Totally agree and to add to your rant you also can't charge your iPhone on the MacBook Pro without an adapter, which is also completely ridiculous
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MacBook Pro First Impressions: A Lightweight 'Engineering Marvel' With Beautiful Screen
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Kaby Lake will come to revolutionary new Macs at WWDC 2018. And it will be profound.
Engineered marvel? If courage is the codeword for "utter wank," then this is courage indeed.
That trackpad looks MASSIVE. Seriously, why doesn't it support the Apple Pencil? It would've made a lot of sense
So Macs charge through Thunderbolt, and iPhones charge through Lightning.
Lightning was designed to be future proof, and to Apple a big part of that is the thinness.
I agree with you, the 13" no Touch Bar model seems like the best MacBook in the lineup right now, because of it's value compared to the others. It's the trough MacBook Air successor that the MacBook should have been.
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So you can spend another $4000 on the next generation that supports the pencil.
You can get a USB-C to Lightning cable for $19 and charge and sync whatever iOS device you want with it.
The i7 upgrades on the 13" Pro models used to get you more than just a tiny MHz increase, like the bigger CPU cache. That is no longer the case. The i5 and i7 Skylake processors on the 13" Pro are EXACTLY the same, with 4MB cache and exact same feature flags. The only difference is the binning (rated speed, from the same assembly line). The exact model numbers are i5-6267U 2.9GHz, i5-6287U 3.1GHz and i7-6567U 3.3GHZ. Doesn't seem like it's worth the extra money.
Starting to think Apple doesn't want to be bothered with customers or sales.
Some days, I can understand that...
Some days, I can understand that...
No HEVC or VP9 Support! Wait for Kaby Lake or burn your knees off watching Netflix!
Honestly, if you can spend 3000$ on this plus 700$ on the iPhone 7, you can surely afford 10$ regular earpods to plug into this.
There are plenty of things to rant about today's event, but this is a complete non-issue.
They're removing compatibility between their own products... It's crap
Well you can get a USB C to lightning cable, but you're right. USB C to Lightning cables and wall adapters should be rolling out in iOS devices released in 2017.
I used to drool at new Apple stuff.
I feel nothing today, why is that? Have I run out of Apple cool aid?
I feel nothing today, why is that? Have I run out of Apple cool aid?
I guess my Wallet wasn't so ready.
YES i have Cornish guitar pedals and one Overdrive is about 800 dollars.
But my guitar live sounds like the Gods.
I have all my music on a external drive, what do i do if i want to connect it?
Tim Cook, i would like to kick your arse!
YES i have Cornish guitar pedals and one Overdrive is about 800 dollars.
But my guitar live sounds like the Gods.
I have all my music on a external drive, what do i do if i want to connect it?
Tim Cook, i would like to kick your arse!
Wahh wahh If you don't like it, then don't freaking buy it. Quit the moaning
Wow... You're a smart kid.
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No, they're becoming crap.
We're talking about professionals' hands-ons with the new MBP and you're talking about a non-portable desktop drafting machine that starts at $3K—a machine most certainly targeted exclusively at illustrators and runs Windows. That's almost twice the price of the entry MBP with Touch Bar ($1,799). Incidentally, the iMac, Apple's desktop that isn't targeted at illustrators starts at $1,099 (1/3 the cost the MS machine). Remember the original Surface? A $10K table? I don't either.
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Does it really get that hot or are you referencing that saying youth say. Netflix and chat?
So....Apple now considers my iPhone 7 a "legacy device"? WTH.
"Many of those who got a chance to touch the new MacBook Pros of course first interacted with the keyboard"
Well that is a shocker – I expected them to interact with the speakers first!
I love how people work so hard to justify the fact you can't charge an iPhone from a MBP without buying a dongle by the fact that it's $19.
Well that is a shocker – I expected them to interact with the speakers first!
I love how people work so hard to justify the fact you can't charge an iPhone from a MBP without buying a dongle by the fact that it's $19.
I better learn how to be a proficient Windows 10 user. macOS machines are going to die.
This is not about what someone can afford!
This is about Apple's ongoing self serving comments to justify their inconsistent decisions that might happen to suit them at a particular time. We don't need yet another adapter. Last month we got the new Lighting to 3.5mm adapter, so now those folks who purchased Lighting headphones now need a USB-3 to Lighting adapter to use with the new MacBook. This is lunacy.
Apple lacks a consistent and well thought-out connection interface plan between their laptops, phones, tablets, and music devices. It's a mishmash of different and incompatible standards.
3.5mm connector located as far back as possible on the right side? So the typical asymmetric headset with the cable on the left side, will have the cable running diagonally across the keyboard. Brilliant.
Most streaming sites are either in the process of or will switch to HEVC10 soon. Skylake supports HEVC8. So with HEVC10 content, yes, it will get extremely hot. For such a large investment, you want to be able to use the machine for 3-4 years right?
** 15 inch model with the graphics cards has HEVC10 by the way, I'm only talking about 13 inch.