Oh, you optimist!
I hope you are right and I'd also like to see an A10-powered Macbook if it brings the prices down and the battery life up.
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Apple's PC Sales Fall Behind ASUS as Buyers Await Next-Generation MacBook Pro and Other New Models
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Oh, you optimist!
I hope you are right and I'd also like to see an A10-powered Macbook if it brings the prices down and the battery life up.
Doesn't this sort of feel like deja vu? You know back when Steve was fired and Apple walked merrily into the wilderness and got lost?
I don't know. It's their job to find someone. I would like them to hire someone who's a techie and a visionary. Cook's an operations biz guy. He's the equivalent of Ballmer.
well some things have been improved in the meantime though, off the top of my head: much faster flash storage.
WTF has Apple been doing? Massive company sitting on BILLIONS of funds. They've come out with new software, and a new color.
The OP describes me to a T. Putting off a purchase on the expectation that a reasonably updated Apple replacement for my long-in-the-tooth MBP will appear in the fall. Unwilling to buy now because I traditionally keep laptops for a *long* time. (I've had only five in the last 25 years: a PB 170, an entry-level Windows machine, an early thin-and-light Sony Vaio, a late model Powerbook G4, and my current MBP.)
I've been more or less stuck with Apple because the "management" facet of my job requires the use of Microsoft Office, the "programming" side requires x86 macOS or Linux, and my personal files, music, etc. are all in the Apple ecosystem. However, the intensely relaxed attitude Apple has been showing toward the "pro" laptop user is bringing me to look seriously at alternatives for the first time since I went Windows in 1996. 85%+ of all my co-workers across the world seem to use Mac laptops (essentially because of "you get Unix AND desktop apps!" and the network effect that all the code we care about is ported to Macs because we all have them) and yet all are starting to wonder...
I've been more or less stuck with Apple because the "management" facet of my job requires the use of Microsoft Office, the "programming" side requires x86 macOS or Linux, and my personal files, music, etc. are all in the Apple ecosystem. However, the intensely relaxed attitude Apple has been showing toward the "pro" laptop user is bringing me to look seriously at alternatives for the first time since I went Windows in 1996. 85%+ of all my co-workers across the world seem to use Mac laptops (essentially because of "you get Unix AND desktop apps!" and the network effect that all the code we care about is ported to Macs because we all have them) and yet all are starting to wonder...
My daughter is going to college in the fall. They "support" Apple products but they "Recommend" Dell. I wish Apple would do something other than push me to get her a Dell, but there is no sign of hardware arriving before Labor Day.
Basically watchbands.
What does she want?
If she's not fussed by Apple then a Dell XPS or an X-series Thinkpad is a great choice. If she prefers macOS though and she's not doing anything GPU/CPU intensive, get her whatever Mac that suits her preferences in terms and weight and screen size.
Basically. My Mid 15 MBP is probably my final leap of faith. Leap of faith that by the time my personal ROI met on the 15 apple improves professional software support. Barring that nothing about MBP or MP intrigues me. MY only thing is FCP to keep me apple. And with a software maintenance cycle eerily similar to aperture right before its execution....at some point I may leave that for avid before apple puts a bullet in FCP's head as well 1-2 years from now unless changes seen.
Internally...pro application development is just horrid really. Selling an OS is just not cutting it. The intel hardware switch started this snowball. Its now PC hardware...some need to accept and move on. More carefully selected, maybe, but pc hardware all the same. And especially when M$/windows seems to have gotten the message and made windows 10 pretty decent.
Inb4 windows fanboy....I use several OS's daily. macOS, linux (rh/cent os and ubuntu/debian to mix up those families), windows (client and server). I can find pro's and cons to all. I am actually vendor neutral. Right tool for the job my way of life in this.
It needs that pro software tie in. You can only run it on this, used to be an apple selling point. Apple has all but given this up to 3rd party it seems. And the 3rd party world is not rushing in droves to code exclusively for apple. Its cross platform stuff. Hell some stuff is drop in to linux as well. Joys of cross platform...makes this happen faster and easier than hiring devs to go ground level up.
Said it before, say it again...when you have people on cross platform software they can leave real easy. When 90% of my stuff looks, feels, and works the same on windows as it does on macOS it removes the one thing most people content related people dread (I do anyway and just a hobbyist, I don't have deadlines to meet beside my own desire to get those projects out of say FCP faster).....workflow changes.
Because I would like to replace mine with current hardware.
