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Waiting for Haswell MBP Mega Thread
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Those are some pretty good stock options you got there. Have you ever sold any of those stocks?
The HP Haswell Chromebook will come with a massive 16GB SSD (beat that, Apple!) and USB 2.0 ports!!! Wow! How exciting!!!
<sarcasm mode off>
HP claim that it will be available for the holiday season. That gives us one more data point about the availability of Haswell chips which may be suitable for at least some MBP models.
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Apple will release Mavericks when Mavericks is ready to be released. It has very little to do with when new Macs might be ready to be released. Apple won't hold up any releases by more than a few days for the sake of releasing things together.
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Yes.
Yep, the begrudge is real. I learned to stop trying to convince my parents a long time ago. I just work my ass off over the summer and winter, and then pray I have enough money to pay for my cell phone and food throughout the year, lol
It helps working in an office. $16 an hour treats you right, as a college kid anyway.
I honestly think you don't understand the risks of man-in-the-middle attacks on this security/authentication subsystem. Connecting the Touch ID sensor to the device validating the print with USB/TB/wireless is, honestly, a stupid idea. I can think of about 8 different ways that would be instantly undermining the integrity of this validation mechanism. Making the location of the Touch ID sensor "more convenient" is throwing out the baby with the bath water.
The "it" that Apple would be doing is putting Touch ID authentication on all of their computers -- and having integrated support in the OS and Safari to manage logins to websites (for starters).
Further, the "it" Apple would provide is the same service on all of their new computers -- including Haswell MBP laptops. All stationary Macs, and all mobile Macs. And all iPhones, iPads, and iPods running iOS. A seamless experience running across a gamut of computation devices. Nobody has ever provided the comprehensive quality of hardware and software that Apple can provide for that service.
In case you haven't noticed, Apple gets ridiculed for most everything they do or don't do. Here's a video of someone ridiculing Apple back in 2007:
Ballmer's ridicule of Apple didn't work out too well -- he will be departing Microsoft within the next 12 months.
Why would you think that?
If someone doesn't want to use Touch ID, that's fine. Just like the iPhone 5S -- they can continue to use passcodes.
Why do you think the deployment of the fingerprint scanners on an isolated laptop would be remotely to AAPL's ecosystem-wide deployment of fingerprint-scanning dedicated hardware, OSs, and multi-platform apps? The two don't sound remotely comparable.
And AAPL provided no means for third-party developers to make apps when the iPhone was first released in 2007. Why do you presume the Touch ID pad would only be used for unlocking Mac computers?
Validation for purchases on e-commerce sites and apps is an obvious use for both iOS and Mac Touch ID device.
I'm gonna go ahead and assume Mavericks will be done by late October at this point. The fact that they would let it finish around November, a few weeks after the updated Macbooks wouldn't make much sense to me. They would think it best for them to just work overtime if it was due to finish only a few weeks behind the refresh. But not sure if they actually care enough about that. Could be they don't. I would though
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Hi everyone.
Like many of you I've been following this thread for al long long very long time and the longer it takes, the less patient I get.
My uncle is flying the 20th of october to Hong Kong and it would be extremely awesome if the new haswell rMBP would be for sale by then (because of the lack of taxes he could buy on for me there).
Because of this minor new rumor that 'the event' would take place on the 15th of october my question to you all is: if the announcement will take place on 10/15, how long will it take until they are for sale in the apple stores (in Hong Kong)?
iPhones toke quite long so I'd like to hear your opinion
Thanks
Hi everyone.
Like many of you I've been following this thread for al long long very long time and the longer it takes, the less patient I get.
My uncle is flying the 20th of october to Hong Kong and it would be extremely awesome if the new haswell rMBP would be for sale by then (because of the lack of taxes he could buy on for me there).
Because of this minor new rumor that 'the event' would take place on the 15th of october my question to you all is: if the announcement will take place on 10/15, how long will it take until they are for sale in the apple stores (in Hong Kong)?
iPhones toke quite long so I'd like to hear your opinion
Thanks
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As much as I like that video, you can't use it to rationalize every idea you may have regarding Apple's products, especially the desktop paradigm, which hasn't changed in forever.
From the time new Apple products first go on sale in Hong Kong until one can simply walk into an Apple Store and buy them is weeks. They sell out faster than anywhere else because people buy all they can and take them to China to sell. Once the new product goes on sale in China, then it becomes readily available in Hong Kong. Until then, it's a matter of showing up hours before the store opens, hoping they will have some product for the first customers in the queue.
Thanks, didn't thought about that yet. I think I just have to hope that they go for sale in China right away, just like the iPhones did. But I guess those odds are not in my favor
Yep, the begrudge is real. I learned to stop trying to convince my parents a long time ago. I just work my ass off over the summer and winter, and then pray I have enough money to pay for my cell phone and food throughout the year, lol
It helps working in an office. $16 an hour treats you right, as a college kid anyway.
$16/hour? You're lucky. $7.25/hr but at least I get the satisfaction that comes from working with children
. Office work ain't for me.I'm so close to pulling the trigger on the specced up 15"...
The way I see it is that it's already a beast of a machine, and while whatever they add on the Haswell version will be an improvement, in terms of the actual computer (i.e., a screen, a fast processor and a good keyboard), the current model is still possibly the best laptop you can buy.
The way I see it is that it's already a beast of a machine, and while whatever they add on the Haswell version will be an improvement, in terms of the actual computer (i.e., a screen, a fast processor and a good keyboard), the current model is still possibly the best laptop you can buy.
Go for it if you can't wait. But many of us have waited this long, and we aren't giving up now.
I know, I've been waiting a few months too. If I could wait I would, but I need it for university and I start in two weeks. I pretty much need to order it by Thursday to be 100% certain I'll get it before I leave.
Really disappointed that it's taking Apple so long.
I really really hope that Apple updates the cMBP 13" as well to Haswell. That would be awesome as the price difference for the SSD with the same capacity is still huge.
So do you think prices on the Ivy Bridge machines will go UP when the Haswells are announced? The way I see it, wait a few weeks, save a couple hundred bucks. Easy as that.
Edit: didn't see that you need your MBP for Uni. Apologies!
I doubt that the $299 Chromebook is going to be using a Haswell CPU with HD 5100 or HD 5200 graphics.
It's probably using something like a ULV i3 with HD 4400 graphics.
The ULV Haswell CPUs have been shipping in real notebooks since June, see the Macbook Air.
I can most definitely see this happening, especially considering they have waited for so long to introduce them.
iPhone sales 2012: 125 Million
Mac Sales 2012: 18 Million
And keep in mind only the 5s is using the sensor, not the 5c (which is expected to sell a LOT more)
I will eat my hat if there's a fingerprint sensor on the new MBP this year, let alone the Mac Pro.
Quoted for proof and future reference.
Just to be clear, can you post a picture of your hat.
Ah, that sucks. My laptop broke down back in June, but I've been holding on. Definitely going to be a day-one purchase for me.
Quoted for proof and future reference.
Just to be clear, can you post a picture of your hat.
lol
Macs account for something like 3% of Apple's income, so I really doubt Tim Cook will be losing any hair over a few months' worth of delay.
3% of Sales << reputation, confidence in the apple eco system, pissing off developers.
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