That’s because you bought a phablet not a tablet. I think the Plus phones are fantastic! In fact I find myself going to my iPad less and less since I bought the 7 Plus. The only thing I don’t like is that it is almost too big for my pocket. Hopefully the X Plus will solve this problem.
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'Entry-Level' 13-inch MacBook, Redesigned iPad Pros With Faster 18W USB-C Charger Coming in September, But no New iPad Mini
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That’s because you bought a phablet not a tablet. I think the Plus phones are fantastic! In fact I find myself going to my iPad less and less since I bought the 7 Plus. The only thing I don’t like is that it is almost too big for my pocket. Hopefully the X Plus will solve this problem.
I agree - I've had kids, nieces, nephews that used iPad minis in the past, but whenever I had someone ask (for children) which iPad to go for I always suggest the 9.7" iPad (since the 5th gen launched in 2017). Regularly updated, good price, nice screen size for general use. Very easy decision now (even more so since seeing the clearer lineup of iPad and iPad Pro).
Regular i5 even with a sub 2.0Ghz clock is still much stronger than core m. It wouldn’t be a monster but at that price it was never going to be.
I felt the same thing during the year that I was using a 7 Plus. I don't think the X Plus will solve that pocket-ability problem for you, but the X definitely could.
Doctors loved the iPad Mini. What most people didn't see was that the size of the iPad Mini fit perfectly in the lab coat pocket. My sister told me that everyone in her residency had one. My dad carried one on his patients rounds. I don't understand why they would drop that size. Not everyone wants a full sized iPad or iPad Pro.
Yeah, the X feels exactly like a 6 or 7 in the hand just a little bit longer. The reason why I passed on it was because I didn’t want to lose the extra real estate the Plus has but I may have no choice is the X Plus is too big.
I would’ve been happy with the 6.1” LCD 9 or X whatever they call it but it doesn’t have the dual lens and that is a deal breaker. I can’t go back to not having portrait mode after using it for almost two years.
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Yes you can! It already exists! I bought one to charge my phone when I bought the MBP in late 2016.
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Yes there is. Apple is designed in California and Assembled in China. Samsung isn’t designed in America!
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My Air 1 is showing its age too even though the battery is still in fantastic shape. I never really used it that much. Supposedly performance for A7 devices will be improved a lot with iOS 12 but either way that will be the end of the road for Apple’s first 64-bit ARM CPU.
[doublepost=1534528751][/doublepost]I fear this will be the end of the iconic illuminated Apple logo. Those who want it for a couple of more years should buy a fully loaded Air right now before they’re gone forever or a 2015 13” which is still a much better machine.
It can charge up to three devices at the same time (though their might be asterisks as to what combination of devices is possible). And it can charge both the Apple Watch and standard Qi devices (standard Qi charging devices cannot charge the Apple Watch). One could in theory argue that it is thus worth three charging mats (with one of them being the more expensive, since requiring certification from Apple, Apple Watch charging mat). It might also allow a much more casual placement of the devices being charged (don't remember the precise details on this or how much was actually said on that topic).
Whether that justifies $150, is another question.
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Probably because the new Mac Pro is a 2019 product as Apple announced several months ago.
iBooks and MacBooks (non-Pro) used to start at $999 years ago. That's a fact which your comment is overlooking
Apple _could_ make a sub-$1000 laptop, but they prefer to have a healthy profit margin instead. Mac laptops are very different from your average PC laptop.
Expect the numb keyboard-from-Hell pulled from the MBP. I'd bet $100 on it. No way will Apple retreat on that horrible stage-prop of a keyboard. That's admitting defeat and Jony Ive doesn't make mistakes.
I just bought the current MBA so I don't lose useful ports and a nice keyboard. Retina? Who cares?
I just bought the current MBA so I don't lose useful ports and a nice keyboard. Retina? Who cares?
if the 13 inch macbook really is going to be the new entry level macbook they most likely will kill the 12 inch model
this makes sense as there would be no need or reason for a 12 inch and 13 inch macbook to coexist, even if there were performance differences
so 1,200 bucks might well gonna be the cheapest ticket to enter the Mac universe
this makes sense as there would be no need or reason for a 12 inch and 13 inch macbook to coexist, even if there were performance differences
so 1,200 bucks might well gonna be the cheapest ticket to enter the Mac universe
No need for a mini. People just need to wait few more years till Apple reaches the size of a mini on an iPhone. Judging by the current trend we will hit mini format in about 2 years.
Goddamit Apple, stop with the nonsense.
Goddamit Apple, stop with the nonsense.
Is rumored processor duel core? Was speaking of potential use of 12 and new 13. Would expect the about the same and about same target market.
With a 18:9 form factor instead of 4:3? No iPad versions of the Apps running? No Swift Playground? lol! What do you smoked lately?
That’s what I believe. If they are going to use Kaby Lake it will be dual. I don’t know if they will use Kaby Lake or Kaby Lake Refresh. The former is in the 13” base MBP right now. The latter has slower clock speeds but 2 extra cores. The catch is that the GPU is not Iris and much much worse.
Sound like they're keeping the MBA around indefinitely for their sub-$1K offering. It's the new Mac Mini.
Which new processors? There are no 15-W TDP Coffee Lake processors yet (there is a 15-W TDP '8th-gen' Kaby Lake R processor but it only comes with an inferior graphic processor than what is in the 2017 nTB MBP).
You're right in line with my thinking...
There appears to a bit of an underworld of us who preferred a variety of the previous gen/other ideology products that are a market to be had. I'm totally in love with my SE and have zero - zero - interest in what they are making right now for iPhones (other than the SE) and the design choices and tradeoffs they keep making across most all the products.
It's seriously frustrating.
Depends on how you define 'richest'. Largest revenue? Largest profits? Largest cash-on-hand pile?
Bring out a $499-$599 entry level laptop (because they can, if they wanted to), and see how many new users they could acquire overnight!
Missing in the headline:
"...and no new MacMini either"
Such a shame when a company does everything it can to drive away it's own customers.
One MacBook Pro disaster after another, Mac Pro is...well....it's a trashcan.
One iPhone disaster after another...
Maybe next years Mac Pro will be a decent computer.
"...and no new MacMini either"
Such a shame when a company does everything it can to drive away it's own customers.
One MacBook Pro disaster after another, Mac Pro is...well....it's a trashcan.
One iPhone disaster after another...
Maybe next years Mac Pro will be a decent computer.
they surely will clean up their messy line up
and they most certainly will make you pay for it