I've been using mine over the past few days and all I can say is that the 15 inch 2.7 MacBook Pro doesn't disappoint. the best "pro" feature... finally a screen that you can do color correction.
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B&H Photo Offering 15-Inch Touch Bar MacBook Pro With $200 Discount and Copy of Parallels 12
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Actually you shouldn't do color correction on the 2016 MBP since it has a DeltaE average of 4 and maximum deviation of 9.5. It's pretty mediocre.
http://nofilmschool.com/2016/12/new-mac-pro-filmmakers-review
When calibrated my 2015 and 2014 MBPs have a DeltaE average of 0.5 and about 2 of maximum although in the sRGB color space. These are adequate for color correction. Anything above 2 is not.
It's not just B&H . . . A number of other retail outlets are also discounting 15" models. Not all configurations, but also more than just 1.
This still doesn't really indicate wether the product is unsuccessful. If this keeps on going and is replicated on the Apple site with an official price drop, that would send a signal.
To the contrary, the fact that so many retail outlets are discounting so much, so soon, and willing to price match the others, definitely signals that they are not selling well at the full retail price.
But believe what you wish . . .
All they need to do to correct this is release another model. Call it the MacBook Plus. Put back the ports that were removed, add an honest tech refresh (including Nvidia for Cuda), remove that ridiculous gimmick touchbar to put back keys that Pro's actually use touch type for hotkeys, return the sd card slot that media Pros use often, and the problem is solved. I said it before, these "innovations" belonged in the MacBook line, not the Pro line. I think the MacBook audience would have appreciated them more.
Apple's choice of USB (over its proprietary and ill-fated ADC interface) is unlikely to have affected USB adoption much. Here is Apple's market share since the iMac G3 introduction:
https://theoverspill.blog/2015/07/1...rkets-implosion-is-squeezing-smaller-players/
https://theoverspill.blog/2015/07/1...rkets-implosion-is-squeezing-smaller-players/
Firewire was also supposed to be "the port of the future", then it was "Thunderbolt forever", Mini-Displayport did not catch on either and Apple has now dropped it too... USB-C will probably succeed, but it will regardless of Apple. I reiterate that a professional likes to be able to go to meetings, work at client's locations and in the lab without a pocketful of adapters.
Anywho - B&H providing discounts on the 15" is clearly to shift inventory from the assets in the end-of-year accounts and as a way to get free publicity by being front-paged on a couple of websites. Even if noone buys the 15" 2016 from them, they're still given exposure over, say, Amazon.
Yeah, and now that the same port that we use to charge our devices is used for data, what we really need is a port that disconnects easily. Because you know what pros like? They love corrupted drives from frequently incorrectly their drives. That's what pros love, right mr professional? Good job, genius.
Oh yeah, I forgot that nobody can do photography with the fastest quad core CPU and a high end graphics card. I forgot about that. LOL, of course that's true.
Oh yeah, I forgot how professionals don't have $10 to spend on a dongle for their professions and how they hate when companies make decisions that will have the long term effect of benefiting their field. I forgot about how that happens.
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The truth literally never hurts. LOL, sad.
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Yeah, it's too bad the MacBook Pro is the best hardware money can buy.
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And now that data is passed over the same port, allowing your port to easily disconnect will pull your data and corrupt your drive. It's almost like Apple does things for good reasons. But you wouldn't know anything bout that.
Wow, because you just can't have a power cord? It has to also be a data port? Very short sighted of you, but then again you seem like you have Apple glasses on. The point is that you would have a MagSafe AND those 4 data ports. Face it, Apple kind of took a step back for some odd reason. The MagSafe was hands down the best power adapter out there and now we have a brittle solution that is no better and actually worse. If you use one of your data ports for power you can't use it for data huh?
Yeah, because when I think the future of computing what I imagine is every port doing 1 thing. That way if I want to do 5 things, I get to use 5 cables. Also, that way I have to have 5 different connector types. What an amazing future we would live in then, right?
Let's have 1 port for data, 1 port for video, 1 port for audio, 1 port for data. So convenient!
