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New MacBook Pro Still Planned for October, USB-C MacBook Air Also in the Works
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Sounds like you don't know as much as you'd like to think. You'd not want your cpu running at 100% constantly. There are many processes that do tax computers - photo, video, games...
Thinner doesn't solve anything if they are still heavy as they are. And then there is that useless aluminium casing that chips like a pro, it doesn't have any flex so it dents and breaks like a pro too.
Apple needs to just call them MacBooks. There's nothing "Pro" about the MacPro, MacBook Pro or the software that run them and hasn't been for years.
So, you joined MacRumors just to say this ? Troll much ?
With October quickly coming to an end, I'm finding it harder and harder to believe apple will have a media event for a redesigned MBP and I don't believe they'll just roll out a redesign without a media event
Yes, he traveled forward in time to this date, looked for this article, then traveled back in time to last week and registered his account, then waited for the article to be posted again and then wrote his comment.
Top logic...
Isn't SD as fast if not faster than CF nowadays? Sandisk has 280mb/s SD and only 160mb/s CF cards.
- Can we please stop calling Thunderbolt 3 ports USB-C ports? It's like calling Thunderbolt 2 ports Mini DisplayPort ports. It's confusing and inaccurate. Nobody did it with Thunderbolt 2; why with Thunderbolt 3?
HDMI - no airplay at work.
Camera's with Wifi - mine is a pain and needs other functions turned off for it to work.
Headphone should be gone? No good if you don't have any bluetooth head sets
Not at all. Apple's obsession with thinness has crippled what used to be the bread and butter of their community - the audio & visual pros - and they're leaving in droves:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12593867
Couple this with their crippling of FCP and axing of Aperture, deletion of the X-Server line, and the trashcan Mac, Apple is no longer a go-to destination for the professionals who used to rely and count on Apple providing them with best-in-class hardware and software.
They are a prosumer company.
When you pay so much to have Apple, you want the best and that means regular updates.
two things, I don't believe at this point AV pros are Apple's major customers (anymore), and secondly the drive to paper thin computers has turned off other folks from the computers, not just AV pros.
Apple has long dropped their focus from pros and changed that to the consumer and it shows by their offerings and treatment of the pros
- I don't obviously. But the article itself claims to know they're Thunderbolt 3 in the paragraph directly above what I quoted.
He has a point though. The PRO segment of Apple is dying and we now get focus on iToys.
Here is one thing that I don't get. Every iPhone iteration usually gets cam bump so the phone makes better pics. Its now also part of their marketing campaign YET Logic gets overhaul, Final Cut gets overhaul and Aperture gets killed and replaced with ****** Photos app.
We still have 2 months ahead of us so Apple might still surprise us with good hardware but for now, it looks like 2016 was another boring year. They better bring something good if they were taking so much time.
I think its combined USB-C and TB3 port, and I think most folks are thinking along those lines - at least I am.
Because they were a strictly professional computer company before and didn't cater to regular consumers ? Did you just land on planet earth ?
Can you cite a time in Apple's history were they were only releasing machines and software for pros and nobody else ? It's almost like you've just discovered the existence of Apple . You have no idea what you're talking about.
The axing of Xserve and the FCPX blunder ( which is now a fine piece of software and has been substantially overhauled ) happened actually under Steve Jobs. It's not like it's a recent move.
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Thats a huge backpack and not a small one. I tend to plug my sd card in to my computer at home, not when out.Doesn't make sense. With all the cables and chargers dangling of their heavyweights lights, flashes, strobes, and they're freaking out because they need to plug a 20$ adapter on their MBP ?
A traditional small photo backpack looks like this already :
It just bugs me to remove something that is convenient and being used for something less convenient.
- Yes, of course. Just like Thunderbolt 2 is combined Thunderbolt 2 and Mini DisplayPort. But you don't see people calling those ports Mini DisplayPort instead of Thunderbolt 2.
A Thunderbolt 3 port is necessarily also a USB-C port, but a USB-C port is not necessarily also a Thunderbolt 3 port (see rMB 12"). So merely calling them USB-C ports if you really mean Thunderbolt 3 is highly inaccurate.
I never said they released hardware/software exclusively for pros and no one else now did I? I said that Apple's core over the years has been the professional computer user which it has been but now their focus is on making their devices as thin as possible all the while neglecting the pro community which kept Apple afloat for years when so many were on Windows.
Call me a troll or insult til your heart's content but the fact remains that Apple no longer cares about the professional Mac user or even the Mac as is evidenced by their lack of updates to the MacPro in specific and the entire Mac line in general.
Do you know the market penetration of fcpx in professional editing?
To my experience it's way smaller than fcp7 used to have...
That is their rationale but it's just another dongle that can get flaky or lost..
Gotta make a choice if they dump the SD, might bail on this platform..