That would rather depend on whether or not could could still drive your car without the wheels, with a newer, possibly better, alternative.
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That would rather depend on whether or not could could still drive your car without the wheels, with a newer, possibly better, alternative.
Yes, YES GOSHDARNIT!
I want a new connector just like the one that the human race got from mother nature. Some sort of all-purpose, size-to-fit connector that only lusts after the transferring of data!
A solid 100% switch to usb c is gonna hurt many people. The high end users with thunderbolt 2 might have compatibility issues using an adapter. I hope apple has a solution in the box for old USB and thunderbolt 2 just like the iphone and missing headphone jack.
I really want to update my macbook pro but those two ports are so essential to hardware I use that cannot be changed for quite a while. I can't wait until we all adopt USBc but for now we do need some help transitioning, apple need to be on board with creators. It seems like they are just fighting mac users needs with all the rumours so far.
I really want to update my macbook pro but those two ports are so essential to hardware I use that cannot be changed for quite a while. I can't wait until we all adopt USBc but for now we do need some help transitioning, apple need to be on board with creators. It seems like they are just fighting mac users needs with all the rumours so far.
Don't worry. There will also be room in the thread for complaints about the complaining.
Are you seriously implying that as we speak no one is using Apple products for creating music, designs, or to edit pictures and movies with? It's a rhetoric question if you didn't realized by now...
Just wait and see, your "point has much more foundation if the news in the not so far future would be that Apple has abandoned the Apple Mac Pro line entirely.
I'm waiting for a new MacPro and my guess is that a new model will come at the beginning of 2017. If Apple would abandon the MacPro line-up the. It I might considder a switch to Microsoft PC. But thatall depends on how powerfull the alternatives will be at that given moment. For example, the current iMac 5K, with everything on it, outperform the latest MacPro onmany fields by now.
Please, let me vent my frustration just a little bit, OK? I'm not hurting anybody with it, am I?
Oh boy. If I can be bothered to take to a message board there must really be something wrong. Terribly wrong.
Apple seriously needs to consolidate its product line and cater to professional Mac users again.
For people who want to go super thin and light and are no power users at all there's the iPad or the MacBook...
12".
Get rid of the Air... and replace it with a 14" machine. Like back in the day with the iBooks. 12" + 14" MacBook.
Have a thicker version of it with more of everything as a 14" MacBook Pro. And top it of with a POWERFUL 16" MacBook Pro.
Fu*k thin and light (the current design already is), just throw everything there is into it and do it Apple Style.
Just give us soemthing powerusers actually crave. They don't want a 15" MacBook Air with a Pro sticker on it. They want a real Pro!
-XPS Style bezelless 4k display
-32/64GB Ram
-2TB SSD
-TB3
-USB-C+USB-A
-HDMI 2.0
-MagSafe
-SD Card Reader
Basically take everything that is great about the current Retina MBP... and just make it better in details.
If macOS wasn't still miles ahead of Windows and didn't integrate with all other devices like it does... I'd just get a Dell XPS 15". But who am I kidding. Nice hardware with an okay fit and finish... a horrible trackpad and worst of all Windows... no way!
But let's just wait a couple of years... if innovation goes more and more towards "managed storage" etc. like in Sierra... where as a poweruser life gets harder and harder... and you have to be really careful which options to check... or worse... stuff is on automatically and you have to go looking for it to DEactivate it.
Being out at a client's place just to have the files you need not available... because "sorry... macOS didn't download it from iCloud Drive" is a non-option.
/rant
For the next four days though... let's give Apple the benefit of the doubt a final time... let's see what they cook up (yes. Pun super intended!).
Apple seriously needs to consolidate its product line and cater to professional Mac users again.
For people who want to go super thin and light and are no power users at all there's the iPad or the MacBook...
12".
Get rid of the Air... and replace it with a 14" machine. Like back in the day with the iBooks. 12" + 14" MacBook.
Have a thicker version of it with more of everything as a 14" MacBook Pro. And top it of with a POWERFUL 16" MacBook Pro.
Fu*k thin and light (the current design already is), just throw everything there is into it and do it Apple Style.
Just give us soemthing powerusers actually crave. They don't want a 15" MacBook Air with a Pro sticker on it. They want a real Pro!
-XPS Style bezelless 4k display
-32/64GB Ram
-2TB SSD
-TB3
-USB-C+USB-A
-HDMI 2.0
-MagSafe
-SD Card Reader
Basically take everything that is great about the current Retina MBP... and just make it better in details.
If macOS wasn't still miles ahead of Windows and didn't integrate with all other devices like it does... I'd just get a Dell XPS 15". But who am I kidding. Nice hardware with an okay fit and finish... a horrible trackpad and worst of all Windows... no way!
But let's just wait a couple of years... if innovation goes more and more towards "managed storage" etc. like in Sierra... where as a poweruser life gets harder and harder... and you have to be really careful which options to check... or worse... stuff is on automatically and you have to go looking for it to DEactivate it.
