The point is that Apple are screwing us over and acting as though they deserve a medal for doing so. We should not need to spend more money just to get decent performance because Apple seem to have deliberately turned down the speed etc.
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Base 13-Inch MacBook Pro With M2 Chip Has Significantly Slower SSD Speeds
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If that was even remotely true then why are they reusing last year's box? They just put the M2 MacBook Pro 13" into an OLD M1 box and stuck a label over the M1 monitor!
That is Apple deciding that they wish to make even more profits than they do and not even deliver anything new other than the CPU.
Talk about the ultimate screw over, what's next Tim? Sell us a MacBook that is just a box from 10 years ago with nothing inside?
Actually it is something and something bad, kinda like being sold a brand new car but the car maker decides to screw you over and take 1 wheel off and also half the engine.
You would not put up with that so why this?
The machine sells well enough that it warranted a revision and quite frankly in my old company the 13" MBP is standard issue if you request a Mac. Yes, it's a cheap move to rebrand unused boxes. There I won't disagree.
Apple make obscene profits and so they could just stop being greedy if what you say were true. This is a case of Tim being greedy and not caring less about the end result or user.
The point is Apple aren't correct for doing this, they cannot and should not be excused...!What is going on with this forum in the past five years? lol My post had zero praise of Apple's choice. It's like a bunch of rabid attach dogs when anyone post anything not bashing apple. You know what? "Life is good" when base model machines can R/W at 1400MBs FOR ANY BRAND! Holy smokes... 🙄
I push my machine harder than most so I have something that is well above the base model,so you can sleep a little better my friend.
It is called the principle, something most of you lack in my experience.
I can buy 8/265, 8/512, 16/512, 16/1Tb and pick up today. 24Gb anything and it's July 15 - Aug 4
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Because Tim Cook is in my view a useless **** of a CEO and has NO clue about products or what the end user is likely to want.
Steve Jobs would not have settled for this mess and would have fired half the senior engineering team behind this and made sure the replacements did not mess-up.
All Tim seems to care about is as much profit as possible at the direct expense of quality and what customers deserve.
He has to go, end of!
Steve is dead, let the man rest. Deal with what you have right now and vote with your wallet if you feel such passion.
No, actually. This is bad and case of Apple screwing people over. You do know that they are reusing last years boxes for the M1 machines right and just slapping a sticker over the revenant part?
It is like the Simpsons and Family Guy crossover where Peter Griffin takes a bottle of Homer's favourite drink (Duff beer) and peeling back the label to reveal it is in fact just Duff Beer with a different label on.
Tim is really REALLY penny pinching here which he should not do seeing as Apple have over $160 BILLION cash in the bank!
IF that is true then they should reduce the price and at least tell us instead of spouting that nonsense about how fast these machines are...yeah right! lol
Wrong! This is big and Apple need to do better than screw people over because Tim is a miserly cheap so and so!
They even are reusing last year's box, why do none of you get that????????
Stop giving Apple a free pass!
He is probably one of the most successful CEOs in the history of modern business and has created much of Apple's 2+ trillion dollars in valuation and amassed hundreds of billions in cash on hand over the years based almost entirely on selling products that people want to buy. For all the credit Steve Jobs gets Cook has probably sold more in AirPods in a bad quarter than Steve brought into Apple between 1976 and 2011.
It IS slower than the previous version (SSD) and not to mention reusing last year's box and nothing, NOTHING, I repeat NOTHING NOTHING NOTHING has changed on this 6 year old machine apart from the CPU.
That is as bad as buying a car that is sold as being this year's model but is the EXACT same as the 6 year old model apart from a slightly better engine.
That is called screwing you over!
Why the secrecy then? I suspect this is very deliberate knowing Tim and his desire to be as greedy as he can be whilst ignoring quality addend user in a way Jobs would never EVER have done!
Apple made the best decision for their bottom line and rich rich shareholders, not the enduser. Tim is a money man, a penny pincher in my view and all his decisions seem to show that.
This is wrong and inexcusable and that is that!
How about tell us first and then REDUCE the price, Tim's greed is getting out of control. What is next, sell us an empty box for $10,000 and call it the thinest lightest best Mac ever????
Pro-tip - Avoid getting "screwed over" and giving medals to Apple by.... not buying it.
Everyone else can enjoy a machine that performs faster than a 13" M1 MacBook Pro for 99% of the things that they will do with it. For the 1% things that will be slower they can use the spare time to.... (oh, it's already done? - Never mind...)