Still no movement here in the Netherlands, I ordered in the first 10 minutes of the online store opening.
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Still no movement here in the Netherlands, I ordered in the first 10 minutes of the online store opening.
Same like you, order placed 5 minutes after orders available.
I hope for 17 nov....
According to the MacRumors whiners, you just outed yourselves as non-professional, and as sheep. Because only sheep buy one of the new Macs. Others doubt you even exist and say Apple made up all the numbers about pre-orders. I'd really like to know what you thought about some of these threads.
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Only the most expensive of the three different 2015 models can. And only 1x 5K or 2x 4K, same as all 13" models now, and half of what all new 15" models offer.
I don't really care about others ... I was interested before keynote and I remained interested after that .. Apple doesn't needs to invent numbers to sell something.. The truth is the expensive prices and many people can't buy the new macbook for this reason, so they invent stories and decry the product...
Do the estimated shipping dates change if Apple think they can deliver sooner or do they always stay the same as of the day of order?
Also: I see that it says "4-5 weeks" on my confirmation, but according to the dates its 5-6 weeks.
Also: I see that it says "4-5 weeks" on my confirmation, but according to the dates its 5-6 weeks.
Sounds like you need a little, unobtrusive button on the side of the machine with a tiny row of, otherwise invisible, LEDs that light up to show the battery power. Haven't seen that since the 2011 MacBook Pro. Kids today probably don't even know it ever existed.
If my calculations are right, that means you can transfer the whole 256GB SSD in about 3.5 min . Now is this a positive or a negative?
Echoing many other people. My order placed on the 27th is still showing a "3-4 weeks 24th -Dec 1st" delivery window for the UK. Ho-hum as long as it turns up before xmas!
And that would have been so much fun to unbox and set up on the plane! Lol. That sucks.
Yeah, I've found they typically over-estimate it by a week so I'm still hoping for the 3 week mark. I called up to see if they could bump me up to my original dates and she said no, but she 'called the warehouse' and asked them to put a priority on my order lol. I'm sure it did nothing but I appreciated her trying to make me feel better.
Is it really the future? Or are you just swalling the latest thing that Apple has put out?
That 'marching sound, sounds a lot like the footsteps of a lemming.
Thanks. I ordered the exact same one about one week later. Delivery is supposed to be mid December.
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That clicking sound, sounds a lot like the typing of someone who resorts to name-calling because they can't accept that there are intelligent people who can decide for themselves whether a laptop meets their needs.
It is a shame, actually. I'm trying to decide between the 13" and the 15". If the Apple store had a couple on display so I could see the differences in person, I would already have placed my order.
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Really? You hate something that much without ever seeing or interacting with it? That seems a bit premature.
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Most of the software I use on my Mac is provided by Apple, who will almost certainly be embracing it. ;-) And we already know that Adobe and Microsoft will be supporting it. That's enough to make it worthwhile for me, anyways.
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Sir, he wasnt saying it was about 'meeting his needs'. Instead he made the nebulous suggestion that buying one of these amounted to 'marching to the future'.
It was that overly aspirational comment that I was having fun with.
Slashdot says:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story...superior-specd-windows-machines-in-real-world
"Thomas Grove Carter writes: "First off, It's really fast. I've been using the MacBook Pro with the new version of FCP X and cutting 5k ProRes material all week, it's buttery smooth. No matter what you think the specs say, the fact is the software and hardware are so well integrated it tears strips off 'superior spec'd' Windows counterparts in the real world. This has always been true of Macs. If you're running software with old code which doesn't utilize the hardware well, you're not going to get great performance"
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story...superior-specd-windows-machines-in-real-world
"Thomas Grove Carter writes: "First off, It's really fast. I've been using the MacBook Pro with the new version of FCP X and cutting 5k ProRes material all week, it's buttery smooth. No matter what you think the specs say, the fact is the software and hardware are so well integrated it tears strips off 'superior spec'd' Windows counterparts in the real world. This has always been true of Macs. If you're running software with old code which doesn't utilize the hardware well, you're not going to get great performance"
Have you ever sat in bed with a MacBook on your lap and the power outlet is on your right? Meaning the MagSafe cable has to go one round around your laptop. Or have the projector cable on the left, so your cable has to go another round.
With USB C, there is no such thing as a wrong port. I can plug in a cable or adaptor on the left or right side of the laptop depending on which side is more convenient for me.
The USB C is so sleek and slim and reversible and just so much better-design than the existing ports today.
I can't predict the future, but I do believe that the best way to predict the future is to create it yourself, and I want to believe in an all usb-C future. My MacBook Air is still going strong, but when it is time to upgrade, I have my sights set on the 13" touchbar MBP, and all my accessories will be USB C. That much I can assure you.
I do regret the loss of magsafe, but outside of that, usb-c is great. My bigger problem with the 'future' as apple sees it, is 'pro' laptops that - because of their self imposed thiness - dont have the power or battery life they could have. Why does the 'future' have to include thermally throttled processors due to the fact that apple decided it was critical to shave off a couple more millemeters?
Did they get rid of the battery LED's, i love that feature on my mid 2010 MBP....
Where's the evidence that the MacBook Pros are being thermally throttled? I am reading a review from 9to5mac and the 15" MBP basically has no problems chewing through 5k video.
As for the thinness, my only answer to you is that someone who is fairly mobile, I appreciate having a thin, light yet capable laptop that I can carry around with ease (partly the reason I love my 9.7" iPad Pro). This doesn't mean it is wrong for other people to want more horsepower, but it does mean that theirs aren't the only needs that matter, and maybe it's time they came to realise and accept this.
they shaved off half a pound, not a few millimeters.
A pro laptop should also be a great laptop and not a box with a handle. These are perfectly balanced.... sure if they made the newer memory in LP we would have more upgrade options but thats probably going to be coffeelake.
As sad as it is to say this, I don't know if the dongle to connect my brand new iPhone 7 to my brand new MacBook Pro is ready yet. Damnit Apple this **** is ridiculous.
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That is an even better question.
Since I don't see any plaid on the screen, I doubt it got up to ludicrous speed.
