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"Then they said, I bet if we hit 1000 pages, they'll release a new MacBook Pro!!!! We don't even staff a production line to make those anymore!"
 
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Ahhh, I pulled the trigger and purchased the new 7th gen Dell XPS 13 today.

The Apple Macbook Pro 13" Costs $3,439 AUD with 512gb SSD, i7 and 16gb of ram an Iris 6100 iGPU.

I managed to get the Dell XPS 13 with an i7 7th-gen Kaby Lake and 16gb ram, 512gb SSD with stronger iGPU HD 620 graphics with the QHD+ Touch screen for $2,699. AUD with 1 year home remote warranty included.


I know MBPr uses the 28w CPU over the 15w but at the end of the day they are both puny laptop dual cores, anything serious I would be using proper 45w+ quad cores in a 15" or my desktop.

Sorry Apple you took your sweeeeeeeet as time ..!
 
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Mikeeeey said:
Ahhh, I pulled the trigger and purchased the new 7th gen Dell XPS 13 today.

The Apple Macbook Pro 13" Costs $3,439 AUD with 512gb SSD, i7 and 16gb of ram an Iris 6100 iGPU.

I managed to get the Dell XPS 13 with an i7 7th-gen Kaby Lake and 16gb ram, 512gb SSD with stronger iGPU HD 620 graphics with the QHD+ Touch screen for $2,699. AUD with 1 year home remote warranty included.


I know MBPr uses the 28w CPU over the 15w but at the end of the day they are both puny laptop dual cores, anything serious I would be using proper 45w+ quad cores in a 15" or my desktop.

Sorry Apple you took your sweeeeeeeet as time ..!
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Welcome to the dell xps family. Have the 15 inch but w/ a FHD screen & GeForce 960M and I absolutely love it.
 
edge3uk said:
eBay.... just over 3 months old. Apparently like new. Fingers crossed it pans out but I couldn't justify the price of what a Pro could be with that there....
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Only after using it a while will you realize just how underpowered it is.
Also the screen size is too small.
Also the weight is heavier than it should be for it's size/capabilities.

It's unfortunate that we are pushed into making such decisions.
Had they just properly refreshed the damn Air 3 years ago....
 
Wreckus said:
Welcome to the dell xps family. Have the 15 inch but w/ a FHD screen & GeForce 960M and I absolutely love it.
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Oh? How much did it cost?......was it about 30 pieces of silver--you traitors!!!! Thou art no longer welcome on this pure and chase forum. Hie thee away, heathens!

I'm sorry, I'm just lashing out. Today was an emotional day.
 
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Ars Technica review of Sierra is here. The verdict is not about Sierra, though:

Sierra is a perfectly fine operating system update. Like other yearly macOS releases (and the new periodic Windows 10 releases), it makes solid improvements without pulling the rug out from under users of the current version. It cuts hardware from the support list somewhat arbitrarily, but those aging Core 2 Duo systems can’t be expected to last forever and they’ll still get El Capitan security updates for a couple of years.

As of this writing, the problem with macOS isn’t so much with its software—it’s the hardware. Consider the following:

  • Almost all of the Macs Apple sells today use one-to-three-year-old components inside three-to-five-year-old designs
  • Even a declining iPhone makes six or seven times more money for Apple than the Mac does
  • Apple is aggressively pushing the iPad as “the future of computing” with new tablet screen sizes and designs
  • Mac hardware hasn’t been so much as mentioned onstage at an Apple event in a year and a half, not since the introduction of the original MacBook. Updates have come quietly between events, and it looks like any new hardware we get this year will be released the same way
  • Sierra’s versions of Messages and Siri aren’t as capable as their iOS counterparts—even when the Mac and iOS get new features at the same time, iOS comes first
  • The PC is in decline, though the lineup still earns Apple billions of dollars a year and its sales are shrinking at a slower rate than the rest of the PC industry (up until a year or two ago, in fact, they weren’t shrinking at all).
Those facts paint a clear picture: The Mac isn’t as central to Apple’s future as it once was. Pushing new businesses like the Apple TV and the Apple Watch, as relatively uncertain as those ventures are, is a smarter move than dumping money into a stable-but-declining platform.

But.

