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Lack of Hardware Updates Leading to Lighter-Than-Expected Quarterly Mac Sales

AidenShaw said:
The reliability of SSDs unfortunately is not living up to the promise - see http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/05/the-hot-crazy-solid-state-drive-scale.html for example.

Although they obviously cannot have catastrophic head crashes, they do fail, and sometimes when young.

Fortunately, a fairly common "catastrophic" failure mode is that the drive loses the ability to write - but can still read existing data. Nice if it's a data drive, or you can boot from another drive/system to recover your data - but on a one-drive laptop it can be really difficult to save your data.
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Thanks for the info. I wonder what is the failure rate / average lifespan for SSD?
HDD are affected by external vibrations and I tend to think that living in an earthquake prone area doesn't help increase the lifespan of these drives; SSDs handle vibration a lot better and generally sound like a great solution to the problem.
 
Simple sensory deprivation.
A dark void for 11 months.
Next releases (especially if they're redesigns) they'll be like:

"Ohh, we had no idea people wanted our stuff... so we didn't make enough, artificially swelling demand. Good luck!"
 
marmotmammal said:
Waiting for the new MBP is daunting. It's been a long wait and there's no solid confirmation in sight for new releases. The current models are pretty bad, at least for video editing: outdated and no Blu-Ray. We're coming up to a year on FCPX, and how can FCPX progress if laptops have FCP7 technology?

More RAM, more VRAM, SSD, Tbolt, etc., can speed along FCPX and prepare the app for future versions. Granted the optical drive will probably be canned, but at least consider updating DVD Studio Pro to Blu-Ray Pro (since Toast 11 reportedly sucks), and that requires improved laptop guts.

Conversely, current MBP prices on the used market are horribly high. New Apple laptops will adjust the price scheme across-the-board, pushing used MBPs down to realistic levels.
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I played with FCPX for nearly an hour on the store's 2.5GHz MBP.
Had to look down, felt sand between my toes.
Beach balls.
Beach balls.
Beach balls.
Sure, it was the floor model with 4GB.
They should make the 17" upgradable to 32GB (4x)
CS6 till my mind's gone.
 
Fandongo said:
I played with FCPX for nearly an hour on the store's 2.5GHz MBP.
Had to look down, felt sand between my toes.
Beach balls.
Beach balls.
Beach balls.
Sure, it was the floor model with 4GB.
They should make the 17" upgradable to 32GB (4x)
CS6 till my mind's gone.
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I've used FCPX on my MBP (specs in sig) and, sure its not the fastest machine anymore, but it is much slower than I'd have liked. I do wonder, however, how much of that is down to software inefficiencies rather than the hardware itself?
 
bedifferent said:
Agreed:

"Snow Leopard" and "Lion" comparison on 12-Core Mac Pro
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Yeah, that's the test I haven't gotten around to doing yet. And the install is pretty fresh. I've tried upgrade, fresh install w/ migration and w/o migration. It really doesn't matter.

bedifferent mentioned the lags in his post:

"Snow Leopard" loaded MS Office 2011 Word/Excel/Powerpoint, iWork '09 Pages/Numbers/Keynote in no time, barely a second, while "Lion" hesitates with some apps loading 15-20 seconds slower. "AutoCAD" 2011 loaded in no time on 10.6.8, took twice as long in 10.7.3

This is the most unsettling thing for me. It's the Windows OS feeling. And it isn't the program itself as bedifferent showed - thanks for doing that! It's those loading lags - but also the lags that occur while a program is running, which drive me up the wall. No matter how fast the system is, it feels sluggish.

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codo said:
I've used FCPX on my MBP (specs in sig) and, sure its not the fastest machine anymore, but it is much slower than I'd have liked. I do wonder, however, how much of that is down to software inefficiencies rather than the hardware itself?
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Turn off some of the background processing. It pretty much kills every system if you import a lot of files. They are analyzed for color, shakes and so on while you are doing other stuff. That should solve your problem, at least partially. :)
 
Apple Corps said:
What if you do NEED an optical drive? I have had more failures with ssd than with hdd.
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How are optical drives related to SSDs?
And seriously, the number of people that actually NEED an optical drive are quickly becoming a minority and internal optical drives are definitely going the way of the Dodo bird. If the next MacBook Pro still has one it will probably be the last.
 
Pro31 said:
Sold my 2009 MBP in preparation for these new ones! Cant wait! Hope I dont get disappointed.
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I upgraded from a 2010 Core 2 Duo 13" MBP to a 2011 i7 15" MPB - I do a lot of testing in VM's and I was killing the CPU with a new release of the software I use. The jump in CPU performance was MASSIVE. There won't be the same jump in speed between Sandy Bridge to Ivy Bridge, but you will notice a huge increase from your 2009 machine.
 
Why would anyone wait for an electronic assembly? Some here are apparently waiting to pay money now! That is simply really embarrassing. There are so many more interesting things to do in life rather than wait for a new computer or any other product.
 
Vantage Point said:
Perhaps if Apple would drop the prices of aging product lines as their costs drop, like every other electronics manufacturer, then sales, would be more constant. Why spend full price for last years models. This is something that I never liked about apple - value is only good at the beginning of the product cycle (also their price for upgrades like RAM are just ludicrous)
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This is, as I have come to understand, apple flavored arrogance. And why not...their desktops and laptops are not their mainstay anymore...It is all about the 'I' devices now (which are also expensive by the way). Yet, I find myself having the pleasure of getting ripped off by Apple every time I am in the market for a phone or a laptop! I am a little disgusted by contributing to Apple's 'GDP like' profits :p No more I say....:mad:(and I am going to the nearest store to see how good the iPad display really is :D)
 
I think analytics are wrong. If no hardware update then Apple must be selling well. If its slow sale or something, then they'll refresh hardware to keep investor/shareholder happy for upcoming report.
 
thegreypatch said:
bored already.. Apple stop making us wait and give us a date to look forward to. :apple:
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The arrogance and silence from "big brother apple" is really getting to be a bit much. The message seems to be a drive to get out of the mac business entirely. Fine with me, just license OSX to a company that may treat their customers with some respect and not like sheep.
 
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