funny you say that, because "confusing" is the word quoted by many tech expert during Apple's hands-on session with this laptop
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Early Benchmarks Put Retina MacBook CPU Performance in Range of 2011 MacBook Air
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funny you say that, because "confusing" is the word quoted by many tech expert during Apple's hands-on session with this laptop
Makes me feel even better about my decision to buy my MacBook Air 13" 2015 model for $900 last week. Waited for the retina Air/ MacBook for about two years, and wasn't about to wait two more for Apple to give it what it should have gotten for the price when first announced.
I wrote that the size and weight difference is negligible, not the display.
Retina is amazing and makes a big difference in every day use. The only thing I don't like is that in retina mode users will have even less space than MacBook Air owners.
I believe that the new Macbook is an amazing piece of technology, but it is something that will probably get much much better in its second iteration.
You actually sat around and thought about what numbers the new rMB would produce in GeekBench scores? Within a range of 100-200 points?
That's a bit odd.
Its actually a little better than whats listed here. Single 1337, Multi 3096
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+M-5Y70+@+1.10GHz
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+M-5Y70+@+1.10GHz
If it retains the Core M processor and fanless design, it will never come close to the raw performance of a MBP.
This seems to be your modus operandi. Respond to only a small portion of a post in a snarky and non-productive way.
Care to elaborate further on any of the more detailed points in my post? Or is the extent of your argument just cliche and hackneyed Apple hate arguments.... on an Apple centric forum?
2012 15"rMBP, using parallels with windows 7. It performs great! On my 2012 Mac mini, I just loaded win 7 with boot camp, and solidworks does run, but the graphics aren't too great on it.
I think that the one thing apple does better than any other company is that they know their market very well. There seems to be a theme in recent years.
1. Apple releases new product.
2. People on forums say apple has finally lost the plot and they are doomed.
3. Product sells incredibly well.
4. People on forums say that isheep will buy anything with an apple logo.
Meanwhile, in the real world, apple has designed a product that will suit the majority of users in that segment and the majority of customers are very happy with it.
The one port thing seems like a strange choice but I thought they were stupid when they didn't release a big screen iphone 5 and that worked out ok for them.
1. Apple releases new product.
2. People on forums say apple has finally lost the plot and they are doomed.
3. Product sells incredibly well.
4. People on forums say that isheep will buy anything with an apple logo.
Meanwhile, in the real world, apple has designed a product that will suit the majority of users in that segment and the majority of customers are very happy with it.
The one port thing seems like a strange choice but I thought they were stupid when they didn't release a big screen iphone 5 and that worked out ok for them.
It's fairly obvious and safe to say that the average consumer does not engage in active opinion sharing and arguments in the Macrumors forum. In fact, the average consumer probably doesn't even know this site exists.
This forum gives you a very skewed view of Apples market by the very nature of the forum.
The same phenomenon can be found in the Photography community. The techies post on forums and exhaustingly do sharpness and color tests, comparing pixels between two different products. The artists and professionals are out in the real world creating and working. They could care less about minute details that are painstakingly argued over by the techies who probably never even shoot.
If you read the forum only and had no other perspective, you'd literally think everything was trash.
It's no different than here.
You can copy large amounts of data through your Internet connection or local network. I have about 1.8 Tb stored in the Cloud and about 4Tb on my local NAS.
Just a few weeks I needed to copy a virtual machine from one machine to another. Its size was about 50Gb. I could have stood up, found a USB-drive connected it to the source machine, copied the file, disconnected, connected the USB drive to the destination machine, copied the file onto the computer.
Instead I was lazy and while I was sitting in my sofa, I just copied the entire 50Gb through my own wireless network. Yes, it took an hour, but I was in no hurry and was doing other stuff while the copying took place in the background.
I think a lot of users would have been fine with a 128Gb SSD, but Apple does not offer that.
Chromebooks have 16Gb of SSD and they are an example of a pure cloud solution.
The Macbook is more of a hybrid. You store a subset of your data on the machine for much faster access and you use the cloud to move data between the cloud and different machines so that you do not need USB drives.
And the Macbook can even support USB drives! It has one port! Just unplug the power, plug in the USB drive, copy the file, unplug the USB drive, plug in the power again. Pretty easy if you ask me.
Assuming there were reviewers who felt that way (I actually don't remember reading that, but there may have been some), do we trust them to tell us what to buy???
I thought the party line here at MR was that they were all ignorant wh0res trolling for clicks?
So am I right in thinking it's the same speed as a 2011 machine, but is running 4 times as many pixels... forgive me if that's a simplistic view? But it sounds pretty good to me, and 3 times better battery too is a bonus too.
To be clear, it's a CPU test only which is only a fraction of your overall experience using s computer.
Apple Inc...
Kills $400 netbooks by creating iPad
Turns existing product lines into $1300 netbooks
He knows too much!
I don't think I've stopped chuckling to myself about this story since it was posted on here
So Apple have gone from a mid powered full featured MacBook Laptop to a thin design less featured and less powerful MacBook Air and then to a very minimum featured and very low power new MacBook.
Brilliant, and then they charge the same for it as the new MacBook Pro and current MacBook Air.
Man you have to be certifiable to buy this new MacBook over an Air. You would REALLY want to have the screen resolution.
Mind you, just as funny is the fact that the new Surface 3 tablet has more ports then the MacBook does!
So Apple have gone from a mid powered full featured MacBook Laptop to a thin design less featured and less powerful MacBook Air and then to a very minimum featured and very low power new MacBook.
Brilliant, and then they charge the same for it as the new MacBook Pro and current MacBook Air.
Man you have to be certifiable to buy this new MacBook over an Air. You would REALLY want to have the screen resolution.
Mind you, just as funny is the fact that the new Surface 3 tablet has more ports then the MacBook does!
Well I am one of those who hand carry a notebook around all day Weight is usually a big selling point for me (to point where even a couple of hundred grams shaved off the weight has usually had me reaching for my wallet) but the trade off in ports this time around just isn't viable.
Sure, as the owner *I* might have an incentive to go out and buy USB-C based sticks/peripherals to plug into this minimalist marvel, but clients sitting with conventional USB ports would have zero incentive/requirement to do likewise any time soon.
End result: even something as simple and common as being able to transfer files to a USB stick that a client might hand me, would mean carrying a USB-C to USB dongle every single time I stepped out the door.
Versus carrying an air with conventional USB baked in, it's just not worth the hassle.
Call me certifiable then. I REALLY do. It's the killer feature of the new MacBook. That, and 1.5 lbs. lighter than the MacBook Pro which is the only other way to get a Mac laptop with a high-res screen.
I will not own a standard resolution computer screen, ever again. Blech!
You are spot on. The early adopters take the hit, those who wait will get an improved offering
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So do you ship before or after the chip is available? apples's choice.
Good to know. It would probably be pretty janky on my '09 octo then, even with the upgraded video card and 14gigs or ram.