Why not if I have the means and needs? Yes I buy all premium products, just ordered a Prada luggage 30 minutes ago for my Thanksgiving Asia trip.
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MacBook Pro Shipping Estimates Slip to 3–4 Weeks for Models With Touch Bar
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$2400 for 256GB SSD and Radeon 450 2GB GPU! You go man!
Just do it man i'm in the same boat and will drop kick my 2010 17" off a cliff when the new one comes in.
half speed express card slot no USB 3.0, no thunderbolt, 8 GB ram krusty SATA-2 slots....
I think MacRumors accidentally updated the "don't buy" recommendation today.
Got my order in right at announce, full specced 15", 2TB, etc. $4299 or so
Itemize your list. I'm having a hard time believing you. I have both a retina MBP and the new Retina MacBook with only one port.
There are already are. Apple offers them at checkout. But unfortunately, the numerous people spewing hatred on this website haven't even taken the time to look or understand whats' going on. They have no clue.
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Ok. The time has come to start calling out the trolls. Last time I checked, most people expand their storage needs with external drives, not SD cards. Grow up.
You mean looks like you were wrong? If they were so over priced people wouldn't buy them. Not the case.
what would be the speculated geek bench scores with the new mbp? based on the processor; being an older gen I'm assuming? i know the 2015 models 15" are at 14k
I was really looking forward to replacing my MBA. Now I'm really hesitant, i'll need about $200 worth of adapters to hook up all my current accessories. I don't mind spending the money but I hate adapters! Seriously this reminds me of when Jobs sheit on tablets and then Apple makes the iPad 2 years later, or how they used to put down large screen phones and now they are making them. They think they know what's good for us but seriously Apple you guys made an arse of yourselves this time. This coming from a loyal Apple fan since 2004!!
Suitable Kaby Lake processors are coming in January I believe. Now that the redesign is finished, we may get prompt updates. I'm hoping for a March Kaby Lake MBP with a $100 price cut and DDR4.
+1. 2-3 weeks was already too long and they will have low stock through the holidays. Someone screwed up with the release of these.
Falling to 3-4 weeks that quickly shows that they are just starting to make these and not at great quantities.
Cook was supposed to be the genius at this and for some reason gets a free pass. Lost holiday sales rarely are recovered, iPhone 7plus and iWatch are running into the same problem.
Consumers will move on, especially at these prices. I remember when laptops were available on launch day.
That's the beauty of locking people into an ecosystem.
People would rather bite the bullet and finally upgrade their aging Macs than uproot their whole workflow.
Apple knows they have people hooked well enough to get away with ripping them off here and there.
It's hard to draw too much out of anybody responding today. Most of the people who follow a keynote are diehard Apple fans. Early adopters are going to buy no matter what. It'll be more telling to see how sales pan out over the first 6 months or so.
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Sure. Apple is deliberately holding back supply during the most important shopping season of the year to make it look like demand is bigger than it really is.
Angela Ahrendts doesn't control the supply chain. If this is like the iPhone 7 the initial launch will be tight but supply will ramp up fairly quickly. I'm sure they want to have lots of December sales.
It's the same routine they always use. They LOVE the optics of looking like they sell out early. They know early adopters will be so horny for the new release that wont' mind waiting a few weeks. It creates the facade that they literally can't make them fast enough to meet orders. Limit initial supply then quickly ramp up. Within a few weeks MR will be posting how 'Mac ship times are dropping' and amazingly enough there will be plenty of supply heading into Black Friday.
It's as predictable as the sun coming up tomorrow.
I have the same but 15" really does feel cramped coming from 17".
At least Windows 7, 10, and Linux run very well on my 2010 17" i5.
If I ditch OSX entirely I can upgrade from 8 to 16GB of RAM, too. The motherboard supports it but OSX doesn't... Just my luck.
I wish Apple would consider throwing a bone to those of us who need some screen real estate on the go. I thought they would bump to 14" and 16" with thinner bezels.