastic]

Too damn pricey. I want to love it enough to upgrade from my 2011 11" MBA, but come on this thing is way expensive for what it offers. However, my complaints are odd considering I never use the iSight camera (which should have been upgraded), I don't need multiple ports (I just wanted one more), and the power will be just fine on the 1st gen. I guess I just want the latest and greatest haha.

I may jump on a 1st gen if I can find one reasonably priced, maybe refurbished? I should have took advantage of Best Buy's price drop of1st gens, but doubt there are much left.

I may wait for the pro updates if that happens during WWDC.

 

[DEMinSoCAL]

This is great news, my grandparents really want a MacBook for surfing Facebook.

Starting to realize a MacBook Pro is never gonna happen...

It's actually not fast enough to surf Facebook...

It stutters if you scroll too far down on your News Feed.

That really says a lot about a product when a) someone is willing to spend $1300 for a device "for surfing Facebook", and b) when said $1300 device isn't good enough to (basically) "surf Facebook".

Has anyone done a performance comparison between the iPad Pro 12.9" and the Macbook 12 (2016)?

 

[ghost187]

It does when you have more than 1 browser tab that has a video present on it (i.e. YouTube), and you have initiated play-back on both videos, even if the video in the "background" is paused or stopped. The longer I leave a video that has been "initiated" in a background window open, the worse the stutter gets until I have to restart Safari.

This, btw, is without flash installed.

I would attribute it to a memory leak of some sort, and if you're saying that this doesn't happen to you, then perhaps my hardware is damaged somehow (although I've brought my computer into the store multiple times, and they've done full OS reinstalls and hardware scans to no avail).

Basically, the 1st gen Macbook is suitable for some casual users, but not all. I just ordered an m7 refreshed version that I hope won't suffer from this issue. If it still happens, then it just means I'll have to move back to a Macbook Air until they come out with some hardware that can support the way I browse the internet (i.e. having 5-6 tabs open simultaneously).

If you only use your browser one window at a time, without tabs, I doubt you'd encounter video stuttering.

You're going to upgrade just for that? Honestly, save your money and don't do it. Or at least wait and see what the new MacBook Pro redesign will look like. I'm sure it's going to be substantially thinner and lighter. If it is, I may upgrade myself.

 

[ThaRuler]

That really says a lot about a product when a) someone is willing to spend $1300 for a device "for surfing Facebook", and b) when said $1300 device isn't good enough to (basically) "surf Facebook".

Has anyone done a performance comparison between the iPad Pro 12.9" and the Macbook 12 (2016)?

Comparison between iPad Pro and the new 2016 Macbook

 

[DEMinSoCAL]

It does when you have more than 1 browser tab that has a video present on it (i.e. YouTube), and you have initiated play-back on both videos, even if the video in the "background" is paused or stopped. The longer I leave a video that has been "initiated" in a background window open, the worse the stutter gets until I have to restart Safari.

This, btw, is without flash installed.

I would attribute it to a memory leak of some sort, and if you're saying that this doesn't happen to you, then perhaps my hardware is damaged somehow (although I've brought my computer into the store multiple times, and they've done full OS reinstalls and hardware scans to no avail).

Basically, the 1st gen Macbook is suitable for some casual users, but not all. I just ordered an m7 refreshed version that I hope won't suffer from this issue. If it still happens, then it just means I'll have to move back to a Macbook Air until they come out with some hardware that can support the way I browse the internet (i.e. having 5-6 tabs open simultaneously).

If you only use your browser one window at a time, without tabs, I doubt you'd encounter video stuttering.

People spending $1600 for a device to "browse the internet w/5-6 tabs open" and watch videos???

 

[jeremiah256]

Below is a summary of 50% of the conversations about the MacBook on this site. Viewer discretion advised:

Person 1: I bought a MacBook because it does everything I want it to do and and I love the look and size.

Person 2: But can it do 150 layers in Photoshop while simultaneously ripping a BluRay of The Martian while attached to two 4K/60Hz monitors? If not, epic fail, noob.

Person 1: WTF????

