For my work, the size of the trackpad of the XPS13 is more than enough and the battery life of 12-14 hours doesn't sound too bad. (1080p model)
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New MBP price = *speechless*
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For my work, the size of the trackpad of the XPS13 is more than enough and the battery life of 12-14 hours doesn't sound too bad. (1080p model)
For my work I can use a computer from 1992.
But that doesnt mean the Dell and the mac can be compared.
You can choose to go the "cheap" route but dont call a spade a spade when its a club.
I would say "to each his own". Of course, I can and I will do whatever I think is the most appropriate thing in this regard. What you can and probably will do, is going the "unreasonably expensive" route and this is your perfect right.
A ding against the Surface Book is that, the comparable Pro is only $100 cheaper. Sure, you get a pen and stuff, but it's definitely not the "Apple Tax" worth.
avocado97
macrumors newbie
Of course, most people only update their laptops every 4 years, so I wouldn't expect your early 2015 Macbook to be replaced!
omg your right, apple you went too far with this one...
Ma2k5
macrumors 68030
This has given me some hope, thank you for this. I'll look into the claim a bit more.
blaine07
macrumors 68040
This topic is super lengthy. Not going to read all this...
I bought a 2015 MBP and when these came online yesterday I looked at prices and WOW. Can't believe it, they've priced theirself in a whole different league. Glad I got my MBP last year. The touch bar thing cool, but the premium on it's ludicrous.
I bought a 2015 MBP and when these came online yesterday I looked at prices and WOW. Can't believe it, they've priced theirself in a whole different league. Glad I got my MBP last year. The touch bar thing cool, but the premium on it's ludicrous.
appleofmyibook
macrumors regular
Totally agree with you there. I got my MBP last year for $2500 AUD simply because I wanted the bigger screen. Now the same model is $2999 even though it's older and if you want the touch bar, it's $3600???? Seriously though???? It's not like you're buying a house or a designer collectors item that appreciates in value over time. Very strange.
headfuzz
macrumors 6502
I'd never seen a £3000+ laptop until today when I specced out a replacement for my 2013 rMBP.
Despite having had a dreadful experience of service with them before when my Dell XPS 13z Developer Edition died, suddenly this newer version of it at half the price seems very attractive indeed;
http://m.dell.com/mt/www.dell.com/u...op/pd?oc=bnx93611&model_id=xps-13-9360-laptop
Despite having had a dreadful experience of service with them before when my Dell XPS 13z Developer Edition died, suddenly this newer version of it at half the price seems very attractive indeed;
http://m.dell.com/mt/www.dell.com/u...op/pd?oc=bnx93611&model_id=xps-13-9360-laptop
arnaud.marchionni
macrumors newbie
One really interesting article about the reason why prices tend to increase like that !
The market is evolving.
http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/28/...e-macbook-prices-expensive-exclusive#comments
The market is evolving.
http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/28/...e-macbook-prices-expensive-exclusive#comments
It is more the world lost faith in you, since you're basicly out and no one knows what that means for you yet, investors move money out/stops investing. Your money becomes less worth, import prices goes up. A bit more than 50% of the UK price increase is directly due to brexit (funny thing is, that drop for only an year, costs you as much as 30 years of EU membership). Now you could say your products become cheaper worldwide, but unless the raw material is from the UK, you have to import those too.
USB to GBP
The week before the announcement I went and priced out the top of the line 15" with 16GB, 1TB and the max GPU and processor available and that came to $3899CDN. The new one is now $4339CDN and of course more if you go to 2TB. So a $440 tax on touchbar and some size/weight reduction.
Personally all I really wanted was the size/weight reduction and $440 is a big premium to pay for that but for me its worth it.
Personally all I really wanted was the size/weight reduction and $440 is a big premium to pay for that but for me its worth it.
Hi. Can you please share the link for this Dell?
I'm going to the USA next march; my original plan was buying a brand new MBP to replace my 3 years old retina but with the lack of SD card reader and 4 usb c I changed my mind.
What was so innovative about the last Macbook Pro?
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The Cube
Ping
Lisa
An iPhone that loses its signal when you hold it.
all not amazing products/things
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Positive opinions of both the Surface Book and Surface Pro sometimes perplex me. I own both. They both make for an awful (yep, awful) tablet experience.
The Surface Pro especially is a confusing product. Its a bad tablet combined with a sub par laptop experience (the Surface Book can at least sometimes be considered a decent laptop).
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deadlystriker
macrumors regular
Bean counter Tim at work here, making up for the year after year decline in revenue & profits.
iPhone & iPad prices are higher than ever, and I'm afraid their other products will follow suit (should they ever get updated, i.e. Mac Pro).
Instead of real innovation, what we get is apple finding more ways to suck their customers dry.
Sure. I shared that here. Link and coupon code for an extra 10% off.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/new-mbp-price-speechless.2009746/page-7#post-23801184
Audio interfaces, electronic controllers, Kinekt, LEAP motion, Lemur, ARDUINO devices..the list goes on and on...
...and seriously? The processors are already outdated. The 7th generation chips are already in PCs, so why would I pay this much for the 6th generation? Also DDR3? Not for $2300 on what is supposed to be a professional machine.
This machine was built less for power users, and more for people who care about how easy it is to find the poop emoji.
headfuzz
macrumors 6502
Careful, Brexiteers can't stand facts, even less so when it's foreigners articulating them.
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My link to the UK version is a few posts above if that helps, although that's the variant that comes with Ubuntu preinstalled (Linux is what pays my bills and I can't stand Windows so won't pay for an OS I won't ever use).
I had an earlier generation of that machine and absolutely loved it for the 6 months use I got out of it. Sadly when it died (power supply issues to the motherboard, fwiw) Dell (Business arm no less) were astonishingly crap when it came to repairing it and after sending out two DOA replacement boards finally, after 3 months of arguing, refunded me.
The price tag of the current version is almost enough for me to tell myself that that must have been an isolated incident.
Almost.
But not quite.
Yet.
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I don't think people on a tight budget look too hard at Apple's line up, nor do I think this bothers Apple too much.
I'm not saying you shouldn't but investing in such would probably be unwise since our MBPs are at the tail end of supported devices.