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Waiting for Skylake MBP thread

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vatter69 said:
Anyone seen this being canceled? Or know why?

https://www.kickstarter.com/project...rcharge-your-laptop?ref=checkout_rewards_page
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Hello everyone,

We want to start by saying how much we appreciate all of our backers. Your enthusiasm has proven to the world that our shared vision for the Wolfe can become a reality.

We’re writing today to share some important news: we are going to be cancelling our Kickstarter campaign, and refunding your pledges in full. Our success has attracted the attention of some big players in the industry, who recently reached out to us about the Wolfe. Through these conversations, it became clear there would be some uncertainty in attaining the product certifications essential for the Thunderbolt 2 (and thus macOS) versions of the Wolfe.

We decided it wouldn’t be right to accept pledges from you, our earliest supporters, with these new developments and changes to our timeline. However, these factors will allow us to bring you an even better product in the near future as we work with our new partners in the industry. We are incredibly excited about the next steps for the Wolfe, and the future of this Kickstarter community.

Thank you for an amazing campaign. We’ll be back.

Sincerely,
The Wolfepack
 
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Branflaakes said:
However, you're LITERALLY advocating against customer education for small-business profit because i don't know why, do you run a small-business store and customer education would detrimentally affect you? No idea.
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You obviously have no idea or forgotten that the market has its own mechanism that naturally puts old incompetent products in disadvantage and decreased sale. "Customer education" by sellers to decrease their own sale is like an oxymoron that I might expect to find in Alice in the Wonderland. Instead what we have in the real world market is what is called "competition." It might take time to be in full force, but it adeptly drives out imcompetent products from the market. It might not be so obviouse, but believe me, those out of date of Macbook Pros are taking hit in sales at the moment even without unrealistic "customer education" in place by the resellers, and Apple and resellers know it. Customer education does have its place though, and it drives "competitions." But it happens from the consumers' side, not from the sellers'. Is "Customer education" responsibility for large retailer or small retailer or both? argument is irrelevant one really.
 
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navaira said:
If you need my help with a top-of-the-line Hackintosh, let me know. I charge a pizza and some dry red, unless you're going to be a very difficult client, in which case you have to add tiramisu.
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Count me in.
Pizza and dry red are my specialties (I suppose you're talking about wine, but I'm quite good even with Vermouth); tiramisu it's not so difficult, so one can not but improve.
 
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Lets see how the new MBPs looks like.
Price --> too damn high
Ports --> way too less
Design --> thinner.
Performance --> Fast SSD, nice Display and thats it. like allways.

Going to buy it anyway. MBA 11 2011 is way too slow right now.
It can't even handle Parallels with ease.
 
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Is the date from the recent rumor (24th october) consistent with the date told by the guy at reddit (this "my dad works at a security company"-rumor thing)?
 
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nope, the reddit dude said something about 2 weeks (should be second week of October).

kalvi said:
"reportedly planning" ... not a word about who the source is or where is the info from. So just a random speculation?
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100% agreed. This article is not worth reading.
 
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boateng said:
isn't the iMacs even being updated this month lol along with the macbook pro's? So I am still going to have to wait lol
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okay thanks
that was the one i was looking at getting
spec wise is that iMac as good as the entry level 15' retina macbook pro?
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I went through this around a year ago, and couldn't decide which screen size to get. 20" was too small, but 27" was too big. I eventually decided on a Mac Mini with two Benq 24" monitors for £100 each. So much cheaper, and more easily upgradable (if you're lucky enough to find a refurb 2012 model like I did). Unless you're planning on editing video or something similarly intensive, you really don't need a beefy machine. I chose Mac over PC because OSX is much better (IMHO). Don't spend a load of money if you don't need to. You could always get a used rMBP (or a cheap windows laptop) with the change, for occasional portability.
 
Arthur75 said:
Would have hoped for beginning October ! :/
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Apple typically provides the news media 2 weeks notice, so without any of that notice, we're looking at mid October at the earliest.

We generally see rumors, and chatter about an up and coming event from apple, even before those official invites go out and that hasn't happened, so I think a later October time frame is the earliest it can occur
 
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jk73 said:
This thread is starting to attract some real lunatics. It's the customer's responsibility to educate himself, not the store's responsibility to educate the customer.

I want an updated MBP as much as the rest of you, but some of you people are talking like the current MBP is little more than a typewriter in an Apple box. It's beyond goofy.
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The non retina macbook pro is actually a typewriter in an apple box to be fair.
 
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Terrance94 said:
You guys fail to realize that the average consumer is not us. The average consumer typically wants the newest product CURRENTLY available. Not everyone cares about the difference between broadwell and skylake, or know what that is for that matter. The average consumer doesn't need the latest generation processors because most don't do performance intensive tasks. While I agree theres an ethical point being made about the retailers, the majority of people want the laptop when they need it, imminent update or not. I'm also sure retailers are kept out of the loop when it comes to future updates until just days before. So it doesn't seem feasible to potentially cannibalize sales based on the uncertainty of an imminent update.
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The average consumer would be pretty upset to learn a computer they bought today, costs exactly the same amount for the same exact product almost a year and a half ago. This ain't vintage wine, prices should have dropped.
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jk73 said:
This thread is starting to attract some real lunatics. It's the customer's responsibility to educate himself, not the store's responsibility to educate the customer.

I want an updated MBP as much as the rest of you, but some of you people are talking like the current MBP is little more than a typewriter in an Apple box. It's beyond goofy.
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There's nothing wrong with spreading the MacRumors buyers guide around. Free advertising for our favorite site ;-)
 
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kalvi said:
"reportedly planning" ... not a word about who the source is or where is the info from. So just a random speculation?
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Even worse, this is speculation solely based on the assumption that the event will be tied to the launch of the AirPods :/.
 
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crazy.
 

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