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Three Months After Launch, Apple Still Struggling to Meet Demand for Redesigned 14-Inch and 16-Inch MacBook Pro
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Not with SD slot and HDMI we won’t. Basically these two are taking up one TB port. Most people wanted them, so….
I upgraded from my late 2012 Retina MacBook Pro to the 14 inch and I love it but to be honest, with the things I do, I don’t notice that much of a difference, which only speaks for how great that machine was! I am also glad I never had to not have hdmi, I still use it daily with my dell screen from work
However, I opened it for the first time in months the other day and I got so used to the thin border of the 14 inch, the previous MBP looks ancient now
However, I opened it for the first time in months the other day and I got so used to the thin border of the 14 inch, the previous MBP looks ancient now
The real world is where you make money with the machine. A lot more money than it costed. It is a production tool, so produce!
You are assuming I’m not a professional of anything?
I’m a 3d artist. In fact, I purchased one, trying to migrate from windows, but I’m not blind and can’t tell, without doubt, that are very expensive machines. +400 dollars for doubling ram is just… a joke.
Are awesome machines, the best out there right now, but very expensive.
Also, most camera UIs for transferring over WiFi are very clunky for multiple files
The SD card slot is clearly there for writing microSD cards for Raspberry Pi's. Though I'd happily trade the SD card slot and the HDMI port for a built-in Ethernet jack. Both SD and HDMI can be handled well enough by USB-C dongles, but when you need to use ethernet in front of a patch panel, having an ethernet cable hanging off of a dongle that's being held up physically by a mere USB-C connector is sub-optimal at best.
Apple usually has significant performance penalties in their contracts with their suppliers. However, these contracts also have "force majeure" clauses that removes liability in cases of natural disasters or unavoidable catastrophes that prevent suppliers from meeting their contractual obligations. Not much Apple can do about the chip shortage, transportation issues, or Covid issues.
Apple usually has significant performance penalties in their contracts with their suppliers. However, these contracts also have "force majeure" clauses that removes liability in cases of natural disasters or unavoidable catastrophes that prevent suppliers from meeting their contractual obligations. Not much Apple can do about the chip shortage, transportation issues, or Covid issues.
Translation: "My use case is normal and good and is the normal one that everyone else does, and anyone who has a different use case is wrong and bad." Pandering? Really?
It's much harder to "only want the standard model" in an age when all the parts are soldered in. Back when you could buy a base model and eventually upgrade the ram and storage (as needs increased and prices dropped), buying the standard model was much more workable.
Note that that's someone who played with it for 5 minutes (or maybe 30). That's a lot different from how one might feel after a couple weeks of use. With apps/settings available that can black out the top 74 pixels and leave a standard 9:16 screen underneath, I have a hard time sympathizing with those "being driven nuts".
I still check the inventory using the JavaScript inventory checker tool and I've seen very few Max models arrive in the stores, and when they do, they disappear quick. Love mine though - been using it everyday since I bought it and have had zero regrets ✌️
But that is advantage of TB ports instead of single-use ports. Someone can use two for DisplayPort or HDMI while others can use them for external hard drives and others can use them for music interfaces. They are opened ports for any use cases. Now one is lost for an HDMI port and an SD card port which I do not use at all where I could benefit from another thunderbolt port.
USB-C to HDMI would have given you an "HDMI" connection, or a HDMI female to USB-C male would allow you to connect to HDMI projectors. While I can use that for a thunderbolt RAID array.
This is actually an improvement on my original quoted time window. I was given March 23 - April 6. Now it's March 18 - March 31.
But we have to, because everyone (other than
Wow that is surprising. When I looked for the heck of it late last week a decent number of my local stores had some of the M1 Pro variants of both the 14 and 16 in stock. As it is right now only a handful of stores have the 16" M1 Pro with the 1TB SSD in stock in Silver. The levels fluctuate like crazy.
I originally ordered my machine - the 16" non-custom Max (32 core/32GB/1TB) in Silver - in mid November and it said to expect it early December. One day I was out doing a field project for class when I happened to check stock levels at the nearest stores after lunch and found that a store 45 mins away had my exact spec for same-day pickup. I considered myself so lucky to get it when I did. Mine did have a problem with the bottom case creaking but I was able to fix that by removing all the screws and retightening them. I shouldn't have had to do that on a $3500 machine but it is what it is. Otherwise it has been flawless.
I originally ordered my machine - the 16" non-custom Max (32 core/32GB/1TB) in Silver - in mid November and it said to expect it early December. One day I was out doing a field project for class when I happened to check stock levels at the nearest stores after lunch and found that a store 45 mins away had my exact spec for same-day pickup. I considered myself so lucky to get it when I did. Mine did have a problem with the bottom case creaking but I was able to fix that by removing all the screws and retightening them. I shouldn't have had to do that on a $3500 machine but it is what it is. Otherwise it has been flawless.
I think we've debated the merits of SD vs CFExpress to death in other threads, but I think the reason for Apple's choice of using SD is that there is simply *many times* more users of SD cards than CFExpress A/B. I understand that a a lot of people with high-end cameras (using CFExpress / XQD) would prefer support for this, but they need to understand that they are in a tiny minority compared to users of SD cards, which includes not only digital cameras but a raft of other devices (drones, audio gear, set-top boxes, embedded electronics (e.g. Raspberry Pi)).
If you look at YouTube camera / photo / video channels, you'll see that there are still an awful lot of (quite expensive) camera gear that still uses SD cards.
Apple is just trying to appeal to maximum number of people who will buy a MacBook Pro. The SD slot is simply more useful to more people. I would have like an SD/CFe -Type A hybrid slot, but accept that this is an even smaller use case (only a few cameras using CFe-A).
Maybe they'll include a CFExpress slot on the new Mac Pro - high-end card for high-end computer?
Dependence on Asian countries to control prices and availability of electronic commodities is a double edged sword.
FIFY: "Compact Flash was the dominant standard in the top 5% of high-end digital cameras that used it, with SD cards being used in every other camera".
"Dominant Standard" means the mostly widely used globally in *all user segments*. MS Windows can be considered to be the dominant standard in consumer computer operating systems, but it is not the "dominant standard" in data centre servers. You have to specify the user segment.
You seem to be only considering the usage of high-end professional cameras. Think of the hundreds of millions of other cameras from the "point and click" to semi-pro Sonys, Canons, Nikons, Fujis etc.
They could have put a multi-card reader in. But no, they stuck with the older, slower, SD card, and the older, slower HDMI. It's like a petulant child "Oh, you want ports do you, well here are your silly ports then, bllllssssttt".
Yep, they could have put a multi-card slot in, to service both the newer, faster, cards, and the older, bit still very widely used SD card. I am also bewildered the HDMI is only 2.0, but even that is definitely welcome.