It's rather fascinating to see the reaction to new products like the tMBP.
Most of the negative posts are from folks who don't own one. They also seem the crave negative reports and comments on these new machines. A sticking key or glitch somewhere suddenly takes on Orwellian proportions that are somehow indicative of Apple preparing to ignore and eventually abandon Mac users.
Most of us can easily see that this is just another new release. Apple went to bat and brought a bunch of new features and changes. Most pros will be happy with these new machines, but hobbyists who crave the highest spec are frustrated that Apple didn't open this lineup with faster processors and legacy ports.
Again, you have to have a sense of history here. Apple continues to make top-level notebooks and they will push these machines further next year and the year after. They have zero interest in selling the "last notebook you'll need" as folks who hold onto these things for 5 years are not what they're interested in. The "pro" market upgrades fast and regular, so next year Apple will refine the tMBP further and the year after that will likely see a highly mature product.
That's how it's done and how it works and always has been, so I have no idea what all the crying is about from the minority here. If this machine can't meet your workload, buy something else or wait until late 2017. It's truly simple.
Of course the response has been largely positive where it counts. We know USB-C will be THE port and it already is the most versatile thing to have. We also know that a snappy precise keyboard, better speakers and screen...all took a ton of expensive engineering to employ. Add the touchbar, insanely good build and this is likely the best machine available.
But that doesn't make it perfect for everyone.
I tried the Surface Pro. Some folks love it. But it wasn't for me. I dumped it and stayed with Mac. That's how it works, folks.
Cheers,
R
Is it trolling and I'm taking the bait ? Or are you annoyed because you like your Mac and can't stand other people not liking it ?
If the latter and you just like your mac, just be happy with it and forget it.
But please don't say completely unproven things like "criticism comes from non-owner and non-professionals", this is just not right. And not helpful.
I'm an owner, and definitely a professional : programmer, running VM, servers & the works.
This is Apple's worst machine, and I used Apple since 2006 now and I've been quite used to the scam attitude where they sell overpriced machines with crappy components ( personally I particularly didn't digest the "let's continue to sell crappy USB2 ports while the PC world is at USB3, and continue to do so for 2.5 years", or the HDMI which took time to birth ) .
But :
1) Sacrificing negligible, impossible to "feel", gains on weight and size for a much less powerful battery is just plain stupid.
2) Removing magsafe is unforgivable. People who go to conferences, have dogs or kids are certainly all bitter about this change.
3) Adapter gate : The idea that your machine is going to look ridiculous for the next 3 years until you renew all your peripherals so that in 3 years, once renewed, you can say "look, no adapters" to the few people who won't have ONE USB-C ports on their PC is just preposterous. Stupid, even.
4) Also, no lightning port to connect your iPhone7, are you for real ??
5) Power wise we're being given an old generation of processors. It would have been ok if the release happened last year, but not now that Kabylake line is being launched.
6) Nothing really interesting - the screen has average resolution, no 4k, no OLED, I really wish I would have had a "wow" factor. Instead I'm going to drool over the Yoga and its OLED screen.
7) Keyboard is awful.
8) Incredibly overpriced, and not impressive in terms of look AND hardware AND price compared to say, OLED Yoga, or Dell XPS15, or Razer Blade Stealth (the new one).
9) Still don't use the Touch Bar, it definitely start entering the "gimmick" phase for me. Especially at home where I use a stand.
So no, negative comments come also from owners and professionals. Particularly from them.
As to the switch to Windows, between the habits, the walled garden you put yourself in by using Apple, and the app you bought, it's not that easy.
Also personally Windows still has an awful "feel" to me, and poor design.
But be ****ing sure that if they could run macOS on any laptops (and I'm not talking hackintoshs), you could be sure professionals wouldn't be choosing the Apple ones.