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Live Coverage of Apple's 'Hello Again' Mac Event

As suspected, the touch bar is a gimmick. It doesn't do anything you can't already do with the track pad or mouse and it will probably take much longer to do the same thing. Ports are gone, prices are up, software is buggy, machines not up-gradable or repairable, glowing logo gone, MagSafe gone, SD card slot gone.....I get the feeling none of these Apple people actually USE laptops.

Everything that drew me to Apple is gone now. Sigh.....
 
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Anyone know if it is possible to get live wallpapers of the colour burst images shown on the MacBook Pros in the keynote today? Would love these for my iPhone 7 Plus.
 
Rigby said:
Just noticed that the MBP without touch bar is gimped: It has only two USB-C ports, in addition to a slower maximum configurable CPU speed. F* you Apple. :mad:
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It's got a bigger battery, but I agree it should be 1299 not 1499.
 
I have an Apple LED Cinema Display along with a Plantronics USB headset. Currently I have it connected to my MacBook Pro 2010 via mag safe, mini display port, and 2 USB cables. It doesn't look like there is going to be a way to connect my Apple LED Cinema Display to USB-C... am I right?
 
wait a F minute, where is my more affordable ipad air 3 bois????? i know i know the air line up is over....for those who have a wallet fat enough pro is the only way now sadly...
 
Roykor said:
Nah, to much trouble around the corner with that concept. Hackingtoshes are for fun. I need to work on it. W10 is doing a great job and is a nice clean looking OS. Its not like OSX. But on the same time they are not that far away from each other. I am going to abandoned the Apple platform. My iPad is getting old (iPad3) and will be replaced by a fast other tablet. I also moved over from iPhone to a Samsung which is doing just fine to for half the Apple price. I was very Apple minded. But discovered that there is more (and better).
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One evening of fiddling around to install it is well worth it. You don't know what you're missing out. 45 day uptime and it's been converting videos at 1080p in Handbrake 50% of the time along with working in Lightroom, Illustrator and Photoshop.
 
TRDGT4Writer said:
Thoughts after watching the presentation:

• I gotta admit the TouchBar is cool, but as an editor, it needs to handle Avid, Premiere, and Davinci Resolve.
• Using AMD again...I'm torn between of trying it out and see if it's better in 4GB form and all its glory...and jumping ship because of no Nvidia GPU.
• Taking away the MagSafe and headphone jack was a HUGE mistake on Apple's part, but adding the 4 USB-Cs is a plus.
• Great, more crap to remember...

Bottom line: Upgrades are cool, but taking away the "essential ports" is just...[speechless].
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With the Macbook Pro, for me.. they aim on the creative user.. using Adobe or any other graphic tool. I am sure other will use it for not content making, but i place the Macbook Pro in that spotlight. Not going for Nvidia and not having cuda accelerators available is not taking our branche seriously. Like I mention some post earlier, i jumped over to PC where we creative content makers can choose a configuration that fit our needs, not Apple his wallet.
 
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Pretty much all the apps are Apple apps, with a few exceptions. Sounds like the touch bar is going to be generic in pretty much all the apps I use on a daily basis.
 
Bradamante said:
Yeah, I noticed that too. People were clearly unimpressed. And that abrupt ending? I seriously thought "Hey shouldn't there be a 'One more thing' here?", i.e. a new iMac and/or MacPro.

I can't imagine Apple seriously kills their desktop line. Maybe kill one of the three (iMac/MacMini/MacPro), but not all. They are still making money in that segment, with their usual insane profit margin. So my guess is that they couldn't get the hardware update done in time. Maybe we will get something new before the end of the year via a silent release?
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Also, Tim Cook seemed to be looking down at his teleprompter a lot in this keynote.

Really seems a lot of things did not pan out the way they expected them to.
 
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Feenician said:
Why does no-one on Macrumors understand a f**king thing about processors but are nevertheless more than willing to claim their opinion authoritative? They put 15w processors in the MBA but 28w in the 13" rMBP. Even at a lower clock speed the higher power processor would outperform the lower by a wide margin.
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Psh, My 3 Ghz Pentium 4 clearly would smoke that puny 900Mhz 12" Macbook :rolleyes:
Cause gigahertz brah.
 
I hope there is no life after death. Else think about the situation of Steve Jobs. Looking at his own company which is famous for intresting events, I think Steve would die again. The first iMac event was far better than this. They should have used different name instead Hello again ,atleast it would have reduced people's expeditions. Expectations lead to sorrows!
 
tampageek said:
As suspected, the touch bar is a gimmick. It doesn't do anything you can't already do with the track pad or mouse and it will probably take much longer to do the same thing. Ports are gone, prices are up, software is buggy, machines not up-gradable or repairable, glowing logo gone, MagSafe gone, SD card slot gone.....I get the feeling none of these Apple people actually USE laptops.

Everything that drew me to Apple is gone now. Sigh.....
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I like and will miss Magsafe, but I can get a third party Magsafe-like USB-C adapter if I really want it.

My 2010 MBP cost me $2500. Posted the line-item price from my email earlier. Same here.

SD card slot has been gone for awhile hasn't it? Mine never worked on mine from 6 years ago and I don't think they've gotten more reliable. I always use an adapter which doesn't corrupt my images. And really, think about it - do laptops still have Firewire ports in all their different configurations (there were like 4) or ethernet plugs (haven't for awhile) or many other plugs from history? No, because eventually the side of your laptop looks like swiss cheese and they collect dust from not using them. USB-A would be useful, but I can get a $5 adapter (already purchased) to plug in something occasionally and just leave it on the end of that cable - or buy a new cable that goes A to C. It's not as big a deal as you may initially think.
 
Look at this way, it's been a long time since a Macbook update. You're sitting in an Apple design meeting and brain (?) storming on ideas that will help make the long wait for a new product appear worth it to your customers. Someone pitches the Touch Bar and it's the only thing on the table. The team starts to get behind the new Touch Bar. It can display emojis! Suddenly, the design team realizes they've got a hit. Sure, it's not a home run...but it's better than offering up nothing more than processor updates and new colors for the case...so they run with it.
If they hadn't done the price gouging, I'd be a buyer if the keyboard is really improved.
 
bladerunner2000 said:
One evening of fiddling around to install it is well worth it. You don't know what you're missing out. 45 day uptime and it's been converting videos at 1080p in Handbrake 50% of the time along with working in Lightroom, Illustrator and Photoshop.
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My new PC eats my 14GB PSB files in a minute. I am sure OSX would do the same if it was installed on my system. Its just "trouble around the corner" keeping the system updated in a hackingtosh variant. I am not interested to play with that. I want to use my time to make money. With going vanilla with W10 on a PC, its working awesome so far.
 
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