Apple should stop keeping the wheel from spinning. Since they are incapable of making pro machines anymore, they should allow other manufacturers to put Mac OS on PC and focus their iPhone/iWatch/iPad.
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Meanwhile my daughter's $1200 HP Spectre X2 continues to have issues thanks to the Win10 Anniversary Update that destroyed support for PCs with SSDs for some reason.
Fortunately I managed to get it working (as in booting up and running for about an hour at a time) and my daughter followed my emailed steps to update the SSD Drivers with something from Intel and it is actually usable for slightly longer than an hour now.
If Apple had released a macOS Sierra update that bricked MacBooks/MacBook Airs/MacBook Pros with SSDs and never bothered to actually, you know fix their OS after 6 months, there would be so many lawsuits Apple would transition to becoming solely a law firm to deal with it all.
But hey its Microsoft and PCs and business as usual and yay they are growing in the "premium" space by suckers who keep getting their crappy touch screen laptop/tablet combos identity-confused products that barely work as advertised and are one official OS update away from becoming very expensive paper weights.
Fortunately I managed to get it working (as in booting up and running for about an hour at a time) and my daughter followed my emailed steps to update the SSD Drivers with something from Intel and it is actually usable for slightly longer than an hour now.
If Apple had released a macOS Sierra update that bricked MacBooks/MacBook Airs/MacBook Pros with SSDs and never bothered to actually, you know fix their OS after 6 months, there would be so many lawsuits Apple would transition to becoming solely a law firm to deal with it all.
But hey its Microsoft and PCs and business as usual and yay they are growing in the "premium" space by suckers who keep getting their crappy touch screen laptop/tablet combos identity-confused products that barely work as advertised and are one official OS update away from becoming very expensive paper weights.
Lol, now you are basing it on one computer.
2 out of 2 hp envy's are junk and they were both purchased in 2016. When was that antique latitude built?
And the previous machine which was also a Business Dell and junk. Or the many co-workers that also complain about the POS's. So much so that we are moving away from them.
Those that also rate computer reliability don't have a high opinion of Dell either. But I guess they are wrong because you think XPS is awesome. LOL.[/QUOTE]
That's not my experience with Office 2013, which is what we use at the office.
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The Griffin Breaksafe eases that a bit. I'm surprised Apple didn't introduce a similar cable of its own (or endorse a third party product like it did with the LG monitors).
LOL..
Bankruptcy?? Seriously?
Posts like this make no sense.
There are legions of folks like me who are totally satisfied owners of a 2016 MacBook Pro. The best computer I've ever owned.
As for Microsoft's claims about the Surface, they mean nothing without data to support them. I keep reading these claims yet it's impossible to verify. The revenue from these products is a fly on an elephant compared to Mac/iPad.
Except HP historically makes junk too so I'm not sure what you mean.
Aare your business computers xps'? If not quit spouting them out. I clearly said the xps line is good.
Proof that xps are rated low?
In my country the surface book is priced the same as the mbp 2016, and its not yet updated to the newer version with newer gpu's.
The touchscreen part is really personal, because I hate touchscreens on windows laptop, I went from the dell xps 15 (2015) to the new mbp 2016. Always when you touch a screen you see fingerprints everywhere, just like with your phone, except instead of cleaning it every day, i rather just didnt touch the screen at all. Once you get used to the touchbar i found it really usefull in Affinity Photo an FCPX.
And 16 hours of batty life in a windows machine with normal use my ass. Dell also advertises just like Apple with 4 times the battery life I personal get.
Overall the mbp 2016 feels like an awesome machine which for me works way better then the dell xps 15, I find Windows which i use for gaming only (on my pc with gtx 970) just not suitable for normal tasks. It doesn't feel snappy and it never does what I want. There's always something that is not working which also drives me crazy. It's not always steams fault, regulary I had to update a certain driver to fix a problem which is plain annoying, you never have that **** with a macbook.
