Maybe, but ditching ethernet is certainly UN-PROFESSSIONAL!
Why ?
Maybe, but ditching ethernet is certainly UN-PROFESSSIONAL!
they cant remove the firewire, how will pro manage to plug their pro soundcards (i paid 3k$ for this RME firewire soundcard, i'm not getting another cheap ass usb card just to upgrade my computer, that's ridiculous)
Yup. It seems that the professional audio and video product manufacturers are embracing thunderbolt fully. Dinosaurs need to move out of the way. Hold onto the train or you wil fall offNAB 2012 was ALL about Thunderbolt.
Apogee and Universal Audio (Apollo) audio interfaces both have Thunderbolt options. I'm not going to diminish someone's workflow but at some point businesses need to write off purchases and keep moving towards superior solutions.
Yup. It seems that the professional audio and video product manufacturers are embracing thunderbolt fully. Dinosaurs need to move out of the way. Hold onto the train or you wil fall off
Ethernet was introduced in 1980. I'd say half this message-board may be inhabited by people younger than the protocol itself. It's a pretty large leap to say Ethernet makes a device Professional
I'm sorry, I don't see Retina Displays until Haswell. The power consumption will be too great. Look at the iPad 3's needs-and you're really going to have a MacBook Air-ish device start to run hotter and need twice the battery?
USB 3 is a given with the chipset. Retina is next year. It doesn't make sense from a technological perspective yet. Retina might come with the Macbook Air, assuming they don't merge the lines, later this year.
I'm sorry, I don't see Retina Displays until Haswell. The power consumption will be too great. Look at the iPad 3's needs-and you're really going to have a MacBook Air-ish device start to run hotter and need twice the battery?
USB 3 is a given with the chipset. Retina is next year. It doesn't make sense from a technological perspective yet. Retina might come with the Macbook Air, assuming they don't merge the lines, later this year.
Simple scenario, your WiFi at home stops working, or you call your ISP up for help, first thing they will say or that you will want to do is......... oh yeah plug in your ethernet cable! Which you can do on every machine bar Apple's $2000 plus machine. Unless they include the dongle with every machine, or you buy one.
If your talking about people who use them for work..... that's a whole different ball game.
Why ?
Hmm... interesting. That may be true, but I'm sure there are troubleshooting solutions that don't require plugging in an ethernet cable. I would argue that most people don't even own an ethernet cable anymore... I think I may still have one laying around somewhere, but it'd probably take me all day to find it. So then your options would be troubleshoot with other methods, or go buy an ethernet cable, and while your at it you can buy the adapter dongle as well.
I'm sorry, I don't see Retina Displays until Haswell. The power consumption will be too great. Look at the iPad 3's needs-and you're really going to have a MacBook Air-ish device start to run hotter and need twice the battery?
USB 3 is a given with the chipset. Retina is next year. It doesn't make sense from a technological perspective yet. Retina might come with the Macbook Air, assuming they don't merge the lines, later this year.
Just couple of objections to the "new" design:
a) Kensington port is too close to SD reader. I'm afraid I won't be able to plug in Kensington and SD card at one time. *conveniently*
b) Where are my Ethernet and FireWire ports? Thunderbolt accessories are too dang expensive, which leads me to...
c) why on earth would they put there 2 Thunderbolts? Daisy chaining is the way to go.
d) Thinner. Yeah, looks awesome at first, but what about heat issues?
e) ports are stuffed to close to each other. it causes me problems with connecting some USB devices as it is now. Change it.
So this is what the new 15" may look like, and it doesn't seem to me like a Pro-grade laptop. I'm very curious about the new 13" though, as I am interested mainly in this model. 13" Pro or equivalent Air. If there won't be any Ethernet or FW800, is doesn't make any difference to me anyways...
That's why there is still an external option. The time to drop internal support for something is just before it becomes obsolete, not after. Otherwise, technology won't move forward, because as long as it is included people won't want to migrate off.
It's more like, just because you use old technology doesn't mean I should have to buy it to get what I do want (e.g. Retina Display, Ivy Bridge, USB 3.0).
Ok...gotta vent.
In regards to the "Pro" moniker:
- It's been well established that Apple is now a consumer oriented company. "Pro" is nothing more than a word to justify a more expensive product.
Retina Display:
- I'm tossed on this one. I don't see it going in properly. It may make it into the new MBP, but my worry is battery life will suffer. I just wish they would provide proper resolutions as the default with existing LCD panels.
Apple's biggest asset was Steve Jobs saying no and making seemingly unreasonable demands to push the engineers to make a better product. Without that, I am definitely going to wait and see what happens.
because all corporate networks rely on it, it's standard and the only infrastructure in many usage scenarios, and a speed degrading dongle, or any dongle for that matter is not an acceptable solution for such an important element in a computer. In addition ethernet is not technology that's out or it's going to be out any time soon like the optical drive, and it's technology you cannot obsolete. Networks will always use some cable infrastructure, and a lot of networks will always preserve for security purposes said infrastructure access only. A pro machine has to connect to an ethernet network out of the box, not have you searching for some adapter, that you might have left home, or forgot at the office, or in another bag. Adapters are for much more minor unimportant usages.
Apple can be our guest and take it out, it won't be their first stupid decision, nor their last, and it will certainly fit along nicely with making their company less for the pros and more for the consumer along with their poor os x development. Others will keep it and guess who the IT is going to go for. The problem is that apple again, should they do that, will be spitting on a very large number of their user base, the people who's word of mouth they 've depended to sell their machines for a long while, and the people who have paid heavy premiums on hardware to be on the platform because they have had a high opinion of it and its future in the pro space. And I wouldn't blame anyone of them going they can shove their tv up where the sun don't shine, windows run faster on much less demanding hardware, and are currently more robust than os x, I am sick of them not giving a damn about their pro users and paying their 40% margins...here's a nice lenovo or a vaio let me have it thank you very much and good riddance to you.
Uh, Apple makes a lot more money on PCs than HP, Dell, Acer, Toshiba, Lenovo, ASUS, and Fujitsu. There is lossless digital content. Plus, there are these things known as external optical drives.
If we left PC design decisions to HP, Dell, Acer, etc. we'd still have parallel ports, VGA ports, floppy drives, and other useless oddities "just in case" someone is still using them. Personally, I HATE taking my Windows work notebook with me because it is so bulky, partly because it includes the optical drive, VGA port, and RJ-11 modem port that I never use.
Big, small and optimal?
How are they going to do that if they are only going 2x everything. Small is 2x, big is 0x (or vice versa) and then what's optimal since they can't go for 1.5x?