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Tim Cook Says Apple is 'Very Committed' to the Mac and to 'Stay Tuned'
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This is at the stage now where the Apple network has long since cancelled the show, they just are dodging telling all the shows fans....
"Later this year" his famous last words.....
apple need some high end GPU action and gaming on the new macbook pros now. If they dump all ports for usbc i'm gonna be super disappointed. There does need to be a few options without adapters we're a few years off that transition coming. I don't see why we need to switch everything so suddenly with apple recently. It surely creates a huge rub and loss in sales apple would low to mitigate. I don't get their desire to change I/O on everything recently it's been really terrible.
Linux ALWAYS looks viable to me. But in my case having so many options is almost debilitating. I'm just not very good at making up my mind.
Yes! Come on Mac Pro refresh
This would be the one that would stun me. Well, that, and a legit mac mini refresh. If they bring both those systems up to modern standards with new processors and video cards, I'll be surprised, but delighted.
Fair enough, but I have the nMB and an adapter that allows me to do just that. It seems like a lot of handwringing because someone wants ports in the machine versus on a dongle.
Current models will all thereafter fall into "Refurbished" till inventory has run out. You can also ask for "open box" deals at your nearest BestBuy to find huge discounts on current models.
If I can make you feel better about yourself even just a little, it was worth getting out of bed this morning. Looked at Hackintoshes last night, it seems all the hardware individually is great, e.g. cheap 6 core processors but it still doesn't all work smoothly together. E.g still problems with bluetooth, wifi, audio, usb3, Intel Iris not working after sleep, iMessage and Mac App Store not working, cant get dual mini display port motherboards. That Intel NUC skull thing looked almost perfect for hardware but has some major incompatibilities, and theres issues around using Sata, mSata or pcie SSDs. Just not straightforward enough, and with Sierra just coming out theres probably going to be loads more work needed.
The Macbook was refreshed around 114 days ago. This article failed to mention that one. The Macbook has adopted the "Air" elements of the Macbook Air, so it's somewhat doubtful Apple will release another Macbook Air.
I agree. The thought that Apple "doesn't care" about a line of products that makes them boatloads of money is really stupid. Asking them "are you moving away from it" is equally dumb.
Apple is likely going to replace the 3.5mm headphone jack with a Lightning port on the rMB. You'll most likely be able to power it using the same Lightning cable you use with your iPhone, leaving the USB-C port free for data applications only. And you'll have an optional USB 3.0 port if need be.
Isn't it obvious? They are making far far far far more then enough money on their iOS devices, they will probably keep their laptops around for a little bit longer, but Cook has definitely changed the companies focus, he wants it to be HIS Apple, NOT Jobs or anyone else's, and Cooks Apple makes iOS devices, cars or what ever it is they are doing, watches and offers an array of services. Computers aren't part of his plan.
Screenshot must've cut off the "Sent from my iPad Pro" at the bottom.
At this point it has been so long that I'd just rather them wait for Cannonlake, at least for the iMac. But hopefully they at least have Kaby Lake. And in my dreams they have a 8-16 core A-series Fusion processors running at higher clocks, manufactured by Intel with their new ARM fab process with a special Intel instruction set for easy emulation of x86 apps. In this fantasy, macOS would be able to run iPhone apps as little widgets and full-blown professional apps can get universal binaries between the Mac and iPad Pro with UIs that adjust to the input method on each platform.
To be honest, I think price cuts are more important than product updates.
My current MBP runs fine. If anything, it's overspecced for what I need (e.g. in terms of graphics performance). But increasingly I just find it harder and harder to justify paying "Apple tax"
My current MBP runs fine. If anything, it's overspecced for what I need (e.g. in terms of graphics performance). But increasingly I just find it harder and harder to justify paying "Apple tax"
They probably won't remove it from the MBP, but instead add a Lightning port where the magsafe used to be. That's where there's room for it in the leaked photos, and where it makes sense as a charging port leaving your USB-C ports free for data applications, as well as opposite the headphone jack as an audio alternative. But eventually they will.
Ditto, especially when "Apple tax" means paying more for less functionality. Sometimes, less really is less.
I invested in a mac pro garbage can design, love it. and with this delay it's "less obsolete" and when the new pro gets released, mine is only "1 generation behind"