New MacBook Pro to Drive Strong First Quarter Mac Sales Growth?

[ghost187]

Be glad you weren't buying Macs in 1992.

Isn't this what happens every year? I guess somebody had to put out a news story today.

Well this is literally a portable Mac Pro! Benchmarks are higher than the base models of Mac Pro, which is incredible for any laptop. Also to those wondering, I got the 512gb SSD from apple, yes I know I could have gotten a faster one elsewhere, but I wanted everything under warranty directly from apple.

 

[blue22]

it's all good, just do you..

Well this is literally a portable Mac Pro! Benchmarks are higher than the base models of Mac Pro, which is incredible for any laptop. Also to those wondering, I got the 512gb SSD from apple, yes I know I could have gotten a faster one elsewhere, but I wanted everything under warranty directly from apple.

No shame in that. OWC offers a 480GB SSD for only about $200 less than Apple does for it's BTO one; but since you'd have to install it yourself it's understandable your concern regarding warranty related to maintaining the drive's stability and overall performance with OSX.

 

[wingsabr]

I bought one and I love it

 

[speedylomeli]

How Sad

Lol you feel like your in a special selected group because you bought a Mac?

That's sad.

You know what's sad? That your romping around macrumors.com and you probably don't have a mac or any apple products as a matter of fact. Go back to school and get a good job son, then maybe you will be able to afford a mac, and for any of you that don't have a clue of the possibilities that mac's can be targeted like windows machines, please see post #35 by SilianRail. You guys don't have a clue. Send me your email address and you will quickly find out how your precious mac crumbles when you receive one of 8 in my collection of mac trojans.

 

[Eddyisgreat]

Send me your email address and you will quickly find out how your precious mac crumbles when you receive one of 8 in my collection of mac trojans.

lol. good one.

 

[Stevamundo]

You know what's sad? That your romping around macrumors.com and you probably don't have a mac or any apple products as a matter of fact. Go back to school and get a good job son, then maybe you will be able to afford a mac, and for any of you that don't have a clue of the possibilities that mac's can be targeted like windows machines, please see post #35 by SilianRail. You guys don't have a clue. Send me your email address and you will quickly find out how your precious mac crumbles when you receive one of 8 in my collection of mac trojans.

Oh okay. Whatever turns you on tough guy. LOL!

My E-mail address is: NOEMAILFROMCRAZYPEOPLE@NONO.COM. ROLF!

 

[LightSpeed1]

The quad core 15" and 17" MBP's are the talk of the town, as they should be. It would be no suprise if it were these bad boys that drove up first quater sales growth.

 

[mrsir2009]

Thats because everyone has realized that the MBPs are the best Macs

 

[caspersoong]

Macbook Pros are not selling well in my country... most probably because people see Thunderbolt as useless. I know very well it is not useless. Hope they wake up to the future.

 

[Th3Crow]

No logic to that one...

Send me your email address and you will quickly find out how your precious mac crumbles when you receive one of 8 in my collection of mac trojans.

No offense, speedylomeli - but only an idiot would open a trojan from an unknown sender. If I gave you my email address, you wouldn't be able to affect my Mac at all. 8 trojans is a far cry from thousands of viruses and worms.

I do understand what you're saying, and I think people are giving you an unnecessarily hard time, but you've nothing to worry about. Apple's bigger marketshare has been very good for the platform. I love that people I know that were anti-Apple and argued with me about "which platform is better" are now using Macs. I love that I am not worried about whether or not Apple will go out of business or be bought out. I love that Apple is finally being recognized as the leader in innovation (they always have been). If Microslop shrivelled up and died, I wouldn't be upset at all.

 

[johnnyturbouk]

once TB periphs and a USB3 to TB adapter is out - more and more people will be thinking of buying the new MBP

 

[GGJstudios]

...and for any of you that don't have a clue of the possibilities that mac's can be targeted like windows machines, please see post #35 by SilianRail. You guys don't have a clue. Send me your email address and you will quickly find out how your precious mac crumbles when you receive one of 8 in my collection of mac trojans.

Mac OS X, like every other OS ever created, is not immune to malware or hacking threats. That being said, there has never been a virus in the wild that affects Mac OS X since it was released 10 years ago. The handful of trojans that exist can be easily avoided with some education and common sense and care in what software you install (such as not accepting or installing software from questionable sources):

Mac Virus/Malware Info​

 

[Al Coholic]

Mac OS X, like every other OS ever created, is not immune to malware or hacking threats. That being said, there has never been a virus in the wild that affects Mac OS X since it was released 10 years ago. The handful of trojans that exist can be easily avoided with some education and common sense and care in what software you install (such as not accepting or installing software from questionable sources):

Mac Virus/Malware Info​

So true.

I'm amazed that all the self-ordained and "highly degreed" techie-nerds around here who don't know the difference between a virus and trojan. They think the terms are interchangeable.

Anyone can write a freaking trojan and lure people into running it. No OS protects users from themselves.