I personally have no need to upgrade, I'm a software dev and part time musician, don't know why a normal user would need to upgrade a machine that is a couple of years old. I believe I use my machines quite a lot and they still got more than enough power to spare.
My 2009 Mac Pro will probably not be replaced until it blows up (knock on wood it does not).
My 2009 Mac Pro will probably not be replaced until it blows up (knock on wood it does not).
That's literally what I'm talking about. Wow, how sad that you can't even keep tabs on your own points. If we have MagSafe then we either need to go back to having single use ports or we have to accept that our multi-use ports will be super easy to disconnect. Whether or not you think the MagSafe connector is superior (even though you've literally only provided one reason why you think it's superior and ignored all other considerations that go into choosing a connector type), you have to choose between single use and multiple-usages.
How are you this confused?
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Apple Store refunded tax too?! Which Apple store was this?
Can I assume from your post that you got base 15" for $2599 out the door , no tax, from an Apple store.
I have no idea how you got from I like to keep MagSafe to where you ended up.
But just to make it clear for you.
I think it's a terrible idea to use the same port for charging as for data transfer. Not only because you then loose one port that could potentially be used for data, but because there is absolutely no need to do so. I'd like a dedicated charging port please, one with MagSafe technology to keep my Mac safe. Easy.
Of course I can afford an adapter, there is just no reason whatsoever at the moment why I should have to buy one as USB-A is still king for at least another few years. A MacBook Pro with 2 USB-C, 2 USB-A, MagSafe and HDMI would have been perfect in this interim period. Then the next major upgrade in 4 years can go all out USB-C if this port takes off and doesn't become another FireWire disaster...
I love fast laptops, that's great, but I'd prefer a fast laptop that has good connectivity and great features such as MagSafe. You know like the pro Macs used to have.
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Your two points have nothing to do with one and other, you are the one who is confused.
Leave MagSafe alone, that should be a port purely for charging the computer.
The other ports are data ports and they can be both single and multiple ports.
There is absolutely no sensible reason whatsoever to remove the MagSafe as a single port charging port.
Oh, what a great idea. Let's have one of our ports only get used for power so when we don't need to charge our device we don't get to have an extra all-purpose port. Instead we have to take up space that could have been used for a dedicated USB-C port with a single use power port. What a brilliant idea. How did Apple not think of such a limiting and backwards concept? GENIUS!
Look, its pretty obvious that you don't need or have use for a real computer. All you need is a little toy that you can carry around all day working on battery power with a few general purpose ports. Thats great, I am happy for you. Apple makes a good product for you. Whats wrong here is that you cannot understand that other people have use for real computers that do real processing and won't run all day on battery no matter what. And when used on battery Apple cripples processing speed to save battery life and that resulting lower processing speed is not acceptable. For some reasons you think Apple should not make a computer for our use. Now I don't know why you are being so divisive and so hateful to real computer users, but it does no one any good except to deter real or pro computer users from using and recommending Apple products. No one, that I know at least, wants to change Apple's low end products. All that we are asking for is for Apple to recognize that a substantial users base is not happy and is moving away from Apple products.
You don't understand it, which is fine, but that does not make it untrue.
Delta E was .65 on 2016 out of the box. Contrast was absolutely superb for a laptop too. So much more detail in the blacks. Most publications I have read came to around the same score. Nofilmschool's numbers are really weird. Looking at the 2016 MacBook Pro and my NEC PA series calibrated displays, they look really really close by eye. My 2012 retina doesn't look anywhere near the NEC's especially in contrast.
Apple is steering their customers into being ready for what may be a 'MacPad Pro' without any ports.
'Pro' being the marketing equivalent of 'Extreme'.
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Possibly hooking up an external monitor with a single cable and charging at the same time.
TIL Machine Learning and particle physics isn't real work on a computer. LOL, nice.
That is why we don't buy new Macs, and Apple thinks there is no market.
Just give us option for a lot of RAM and SSD, and ports, and watch the sales!
Even if they are ugly.
Sorry! couldn't stop myself.
Except for the multitouch interface, that will remain iOS only.
Overall, Apple does what it has always done.
But Apple is in the mainstream business now, and doing radical things to new devices might just cause more head scratching amongst their new customers.