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Apple's Notebook Shipments Rise 30% on Strength of New 12-Inch Retina MacBook
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This was me, the former not the latter. I waited as long as I could to buy a new MBP, finally pulling the trigger a little bit after the 4th of July. I was moving out of state and trying to sell my iMac so I had one less large item to ship, and didn't have any other choice. If the new MBP is as big an update as folks are hoping for, though, I'll be gifting this thing to my wife and buying one the first day it's available.
I had an original Macbook Air and found it to be under-powered compared to the Windows laptop of mine it replaced.
In particular I had problems doing video, including skype. The machine would overtax its CPU and overheat so much that one of the two cores would get turned off by the OS. The remaining core would then not be able to keep up and I could never skype with it. I viewed the inability to do video as a very major drawback.
It has a lot to do with the first super portable laptop (this thing is practically iPad weight) that runs OSX that is actually a viable replacement for a conventional laptop. I wanted something that did as much (near as dammit) as my rMBP but was a lot easier to travel with and I just got it. I cannot be alone.
Make that $1600. $1300 will just get you a tiny 256 Gig SSD.
Who is buying such a small SSD anyway? Like a 16 Gig iPad. Maybe if this is your second computer for your boat or the kids.Well. People all wished the iPad to run OS X and more storage, so this is basically it. A bigger iPad.
The Space Grey MacBook seriously brought up all kind of funny feelings inside when I unboxed it.. It really is the most beautiful machine I've ever come across.. My partner was looking at me like 'WTF?!' It's a computer.... The one they gave me was faulty though so I had to return it that night for a brand new one and the unboxing there was just as special LOL.
I love my pink MacBook.
My first Mac was a 12" PowerBook (is that right? I think that's what it was called.) Since that one, I haven't been able to recapture that first-love feeling with my other Macs.
Now my pink MacBook has surpassed even that first Mac. It looks so pretty. It's tiny. The speakers are like wow - I was not expecting that. The multi-port adapter is like a piece of Lego from when I was a kid. There's no Apple shining a light out the back of the screen. The keyboard is like the perfect girlfriend - wonderful to touch and always excitingly unpredictable.
Plus I get to hang out with fun people on AppleCare. They definitely loosen up when they see I have a pink MacBook, compared with my previous 15" MacBook Pro.
Sure, I paid a ridiculous amount to max it out, which is probably why Apple gave me the multiport adapter for free - but it is worth it for the pleasure it gives me to pound away on this beautiful thing all day. It's like an espresso a day for three years. Hmm, that's a lot of coffee. Maybe I shouldn't have made that analogy. I clearly paid too much, but it is less than twice the cost of my iPhone, which I use far less.
I hope that very soon they will make you a new MacBook Pro that is as good for you as this pink treat is for me.
If you are still reading this, you are a very patient person. Thank you.
My first Mac was a 12" PowerBook (is that right? I think that's what it was called.) Since that one, I haven't been able to recapture that first-love feeling with my other Macs.
Now my pink MacBook has surpassed even that first Mac. It looks so pretty. It's tiny. The speakers are like wow - I was not expecting that. The multi-port adapter is like a piece of Lego from when I was a kid. There's no Apple shining a light out the back of the screen. The keyboard is like the perfect girlfriend - wonderful to touch and always excitingly unpredictable.
Plus I get to hang out with fun people on AppleCare. They definitely loosen up when they see I have a pink MacBook, compared with my previous 15" MacBook Pro.
Sure, I paid a ridiculous amount to max it out, which is probably why Apple gave me the multiport adapter for free - but it is worth it for the pleasure it gives me to pound away on this beautiful thing all day. It's like an espresso a day for three years. Hmm, that's a lot of coffee. Maybe I shouldn't have made that analogy. I clearly paid too much, but it is less than twice the cost of my iPhone, which I use far less.
I hope that very soon they will make you a new MacBook Pro that is as good for you as this pink treat is for me.
If you are still reading this, you are a very patient person. Thank you.
Then students prefer Apple, because their marketshare rose.
Or does school starts earlier for students which use Apple laptops?
