This is VERY exciting news and is the innovation I've been waiting for from Apple. Any rumors on the available colors?
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Asus Announces ZenBook 3, a Retina MacBook Lookalike That is Thinner, Lighter, and Faster
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This is VERY exciting news and is the innovation I've been waiting for from Apple. Any rumors on the available colors?
One is fanless, the other not.
like any oem windows devices, the battery is a lie, spectre on paper has 9h battery life, on real life 7 hours..so expect to be the same case here with all the heat of those i5 and i7
Windows 10 is actually pretty nice. The problem for me is not the OS itself, but the fugly apps that are written for it. Since 2005, I've been spoiled by the nice looking apps we get on our side. Having had to work on a Win 10 machine, and see what apps look like, I couldn't enjoy working on this machine, even though it looks pretty nice.
MBP thick, meaty and powerfull as hell PLEASE
About the only thing this has over the Macbook is that it has Thunderbolt, seriously Apple why didn't you put thunderbolt in?! and the i over the m processor. But just wait for another iteration or two and Intel will deliver lower power i5/i7's that can run fanless and these will be in the Macbook.
The rest of it is rubbish, bad screen NTSC colour gamut, seriously? 9hr battery life will actually equal 4/5 in Windows.
It feels like the Macbook is the Macbook Air 1,1 with a Slow CPU and only 1 USB Port but at least it doesn't have the slow 1" PATA HDD Apple's SSD are pretty much the fastest out there at any level.
The rest of it is rubbish, bad screen NTSC colour gamut, seriously? 9hr battery life will actually equal 4/5 in Windows.
It feels like the Macbook is the Macbook Air 1,1 with a Slow CPU and only 1 USB Port but at least it doesn't have the slow 1" PATA HDD
Apple's SSD are pretty much the fastest out there at any level.because APple knows to make the most balanced devices.. Core M is fanless so no noise ! core M does not heat like an i5 or i7, so heat affects battery as well, 1080p vs 1440p screen. So far more balanced device is the Macbook for a consumer low to medium workflow is perfect.
Seems that thinness is the "inevitable" industry trend.
Where is the balance between weight and thinness. I can say this computer will likely be the one impossible to repair. Hope this computer is fully recyclable.
It looks super nice, and performance is good. A little bit pricy, but dongle is included so a bit Better than apple counterpart.
TBH I hate such ultra thin machine. Looks sexy but also fragile.
Where is the balance between weight and thinness. I can say this computer will likely be the one impossible to repair. Hope this computer is fully recyclable.
It looks super nice, and performance is good. A little bit pricy, but dongle is included so a bit Better than apple counterpart.
TBH I hate such ultra thin machine. Looks sexy but also fragile.
And I am just sitting here, with my Toshiba Satellite from 2008 with 3 GB of RAM and Intel Core Duo. Why is the iMac so expensive?
You can't revoke biometrics like you can revoke a password.
You're not the only one. I'm using a white 07 MacBook with Core2Duo. Three kids really eats into the budget.And I am just sitting here, with my Toshiba Satellite from 2008 with 3 GB of RAM and Intel Core Duo. Why is the iMac so expensive?
... and they would come installed with OSY (a copy of OSX) if they could but unfortunately they are stuck with Windows. fortunately for Apple you can only copy so much of their greatness
1920x1080 on a 12.5" screen? I have a rMBP 15" and that resolution makes stuff too small on my screen. I wouldn't want to use that resolution on a screen that small. I could deal with 1680 x 1050 if I had to (native), but that's about my limit with a 15" screen. My relative resolution is 1440x900 and I'm fine with that.
HobeSoundDarryl
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And sometimes, doesn't it feel like the ONLY "hoot" that Apple cares about?
Not 100% sure about that, but as we are talking about a digital signature linked to your fingerprint and not the fingerprint itself, maybe it would be possible to simply have an option to "re-new" the signature to another one. But what would be a real life scenario where you want to revoke your biometric log in? We already have Touch ID in our iPhones / iPad so we can make this concrete – I haven't stumbled upon a discussion yet that the Touch ID system is flawed because you'll never be able to change your "fingerprint".
Is this really a surprise to anyone here? Apple never really put out the most powerful hardware, and even then its a little under clocked so it can fit in the housing, say an iMac for instance. Which is crazy considering it's not a portable.
We are so used to doing it that when you do need your 25 digit cryptic password you can’t remember it.
Nobody even remembers a telephone number anymore. All stored in our phones. I'm okay with that, too.
910g: appealing.
From Asus ZenBook 3 Release Date, Price and Specs - CNET:
I assume that someone will make it work. In the meantime:
From Asus ZenBook 3 Release Date, Price and Specs - CNET:
I assume that someone will make it work. In the meantime:
- [Guide] ASUS ZENBOOK UX305FA using Clover UEFI | tonymacx86.com
- Mac OS X: El Capitan on Asus Zenbook UX305 Hackintosh - using Clover Bootloader - YouTube (2016-03-01). I'd prefer Mavericks, YMMV.
HobeSoundDarryl
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You shouldn't have mentioned that it is thinner! Now Ivy will spend all of R&D resources on making the next MacBook the thinnest yet even if it means making sacrifices in other areas such as performance, battery life, camera, ergonomics, etc!
If he just ejects the battery altogether, he can free up a ton of "thickness" and easily out-thin 'em all. Of course, that MB won't turn on without power, but who cares? "Thinner" rules all. We can always pay up the same, full price for a battery-less model and then pay still more for a battery pack accessory (of which it's thickness and weight won't be counted in the tabulation of "thinner" and "lighter" of the new MB itself, even if it is pretty much required to actually make the MB usable).
And, of course, should Apple go that way, they'll be at least 10 guys here touting it as genius and spinning all sorts of rationalizations (logical or not) to support why paying more for the same utility that used to be shipped "built in" makes perfect sense. Scoff and be called "trolls" or shills for competitors.
It looks like a high-end 1080p screen which is sufficient enough on a 12.5" display. I think a high-res screen would eat into battery life which is why it doesn't have one.
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It isn't spyware, so you can buy one now.
HobeSoundDarryl
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Apple considers the possibility, checks with accounting to see how much profit there is in ejecting utility that used to be built into computers, getting us to pay up for the computer anyway AND get us to pay for that utility now as a sold-seperately accessory. Plus, by pushing former built-in utility out to an accessory, they can make the computer "thinner" & "lighter" and not have to count the accessory's weight even if most users will have to carry it around in the same bag just in case they need connections that are far more ubiquitous than USB3C.
The only notes Apple really takes are made of green paper with pictures of dead presidents on them.
yes, I wonder, apart from reading some specs sheet, where does this knowledge of a better keyboard and trackpad come from