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Best Buy Pulls 12-Inch MacBook, Fueling Hopes for April Refresh
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With this laptop there is no room to make it worse. It will be slightly faster and come in four oxidations.
I'll only buy the 12" MacBook if the put1 1tb of flash storage in it.
When will people realize that the new 12" MB IS the retina MacBook Air?
Hummm... I always thought product announcements came after earning announcements?
Anyway... I'm anxious to hear what's next with the MacBooks. The pressure is on to make them really good.
Sometimes it just hangs and either resolves itself after a half a minute or so or you can bring it back to life with a quick off/on of wi-fi from the status bar. Airplay audio is particularly impacted by it. Some days it works fine, others it has audio dropouts or occasionally just gives up on the Airplay receiver completely.
Not sure why the price gets so much flak. It comes standard with a Retina Display, keyboard, force touch trackpad, 8GB RAM, and 256GB Storage. Plus, according to Intel ARK a core M isn't much cheaper or the same price as a 15W i5. Even compared to Razer Stealth and Surface Pro 4 with similar specs the rMB price is about in-line with the competition. Not saying it couldn't use price drop, but I think people complain about its price a little too much.
If Apple had released $999-$1099 model with 4GB RAM and 128GB people would've complained that there was too little RAM in the base model.
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I'm in the US, and I was noticing it with both 2.4 and 5 GHz networks. I upgraded my ~2011 Time Capsule to the newest model with 802.11ac support and the improved antenna design, hoping that would help, but it hasn't made much of a difference -- the bigger difference is that it now advertises the two frequencies as a single network, so I'm not even sure which one I'm connecting to without investigation.
Again, this hasn't been bad enough to be a dealbreaker, but it definitely has room to improve.
Some people will consider this rMB as the vista of MacBook lineup, yet the amount of such user would not be too much.
I, for me, need a great balance between: portability, ports availability and performance, plus a good keyboard. rMB sacrifice ports availability and good keyboard in exchange for ultra portability and performance drop. I have tried to use This retina MacBook in Apple Store just so many times, but I still don't find a reason to buy it. No need to mention its hefty price. iPad Pro is even better as it has a touch screen and Apple Pencil.
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I, for me, need a great balance between: portability, ports availability and performance, plus a good keyboard. rMB sacrifice ports availability and good keyboard in exchange for ultra portability and performance drop. I have tried to use This retina MacBook in Apple Store just so many times, but I still don't find a reason to buy it. No need to mention its hefty price. iPad Pro is even better as it has a touch screen and Apple Pencil.
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It is NOT retina MacBook Air anyway.
If they're doing the low-key update for the MacBook, that means MPB and whatever happens to the future of the Air will be center stage at the next event.
Actually it is. The rMB is pretty much the natural progression Apple would take to replace the MBA. Smaller, lighter, retina display. It's pretty much same progression as the cMBP -> rMBP. The only difference is that Apple didn't call the 12" rMB a MacBook Air. Removing the Air moniker for a MBA replacement makes since anyway, since the MBA basically took over the spot of the lineup that the old "MacBook" fulfilled.
Expecting a Retina MBA now is like if back in 2012 Apple released the rMBP as "MacBook Plus" instead of "MacBook Pro with Retina Display" then still expecting a Retina cMBP.
imac has refreash in late 2015 and probably new one will come in August with polaris and pascal dgpu and thunderbolt 3 usb-c
PS the 27" imac is the only mac that already has skylake cpu
I agree, but does Apple really think all people who are used to a 13" screen are willing to "downgrade" to a 12" screen? The older I get, the more my eyes prefer a larger screen - and not a smaller one. Retina does not make a difference here.
Probably just an update to Skylake Core M. I wonder if the USB-C port will be upgraded to Thunderbolt 3, but I doubt it. That may be reserved for the MacBook Pro.
People made the same argument about the 17" cMBP. Just as rMBP can scale 1920x1200 of the old 17", the 12" MB can scale the old 1440x900 of the old 13" MBA. EDIT: Just as KPOM said, I could also certainly see a 14" rMB.
It's the logical replacement for the 11.6" MacBook Air. I wouldn't be surprised to see a 14" MacBook ultimately replace the 13.3" MacBook Air and sport a Core i5/i7.
US Apple shows Wednesday for Macbook, Tuesday for iPad Pro. I'm excited.
I'm almost in the market for a new machine at home, so I'd definitely take a look. The form factor is great for me, but I would like to see another port, and of course a price drop. I don't need a lot of power when I'm at home, I just need something that works that I don't need to mess with, but has a real file system.
I guess we are supposed to be overjoyed that this laptop comes standard with a keyboard?
The thing about the price is that this product doesn't existist in a vacuum. There are better machines out there that are just as portable, have more ports and better keyboards, and cost less to boot (although they run a crappy operating system
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The rMB would be an attractive machine for everyday computing except it's seemingly high price point compared to the MBA. It is important to note, though, that speccing a MBA with 8GB RAM and 256GB storage puts its cost on par with the rMB.
I know many forum users will disagree with my premise, but the everyday user doesn't need A) external connectivity or B) a powerful processor. I work in higher education, and our Mac system administrator considers me a "power user." With the exception of the occasional thumb drive/external hard drive, I never need to connect external peripherals. In terms of processing power, the most demanding thing I do is the occasional editing of teaching videos in iMovie. Other than that, my tasks are limited to Microsoft Office, web applications, and the some statistical analyses in SPSS and Stata.
I know many forum users will disagree with my premise, but the everyday user doesn't need A) external connectivity or B) a powerful processor. I work in higher education, and our Mac system administrator considers me a "power user." With the exception of the occasional thumb drive/external hard drive, I never need to connect external peripherals. In terms of processing power, the most demanding thing I do is the occasional editing of teaching videos in iMovie. Other than that, my tasks are limited to Microsoft Office, web applications, and the some statistical analyses in SPSS and Stata.
It's not about the resolution, because still every letter displayed on screen will be smaller. And with diminishing eyesight (which usually starts around age 35-40) the goal is to increase the size of each letter, not to decrease it, no matter the underlying resolution.