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New MacBook Pro Models Now Available for Purchase as Apple Store Comes Back Online
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RIP MacBook Air
RIP Magsafe (What an innovative feature back then... still so useful now when some clumsy students steps over the cable when I was in the library)
RIP cool backlit Apple logo behind the screen
RIP innovative Apple.
RIP Magsafe (What an innovative feature back then... still so useful now when some clumsy students steps over the cable when I was in the library)
RIP cool backlit Apple logo behind the screen
RIP innovative Apple.
Sadly, I think Apple really has lost its way. A company this wealthy and formerly innovative should be able to put out a line of products and more software in a more cohesive way on a much more regular basis. And they appear to be obstinate about the future integration of mobile and desktop that their competitors are surely working on. Touch Bar is a nice and useful iteration, but should have been a sidenote in a much larger presentation with a line of computers with a new Mac Pro, Mac Mini, iMac and new Magic Keyboard 3 with Touch Bar and Touch ID. The MacBook Pros are nice but only evolutionary. I'm a long time Mac fan and own many Apple products and will continue to buy, but I'm not very impressed and certainly not by Apple's usual standards.
In Germany cost the 13 inch version with touch Bar 1.999 Eur.
I almost sold my MBP a few months ago with the intention of buying a new one this autumn, but I'm so glad I didn't because the UK prices have gone up by 50% for the base model. And that's without the touch bar..
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They've re-invented the personal computer. Wow. That touch bar. Wow.
Yep, £700 for a spec bump, touch bar and Space grey on the 13", I'll be going for a refurb. (Which will perfectly suit my models needs)
Love the Touch Bar!
Wish there was a MacBook Pro+ that had some extra thickness with the ports I use everyday and another 5 hours more battery life. I would gladly give up some weight savings and thickness savings for that.
The HUGE touch pad is interesting... will have to play with it and try typing around it to really know how I feel.
Wish there was a MacBook Pro+ that had some extra thickness with the ports I use everyday and another 5 hours more battery life. I would gladly give up some weight savings and thickness savings for that.
The HUGE touch pad is interesting... will have to play with it and try typing around it to really know how I feel.
I do not know who can use a 256GB laptop. I do not have lots of photos, but everytime I back up my iPad and iPhone, my laptop is always full. With 512 or 1TB the price will be so expensive
How on earth are we still limited to 16GB of RAM? Really?!
Seems to be some confusion about the Macbook Air. The 11" seems to be discontinued, but the 13" lives on at the $999 price point.
So they Kill the MacBook air, now the cheapest *current gen* mac in Canada is over 1500$... I really thought they would drop the price on the MacBook... So now that apple can't increase unit sales they are focusing on increasing average revenue per unit sold... The faithful should prepare to be gouged.
Lackluster in every way, just like the way their earnings are going...
They continue to fragment all their products. Not updating the Air was really bad decision.
ThinkPad X1 Carbon here I come.
They continue to fragment all their products. Not updating the Air was really bad decision.
ThinkPad X1 Carbon here I come.
I have been alive for 33 years and I have never until now comprehended the intricacies of the word "underwhelming". Wow.
With a Radeon 460, the 15" is $CA3600, very expensive.
Even with the lowest dGPU offering, its still $3,400...
$400+ to go from 512GB to 1TB... no wonder Apple want a captive audience for upgrades.
Even with the lowest dGPU offering, its still $3,400...
$400+ to go from 512GB to 1TB... no wonder Apple want a captive audience for upgrades.
No 32GB option... maximum memory is 16GB... pass!
Okay, that was all pretty well in line with what I was expecting, but I've got to wonder; Nice, minor, iterative changes that could have probably been announced better in a press release make me think Apple totally just wasted an event, and I'm feeling a little gypped.
I buy every generation of MacBook Pro and iMac. Obviously, that's never going to change since I have no intention to move to Windows or re-buy all of my software. Today was challenging.
- I lose key ports that I use and will have to buy dongles & a docking hub to plug this into my work environment
- The battery life didn't increase despite the more efficient CPU architecture since the last refresh
- RAM limit is still pretty low considering the power. My iMac has 32GB of RAM and unofficially supports 64
- The jump from 512GB SSD (which I have now) to 1TB still seems too expensive
- I'll never use the touch-bar I think outside of adjusting brightness or volume
- I like that the trackpad is bigger as long as apple eliminates false taps while I'm typing.
- I will greatly miss MagSafe like a LOT
- My late 2013 MBP is a 2.6Ghz Core i7 (older architecture). The new model maxes at 2.9Ghz. I was actually expecting something close to what I have in my 5K iMac (4Ghz). guess Intel doesn't have those chips ready yet at the watts Apple needs them to be
- I'm going to really miss the glowing Apple logo. Thinness wins I guess.
- I'm not a fan of the retina MacBook Keyboard. i hope this improved keyboard is significantly better
- These models are $400 more expensive than what they're replacing.Why? The OLED touch bar?
- The performance looks great and is the only reason I feel a need to upgrade.
