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Hands-On With the 17" LG Gram and a Look at Apple's Old 17" MacBook Pro
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Well if you knew that, you'd also know that there's a rumour of a 16.5" MBP in the next round... but you know, hey, talk poo.
Imagine a new 17in MBP with 6-8 TB3/USB4 ports! That would be amazing. Also, it could have a properly massive battery and pack some real power (With the thermal to properly cool it). I would love a 17" laptop, and I was really disappointed when Apple discontinued the 17".
Actually, it's 'we'... conveying a discussion took place amongst multiple people, or a group of say MacRumors editors. One person sitting down to write it does not impact this usage.
15" is the best for portability + ability to have the best performing CPU + GPUs
I get what you mean I think, but apart from the Air, anything with an even slightly pro drive (bigger than 512) is priced way past anything I'd be prepared to pay now. I got the last 17" off refurb for $2500. A similarly sized 15" at the time was a lot more, and now it's ridiculous. With the insane port cand keyboard choices Apple's made, I finally got the 1TB 15" 2015 with discrete graphics for less than $3000 and I can still upgrade the drive for a fraction of Apple prices. It also has the brilliant MagSafe that I still can't believe those idiots deleted, because, you know, you'll definitely get the stated 8 hours or whatever running a pro app or even power sucking web pages. Don't forget Mail can also run at over 300% for minutes and spin the fans up, or even the mds processes that still can't figure out when power is connected and kill your battery real fast, and that's before you even do any actual work.
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Wow, some people are really hating on the 17. No probs mate, just don't buy one and bitch.
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Oooo. That would be nice, but I could never afford that. Their (currently) scaled displays are expensive enough.
Nobody likes the grammar police. The fact the author chose to use "we" and "we're" is an indication in itself that the review was a group effort.
I always felt the 17" was too big. But I'd suspect the 16-16.5" model will come in at an overall size simialr to the 2010-2015 15" MacBook Pros. So it may become more enticing when it's time to upgrade again.
Stop saying “its”... it’s “it’s”. The comment’s byline is “it is”, not the possessive form nor an indication for apostrophe-hide-and-seek.
I know others have commented on this as well, but skimming, I didn't see mention of what I'm about to note, so I'll shoot in a reply too.
It's called the editorial we. The editorial we is actually a singular we used when an individual speaks on behalf of a publication.
Here's a reference
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/editorial+we
Yep, me too, but I never had to a use crappy little pc. I still use my clearance (2012) 17 for classic FCP and the 2015 rMBP in scaled mode for LightRoom as the screen is so good. There is no way I'm going to get any new Apple laptop till they make serious improvements and get over the current obsessive "design language". How many super portable machines do you actually need to keep trying to sell and pretend there's an actual pro machine in the lineup? Seriously, how many minutes rendering audio, video or graphics do they reckon you'll get out of a battery? I have no idea how many minutes of Xcoding either, but it doesn't really matter as background resources will kill the battery anyway.
Would never happen but Apple should bring the 17” back with all major ports plus the 4 USB-C ports on the 15”. Would be a great machine for a lot of users.
Im not hating on the 17. I still own and use one. Im hating on the author's poor writing skills, which, if you look back on their history on this site, has been complained about multiple times at this point by multiple people other than myself.
Use the thinner bezels and make it an 18 inch with a 3:2 ratio screen size like the Surface Laptop 2.
Thats why in the past this site has used the byline "MacRumors Staff" when the articles have been a group effort.
Other publications either list all the contributors, or use a generic byline.
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that wouldnt be much more than what they went for the last time they produced them. I seem to recall them starting at either 2499 or 2799.
If you already don’t even want a 15” then larger laptops aren’t for you. Why exactly did you feel the need to piss on the prospects of people who actually DO want one??
Lots of us actually do want a larger laptop, and we consider the “smaller at all costs” trends very limiting. I had a 17” laptop. I used it as a laptop and it was great. A desktop is only useful if you’re not planning to be mobile. Do you actually not grasp that?
Why would you want 6-8 TB3 ports in a lap top? That is a lot of peripherals to connect and disconnect on the go. 4 seems to be a reasonable number, power, extra drive... maybe a thumb drive... and then? That’s on the go...
At my desk, I have a dock with all the ports one could want and just leave things plugged in.
I owned 2 or 3 different versions of the 17" MacBook Pro and with each one I was bitterly disappointed Apple never included a numeric pad (it used the same keyboard as their 13" model and it just looked comical on the 17" version). I'd definitely buy a bigger screen MacBook Pro if it came out - but not if it has that disgusting butterfly keyboard...
I’m happy rocking my mid 2012 with a ssd drive, nothing to envy of these machines.
Also, try lugging the the desktop over to the theatre room when you want use AirPlay. Yes, I know it's air play, but I can't control things on the other screen unless I stick to mirroring.
It's a full size keyboard with number pad on the right. This offsets the remainder of the keyboard to the left inside the case. Meaning the typewriter keys are no longer centered in relation to the trackpad. Makes me wonder how awkward that would be in usage.
Writing this on my 2011 17", man do I want them to make another 17" (with different ports!) I get that for a lot of laptop users who only travel with a computer a 17" seems huge. But for some of us it's the lightest, smaller thing we still carry. Is the 17" too heavy, no I'm an adult. Is it too big? No, the camera rig I have to drag thorough the airport with it dwarfs this mass. Why do I need something this big? I have 4 clients trying to review footage over my shoulder back at the hotel room, I need as much physical real-estate I can get.
Just don't make it cost three months rent and I'll buy a new one in a sec.
Just don't make it cost three months rent and I'll buy a new one in a sec.
Exactly. I hate trying to do spreadsheets, etc, with a single row. Only 2 or 3? I've had 4 and still have 2 running for memories and old systems/apps. The first 2 financed later ones, but then I could afford to keep them. I think the PowerBooks only came with a 1440 screen and the 1610 was just an option on the MBPs. At least the retina screen allows scaling to 1920 or even native 2880, but even with glasses that's a bit tricky.
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Too right. I backpacked mine to and from work for about 12 years and it was barely noticeable amongst the other other crap. I'm impressed by people that can work with small screens, but I can't deal with all the resizing, app switching, etc, never mind being able to show material without having to connect another screen.