Better still, wait until that tiny screen malfunctions or burns out, and it costs more to repair it than the cost of the laptop.
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Roundup: Hands-On With Touch Bar on New MacBook Pros
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Better still, wait until that tiny screen malfunctions or burns out, and it costs more to repair it than the cost of the laptop.
i don't know what kind of meds tim is on, but clearly bad ones
you can just feel the akwardness flow from this guy
you can just feel the akwardness flow from this guy
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The new Touch Bar is really cool, but the price and lack of upgradable RAM beyond 16GB is what kills it for me. I don't buy a new Mac every year, or even ever two years. It's more like every four years. I'm sure I'll love editing hundreds of 100MP RAW photos from the Sony A9II in the year 2020 on 16GB of RAM. It baffles me that we can't even pay to upgrade it on a machine that I've spec'd out at $3500. Also their SSD prices are still a bit crazy, and I people were saying that they're not even using Intel's newest processors? Is that really correct?
I think I'm going to hope that the next iMac update doesn't suck and just keep my mid-2012 rMBP.
I think I'm going to hope that the next iMac update doesn't suck and just keep my mid-2012 rMBP.
I guess its good that you're not in charge then, since that idea survives about 8 seconds of scrutiny.
Honestly **** apple. These prices are stupid. Ill take the money I was going to spend and spend it on a gaming build. Looks like another year of my 2011 mbp
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What else are you going to use that bar for when you're in the messages app? Also why do you need MagSafe if you have 10 hours of battery life? Don't get me wrong I love MagSafe but my mbp battery only lasts 2 hours. Honestly you just sound like an angry person.
If you only buy a Mac every 4 years, why is price even a concern?
A base 15" model costs $1.60 per day to own and use for 4 years. You have to be kidding. This place is infested with non-pros, wannabe-pros, and people like to play one on the internet.
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The touch bar is too far up. Should have been between the space key and trackpad.
Yeah you are right Tim, it's just 20 Cents per hour if you work 8 hours a day! WTF! You should have tripled the price!
the razer blade pro and the surface line have now surpassed apple's hardware division
It's worth it.
Just spend the money, buy it, and you'll never complain about it.
The only people that ever complain about tech products are the people that don't spend money to buy the expensive version.
The people Apple invite to those things are people/media they know will love the thing regardless of whether it's crap. People who give negative opinions are usually no longer invited to Apple keynotes. It's not an unbiased opinion, it's Apple fanboy journalists.
Tim Cook at the 2022 Apple event:
"Last year we introduced the AppleCar with these beautiful static Rose Dust wheels and incredible Deep Black tires... This year we made them functional: Yes, you didn't misheard, now they actually rotate so you can start your car and also drive it."
"Last year we introduced the AppleCar with these beautiful static Rose Dust wheels and incredible Deep Black tires... This year we made them functional: Yes, you didn't misheard, now they actually rotate so you can start your car and also drive it."
Ha I never used 3D Touch on my 6S and went to an SE. Don't miss it at all.
If you are a pro user your MBP spends most of its time tucked away while you use an external display, external keyboard and mouse. So not much use for the touch bar in that instance.
I like the touch bar idea. It seems like a good compromise between having something dynamic and visual to manipulate with touch, and not getting fingerprints all over your nice screen. I am looking forward to seeing how people end up using it with their favorite shortcuts in xcode or excel and the like.
That said, demoing it with emojis is really tone-deaf on Apple's part. It shows they really don't listen to feedback showing people associate emojis with tackiness and amateurism. They're fun and colorful for sure, but that is not the right first message to send. They should have led with how it will look in final cut pro x, then how it will look in xcode. Those are the users Apple needs to impress. Then show word, excel, mail, safari, etc. to show us worker-bees how this will help our day-to-day work.
For example, having a shortcut to trace-dependents or trace-precedents in excel would be awesome for me. It's not sexy, but who cares? By leading with emojis, they lost the respect of the audience.
That said, demoing it with emojis is really tone-deaf on Apple's part. It shows they really don't listen to feedback showing people associate emojis with tackiness and amateurism. They're fun and colorful for sure, but that is not the right first message to send. They should have led with how it will look in final cut pro x, then how it will look in xcode. Those are the users Apple needs to impress. Then show word, excel, mail, safari, etc. to show us worker-bees how this will help our day-to-day work.
For example, having a shortcut to trace-dependents or trace-precedents in excel would be awesome for me. It's not sexy, but who cares? By leading with emojis, they lost the respect of the audience.
lol of course not. They probably won't appear in stores for up to 3 weeks with the shipping delay. But I'd expect it to be a bit sooner than that.