Unlike you I use a laptop to make money, not look good. Fortunately, Apple makes a thin, stripped down, toy that looks terrific and that you can use all day long. Good for you.
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Hands-On: OWC's 'DEC' Adds an SD Card Slot, Ethernet, and USB Type-A Ports to the MacBook Pro
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Unlike you I use a laptop to make money, not look good. Fortunately, Apple makes a thin, stripped down, toy that looks terrific and that you can use all day long. Good for you.
I hope they're not listening to you. It looks almost as thick as the Titanium G4 PowerBook now.
Hi Tim Cook or any people at Apple. Are you listening to this last 2 months of frustrated people.
We want full battery power, magsafe, USB-C and USB-A, an option for Nvidia graphics, etc and stop the crazy price gouging for extra memory. Clearly you are only running for profit they days. Please replace Tim with someone who puts customers and innovation first, then the profit will magically show up.
We want full battery power, magsafe, USB-C and USB-A, an option for Nvidia graphics, etc and stop the crazy price gouging for extra memory. Clearly you are only running for profit they days. Please replace Tim with someone who puts customers and innovation first, then the profit will magically show up.
After crippling pdf functionality with the new pdfkit in 10.12, I would no longer claim Apple has a best in class OS.
Wow, that's harsh especially since you don't know me or what I use it for.
Since you spoke out of ignorance, I will set the record straight. I use my computer for work, and so I use it make money as well.
Perhaps in the future, you don't jump to conclusions when someone cares what a computer looks like AND uses it for work.
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How so, what did apple do with pdf? I'm still on 10.11
I'm just the opposite - I'd rather have one unit to grab and keep track of. With this, if you've got your computer then you've got your ports and extra SSD!
I'd really like to know what the weight is, though.
As someone who travels the world for business and pleasure I want to carry one complete device with me.
Not a device, a bunch of cables and extra hard drives. They get lost, misliad or worse.
Many of the place I go have no internet connection unless you use a Satellite link and that is expensive beyond belief.
Those who say that this is wrong, bad, useless might have a point from their POV but for the rest of us, a solution like this is nigh on perfect.
My current work laptop in an HP Elitebook 8770W. 17in I7, 32Gb and 3.5TB of SSD. The IT dept want to revoke my local admin priv and 'upgrade' it to W10 in the corporate domain with Office in the cloud. I can do all my work on a MBP with this sort of thing attached and I could ditch Windows alltogether.
So for my work workflow, this is perfect.
For my Photography, this is also perfect.
There is a market for this and something like this might persiade me to get a 2016 MBP.
Not a device, a bunch of cables and extra hard drives. They get lost, misliad or worse.
Many of the place I go have no internet connection unless you use a Satellite link and that is expensive beyond belief.
Those who say that this is wrong, bad, useless might have a point from their POV but for the rest of us, a solution like this is nigh on perfect.
My current work laptop in an HP Elitebook 8770W. 17in I7, 32Gb and 3.5TB of SSD. The IT dept want to revoke my local admin priv and 'upgrade' it to W10 in the corporate domain with Office in the cloud. I can do all my work on a MBP with this sort of thing attached and I could ditch Windows alltogether.
So for my work workflow, this is perfect.
For my Photography, this is also perfect.
There is a market for this and something like this might persiade me to get a 2016 MBP.
Buy a MacBook -- you'll love it - it's thinner, cheaper, and it only has one port.
For the lifetime of this machine (2-3 years heavy use), standard ports will be very important. I'll reconsider in a couple of years, but at this point in time, only having USB-C would be a major inconvenience to me, especially when travelling. Meanwhile I have a new MBA, which does the job, has a nice MagSafe power connector, and will work just as well as the MBP with cloud.
There was an MR post a few days ago. There are bugs with the PDFKit API that are corrupting OCR layers with certain programs.
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It's nice being able to plug in my MacBook Pro from either side. Plus the Griffin cable gives me most of the benefits of MagSafe.Buy a MacBook -- you'll love it - it's thinner, cheaper, and it only has one port.
For the lifetime of this machine (2-3 years heavy use), standard ports will be very important. I'll reconsider in a couple of years, but at this point in time, only having USB-C would be a major inconvenience to me, especially when travelling. Meanwhile I have a new MBA, which does the job, has a nice MagSafe power connector, and will work just as well as the MBP with cloud.
Having used a MacBook since April 2015 and now the MacBook Pro, I've found that I don't use the USB-A adapter all that much anymore. I keep one USB-A adapter (I found a tiny one on Amazon for $7) and the Apple VGA adapter and that's about it.
Yeah, although it's possible, it doesn't look like OWC would do that. At least it provides storage and port expansion.
Apple rewrote pdfkit in Sierra in an attempt to create a common foundation between MacOS and iOS. Consequently, as MR and other sites have reported, many previous features have been deprecated, causing widespread problems with third party software support (e.g., Skim, DEVONthink Pro Office, Fujitsu ScanSnap scanner software). Even using the MacOS's Preview App to edit PDFs can corrupt a PDF file.
"Designed for 15" MBP" -- only supplies 60 watts over USB-C. Face palm.
Buy a MacBook -- you'll love it - it's thinner, cheaper, and it only has one port.
For the lifetime of this machine (2-3 years heavy use), standard ports will be very important. I'll reconsider in a couple of years, but at this point in time, only having USB-C would be a major inconvenience to me, especially when travelling. Meanwhile I have a new MBA, which does the job, has a nice MagSafe power connector, and will work just as well as the MBP with cloud.
Good advice. I was looking forward to purchase a new MBP, but the loss of ports has kept me on my 2013 MBA. I know there are dongles, but those are clunky when using thumb drives, I dislike the new keyboard, despise the size of the trackpad, and find the touch bar both distracting and inefficient. This new design is just not my cup of tea.
The best part of the new design is the screen, but I would still prefer a matte coating on the glass to help reduce glare.
except 95% of people don't give a damn about optical media anymore. So... Yeah. If it had SCSI it could replicate my 1992 286 functionality. double thumbs up.
Fixes some problems but lacks HDMI slot and this badboy looks very pricey.
Hopefully it's a hint to Mr. Aston Martin Iyves that his quest for thin has gone too far
Hopefully it's a hint to Mr. Aston Martin Iyves that his quest for thin has gone too far
The lack of MagSafe is up near the top of the list of reasons I won't upgrade to a 2016 MBP. I don't know a single one of many MBP owners I know who don't owe the life of their MBP to that connector many times over. Simply dumbfounding to me.
DSLRs and other production devices in the near future will all have fast wireless transfer technology. This is a transition period - it sucks huge balls, but once the industry catches up there will be little complaints.
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As well as he should. This thing is hideous.