 

[kingtj]

Well, yeah....

If I'm perfectly honest about the state of things? This is essentially the truth... For me, switching to the Mac and OS X back around '99 or 2000 was a really good feeling, because I regained the "excitement" of owning a computer again. Regular old Windows PCs are about as fun as buying a new toaster. EVERYONE has the same thing, and they're just an appliance, more or less. Most people who own and use them don't even necessarily LIKE computers. They just need them in today's society as a tool for several tasks.

The Apple Mac crowd was a small sub-set of people who, by and large, still LIKED computers -- and buying a Mac included buying into that whole user community. Although it's grown a lot since then, it's still generally the case that Mac users are in a "niche" part of the overall market. We use a different set of software apps than everyone else does, and we have a different operating system on our machines. We've got strong opinions about "better" ways to design a lot of the little things on a product, and we're willing to pay more to get them.

I don't really envision Apple becoming the #1 player in the marketplace any time soon (if ever). Low cost is too powerful a motivator, for one thing. Apple has zero interest in competing in that segment of the market - which locks them out of MANY environments. But that's ok! As people often point out, McDonalds will always have far more restaurants out there than any gourmet food place does, and more Americans will always drive a cheap Ford or Chevy than a Mercedes or Porsche. I just hope they continue to be as successful as possible while keeping the same focus on their priorities.

For some reason I like it the way it is. I feel that owning a mac puts me in special selected group and if to many people start buying mac's to a point were windows machines and mac's are on par in sales, then all hell will break loose. Mac's will be like windows machines. I will have to install virus protection and be paranoid like on my windows machines even though I have a BS in Networking.

 

[toddybody]

QA issues are concerning though....

 

[JAT]

Anyone can write a freaking trojan and lure people into running it. No OS protects users from themselves.

Obviously you've never watched Tron.

 

[Stevamundo]

I also remember that it was hard to find any software for it.

A computer = useless without software.

Yes I remember that too. I used to get so FRUSTRATED trying to find the software that I needed and wanted on the Mac.

Now Macs have a lot more software, BUT it can still improve. However it's definitely getting there though.

 

[InuNacho]

Obviously you've never watched Tron.

Heheh.

With the new souped up MBPs I wonder what'll happen to the Mac Pros.

 

[Stevamundo]

Heheh.

With the new souped up MBPs I wonder what'll happen to the Mac Pros.

Really? The Mac Pros can have up to 12 cores. They're Apple's fastest computer.

They probably aren't going anywhere soon.

 

[InuNacho]

I didn't mean they were going to disappear forever, I meant what's going to happen to them next. More cores, faster speeds, who knows?

 

[Michael383]

I'm glad my 2011 15" MBP contributed to that growth

 

[SilianRail]

Heheh.

With the new souped up MBPs I wonder what'll happen to the Mac Pros.

There actually are professionals that use computers for more than email/facebook/internet. Shocking, I know, but there are 1080p render times that can be reduced with better technology.

 

[Stevamundo]

I didn't mean they were going to disappear forever, I meant what's going to happen to them next. More cores, faster speeds, who knows?

Yeah, the new Mac Pros will have more cores, RAM and the new Thunderbolt. I mean that's pretty obvious to predict.

Goodness, computers now are getting absolutely monstrous. I LOVE IT!

 

[GGJstudios]

Goodness, computers now are getting absolutely monstrous. I LOVE IT!

This comment sent me on a trip down memory lane, trying to remember how many different notebooks/laptops I've had over the years. I can't come up with that number but I ran across a few priceless quotes from a review of a Dell Inspiron 7000 laptop that I used to have:

Expansion and upgradability isn't something normally associated with mobile PCs but if the 64MB of RAM provided by Dell isn't enough, the two slots do allow for up to 384MB in total (more than most would ever need).

The Inspiron contained an extremely large 14Gig hard drive

this unit was fitted with a new Pentium II 400MHz.

Even with the rather hefty price tag ($3,337) the Inspiron 7000 at 400MHz is currently the most powerful and quality rich mobile PC we've seen.

Of course by weighing in at nearly ten pounds, it's not the sort of luggage that users with smaller biceps would wish to haul around.

By the time I maxed out the RAM and added the docking station and other options, it was close to $6,000 out the door, and I was upgrading to a new model about every 12-15 months back then.

Yes, times sure have changed!

 

[Stevamundo]

This comment sent me on a trip down memory lane, trying to remember how many different notebooks/laptops I've had over the years. I can't come up with that number but I ran across a few priceless quotes from a review of a Dell Inspiron 7000 laptop that I used to have:

By the time I maxed out the RAM and added the docking station and other options, it was close to $6,000 out the door, and I was upgrading to a new model about every 12-15 months back then.

Yes, times sure have changed!

My first computer was the Apple II+ when I was a kid. With no HD and about 5k of RAM. LOL!

Who would forget PR#6.

Actually it was a pretty good computer at the time. It never froze and I had a couple floppy disks filled with great games for it.