And consumers won't be buying them.
Sony did not invent Blu-ray. You really don't know anything about it as the last few posts show.
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Notebook Refresh to Be Highlight of WWDC, Non-Retina MacBook Pro to Continue?
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And consumers won't be buying them.
Sony did not invent Blu-ray. You really don't know anything about it as the last few posts show.
This particular thing - the continuation of the cMBP - is not a disappointment to me. The others definitely are.
WWDC the real scoop
WWDC Spoiler alert:
Apple will introduce the MBA Flip it has a touch screen and the key board can be flipped behind the screen to be used as a tablet.
The high light of the show will be the ability to run IOS apps on OSX.
Needless to say the features of IOS 7 will be talked about but won't be released until this fall.
The new killer features will be:
Bluetooth support Mice and track pads.
Office and RDP for iPad.
Multiple apps on screen at once
New interface
WWDC Spoiler alert:
Apple will introduce the MBA Flip it has a touch screen and the key board can be flipped behind the screen to be used as a tablet.
The high light of the show will be the ability to run IOS apps on OSX.
Needless to say the features of IOS 7 will be talked about but won't be released until this fall.
The new killer features will be:
Bluetooth support Mice and track pads.
Office and RDP for iPad.
Multiple apps on screen at once
New interface
Sony. Along with six or seven other companies invented Blu-Ray. It is called the Blu-Ray Disc Association.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc_Association
Apple is on the Board of Directors btw.
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I'm just hoping for a price drop on the retina macbook pro. I'm coming up on 3 years with my current MBP 13" and am really starting to find it slow compared to my windows desktop machine (remember that in 2010 the 13" MBP still used core 2 duos and not core i) so I'm in the market for an upgrade, and buying a non-retina one feels like a waste. But if this "analyst" is correct, a price cut on the retina ones doesn't seem likely if the non-retina 13" isn't going anywhere.
My 2 cents on this would be that a non-retina MBP would fill the gap left when the plastic macbook was discontinued for around $999 and the retina MBPs will take over from the previous-generation units. Since the macbook air doesn't exactly target the same market segment, I think this idea isn't entirely implausible.
My 2 cents on this would be that a non-retina MBP would fill the gap left when the plastic macbook was discontinued for around $999 and the retina MBPs will take over from the previous-generation units. Since the macbook air doesn't exactly target the same market segment, I think this idea isn't entirely implausible.
I simply don't agree. Owning disks, streaming and downloading will all co-exist for many years to come. The relative mix might change over time but owning disks will not go away.
After 10 years of iTunes music downloads and several years of music streaming services CDs still account for at least 50% of all sales in the developed world and considerably more in the developing world.
I agree. Sales of the 13-inch rMBP are far from stellar, and Apple would want to avoid the same thing to happen to the MBA.
Pretty much that. And the fastest Apple helps the CD and the DVD to get killed, the better for iTunes Store to sell music, films and apps.
Augh! Still no 17" (or 19"?) MBP! I can't deal with tiny displays and don't really care so much about retina. I just need a desktop replacement to carry around once in awhile. Hopefully they'll at least bring back the 17" once larger retina displays are less expensive and battery-hungry.
You dont need to relate ownership to a physical copy. The day of owning is not ending. There were always rentals and ownership of video, its just that they are now both moving to the digital domain more and more.
You can rent and/or own a digital copy.
I'm not sure about the flip part but I would like to see the MBA morph into a laptop/tablet hybrid, bit like the HP machines I've seen. So you can dock the screen and use it as a laptop or take the screen off and use it as a touch screen tablet. I can really see the benefits of that. Presumably that would mean it would have to run iOS rather than OSX but it sounds good to me. I don't think they will do it this year but maybe next year.
I don't really get the 4K arguments, sure it'd be nice one day, it's just not really worth it in the home yet, and won't be for some time IMHO (i.e. until we all have screens that are wall-sized). I say this as a Blu-ray enthusiast.
I'd really have liked to see a retina 11 inch MBA soon though.
I'd really have liked to see a retina 11 inch MBA soon though.
Oh, Sony is so going down the road... at this pace, it is going to file for bankruptcy in a couple of years. I hate to see this great company making so many missteps.
If the next ipad mini at the end of the summer is gonna get a retina screen, there is no excuse that the next MacBook Air shouldn't as well.
I wonder when the Cinema Display is gonna get an update as well. It's kinda odd that the iMacs are thinner than the cinema displays and they have a whole computer inside!
Apple has some real competition now with Samsung in the smartphone department. They can't keep dragging their asses in the computer department.
I'll never jump ship from Apple, but I'm rooting for Apple to get some momentum back and start wowing us again.
I wonder when the Cinema Display is gonna get an update as well. It's kinda odd that the iMacs are thinner than the cinema displays and they have a whole computer inside!
Apple has some real competition now with Samsung in the smartphone department. They can't keep dragging their asses in the computer department.
I'll never jump ship from Apple, but I'm rooting for Apple to get some momentum back and start wowing us again.
Too soon I think. Probably later in the year. They tend to update the laptops first then the desktops later. I would guess Sept/Oct time.
Apple may release a new 17-inch MacBook Pro in the future when mobile video cards catch up and are able to reproduce 3840x2160 resolutions seamlessly. But a 19-inch MBP is not going to happen!
i am all against anal-ysts too, but this guy has a stellar record. When I hear his name mentioned I am considering it the closest thing to a lock there is.
Perhaps the base/keyboard part could hold the MacBook Air computer running OSX while the ipad would run iOS. Not gonna hold me breath, but That'd be one versatile machine! They could call it the macPad Air or the Mac Paddy. ;-)
I'm not sure why there'd be display bottlenecks for the retina displays, but if the rumor is true, hopefully it won't be delayed too long. My MBP has served me well for 5 years, but it's time upgrade.... Waiting half a day to encode a blu-ray to MP4 is painful.
LOL. What a load of nonsense.
What do you need an optical drive for? Better question: what fantasy world do you envision that has MBP buyers relying on built in optical, away from their desk?
Does that same fantasy world exclude the logic that with a simple, modern hub for your desk, you can connect every imaginable peripheral including optical and Ethernet, and connect it to your rMBP via thunderbolt? And then pick up the machine and go with all the portability in the world and none of the handicap?
Common sense rules.
Mac Paddy
Running iOS and OSX would be difficult as you'd have buy all the apps twice.
The rest of the world is struggling to get their hands on something like 2009 Acer laptops in case you didn't get the memo.
The "rest of the world" you have in mind has 16MBit/s ADSL for £15/mo. If people prefer to pay the same amount of money for 1GB of mobile data, that's their problem. And 16MBit/s streams you SD iTunes stuff perfectly fine, in a quality comparable to DVDs. If you're serious about watching DVDs, this will end up being less expensive, too.
Last time I've checked, cMBPs didn't have BluRay drives, so you play them on your PS3 anyways, not on your Mac.
Next thing you know is people complaining about the absence of floppy disk drives, because 3.5" floppies are the #1 storage medium in Angola or Myanmar.
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