HAHAHA Apple uses the best of each component ? That'd a good one
Apple has always been peddling outdated hardware. Given our previous "discussion" I don't imagine you'd be anywhere to accept that, but in case it interest anyone :
- When they had the CD/DVD combo it was probably the most ******** cd-r/dvd drive around in laptops, slow as hell noisy.
You were already paying top dollars for that crap at the time.
- When they finally, many years after the others, decided to make it a dvd-r, it was still a ****** one. Slow, noisy etc.
- At that point the PC world was already in blu-ray, at the time a very practical format to save /read large amount of data. But hey, like the rest, it would have been expensive-ish for them to provide with some decent BD-r/DVD-r combo (or even BD/dvd-r).
- They peddle us ****** RAM (around 2010 ?? +/- 2 years or something like that).
- When USB3 arrived on PC,
they stayed on USB2 for 2.5 years. That's the most unforgivable of the list IMO, that was ****ing ridiculous.
- They took ages to put a goddamn HDMI port, again, to avoid paying royalties.
- Don't talk about what you don't know. In the 13", they could have put a Kaby Lake. At half the TDP, this would have meant slightly better performance than the best of the Skylake ( the i7 one in my maxed out 13" TB ) for a much better battery. Not to mention the native handling of some format.
- Here`s one INSANE idea : They could have switched to Skylake when they got released, which was a while ago; and then Kaby Lake when the better one arrived (which was 3rd of January btu ofc were produced in mass before) . But hey, this would have taken on those dear margins
- There are other example, wifi chips I think, but I forgot about them
- USB-C everywhere was decided both because of technical limitation on the mbp AND wanting to save
You don't make the highest margins on a laptop in the industry by chance, or because the suppliers are nice to you.
You're doing it by peddling cheap hardware at a higher price, because you can.
All this doesn't change the fact macOS is really great, Retina was a true innovation, thin factor was a true innovation too (at one point at least, it got quickly caught up by the competition), battery life around 10 hours was true innovation ( although now with the 2016 models they pooped themselves ).
But "the best components" ? Lol, no.
As for what people want, I would have been happy with something like the new Razer Stealth Blade, the maxed out version : Kaby Lake (again, slightly better perf than the best CPU Skylake for the 13" TB in 2016), more native handling of video formats, MUCH lower TDP) , 16GB ram, same thin factor, 1 TB SSD, 4k screen - which would have been really welcomes on the 2016 edition... - , TB3, and you know , goddamn normal ports too.
For 2200 dollars instead of 3600$.
And yeah, it runs Windows so it does have a "crap factor" like every PC, but that doesn't change the fact it's a superior machine at a much better price, and Apple is peddling outdated hardware at a ridiculously high price, as usual.
(there are others : the Dell XPS, the Lenovo Yoga OLED, and I hear the MS Surface Book is good too and the HP Spectre is great - if you're crazy enough to buy HP
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Forget it man, if you're unsatisfied by the mbp, you're wrong according to
@New_Mac_Smell . That's it, you're just wrong and you don't know what you want.
Me, I say the new Mac smells !
Ditto, the new macbook is crap but it still has a major advantage : Not running Windows
Maybe OP should have started a thread saying "let's celebrate the new MBP" rather than "LALALALALA I don't want to hear you". I mean, come on, this is always the same song : "Oh you don't like it or think they could have done better ? let me explain you why you're wrong."
As for alternatives, my hope is that Microsoft is developing another OS, separated from Windows, and that the Ubuntu experiment is, in fact, about creating an Linux based OS, like macOS is (ok, Unix based if you're pedantic).
Frankly Sanpete, no. We talked on another thread as to why, but even without going in the details those are not "as pro as they ever been". 2013 had a much better ratio TDP / battery capacity, resulting in non ****** battery life.
2015 had ports that pro uses, and dongles are goddamn awful.
I'm typing this and literally nothing runs apart from Chrome (admiteddly large amount of tabs so I`m eating all RAM, but CPU is 68% idle). I lost 50% battery in 1h30mn.
This is ****.
As to replacing desktop machines, this is exactly why the web development industry switch to macBook pros around 2006 /2007 , so I highly disagree here.
hahaha I agree, they're super pretty. That's their one quality. Oh, the touchID thing is cool too. Not really an innovation but one of the 2 things I like on this crappy 2016 iteration.
