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5 years since Thunderbolt display received an update, and it's still not ready. What is happening to this company.

I watched a comparison video on YouTube between the iPhone 7 Plus, S7, Pixel and LG V20 and the iPhone camera was clearly the worst of the group. Given Apple's massive shift toward the iPhone your question is valid. I mean LG wiped the floor with the iPhone plus in that test.
 
Well, this is odd... especially given the "hello again" text (as it directly relates to the first iMac intro).

Doesn't seem like this would be a 2hr event if that's all they're showing. The Mac Mini is in desperate need of a spec-bump, surely that has to be in the cards too.
 
I think people should give Apple event zero views.

They sure abused the mac pro users....thanks I went to z-series. If they do release it, i'll be in the market to buy one.
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Well, this is odd... especially given the "hello again" text (as it directly relates to the first iMac intro).

Doesn't seem like this would be a 2hr event if that's all they're showing. The Mac Mini is in desperate need of a spec-bump, surely that has to be in the cards too.
It's probably hello again because we haven't seen them in long time.
 
Walt Mossberg says he uses his iPads for all his work, Tim Cook says the same. Weirdos.
Normal people do all their work on iMessage so I don't know what the fuss is about.
You can send a resume with full screen balloons falling down or report to accounting with lasers! How cool is that? Who needs those old fashioned keyboard things!
Heck the iPad Pro can edit two streams of 4K video.
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Hey guys - remember the Mac Pro? The Airport and Airport Express? The Cinema/Thunderbolt Display? The Mac Mini? The iPod Touch?

What's so different about Apple today relative to 5+ years ago?
No Steve Jobs to keep the ship straight and narrow. No product was forgotten about and I miss the "one last thing" moment. There's no surprises anymore. And Apple under Tim Cook seems to be streamlining anything iOS. He needs to be replaced if we don't get a spectacular set of replacements for the current Mac line-up.
 
blame Intel not Apple. They seem to be having real issues getting product out the door in recent years. They are late again. Kaby Lake is still not generally available except in some very low power and clock rate versions. Can you go out today and buy a KabyLake i7 in Macbook packaging today?
We could be seeing the final straw in thr Apple/Intel CPU relationship. There are probably people in Apple Engineering that must be banging their heads on the walls in frustration with Intel.
This might be the tipping point and in two years time Intel MacBooks will be a thing of the past.
OTOH, the differences esp the performance differences between the two CPU's are fairly minimal.
I'd fully expect that the hardware will be able to take both CPU's with the minimum of engineering or process changes.
Lets hope that the Chipset can take 32Gb of RAM. For me that is the most crucial thing.
Why should we blame Intel for Apple releasing skylake macbook at the end of 2016??? Look at pc vendors, they are selling notebooks with skylake for ages... **** apple
 
If the MBPs get the rMB keyboard I'll use my 2010 till it dies, probably. But this aspect of the rumor doesn't make any sense. if Apple believed that it was so great, they would have rolled it out across all its products, instead of creating a separate Magic keyboard with more travel for the MBP and desktops.
 
Someone please tell me why Apple going with Skylake is better than jumping directly to Kaby Lake. I assume they will use a more powerful version than what's out for the Kaby Lake CPUs at the moment.
They will save on costs if they go with Skylake processors. By the way, few Kabylake CPU benchmarks are out already and there is barely 5% improvement in 7600K and 7700K compared to their Skylake counterparts 6600K and 6700K.
5% in real life will mean nothing and Apple's software optimization can compensate for it.

Now if geniuses at Apple decide to include Intel integrated graphics HD630 or some crap to run your Retina displays, then may god help you on that one.
 
The Mac Pro is a local product, Ming-Chi Kuo is located at China where NDA arent enforced the same, as when the nMP was introduced he never anticipated a thing about the nMP in 2013.

Or more likely it's just discontinued.

The 2013 Mac Pro pushed many agencies to PC hardware. I very much doubt there is a viable markert for a new Mac Pro.
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Wait...only MBPs and MBAs with usb-c but no retina? And yet the event is scheduled for TWO hours? What is going on? o_O

Nike watch bands will take an hour..
 
Sorry, but I kinda doubt that Apple would schedule a full blown media event if all that's coming are just new MacBook Pros and 13" MacBooks and nothing else.

Why? It will be small low key event like the one they held on campus in March (where all they announced was effectively an updated iPhone 5s and smaller iPad Pro and some watch bands) it won't be anywhere close to the scale of WWDC or the September iPhone events.
 
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Sorry, but I kinda doubt that Apple would schedule a full blown media event if all that's coming are just new MacBook Pros and 13" MacBooks and nothing else.
This could actually be a good thing if that's all that's getting announced. It would mean there are more changes to those respective devices, which is what I care about.
 
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