Being out at a client's place just to have the files you need not available... because "sorry... macOS didn't download it from iCloud Drive" is a non-option.
/rant
For the next four days though... let's give Apple the benefit of the doubt a final time... let's see what they cook up (yes. Pun super intended!).
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I seriously hope that the 4usbc version is not the pro. Knowing apple they'll be super inconsistent and mess everyone around one again with new ports and nothing legacy. My pet peev is standards that last only a few years and if they aren't adopted get dropped. Having lighting in mobile and USBc on mac is just a headfuk.
I will be glad to even the back of mag safe though
Probably something with the hard disk I guess. It is slow as hell. It takes 15 minutes just to boot up (and believe me, I'm not exaggerating). I'm not willing to spend money servicing a machine that is over 5 years old because that is just buying a little more time to a machine that has its days counted... So, I've been eagerly waiting for a new iMac for some time now and the prospect to having to wait six or more months more just kills me.
Edit. Sorry, I wrongly thought you were asking what's wrong with *my* iMac.
A brilliant, original and truly hilarious observation, founded in reality
Your observation too. Mine too. Stuck in infinite loop.
All true, but bear in mind the weight and footprint changes that are supposed to come round. The 2012 Retina MBP 15" was an achievement of sorts, clocking in at 2.0KG. It would be quite something if they could get to 1.7KG for the 15" and sub 1.5 for the 13", which would be a main reason for killing the Air.
There will never be a new Mac Pro. The Trashcan was not a poor seller because people decided to make do with powerful laptops and iMacs but because it was a steaming pile of turd, leaving people hanging on to aging MacPro towers, making hackintoshes or moving to Windows for high end work.
It won't be a 28nm 'rehash', it will be a 14nm AMD Polaris for sure.
BTW, what XPS with Kaby Lake? When is it releasing? Because if it's any time soon, you will be disappointed. High power Kaby Lake CPUs are not coming out until mid next year.
15 minutes sounds like a defective hard drive, or your Mac is trying to boot from a different, non existing hard drive, or it's looking for some defective hardware component. It's certainly not normal.
The problem is, Intel/Displayport do not support any connector that can drive 5k reasonably, all others are hacky workarounds using 2 cables as soon as this is available, they will be out... i'm not sure what people want.. If apple make a proprietary connector people will moan.... can't win can they.
https://www.amazon.com/Monoprice-USB-C-MicroSD-Reader-113506/dp/B00YQM8352
I understand no one likes adapters, but there are 'solutions' available.
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In my little world of video and audio editing, everyone uses MacBooks and iMacs. I know only one nMP but a few remaining cMP. So no, people aren't jumping ship in droves, they don't want to mess their hands with windows. A lot of them still use FCP7, amazingly enough.
Except for the thermal envelope, you mean?
macOS's base wouldn't be able to take advantage of 16 virtual cores (assuming hyperthreading) either.
I disagree. Apple have said for years they believe iPad to be the future of personal computing. Look at the updates with iPad - much faster, thinner, Apple Pencil, improved multitasking, truetone display, etc. All that happened during falling iPad sales and growing Mac sales.
If Tim Cook focused only on figures, iPhone would still come first, but wouldn't Macs get more love, and iPad neglected?
It's difficult to disprove your theory. If Apple focuses on a product which sells a lot, they're chasing numbers. If they focus on a product which isn't selling as well, they're trying to improve sales figures, and still chasing numbers. It's no win!
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Logic such as yours has no place in this forum!
well if you compare it to the last event its not so weird. Im kinda impressed how they managed to talk for more than on e hour about iphone 7 and the apple watch 2. I Bought the iphone 7 and Im still curious what I actually bought that was different from the 6s. Apple is experts of blowing smoke up our as*es.
But the new butterfly keyboard...c'mon apple! I own the Macbook - I understand making this in a gimmicky laptop that has to be ultrathin. But on a pro laptop I don't understand, compromising comfort to thickness....really stupid! Nobody outside Cupertino prefer the Butterfly keyboard! (I never heard one person saying it is better)
That's what Intel's TurboBoost fixes. So what if it has to take a ~20% down clock when operating all 8 cores, it's still going to be much more powerful than a quad. When you're running single threaded apps, it will still overclock itself to run just as fast.
Of course it could. It obviously has no problems running 24 in the Mac Pro. There are plenty of programs that will use everything you throw at it. Like video encoding.
Intel has 6, 8, and 10 core processors. But these are top end enthusiast processors that the general public wouldn't want to pay for. And I don't think Apple cares about these processors as they would make their computers much more expensive. Quite frankly we're lucky they give us 4 core processors as I'm sure they'd rather just give us 2 core and be done with it. I'm sure once the cost of manufacturing these drops to a reasonable rate we will see them. Then again maybe we won't since Apple uses multi core Xenon processors in the Mac Pro line. In other words even if the price comes down enough I don't believe Apple will use these 6, 8, and 10 core processors.