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New MacBook Pro Has Already Outsold All Competing Laptops This Year
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Pent up demand + not wanting to leave ecosystem + love of Apple products = buyer.
It's am amazing computer that a lot of people are going to love.
Of course they've generated more revenue. Look how much they (over)charge for the damn thing!
Apple doesn't care about specs as much as experience. You should know that by now. It's still a powerful machine through perfect hardware and software integration.
Good for Apple. I still think it would have been even more popular with a built-in USB-A port. Just one would have made a huge difference. Even if they charged the extra they'd lose on the adapter, I mean they're so expensive anyway, what's another $30 or whatever...?!
I think Apple is losing the plot a bit, but I still think there is a lot to like about these Macbook Pros. It's just for the price one shouldn't 'like a lot', you should love almost everything about them. That's how I still feel about my late 2013 15 inch rMBP, despite having to buy firewire and ethernet adapters, but adapters for everything is just silly. If I wanted a pile of spaghetti I'd order some pasta sauce.
I think Apple is losing the plot a bit, but I still think there is a lot to like about these Macbook Pros. It's just for the price one shouldn't 'like a lot', you should love almost everything about them. That's how I still feel about my late 2013 15 inch rMBP, despite having to buy firewire and ethernet adapters, but adapters for everything is just silly. If I wanted a pile of spaghetti I'd order some pasta sauce.
Apple's latest MacBook Pro has already outsold all competing laptops this year, according to new data shared by research firm Slice Intelligence.
Slice Intelligence says the new MacBook Pro accumulated more revenue from online orders during its first five days of availability than the Microsoft Surface Book, ASUS Chromebook Flip, Dell Inspiron 2-in-1, and Lenovo Yoga 900, based on e-receipt data from 12,979 online shoppers in the United States.
The new MacBook Pro generated over seven times the revenue that the 12-inch MacBook did over its first five days of availability, according to Slice Intelligence. If accurate, that means it took the new MacBook Pro just five days to accumulate 78% of all the revenue generated by the 12-inch MacBook since its April 2015 launch.
The data follows Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller's claim the new MacBook Pro had received more online orders than any previous MacBook Pro as of November 2. Apple has also reportedly told its overseas manufacturers to expect strong MacBook Pro shipments to last until at least the end of 2016.
The new MacBook Pro's apparent early success may come as a surprise to a vocal crowd of professional users who have criticized, among other things, the notebook's lack of ports and limited RAM. Schiller said the early criticism and debate has been "a bit of a surprise" to him, but common for any new Apple product.
Slice Intelligence extracts detailed information from hundreds of millions of aggregated and anonymized e-receipts. The research firm has a panel of 4.4 million online shoppers signed up for its services such as Slice and Unroll.me. It is also the exclusive e-commerce data provider for the NPD's Checkout Tracking e-commerce service.
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I am very excited about picking one up this year. The performance difference is amazing and the touchbar super exciting. Not surprising it sells well.
Xcode and Android Studio are going to be much faster than on my 2012.
There's a lot which is problematic about this article.
For example, the metric here is gross revenues, not units sold.
A Stockholder would apply some assumed profit margin from revenues to make their estimates.
OTOH, a 3rd Party debating if to sell a USB-C peripheral wants to know units sold, which this does not do ... at least in its current form.
To transpose this information into a "Units" metric, one needs to normalize by several factors:
* Its comparing the total revenue from three (3) distinct products (15", 13" with touchbar, 13" without) versus one (MB)
* Its comparing revenue from expensive products (higher MSRP's) to one relatively "cheap" one.
* Its comparing total revenue which includes accessories & upgrades ... on a product line that has lots of expensive options (eg, +$1200 for 2TB SSD) to a product line with essentially no expensive options, which results in an upwards bias on the aggregate average unit price.
* Its comparing different types of customers, as some MR 'pros' have stated that they've bought a 13" for today, which they intend to return it when their loaded 15" arrives - - that's a false near-term count.
* The data source may not be able to capture those customers who initially placed an order (to get a spot in line) but have since cancelled their order - - that's another source of false data risk in a near-term count.
FYI, the article does claim that on equivalent (initial launch) time periods, the MBP outdid the MB by 7:1. However, when you consider the first two normalization factors, that really changes to 7:5 (equals 1.4 :1). YMMV as to how much one wants to fudge/adjust on at least the last three I mentioned, but giving them each a notional 10% variance contribution would result in a final SWAG for me of (1.1 : 1) -- IE, close enough to a wash such that it isn't really as newsworthy of a product launch as is trying to be spun, due to Dongle-Gate.
Bottom line ... wait for the Quarterly SEC filing.
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100% agree. I am amazed at the number of sheep parroting a few highly vocal "tech journalists" putting forth the notion of what is and is not a "pro" laptop. It has to be 10lbs, dual Xeon processors, 30 minute battery life, Centronics parallel ports, 4 USB1, 3 USB 2 and USB-C ports as well as FW 1 and FW2, at least 3 Ethernet adapters, DVD-ROM and at least 64GB of RAM to be considered "Pro".
Despite the the negative comments and gripes, The MacBook Pro has better quality hardware than the other competitors. I'm not surprised and I'm content with my MacBook Pro.
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wait till they get the laptops and see whats wrong with it ... sad
seems if you have anything plugged into usbc ports .. wifi stops working
seems if you have anything plugged into usbc ports .. wifi stops working
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Not surprised at all. It's an excellent laptop.
Precious seeing those unhappy with the news calling purchasers stupid, sheep, etc. Sad.
Not surprised at all. It's an excellent laptop.
Precious seeing those unhappy with the news calling purchasers stupid, sheep, etc. Sad.
Apparently word got out that if you take a USB-C cable and string it between two ports on the laptop, it will stay perpetually charged.
This is missing a lot of caveats. One is a lot of consumers couldn't wait any longer on a worthy update to their aging Macs. I'd be more impressed by these numbers if Apple were realising their computers on a regular schedule like they use to.
Why? I didn't buy one but personally the only thing I don't like about this MacBook is the fact it uses a CPU that's about the be replaced.
Everything I do on my current rMBP can be done on the new one. I never plug anything except a power source and it only has 8GB of ram so 16 would be great
That's what has been said about Apple year after year after year after year.
There are some people who are so impressed by their view of their own brain that they can't imagine being wrong. Even though it is clear that you can't sell a product "to sheep", they don't get it.
I just cancelled my $3K+ order. Not because of the product or Apple, but because of what happened yesterday. Don't know what the future holds. I'll have to make do with what I have.
NO. BAD CONSUMERS. We do NOT give positive feedback to bad decisions!!
Rub their noses in their orders or something.
Rub their noses in their orders or something.
What would that tell us? We already know that PCs outsell Macs. That's not news. All industries compare sales of specific models to others rather than simply brands. It's far more telling in terms of popularity than simply looking at brands.
Well here's one film and television editor with 20 years in the industry making my living off the computers I use who CAN use the industry leading 4x TB3 and fastest SSD on the market. Sorry it is not your cup of tea. Curious what you do that it is such failure for you?real pros can't use this pos
Note that I am being polite. Please return the favour.
This record will be followed by it being the most heavily returned laptop of 2016 when people have problems connecting devices to it.
MR is full of Apple haters, so are most of the sites.
The Verge forums, they ban the people who simply like Apple, for example, because MS is running the show after all...