With school coming in 2 months as a CS major, I have no clue what to do if it ends up coming in October. Do I opt for a Dell XPS, buy an outdated MBP? Any other recommendations?
Haha... ok... I've tried to use Windows again and it's utterly terrible. Not the only one according to sound/media techs. But that's probably why we typically stick to Macs for production work.
This machine is so much better than the macbook pro.
http://store.asus.com/us/item/201603AM030000004/A26128
It's sad =(
http://store.asus.com/us/item/201603AM030000004/A26128
It's sad =(
My dream is for Apple to buy Tesla and replace Tim Cook with Elon Musk.
What's your curriculum going to be like? When I was in uni most CS degrees were C and Java based and development was in Linux/Unix. Best advice I can give is to get a rig that runs Virtual Machines like a champ and learn to love Linux.
A Mac is only worth it if your degree will cover Cocoa development.
So a few observations...
First, there is more to a computer than the latest and greatest specs. Apple has proven time and time again that it can do more with lesser hardware. Changes to OS X have made older hardware performant. Remember just because something has the latest processor, memory, etc... doesn't make it the best overall computer.
Second, people are going to choose a computer based on 1) operating system 2) price 3) specs. That means people who want a Mac, are going to buy a Mac. People who are shopping based on price are likely to buy a crap Windows laptop or Chromebook. Only professionals may make a choice to switch to Windows. But are you willing to completely change your hardware platform based on something coming in a few months? Maybe. But doubtful.
Third, if you all can't wait a year to purchase a new computer based on what's coming next, then either just wait for what's coming next, or purchase the best product today. Sounds like this forum is filled with Android fanboys who shop solely on specs that are meaningless.
Fourth, marketshare. Really? So you do realize that Apple still has barely been pushed to fifth place while still selling products with ASP that are twice as high as their competitors? You also realize that this list completely disregards iPads as computers even through Windows machines that are tablets are considered in the list? If you were to add iPads, Apple would be #1... but they won't do that of course. It wouldn't paint the picture their clients want.
Just once again, an "Apple is doomed" prediction. Per protocol and expectation, Apple will release a new line of Macbook Pros soon and the tech world will be awed by the performance and new features that they will struggle to copy while the pundits complain about how Apple has shunned the past and forged ahead into the future... only for the whole industry to follow suit and copy them.
Just wait for it...
First, there is more to a computer than the latest and greatest specs. Apple has proven time and time again that it can do more with lesser hardware. Changes to OS X have made older hardware performant. Remember just because something has the latest processor, memory, etc... doesn't make it the best overall computer.
Second, people are going to choose a computer based on 1) operating system 2) price 3) specs. That means people who want a Mac, are going to buy a Mac. People who are shopping based on price are likely to buy a crap Windows laptop or Chromebook. Only professionals may make a choice to switch to Windows. But are you willing to completely change your hardware platform based on something coming in a few months? Maybe. But doubtful.
Third, if you all can't wait a year to purchase a new computer based on what's coming next, then either just wait for what's coming next, or purchase the best product today. Sounds like this forum is filled with Android fanboys who shop solely on specs that are meaningless.
Fourth, marketshare. Really? So you do realize that Apple still has barely been pushed to fifth place while still selling products with ASP that are twice as high as their competitors? You also realize that this list completely disregards iPads as computers even through Windows machines that are tablets are considered in the list? If you were to add iPads, Apple would be #1... but they won't do that of course. It wouldn't paint the picture their clients want.
Just once again, an "Apple is doomed" prediction. Per protocol and expectation, Apple will release a new line of Macbook Pros soon and the tech world will be awed by the performance and new features that they will struggle to copy while the pundits complain about how Apple has shunned the past and forged ahead into the future... only for the whole industry to follow suit and copy them.
Just wait for it...
The rMB was supposed to be the next big leap. When the rumors started, it was supposed to be an MBA with retina. Then we heard it was going to be 12". And then it turned out to be underpowered (compared to any of the other machines in the lineup) and with no ports or readers.
I'm more concerned that they will come up with something with weird limitations once again. What those weirdnesses turn out to be will be a surprise, and is what keeps things exciting.
My speculation -- I think Apple has put an inordinate amount of resources behind the Apple Watch, which has not yielded a corresponding ROI, and have thus had to make compromises with their R&D efforts on laptops and desktops.
I'd add an X-series Thinkpad to that list too. I use an X260 for my day job, with most of my work done in an Ubuntu VM. Thinkpads are user-serviceable too. When I was a student, I was time rich but cash poor so machines I could maintain myself were a boon