£2,789.00 that's a massive jump in price, thank you Brexit.
Nothing to do with Brexit. Fully loaded 15" is over 5k EUR here. Previous top of the line model was barely over half of that. Even specced down to the same level as the previous one it'll be a lot more expensive than the previous ones. And that's not including the 150e worth of dongles you need to buy to make it usable.
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I don't see it on Apple's site. I think the touch bar looks great, to be honest. Looks like the Air is done, which makes sense with the 12 and entry-level 13-inch MacBook.
They should, at the very least, upgrade the MacPro processor and graphics....how hard can that be?
As for the iMac 5K, I bought on last year...the only update it would need is processor and graphics....mine from last year still runs incredibly well.
So these days you can choose between a too-small machine with no ports and a crappy keyboard or a slightly larger one dubbed as 'pro' with still not enough ports and the same crappy keyboard. Yay. Or an iMac with a crappy keyboard.
I hold on to my current one and reconsider macs when they actually come up with a keyboard I can use again. If that doesn't happen there's always Windows. Win10 isn't total crap even though I still much prefer OS X - but that doesn't matter if the input devices are useless.
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Well.
Hardware in 13" slightly disappointing.
Don't really care about the ports. Anticipated adapting.
But. IDK, the pricing is wrong, and I'm not psyched about picking on up? I wanted something to replace my 5+ year Air and keep me on Mac OS. Windows 10 is annoying, but it's still leagues better than 8 and I use it frequently.
I want to continue in the Mac software side of things, but I'm just not thrilled with the hardware they're offering for this. The restrictions on the processor and graphics on the 13" range while M$ puts out some of the best stuff they ever had and competition from Razer just... makes me consider hackintosh laptops for the first time in a while.
Why is this so difficult?
Tried hackintosh. It helped me remember why I'm not too thrilled about using Linux on my laptops/desktops. I'd love it if I could just use it. CBA to tinker with my computer all the time to keep it operational.
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.
You forgot they could've revelead a Macbook Pro instead of this Macbook Air they released.
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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.
Well, 1TB to 2TB is $1200 in the U.S. It's over $1500 (1400EUR) for us. Yay. I could go and buy 2,5" 2TB SSD for ~700e. Sure it wouldn't be as fast as what they offer, but is their offering really more than twice as fast in real life? No, not really. And if I had to choose I'd rather take 4TB of that "slow SSD" than their 2TB of fast stuff which is mostly used for iPad/iPhone backups because it doesn't fit much else.
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Who lot of crying about Pro models from people that aren't pro users in here. If you don't spend 4+ hours a day in pro apps, you aren't considered a pro user.
Real pros don't cry about the price because these machines help them get their job done faster and better. If these new machines shave a couple hours after their work in a month, they've paid for themselves even if they cost 2x as much.
Real Pros also aren't idiots. If you get more for for the price you pay it. If all you get is a machine that's harder to use than the previous ones, requires more dongles and doesn't really get you anywhere, it's not worth the trouble. The touchbar is of any use only of you actually use the laptop's keyboard and touchpad. At the same time they are advocating using an external monitor as a hub - and replaced the keyboard with one that feels like you're using an on-screen keyboard. The obvious result: people actually hook it up to an external display, keyboard and mouse. So what happened to the touchbar? "Oops".
Even the touchbar doesn't sound like much of an improvement. You're working on Photoshop while listening to music. You want to turn the volume down. Previously it was couple of key presses and job done. How many minutes will you spend swiping, touching and fondling that new bar to get the job done? What's worse, you can't do it without actually looking at the bar. I can adjust the volume on this 2013 rMBP blindfolded, I don't need to stop working to do something simple like that. But I guess I'm not pro enough.
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Most pros don't use much onboard storage anyways. 256GB is more than enough for the OS and apps. All other stuff like photos, video, etc, is all stored on external in the vast majority of cases.
Just because you do things certain way it doesn't mean "most pros" do it. Most pros who work in a desktop environment surely work the way you do. The rest, not so much. When I need to access the results of my last photoshoot I do want to get all the images onto my machine for processing. I prefer internal storage because ... well, you can try balancing a laptop with an external disk on your lap in the middle of nowhere, then come tell me why. Before suggesting cloud and other crap do a quick calculation on how quickly I upload that 100GB+ of raw data there - and how quickly I can edit all of it.
The whole point of a Pro laptop is that it's portable. It needs to work regardless of where you are. Not just at the office. If that's all you need, go buy a desktop.