At the turn of the decade, Apple was still pushing the Mac forward even as it aggressively improved the iPhone and introduced the iPad. Between 2010 and 2013, we got the revamped MacBook Air design that served as the template for practically every thin-and-light laptop made in the last five years; both Retina MacBook Pros, which kicked off a push toward high-quality, high-density displays in high-end laptops; thinner and lighter iMacs with significantly improved fans and cooling; and a brand-new Mac Pro which at least had the benefit of being a unique and fascinating design even if the pros it was marketed to didn’t love its compromises (the fact that Apple is selling the exact same Mac Pro with absolutely no updates, aftermarket upgrade options, or price cuts three years later ultimately proved the skeptics right).

That’s not to totally discount the Retina iMac (2014 and 2015) and the new MacBook (2015), but the rate of change has obviously slowed. Apple isn’t even giving us “boring” workaday component refreshes to keep up with new CPUs and GPUs as they’re released. You could argue that year-over-year improvements in PC CPUs and GPUs have become so minor that it doesn’t make a huge practical difference, but that’s no excuse not to give Mac buyers the newest and best their money can buy. Especially not when that’s exactly the brand reputation that Apple has been cultivating over most of the last two decades.

Sierra is fine software, but after a couple years of parity, it again feels as though it’s taking a backseat to iOS, primarily because of its half-hearted implementations of major new iOS features like Messages and Siri. The Mac is still a fundamentally stable, solid, usable platform, but its hardware is no longer running circles around the rest of the PC industry. Apple could be doing more—let's hope some of these long-rumored refreshes arrive sooner rather than later.
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http://arstechnica.com/apple/2016/09/macos-10-12-sierra-the-ars-technica-review/
 
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biskazz said:
Im sceptical about getting the matte black but if we get it that's my color of choice.
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I am sceptical we will ever see a new computer the way things are going....... but if miracles do actually happen I would like a matte black or silver finish on my lovely new laptop.

btw I still can't believe I am still using the same computer bought as a 'temporary solution' in 2014. Thanks Tim you are a real star.
 
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killawat said:
I'm feeling this new Siri-on-Mac thing.
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Yeah I posted over on iMore this after a long Rene post:

I am glad they took their time with Siri, because MAN it is amazing! Works so well, just click, or hold a hot key down and say "imdb.com" and boom right in Safari Loaded. I mean I know that may not sound that ground breaking, but Voice Recognition, that gives you "Incentive" to actually use it is pretty cool. Because in the past voice recognition was not that great and you had to program it to work. With silly things like "Hey Computer, Open Safari", then program your own script to activate Dictation in the Address Bar, etc. But not anymore, with quite a few options loaded and ready to use, with all the experience of iOS commands already been worked out its rip roaring ready to go. But it looks like we will have to wait to be able to program custom Siri extensions for macOS Sierra using Xcode, which is kinda a bummer... this project is kinda cool, needs a little work but "Hey" https://github.com/matthijs2704/HeySiri-macOS
 
HERE IS TO THE ROUND PEGS IN THE SQUARE HOLES....


ONE THOUSAND AND SEVEN PAGE THREAD WAITING FOR NEW MACBOOKS WE ALL THOUGHT WERE COMNG OUT IN SPRING 2015

ONE THOUSAND AND SEVEN DAYS SINCE MAC PRO UPDATE


" CANT INNOVATE MY ASS " - PHIL SCHILLERS ASS TELLING US THE TRUTH YEARS AGO.
 
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Yeah I posted over on iMore this after a long Rene post:

I am glad they took their time with Siri, because MAN it is amazing! Works so well, just click, or hold a hot key down and say "imdb.com" and boom right in Safari Loaded. I mean I know that may not sound that ground breaking, but Voice Recognition, that gives you "Incentive" to actually use it is pretty cool. Because in the past voice recognition was not that great and you had to program it to work. With silly things like "Hey Computer, Open Safari", then program your own script to activate Dictation in the Address Bar, etc. But not anymore, with quite a few options loaded and ready to use, with all the experience of iOS commands already been worked out its rip roaring ready to go. But it looks like we will have to wait to be able to program custom Siri extensions for macOS Sierra using Xcode, which is kinda a bummer... this project is kinda cool, needs a little work but "Hey" https://github.com/matthijs2704/HeySiri-macOS
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it is cool but seems quite slow on my still current, for some unknown reason, 2014 macbookpro....... in fact Safari definitely does not feel snappier. All a ploy for us to upgrade in March 2018
 
Almost there guys.. the invites starts 7 to 9 days before the event.. so if there is an event on Oct or end of Sep we should see the invite anytime starting from today..
 
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