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New MacBook Pros Don't Include Backlit Apple Logo or Power Extension Cable

bayer said:
I really hope that this will push people to give Windows laptops (Surface Book and Dell XPS) a good look.

They're just as good, if not better than a MacBook Pro.

Microsoft also just announced that the 2017 update to Windows 10 will bring with it native support for SMS messaging with a connected Android or Windows phone (i.e. Messages functionality)

There is NO excuse for not including a $19 (retail price) cable that probably costs them around $2 to make. I guess this is what you get when you reward a company that for years, believes it knows what customers need and want better than the customers themselves.

#VoteWithYourWallets
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Work just issued me a Dell XPS13 so I don't have to cart my Personal MacBook Air around anymore. I love it. It is a very nice machine.
 
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imageWIS said:
You can't do everything from the cloud, period. You don't have perfect connections all of the time, and there are data caps everywhere, either from the speed available, to how much you are being raped by the basically 4 cell / data carriers in the USA. And that's just the USA, go to other parts of the world, especially south America to see the snails pace of common internet to see how the cloud is a dream that only turns into reality in Silicon Valley.
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Actually, the cloud isn't even reality in Silicon Valley.

The bandwidth issues hit us here, and my company has moved to use Box as our file sharing provider.

We were knocked offline by the recent DDoS attacks against Box. We're re-evaluating on-prem (on premises) vs cloud for many of our systems. We don't like the idea that things that we don't control can cost us millions of dollars per day.
 
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tubeexperience said:
Microsoft lowered the price of the Surface Book to $1350, by the way.
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at least 1899 :(, because i am not getting intel HD Graphics, but I might have to live with 8GB of RAM.
Just find out all the fuss about the mac pricing. 1999 for macbook pro 13" with Intel Graphics and 8GB of RAM.
 
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JorgTheElder said:
Yes, and I understand that OLED screens don't have a backlight, but why would you give up free advertising in every coffee shop for the price of a single white, surface-mount LED?
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The main display isnt OLED only the little touch bar is. The display is still the same LED LCD retina with some slight changes to manufacturing to yield better contrast ratio and brightness.
 
AidenShaw said:
Actually, the cloud isn't even reality in Silicon Valley.

The bandwidth issues hit us here, and my company has moved to use Box as our file sharing provider.

We were knocked offline by the recent DDoS attacks against Box.
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Well, there you go then.
 
imageWIS said:
You can't do everything from the cloud, period. You don't have perfect connections all of the time, and there are data caps everywhere, either from the speed available, to how much you are being raped by the basically 4 cell / data carriers in the USA. And that's just the USA, go to other parts of the world, especially south America to see the snails pace of common internet to see how the cloud is a dream that only turns into reality in Silicon Valley.
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i live in northern Ireland so I'm not sur what speed use get there but my speed are great all i say is give the new design a chance before carping all over it
 
IMG_20161028_151850.jpg This trackpad looks huge!
 
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actinide said:
at least 1899 :(, because i am not getting intel HD Graphics, but I might have to live with 8GB of RAM.
Just find out all the fuss about the mac pricing. 1999 for macbook pro 13" with Intel Graphics and 8GB of RAM.
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And you can't even get 32GB of RAM, it's maxed at 16GB!
 
AidenShaw said:
Not "effective marketing", just good supply chain management.

If any product has an initial "pent up demand", you have a several options.
  1. Build a large inventory of the new systems before announcement, so that you can handle the spike
  2. Create production capacity to handle the initial spike, then lay off people and facilities once the spike is over
  3. Size production capacity for the predicted long-term demand, and tell your marketing people to shout about the long initial delivery times as evidence of the "overwhelming success" of the new product.
Apple's choice is always #3....
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I used to think that #3 was true, but it isn't... at least the part about production capacity for the predicted long-term demand. That part isn't true. When supplies were short for the iPhone 7, there were reports of Apple increasing the production rate for them. That indicates that they weren't operating at capacity and that there was sufficiently additional unused manufacturing capacity to meet the demand.
 
JonathanHarpur1992 said:
i live in northern Ireland so I'm not sur what speed use get there but my speed are great all i say is give the new design a changes before carping all over it
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It's not just speed, it's consistency, and it's also about ancillary charges (from Apple, from wireless data providers, etc...).
 
Wow that SUCKS about the backlit Apple being gone, I'm completely surprised at this. No it doesn't affect the function at all, but it was still very cool to have. I like the 1-password mockups, very interesting and great use of the touchbar.
 
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This is Apple's reward for those that bring up profit as an argument in favor. Elimination of logo means more profit from not having to drill the lid and leaving out the other item is obvious. Kudos!
 
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mi7chy said:
This is Apple's reward for those that bring up profit as an argument in favor. Elimination of logo means more profit from not having to drill the lid and leaving out the other item is obvious. Kudos!
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isn't the non-lit apple logo milled in a similar way? how is everyone so sure it is a cost-cuttting decision?
 
imageWIS said:
It's not just speed, it's consistency, and it's also about ancillary charges (from Apple, from wireless data providers, etc...).
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i understand what u are say about speed ect put as no usb ports it was a matter of time plush u can buy western digital my cloud drive so u can mae ur owen cloud drive and doe have to use apple i only use apple iCloud case it is handy plush it just a one off payment each year
 
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