Just wondering if there will be a "Touch Bar" keyboard released to use with the iMac and Mac Pro.
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Apple's Phil Schiller: 'We Don't Design for Price, We Design for the Experience'
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Touch bar under the direction of jony ive. Waste of two years tbh. I doubt this uodate really adds 500$
I've was hoping to replace my 11" MacBook Air with the new MacBook Pro. I think the Touch panel is useful, and I'd rather have 4 TB3/USB 3.1 ports than a handful of archaic legacy ports.
That said, pricing is just unrealistic. And this is coming from someone that paid $1700 for a maxed out Air and years before that nearly $3000 for a 15" PowerBook G4.
I'd expect a mild price jump from the previous model but $500? And then charge $200 more for the 16gb it should have come with in the first place?
That said, pricing is just unrealistic. And this is coming from someone that paid $1700 for a maxed out Air and years before that nearly $3000 for a 15" PowerBook G4.
I'd expect a mild price jump from the previous model but $500? And then charge $200 more for the 16gb it should have come with in the first place?
I get so frustrated seeing this. I'm not defending Apple's price increase here as I think it's completely ridiculous as everyone else, but Mac OS isn't designed for touch. Trying to close and minimise windows, for example, would be a pain in the ass because it's too small for your fingers to be precise enough and Apple knows this. They would have to completely redesign the whole OS to be touch friendly which would just be... oh wait, an iPad.
The idea of having a touch screen mac sounds great, but it would just be a pain to use in reality. Not to mention the arm ache.
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Thats just what it costs? What a load of crap... How does he explain Macbook Pro without the touch bar costing $200 more? Greed is getting better of Apple here...
How do I charge my iphone via my MacBook Pro???
That youngster avoid the iPhones is not something I can stand witness too... From what I am seeing youngsters fiend for those phones. They just can't afford them. But the prestige amongst them owning one, is very much there
Then get used to the market share that those car companies get. Less than what Mac usually gets.
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$2400. For a laptop. That's like twice what I paid for my MacBook Pro.
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Should be:
"We price for margins, not affordability."
"We price for margins, not affordability."
Everyone wants a Mac. Not everyone can afford Macs. Hence, a forum full of whiners and wannabes.
Go buy crappy PCs with horrific Windows OS and feel good about the "value" you think you got.
Go buy crappy PCs with horrific Windows OS and feel good about the "value" you think you got.
Agree take the old plastic MacBooks. There was a computer for the people at the right price. OSX is still a good safe OS but.. The new uber thin MacBook is more of a fashion accessory you'd buy at gucci or one of those highstreet handbag/ manbag stores
Just too expensive for what you get. Keep it real people.Heres hoping Dell has a nice black friday sale on the XPS 13
I agree with the bolded.
Just saying: while the Mini usage you mention may be the case these days for lots of folks, many people do/did used it as a capable desktop for design, music, video etc. I am sorry I wasn't one of those people who held onto the Minis I had.
I've officially put Phil on mute, he's a perfect example of everything wrong with Apple now.
You dont... We've made the Mac so thin and symmetrical that it would look ugly to put another port into it... Please use your supplied iPhone Charger... Or buy a new iPhone 8 in 2017 ;-)
Why? Because you're broke? Your business can't fund the purchase of quality equipment?
People that use Macs don't stop and move on to PCs instead. People that troll internet forums love to say that though.
Wait, does it have swallow key travel like the retina MacBook 12?
I have the 2016 version. The keyboard is the only thing I dislike, but it would be quite unacceptable on a MacBook Pro.
I'm tempted I really really am. It's not macOS tho. The surface book is actually what I'm looking at.
I dunno, Phil - 25 years? Sounds like old technology. Why not show some courage and ditch it?
We normally get all sorts of abuse across the pond when complaining about Apple price rises so when even Americans are complaining you know Apple has finally jumped the shark.
I have been waiting to update a Mid-2009 MBP for over a year waiting on a design refresh, and hit the breaks as soon as the price was revealed. Not exactly sure what I'm going to do at this point, but so far it looks like I'm doing nothing, and will wait until this one completely dies and I'm forced to upgrade (potentially to a non-apple computer for the first time since 2003). It's not that I can't afford the extra cost, but it's more that it just isn't worth what they're asking people to pay for it, and I don't want to contribute to signaling to Apple that it is.
Yes, you can feel that he has lost the touch. There is no fire in his voice. Apple is good a throwing people away who has vision... They did it with Jobs and got him back... They did it with Forestall just wait and see, some day if he hasn't turned them down already, he will be offered a way back in, fire the relics and move on... Like Jobs did.
What a bunch of haters.
Go get a Dell, or a $3000 i5, 8 Gigs RAM Surface Studio. I'll enjoy my new MBP.
Go get a Dell, or a $3000 i5, 8 Gigs RAM Surface Studio. I'll enjoy my new MBP.
That experience often requires an awful lot of costly dongles. More so now.
I'm going to guess that everything is glued and soldered in these new machines. That means they are not easily repaired. So if a hard drive fails, you have to replace the entire logic board. And when you trip over the cord because MagSafe is gone, repair might be cost prohibitive. Sounds to me like Tim & Co expects you to buy a new Mac pretty often. It's planned obsolescence on steroids.