Without exactly saying what you do with it could you please share some of the general sorts of things you use it for. I think there are people like me for example who would love to hear abit more how it is used in business and industry. I notice also, at least where I am, that Hp's similarly powered little machine has had a price drop. I wouldn't mind seeing a sales pie chart for Apple's laptops.
This article is jumping to so many conclusions. You can't look at quarter-over-quarter numbers for traditionally seasonal products. The real story here is Apple being down 23.4% year-over-year.
Exactly, I said the same thing. What's more, not only was Apple down double digits YoY, they were the only brand in the top 5 that was down at all. Everyone else saw growth in the same period.
Wait I thought MacBooks were silly over priced netbooks with only one port that nobody would buy
The MB is an awesome laptop for people who doesn't need the ports and power. I would love to get one but I am a professional designer and it is not suitable for my needs. That said, I hope the upcoming MBP still keep the current ports and is a bit lighter. More importantly for me is the hope that TB3 is available and there is an upcoming TB displays at 5K.
If Apple kill the ports for USB-C that will be a huge blow. Last thing we need is to carry a bunch of dongles.
If Apple kill the ports for USB-C that will be a huge blow. Last thing we need is to carry a bunch of dongles.
Only if you thought Windows PC makers earned enough money to invest in progress.
Not, ever. Never.
I will admit for my needs (Design/Photography) I am looking forward to a Macbook Pro but these laptops look stellar and are perfect for students, I'd be all about one if I was still in school.
Applications I have open all the time to use are. The Terminal, Sublime Text, FTP Client, Mail, Safari, TextEdit, Messages, Slack, Dropbox, OneDrive and Preview. Applications I frequently use in addition. Word, Excel, Calender, Contacts, Evernote and occasionally Pixelmator and Sketch. All of my data is synced wirelessly or online using GIT.
I would expect a Photographer / Video Editor to use a MacBook Pro. But there are lots of other businesses out there that have a totally different use case scenario. Way too many people on here are dismissing the New MacBook as a Netbook for Students. That's patently absurd. I don't think people realise how far technology has come, if they are still looking at CPU clock speeds and saying, 'Oh dear.' Go and try one out.
The Mac has outperformed the declining PC market for years. Without refreshes to the lineup, that is mostly comically outdated, Apple managed to sell 4.25M in Q3 2016 (slightly down from 4.8M YOY). This, because business sales are booming, padding a softer consumer market (the people patiently waiting for real upgrades, like myself).
The level of pent-up demand for Macs is so high, that the problem in Q1 will not be demand, but factories output.
23.4% down YoY. I hope you're right about Q1 2017, they certainly need it. But in tech focusing on something in the far distant is never good. We need it now! I'm not surprised by their steep decline at all. For a company like Apple it's a shame they've waited this long and not even adjusting the prices.
I think the problem with the MacBook is just a combination of Pricing it out of reach for a lot of people looking to buy Apple's "entry" level laptop, which many people see it as due to the low spec. The Core M based CPU's are pretty damn good for what they are. 4.5w parts that can power most modern day consumer usage. But, being Apple's "slowest" laptop, with only 1 port overall, seeing it priced at the MacBook Pro's price point is a sticking point.
Anyone who calls it a glorified Netbook, clearly never used a netbook
. Netbooks were outright meant to be $200 cheap computers with bottom of the barrel parts and performance. The MacBook is far from bottom of the barrel in terms of parts and performance.One issue though with the MacBook i have spotted (i dont own one as it doesn't fit my need, but did get to play with one and benched marked it a little), was that Apple's choice in passive cooling means that while it can do some advanced tasks (such as movie rendering), the CPU does tend to throttle it's speed. The device was clearly intended for short work loads such as loading webpages and documents and not sustained loads that any advanced software would require.
It was interesting to see that this throttling is due to the passive nature of the laptop. Linus Tech Tips (youtube channel) decided to see what sort of performance they could get out of the MacBook if cooling wasn't an issue, and did a modified "water cooling" solution. They found that while the CPU was cooled properly, the Core M was actually a really capable chip.