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How about a keyboard that doesn't have a double-digit failure rate?
Anyone? Anyone?
Bueller?
#FIRETHEACCOUNTANT
Anyone? Anyone?
Bueller?
#FIRETHEACCOUNTANT
They also no longer sell a Macbook Pro with removal/replaceable/upgradeable storage.
When was the last time they sold a MBP w/ such things? I remember I was able to upgrade my RAM on my 2010 model. Not since I believe.
When was the last time they sold a MBP w/ such things? I remember I was able to upgrade my RAM on my 2010 model. Not since I believe.
How about a keyboard that doesn't have a double-digit failure rate?
Anyone? Anyone?
Bueller?
#FIRETHEACCOUNTANT
Here are four laptops with Ice Lake that have been announced with Acer, HP, Dell and Lenovo.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-ice-lake-laptops,39479.html
Announcements of Ice Lake release in 2019 by Intel at CES and during an earnings call. During the earning call the CEO, Swan, said, "We remain on track to have volume client systems on shelves for the holiday selling season."
https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/intel-ice-lake-cpu-everything-you-need-to-know/
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-earnings-10nm-ice-lake,39178.html
Despite Intels constant delays in the past I'd be very surprised if they don't start delivering mobile 10nm processors this year. Another delay would be disastrous. With the improvements that Ice Lake will bring in things like wifi, graphics and hopefully battery life, it's hard to imagine Apple not upgrading the Air and Pro along with their competitors this year.
Apple won't own up to the data on failure rates, so all of it is anecdotal.You got statistics on the 2012-2015 MacBook Pro models as well as the 2015-2019 MacBook and MacBook Pros to back up that claim of double-digit failure rates or are you simply trying to be the squeakiest wheel on the forum?
Tim Cook went to business school, but has never served as an "accountant". His focus has always been supply chain, fulfillment, operations related. The CFO at Apple is Luca Maestri - https://www.apple.com/leadership/luca-maestri/
You might not like the way Apple is run now, but Steve Jobs must have because he is the one who recommended Tim Cook for the CEO job to the Board of Directors. Like it or not, Tim Cook is a huge part of the reason Apple still exists and has grown to its current size and scope. No one can replace Steve Jobs, but life happens, time marches on and things change. I don't like all of Apple's decisions, but Apple is strong, profitable, selling product and moving forward regardless. It could be a lot worse off, and it was...people seem to forget just how dire things were.
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That may be the case, however considering the 2012's base configuration included a 2.5 GHz i5, 4GB RAM, and a 500GB hard drive, it was a lot more of an attractive and useful offering at the time. Albeit, slow storage, but people didn't care as much at the time. 500GB for a primary drive is plenty.
I have and still use that machine (upgraded with 512GB SSD and 16GB RAM) today. The optical drive has long been replaced with a 1TB HDD, soon to be an SSD. Sadly, stock dual internal drives is something that has never been seen as an option for a newer MacBook (that I am aware of). Obviously very well worth the price at the time, and still getting macOS Catalina.
How about a discussion that doesn't use 100% made-up statistics?How about a keyboard that doesn't have a double-digit failure rate?
Butterfly release: Massive and widespread complaints, Apple acknowledges major issue and switches to PR mode, tries to fix with design tweaks. Informal polls suggest up to 50% failure rates at Apple-centric organizations.
I didn't use any statistics because there are none.How about a discussion that doesn't use 100% made-up statistics?
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And how do the failure rates in these 'internal polls' differ between the (at least) four different versions of the butterfly keyboards?
How many times do I need to dispel the myth that Tim Cook is an accountant or “bean counter”? He was Chief OPERATING Officer before he was CEO. The leading accountant is the Chief FINANCIAL officer. That’s Luca Maestri, who I doubt has ever been in a design meeting at Apple.I didn't use any statistics because there are none.
Keyboards should be so reliable you've never heard of one failing. 4 attempts at getting the butterfly to work and we are still hearing about it being crap.
Then hearing that it is discontinued, right here on macrumors. That is the definition of an egregious, disastrous failure.
It should not have taken them 4 years to acknowledge it; they should have supported their users and taken the financial hit by phasing it out as soon as it was clear what they had done.
But they are run by a guy who is constantly sacrificing user satisfaction in favour of the stock price.
#FIRETHEACCOUNTANT
Regardless of what his business card says, he runs the company like an accountant.How many times do I need to dispel the myth that Tim Cook is an accountant or “bean counter”? He was Chief OPERATING Officer before he was CEO. The leading accountant is the Chief FINANCIAL officer. That’s Luca Maestri, who I doubt has ever been in a design meeting at Apple.
I wouldn't hold my breath for Ice Lake shipping in significant volume this year. Right now is the time where PC OEMs would be expecting to hear about large scale volume from Intel and given the delays in the process, I am sure Intel would be trumpeting it to the world when they hit that milestone. We've seen scant news and Intel is still forging ahead with more and more CPUs based on 14nm and is moving up timetables on some. The best that Apple users might expect this year would be a revision to the 13" MacBook Air if Intel actually ships volume of the 9nm Y-Series ULV CPUs. The fact that Apple just shipped a brand new iteration of the 13" MacBook Pro with a 15w TDP Coffee Lake-based 8th Gen CPU and did nothing CPU wise with the 13" MacBook Air is telling of just how far behind Intel still is with 10nm. If 10nm is right around the corner, why introduce a new 14nm CPU and put it in the 13" MacBook Pro. To update it in October or Early November with Ice Lake? That's not how Apple operates. And after the Broadwell disaster and Skylake (non)issues(?), I think Apple is going to take a very conservative approach to moving to Ice Lake. You won't see Apple release anything this year with Ice Lake, it will be end of Q1 or Q2/2020, if Intel even ships this year. If there are any revisions to Air and 13" Pro this year, it would come in the form of 9th Gen U- and Y-Series CPUs with Gen 11 iGPUs tacked on. Just my 2¢.
I don't think Apple can be left behind with the significant benefits Ice Lake will provide for other laptop makers. And shipments have already started backing up Intels confidence. I guess we will have to wait to see.
Yes...I did a search and found this article - https://www.anandtech.com/show/1467...cial-shipments-of-10-nm-ice-lake-cpus-to-oems
If Apple revises anything this year with Ice Lake CPUS, I suspect it will be the 13" MacBook Air.
following up later in 2020 with a revised 16" MacBook Pro using 45w TDP H-Series Ice Lake.
After the MacBook fiasco, I think they're wary of dipping their toes in a low-volume Intel part again.
They were probably promised that Y-series CPUs would go up in performance much faster than they did (which, if Cannon Lake-Y had ever actually launched, would probably have happened). Instead, Whiskey Lake-Y is not only not that much faster, but also increases the TDP by 2W. That, among other design constraints, probably helped kill off the (Intel-based) 12-inch MacBook.
We'll see how it goes for Ice Lake-Y.
It seems the H-series will remain on 14nm until 2021.
then I remember that although AMD has some really good products now, I just cannot trust them to not slide back down the valley again.