New MacBook Pro Models Now Available for Purchase as Apple Store Comes Back Online

[HumpYourWayUp]

So they really killed the glowing apple logo in the "Pro" models too - sniff
At least I did not see them:

 

[Young Doc 90]

"It’s faster and more powerful than before, yet remarkably thinner and lighter. It has the brightest, most colourful Mac notebook display ever"

Lmao... Oh Apple.

 

[numbersyx]

£2,789.00 that's a massive jump in price, thank you Brexit.

Not just in the UK. Skyhigh in Canada. Still ordered mine as I need a new one. Whew, with these prices I don't see many too many Windows converts.

 

[biscuitsxluv]

Anyone know when the store will get some in stock?

 

[ssmed]

I am very disappointed - not one connection without a dongle and no mention of any dongles and their price. Did there really need to get rid of the HDMI and SD card slot? I could have coped with the cost eventually and when needed, but this is a further example of form over function. Ultimately computers are for work and productivity, not to be the thinnest, lightest and most trendy.

 

[Kognito]

I was expecting perhaps a £200 increase over the outgoing models, but the pricing is insane.

Borderline having a heart attack over here. £2699 versus £1999?! So an extra £500 in there for the currency depreciation of 25% and I presume a £200 port and function key removal fee...

 

[OldSchoolMacGuy]

Why would this machine shave a couple of hours off your work?

A processor that is up to 130% faster than the MacBook Pros they replaced and you can't see where one might be able to shave time off their work?

 

[catalyst6]

Omg the 13 inch with touchbar is 2k EUR here on Germany. That's outrageous.

 

[d00d]

How about that lack of Lightning port for all those headphones?

 

[Val-kyrie]

The new prices are ridiculous everywhere.

The only defense of these prices is the fact that both 15" MBPs have dGPUs. The old model with dGPU did start at ~$2399. Still, the lack of a $1999 model is really going to hurt sales of the 15".

 

[Crzyrio]

Can someone tell me what the resolution of the 15 Mac Book Pro is?
Apple gets a lot of mileage out of "Retina" but what does that mean?
1080p?
in 2016?
Really?

15.4-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit display with IPS technology; 2880-by-1800 native resolution at 220 pixels per inch with support for millions of colours

 

[mdriftmeyer]

$3499 for a 15" rMBP with 16GB of RAM (no 32GB upgrade option) in what is nearly 2017. Seriously?

$2499 for a 13" rMBP with the same amount of RAM (16GB), SSD capacity (512GB), and a slower processor than my mid-2012 rMBP 15". Seriously?

I would be less upset if they at least offered a 32GB RAM upgrade option for the high-end 15" model. That's inexcusable for a machine that should last at least four more years. That's how much RAM is in my mid-2012 model. Really. How is this supposed to keep up with the professional work I do through the year 2021? There is really no good reason to upgrade your Mac any more, aside from the Touch Bar, which I admit is pretty sweet and not gimmicky like I thought it might be.

I'm going to hold out for the next iMac upgrade. I'm hoping the keyboard comes with Touch Bar, and hopefully the memory on the 27" model will at least be upgradable. Even if not, at least the iMac is configurable to 32GB of RAM.

Everything sans the $3299. You're including the 1TB SSD which bumps it up $400. You also included the RX 460 4GB GPGPU that made it $2899. I agree that should have been the baseline GPGPU, across the board. And they should do away with soldered RAM or gut their RAM prices and have 32GB and 64GB BTO options.

 

[Johnny907]

You should be storing data on two externals: one has a primary, the second as a back-up. A 256GB boot/application drive is plenty storage. I have a 512GB drive in my 2014 MacBook Pro, and I have 406GB available with no shortage of graphics and photography applications and fonts loaded onto my machine.

So a 256GB boot/application drive is "plenty of storage," but you're using a 512GB in your system? Um...?

 

[macmanmass]

I guess it's in our nature to complain. I grew up with Apple as as a computer company. It hurts to see they spend so much time talking about a touch bar, when they could've revealed a:

- next gen iMac
- next gen Mac mini
- next gen Mac Pro
- 14" MacBook

*sigh* I guess we will just have to face the fact that the old Apple will never be back.

Edit: also, **** Intel and their Dual Core U processors. I really hope AMD will stirr up this piece of the market by introducing 28W quad core Zen's.

The Apple we all know and love, died with Steve. And whats with Tim Cook only opening and closing the keynotes. Maybe if he spent more time on stage and grew a relationship with the audience he'd be better off. But he still can't innovate to save his life. Its sad when you see a company like Apple which WAS so great, turn into the company it once vowed to never be like. Along with making America great again, how about we make Apple great again - Find a new cook!

 

[ktecac]

Oh god no ! Go back OFFLINE! Go back offline!!

 

[davidec]

Add a 1TB BTO on the 15" and you get a few dollars back from $5K here in Australia. That is prohibitively expensive. Apple needs to remember with caution what dragged them to near bankruptcy in the 90's - superfluous features and stupidly high prices.

 

[GFLPraxis]

Something I'm not noticing anyone talk about:
The graphics card in the 15" MacBook Pro is a workstation GPU. A Radeon Pro 450.

That's interesting. A little overpriced for gaming, but CAD folks should be going nuts right now.

 

[macmanmass]

Along with making America great again, how about we make Apple great again - Find a new cook!

 

[gnipgnop]

As a software engineer, I find the idea of having to look away from my screen to find the button to press on a small touch bar without any tactile feedback to be a horrible experience.

Why do you say "find"? You can customize what's on there and where it is. No different than knowing where to look on the screen.

 

[pmbooks]

whine whine whine whine whine..... bye

 

[td2243]

I hate to add to the complaints, but I just configured the 13" for my wants and it is $2199 and still only has 16gb memory and 512ssd.

I was seriously wanting my first MacBook, but these prices are unrealistic.

 

[ladycsr]

GIve it a couple months. Best BUy will have it for cheaper than retail.

$100 cheaper max. if you are spending $2500-$4000, $100 is less than the tax.

 

[AppleFan91]

Yeah, I was definitely planning on upgrading, but my 2012 rMBP is doing just fine, just doesn't have all the bells and whistles of the new ones. I just can't believe the pricing on these guys, they've jumped them up quite a bit. I think I'm holding off until they are more reasonable.

 

[AZREOSpecialist]

$10 billion in annual R&D and this is what we get?

The only way to get Apple to focus on desktops again is if their iPhone sales to tank. iPad sales have already tanked, iPhone 7 seems to not be doing as well as expected. The writing is on the wall. Tim Cook needs to go.

 

[OldSchoolMacGuy]

I am very disappointed - not one connection without a dongle and no mention of any dongles and their price. Did there really need to get rid of the HDMI and SD card slot? I could have coped with the cost eventually and when needed, but this is a further example of form over function. Ultimately computers are for work and productivity, not to be the thinnest, lightest and most trendy.

A USB 3.1 to HDMI adaptor is less than $15. Suck it up and quit crying.

The SD slot was almost never used. Data shows less than 3% of users have ever used them. No point in including them when it simply adds extra expense and takes up space in the machine.