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

[drewyboy]

There's even a 13" model w/o the Touch Bar for you non-impressed types.

Customer: but their ad said the touch bar on the new macbook pro 13". So why does this MPB13 not have it?
Apple: Oh, that's the low end new 13" that doesn't have it.
Customer: but your ad said it did
Apple: well, the mid tier one
Customer: mid tier new 13"?
Apple: yeah
Customer: but not the low end new 13"?
Apple Yeah


Yup, not confusing at all. Thanks for clearing that up for me.

 

[C. Cole]

$400 for the Touch Bar???

Will they give me a $400 discount on the 15 inch if I promise not to use the touchbar?

 

[JackWendyDanny]

Can the last Pro User to leave please switch off the Touch Bar?

 

[dan9700]

I wanna kick tim cook to the ground

 

[ignatius345]

Microsoft pulled a blinder yesterday...
Everything Tim announces today will be compared to what MS did yesterday..
I wonder if Tim has anything up his sleeves to truly wow us..?

A touchbar :/

 

[Benjamin Frost]

I'm very sad to say this:

I think we have seen the death of Apple. Microsoft has usurped them as of yesterday. The keynote today filled me with dismay. I have been a shareholder since 2010 and made a lot of money. I am considering my options now.

There is a time for everything. A time to live, and a time to die. Rest in peace, Apple. I loved you.

 

[insomniac86]

There's no longer any decent hardware platform choices to run MacOS on... this is a sad sad day! Looks like I'll have to switch back to Windows.

Windows 10 is getting better and better. Apple are getting worse and worse.

 

[dzngeek]

$2400? Don't forget the dongles. Make that $2500.

dongles x3, so make that $2700 + tax
And if you're anywhere else in the world, add conversion rate

 

[Thunderbird]

WORST. MEDIA EVENT. EVER.

Apple shares dropping....

 

[DocMultimedia]

#TotalDisaster

 

[Riven]

now to figure out how to hackintosh a 17" Razer Blade Pro cuz the features on this 15" MBP... are... ughhhh and I can't let go of Mac OS

 

[canadianreader]

The prices are insanely high + no mac mini, no iMac and no mac pro

 

[dxmac99]

i guess my next laptop will be an HP+Linux Mint

 

[jjjoseph]

OK, MACPRO Towers are dead. Thats a pile of garbage. I guess we are going to windows 10 towers for pro graphics???

For a small home station, I would do the 13" Macbook Pro without the GIMMICKY TOUCHBAR, wait for an external Thunderbolt 3 to GPU case to be supported and get an external NVIDIA card. AMD RADEON is not going to win any GPU awards, and most of the PRO Graphics/Video/3D GPU apps use CUDA most efficiently and NOT OpenCL.

Wait for a GTX 1080 Driver for MacOS to come out, and get back to work.

So sad they killed the Towers.. So Sad...

 

[b_scott]

Prices are still a touch higher than I like, but, Happy to see they have a version with physical function keys, for those that seem to need them.

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Prices are exactly what they always are. Base top end MBP 15" is always 2299-2499

OK, MACPRO Towers are dead. Thats a pile of garbage. I guess we are going to windows 10 towers for pro graphics???

For a small home station, I would do the 13" Macbook Pro without the GIMMICKY TOUCHBAR, wait for an external Thunderbolt 3 to GPU case to be supported and get an external NVIDIA card. AMD RADEON is not going to win any GPU awards, and most of the PRO Graphics/Video/3D GPU apps use CUDA most efficiently and NOT OpenCL.

Wait for a GTX 1080 Driver for MacOS to come out, and get back to work.

So sad they killed the Towers.. So Sad...

I missed the part where they said towers are dead?

They didn't announce everything today. They delayed the wireless earphones and the Mac.

 

[biscuitsxluv]

Bah...I'm still on a MBP Mid-2010 17" (though now with SSD). And with those prices and that gimmicky bar, I may just be staying on it.

Oh, I remember the 17 inch model. Nice! I would keep it, too!

 

[LIVEFRMNYC]

I can't wait until other manufacturers copy the touch bar.

 

[ganesh.raam]

$1799 for a 13' Mac? WTF Apple? and what about iMacs and Mac Minis? They spent 20 crappy mins explaining an Apple TV APP!!! Seriously Apple? Seriously?

 

[nezr]

They wasted 2HRS on this one stupid touchbar. I can't believe it.

 

[KPOM]

The touch bar is kinda cool, I could see that being useful.. but devote an entire hour to it? are they kidding me? that should have been 5-10mins at best.

Why aren't they updating the entire Mac lineup?

The desktops aren't ready yet. The MacBooks outself the desktops, so that's the priority.

 

[djcgeez2189]

Anyone know how good the Radeon Pro 450 card actually is?

Nope because no one has ever heard of it.... I tried googling it it must be some type of custom Polaris GPU made for apple which means it will be junk as all their GPU's are .... $2400 for this to put into perspective the razed blade with a gtx 1060 desktop class GPU with the same specs and more ports 3K Igbo touch screen is $2,099.....$300 less than this... soak that up

 

[theelysium]

Where is the GPU? Is there a card or on board?

 

[Nueve]

I paid 2,700 after taxes for my 2014 MacBook Pro

 

[bobbykjack]

Terribly underwhelming. They did a better job of selling the TouchBar than I expected, but I must admit to feeling a sigh of relief when they announced a 13" model without it, despite it being barely an update on what there was before.

 

[jasnw]

Sad, just sad. A TV app and an eye-candy bar on the laptops. Not a whole lot of innovation.