 

[DEMinSoCAL]

Comparison between iPad Pro and the new 2016 Macbook

Thank you. Watching it now.

 

[mbh1976]

Not sure why anyone would buy this over the air, guess for the screen but this is only for light casual usage.. This thing even stutters watching streaming video on youtube..

I owned the original version for 2 weeks last year and I really enjoyed it- I ended up returning it because it was slower than my 2-year-old MBP, but it is definitely better than an air.

 

[DEMinSoCAL]

Comparison between iPad Pro and the new 2016 Macbook

Feature comparison only, no performance tests. Boo.....

 

[albusseverus]

If you can do what you want to do on iPad, best of luck to you. Get a mini. If you need a computer, the MacBook is brilliant. Many consider it the flagship - the future of computers (again). Mine is just as fast as my 2011 quad core iMac at photo editing. Waiting on the M7 model benchmarks. What Apple can do without a fan is incredible.

As for availability? I bought one last year. A month in and the Apple Store still had no stock, so I walked next-door to a reseller and got the model I wanted in the colour I wanted, at 10% off (thanks JB). Apple knows how to look after its customers.

 

[hans1972]

It does when you have more than 1 browser tab that has a video present on it (i.e. YouTube), and you have initiated play-back on both videos, even if the video in the "background" is paused or stopped. The longer I leave a video that has been "initiated" in a background window open, the worse the stutter gets until I have to restart Safari.

I open up

and

in their own tab in Safari, press play on both and change the settings from 720p to 1080p for both videos.

The two videos are playing without any stutter and the CPU idle time varies between 80 and 92%. If I stop writing on this reply and just watch one of the video the CPU idle time hovers around 90%.

If I run two 1080p and one 4k video at the sometime in Youtube, then CPU idles goes down to 10%.

 

[nameischarles]

Not sure why anyone would buy this over the air, guess for the screen but this is only for light casual usage.. This thing even stutters watching streaming video on youtube..

I have the first generation and it surely does not stutter on 1080p when I watch on YouTube on a Chrome browser. Even 30gb 1080p mkv files on VLC work fine without issues. The only thing I can complain is no second USB-C port, but it's been great so far.

 

[MarvinHC]

I LOVE the form factor.

I've been waiting for the updated version for a year now.

I'm still waiting for the updated version.

I guess I wait another year.

Sigh.

You do know that the 11" Air has almost exactly the same dimensions (+3mm or so of 'thickness' ) as the Retina Macbook ? Just sayin'....

 

[wozmatic]

It's actually not fast enough to surf Facebook...

It stutters if you scroll too far down on your News Feed.

ha! well I was joking and implying that only old people want this laptop and/or people who just surf the net and don't actually use the laptop for performance tasks like any type of multimedia work.

 

[lowkey]

Retina screen isn't worth the more expensive, less powered computer that Apple is offering. Air's screen is fine for what it does, and given that it's a beast of a machine with an amazing battery life, I'll take that trade any day of the week.

I disagree. A small laptop with limited CPU power [macbook, macbook air etc] is typically going to be used for Word, XL, Safari, Email...heavily towards the reading of text...

Reading text on a small screen with poor resolution, like the MBA, might seem fine if you haven't seen a retina screen. But the retina is so much easier to read especially for smaller text.

Ive just gone from my rMBP back to a nonMBP at work and its like someone smeared vaseline on the screen...

 

[alex2792]

Slow CPU, no TB3, ONE port, horrible value all around. This laptop is worth MAYBE $700-800 tops, you would have to be insane to drop $1300 on this thing.

 

[Cobalt50]

Too damn pricey. I want to love it enough to upgrade from my 2011 11" MBA, but come on this thing is way expensive for what it offers. However, my complaints are odd considering I never use the iSight camera (which should have been upgraded), I don't need multiple ports (I just wanted one more), and the power will be just fine on the 1st gen. I guess I just want the latest and greatest haha.

I may jump on a 1st gen if I can find one reasonably priced, maybe refurbished? I should have took advantage of Best Buy's price drop of1st gens, but doubt there are much left.

I may wait for the pro updates if that happens during WWDC.

Basically my stance too.