Wouldn't you just need a clip or screw? It suck that you can no longer replace batteries in your Apple MacBooks, especially since Apple tried to quote me $600+ to replace mine last week.
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Teardown Reveals New MacBook Pro Without Touch Bar Has Removable SSD
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Holding my breath to see the repairability score by ifixit. Just 1/10 or will it make it to score 2/10 thanks the user replaceable SSD.
That's the question thousands of people are asking today. Apple left a huge vacuum here, I hope something/somebody comes to fill it.
I took apart my 2013 15" rMBP yesterday, cleaned the fans, replaced the thermal compound, removed, cleaned and replaced all keyboard hinges and may order a new display soon.
Ran geekbench on it and it's still 30-120% (single/multicore) ahead of the depicted non-touchbar 13" 2.0Ghz.
Interesting. Looks like 13" entry is significantly different from the one with touchbar... According to Apple website, that one has two fans...
That's becuase it generates twice the heat. The low end 13" is 15W TDP and the high end is 28W TDP.
Same here. I thought about it for some time now. I bit the bullet today. Sold my 2013 MBA and purchased a Razer Blade Stealth (late 2016) with the Razer Core. Nice deal since Razer throws in a Kabuto and a Orochi Mouse for free right now.
Apple pricing is simply not affordable for me anymore. For some GPU power you need to shell out at least 2.5k€ here
On the phone side I will stick with my iP6 till next year. Then see what Google's second gen phone will look like.
Will that drive fit in the 2015 rMB
Never mind it does not look like it has the same pin connection config
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Apple started soldering it with the 12" Macbook. The Macbook Pro retinas had the removable SSD and it wasn't clear if they would go to the soldering station with this one too - to mimic the 12" Macbook.
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Good to see at least something positive about these latest MacBooks. However, RAM is still soldered and with these prices I'm quite unlikely to get one.
You have to purchase the product that works best for you. If that is a PC or a Chromebook, then do what you have to do.
If Apple doesn't sell these MacBooks, they will either pivot in strategy or stop making them. The market will decide.
So you would basically be the anti-Tim CookAfter reading lots of these comments since that lame keynote: guys, make me CEO of Apple and I promise, within 1 year, everyone will be happy!
We will all have thicker (yes, you read that right) MacBooks with useful ports, magsafe and sd-card slots. They'll have powerful gpus and 64gb ram for those who need it. And hey, we'll throw in a extension cable and make the Apple logo glow again.
We'll make a new Thunderbolt display and new Mac Pros and iMacs for you to connect them with. iPhones will lose the lightning port, because who needs that when there's usb-c and we'll include 2 of those on every Mac, just in case if you ever need one next to usb-a. Most importantly, we'll keep the prices lower so people can actually buy them. Less money but more volume is I believe better than less volume with more money.
But seriously, how freaking hard can it be to just give your customers what they'll actually want. Just for once don't be so extremely cheap. It's not like you're close to bankruptcy.
- Most probably a completely custom Apple one manufactured by Samsung, SanDisk, or Toshiba, as has been their habit.
This automatically makes this model more appealing to me.
I'd rather have upgradible storage than the touch bar.
I'd rather have upgradible storage than the touch bar.
Have you ever built a Hackintosh? The process is doable. But it wasn't reliable enough for me to actually do work on...
I'm confused. If you go to the Apple store and click on ''How much storage is right for you?'', which is right under capacity section, it says the following:
Please note that the storage is built into the computer, so if you think you’ll need additional storage capacity in the future, it’s important to upgrade at the time of purchase.
So is it or is it not removable?
Please note that the storage is built into the computer, so if you think you’ll need additional storage capacity in the future, it’s important to upgrade at the time of purchase.
So is it or is it not removable?
higher TDP required by the one with Touchbar. 28W vs 15WInteresting. Looks like 13" entry is significantly different from the one with touchbar... According to Apple website, that one has two fans...
I am not wild about that idea. I closed the lid on my MacBook Pro the other day and assumed it went to sleep like it does every other time. It stayed awake and got REALLY hot inside its bag.
Now when I want to make sure it's off and stays off I shut it down.
- It is removable as proved by these pictures. That statement from Apple was also present with previous models, which also had removable PCIe SSDs.
It's built-in in the sense that you aren't supposed to take it out.
We're talking about the MacBook Pro. You have an Air right now. If you want to move up, then of course it's more expensive -- or am I overlooking something?
Edit: OK I get it, you're saying that there isn't a good upgrade path for anyone owning a Macbook Air? Yes, I have to agree with that. You could get the current Air, though. It's two CPU generations ahead of your current machine and the battery life will be fantastic compared to your Air.
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