That's largely the fault of Intel, since the notebook-class CPU chipsets do not support the low-power RAM in configurations above 16GB. Apple could have used desktop-class chipsets and RAM, but then battery life (already criticized) would have taken a hit. The rumor is that Apple might release one 32GB configuration later this year.
That said, even most "pros" don't need more than 16GB. It's mainly useful when doing hard core video editing or multiple virtual machines. With fast SSDs paging is far less noticeable than it used to be.
I got my first Mac in 2002, a marvelous Ti667, I was proud to show my friends what a powerful machine it was, I was showing X-Plane being smooth on a laptop, it was quite amazing, I then got a Dual G4 PowerMAc which I still have, got then so many more machines and the latest the worst, hardware is pitiful, obsolescence is not what it used to be, Apple is doing it all to get us back to PCs, at this moment in time I am running a 2011MBPro, and both an 11" and 13" MBAir, they all work fine but should I invest again 1K for a laptop just because it's pretty and they added Siri to MacOS I think I will give Windows 10 a chance... a beautiful computer is always a plus but it can't cost twice as much!
In mine (where I am now) the MBP is priced several hundred us dollars more than in the us. Only 6% of the population own apple products, I see it going down with the increases.
Same here. My MBP died last night. I've tried everything I can think of but at 6 years old, I'm not putting any more money into it.
With that being said, I'm not buying the iMac or Mac Mini as they're both outdated. I'll get by with my PC and also save a few thousand.
Sounds like we're in the same boat.
If Apple can turn a diamond into a turd, Microsoft can turn a turd into a diamond.
Like this one? Toms Hardware site. Dell #2 behind apple?
http://www.laptopmag.com/articles/laptop-brand-ratings
Your sandbox buddies do not count.
This one is the same.
http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/which-laptops-are-the-most-reliable/
https://www.atulhost.com/best-laptop-brands
No point in even discussing this with someone that only has personal attacks. Have a .....something life.
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Bingo. All Apple has in their repetoire is 'thinner' .. they have exactly no other ideas beyond that. "Use the 2nd most recent intel processors and make it thinner".
With that, you have the entire working philosophy of Apple with regards to their Mac line.
It is still disappointing. The devices now need encouragement to stay alive.
Its not just Macs but also iPhones, my iPhone 5 is still running (gave it to a family member who uses it everyday) but my iPhone 6 needs a restore every couple of months just to stay alive. I'm looking forward to the new Blackberry in Feb, most likely going to buy that. Over all of Apple's BS.
lmao, your opinion of apple going bankrupt couldn't be even more wrong. chill man
Apple may go down in the computer market but bankrupt? That takes some imagination.
I was in the same boat. Picked up a maxed out retina iMac second hand to tide me over as I don't have time to change my workflow at the moment. This will buy some time until enough other people have jumped ship to MS to blaze the trail. It's happening pretty fast though so far as I can see.
I'm also no longer recommending friends and family buy Apple products. So far I know for a fact two people have switched to Android phones (both really happy), one bought a Surface Book (don't know if she's happy yet), and one picked up a custom built PC tower that is unbelievably fast.
You didn't notice that the other guy was basing his comments on one work computer.
Knowing people that own them and working on them for customers are two different things. I have still seen a lot of them Frannie.
Apple is going to have to start releasing 10 year old technology before I even consider going back to Windows.. and then it will likely be Linux, not Windows.
As for the surface tablet, Windows is a horrible touch GUI even with HiDPI displays. Try poking that little close button in the top left without hitting the minimize or maximize buttons instead... unless you enjoy using a stylus for everything. My surface lasted about 3 months before I sold it off.
As for the surface tablet, Windows is a horrible touch GUI even with HiDPI displays. Try poking that little close button in the top left without hitting the minimize or maximize buttons instead... unless you enjoy using a stylus for everything. My surface lasted about 3 months before I sold it off.