You keep spouting off about how Apple doesn't make computers (they do)
Oh, ok. I agree with you, yes. Dell, HP, Lenovo, Xiaomi... who else... ah, yes... Apple. They all make computers. No difference between them nowadays except first 4 are up-to-date.
what they do make is garbage (it isn't)
Agree once again. Antiques are not necessarily garbage.
how they should just shove the latest processors into their (garbage) computers to make them good again. It's nonsense, not an opinion.
It's exactly an opinion and not nonsense. On the other hand what you say is not an opinion but targeted aggression and is actually nonsense.
using chips that are just now becoming available
********. They became available in Q1 (i. e. Apple had them to finish their development) and they started shipping since May. In October it would be half a year since then. Again, if there were no other manufacturers using them for like months you could very well say that shoving them inside indeed requires 6 months of work. But it does not, others (and I mean all of them which matter!) have already done it.
You could argue that Apple is waiting for Polaris? But 13" does not need them, they could have updated at least them since it's the thing they do regularly. Waiting to polish their new touch bar? It has nothing to do with Skylake unavailability, they had literally years to polish it. You see, there are just no more excuses. Apple is outdated, period, and has no excuses.
Some Chinese knockoff PC manufacturer is not making better hardware than Apple because they have a slightly newer processor in it.
Actually they do. They do maintainable, (cheap) repairable laptops of the same quality components Apple does. The difference is there are no apologists in every thread for them. Yet.
But in real life they needed something like 8 months to make the UEFI and drivers work somewhat
Apple does not update firmware and does not have problems with, particularly, Wi-Fi like every OS update they make. Got it.
almost the same amount of time to deliver the needed peripherals and adapters
LOL, just don't get me started. Apple was the one who introduced Thunderbolt widely and they still have nearly zero Thunderbolt peripherals.
it still does not drive 5k displays
Need more details. Short - it does. Maybe he got wrong display or laptop without dGPU (indeed even if it has PCI-E 3.0 x4 TB3, iGPU just cannot drive 5K display - the same will be true for new rMBP 13").
driving two external UHD displays requires a $350 dock
There are cheaper docks.
And... in real life use this 6th gen CPU does not feel much faster than my 2012 retina MBP while lasting about half as long on a full charge...
Revelation. I hope he buys new rMBP and writes similar review.
Add to that Windows 10s still more than glaring power management, hibernation, font rendering and high DPI scaling issues...
Well, OS X just does not work on any non-Apple computer without hacks at all. 10 points to Griffi... Microsoft!
I still would not prefer this piece of junk over my 4 year old MBP for any other task. Maybe Apple simply decided to not even go there until Intel has worked out the most glaring issues... which can't be said even today.
Even though all his points are ******** he still mentions Apple is outdated. You should have disagreed with him like you do with us!
Apple tries its hardest to NOT ship garbage computers with the above issues. So, be patient and you'll be rewarded with a computer company shipping an amazingly great product which will actually work.
Yay. Instead we have replacement programs* for like every 15" rMBP released in last 5 years.
Good QC. Way to go, Apple.
* Just don't start a thing about Apple having replacement programs and other manufacturers not making Apple customer service better. No, Apple quite often starts replacement programs long after mass problems arise and suspiciously a month or two before class action lawsuit is finalized. They are made to, not want to. And to be fair other manufacturers have replacement programs as well. But having a much more wide range of laptops the probability of year hearing about it is lower because only small part of their range is affected contrary to Apple where if something happens it's like 1/5 of all their laptop models.
