I have a mid 2012 15" macbook pro non-retina. Buy an SSD with a clean install of OS X, and replace the battery. It will be like a whole new computer. I put an SSD in mine and it's fast enough I can't see any reason to upgrade it for another couple years.
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What to Expect at Apple's 'Let Us Loop You In' Media Event
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I have a mid 2012 15" macbook pro non-retina. Buy an SSD with a clean install of OS X, and replace the battery. It will be like a whole new computer. I put an SSD in mine and it's fast enough I can't see any reason to upgrade it for another couple years.
Hahaha I laughed so hard. Yeah I hope they throw that in there too. And I hope they gloss over it in two sentences like they did with iPad mini 4
Oh, you mean how the 6s has image stabilization? Oh wait, that's the 6s Plus. And the 6s Plus also blows the battery life of the 6s out of the water. Oh well, so much for the user experience being the same across the board.
I hope that iPhone "Se" name isn't official. I hope they call it iPhone mini
I feel there same way. From about 1993-2012, I practically bought a new mac every year and usually macbook pro version (powerbook G3, etc...) and since the iPhone came out, I've had almost every version. I realized I haven't bought but one Apple thing in the last few years now because they limit everything. I'm using a macbook pro 15" mid 2012, a power mac, early 2008, an original iPad mini but I do have the iPhone 6plus.
I wish they would make the 2012 style macbook pro with updated processors and leave the drive or ability to add a second hard drive (SSD) to it. I don't care about them being thin or even the retina display, I just need a workhorse I can take on the road. If they did that, I would buy one tomorrow. I use almost 2TB of data and still have stuff in the cloud. I don't see upgrading anything this year either. Though more and more people are buying macs/iphones, the friends I have in music and arts stopped buying new macs around the same time I did because Apple has quit supporting the pros unfortunately.
I wish they would make the 2012 style macbook pro with updated processors and leave the drive or ability to add a second hard drive (SSD) to it. I don't care about them being thin or even the retina display, I just need a workhorse I can take on the road. If they did that, I would buy one tomorrow. I use almost 2TB of data and still have stuff in the cloud. I don't see upgrading anything this year either. Though more and more people are buying macs/iphones, the friends I have in music and arts stopped buying new macs around the same time I did because Apple has quit supporting the pros unfortunately.
Let's just hope! They did a pretty good job keeping the name of the iPad and even the watch secret until the event...maybe, just maybe it's the same this time. 'SE' ist just stupid
Why for god's sake would you buy a new computer every year? When I was still living in the windows world (until more than 10 years ago), I upgraded every two years out of necessity (they started falling apart at the age of 2) .... now I'm pushing 4 years on Macbooks and even more on iMacs. Updating computers every year is just insane...it already is with iPhones, but even more so with desktop computers. Improvements really aren't that skyrocketing from one year to the next ....
Stop pretending one needs inside knowledge for everything. There is enough to be learned from the products and chips released last year. When you have a rough understanding of how much ARM and INTL differ today, you can predict ARM-based Macs aren't anywhere near. Plus this might not even be the future. Steve Jobs thought PCs were trucks and would only stay around for doing the heavy workload. The computational niche of an ARM-based Mac might as well be covered by a more capable iPad Pro with Smart Keyboard and Apple Pencil. Oh and that's what was released last year.
It wasn't always skyrocketing improvements, but (new at the time) firewire or a better video card, or whatnot. Not always needed, but there were always decent reasons. Now, there simply aren't. Mac portables, under Jobs, changed often and they certainly had their share of lemons, like the 5300 portable, but they also had their share of innovations.
The Mac Pro to me has worsened and the Macbook Pros don't offer anything if I'm basically stuck with whatever I bought and can't upgrade. For me, if I had the money, the latest and greatest was nice cause there was usually something pretty new every year. In fact with the iPhones, those first 4 versions seems to have pretty drastic improvements. Now the only thing steadily improving is making everything thinner, which I don't care one way or the other about, but certainly am not going to pay for it only being thinner as the major change/innovation.
The Mac Pro to me has worsened and the Macbook Pros don't offer anything if I'm basically stuck with whatever I bought and can't upgrade. For me, if I had the money, the latest and greatest was nice cause there was usually something pretty new every year. In fact with the iPhones, those first 4 versions seems to have pretty drastic improvements. Now the only thing steadily improving is making everything thinner, which I don't care one way or the other about, but certainly am not going to pay for it only being thinner as the major change/innovation.
The new fanless 12" MacBook surely has its share of innovations. Remember when Steve Jobs declared: “We think all notebooks will look like these one day.” referring to the MacBook Air redesign of 2010. Thin and light was all the rage back then, now people pretend like they don't care anymore. I don't believe you, all of you, who claim the Mac has been neglected. Not on the Hardware side, no sir.
Bought MBP so I could play a game with some friends while also doing some Final Cut stuff. I don't play the game anymore and I have another solution for Final Cut so its i7 and video card was being wasted on me. MacBook 12" is so great for daily stuff.
Try running pro tools or even logic pro on a macbook or even macbook air, fully maxed out on ram, SSD and processor and you'll see neither of those are up to the challenge. The new macbook pro can handle it, BUT, you have to buy the most expensive one possible with ALL the upgrades, only to have to carry around another portable hd to carry the rest of the data you want since you are limited by their lack of expansion. This is why I still have my macbook pro from 2012 which currently has 2 1TB SSDs and if I needed more room, I could just take one of those out and pop in 3TB HDD I believe. It would take me all of 15 minutes to swap them out.
I'm excited for the SE because it will still have a headphone jack. Also, prefer the smaller size over the 6/6s/7.
Needs change and that is perfectly fine. My husband still has a MBP (from 2011) but would buy an MB in an instance if we had the spare money right now, because that's all he needs for his daily stuff. He doesn't need the pro power anymore. And neither do I. The occasional Matlab/Parallels/picture intensive stuff (Photoshop, Raw files in LR, some InDesign) is fine on my MBA as it is not happening on a daily basis - because for this I have a powerful iMac. But I need to be able to do it if needed on a mobile mac - hence for me the MB is out of the question. Besides, I don't think 12'' is big enough for productivity, I already struggle with 13'' - but I need portability, too, so 15'' is out of the question, either.
Yes, I have the same feeling. Apart from not so extremely exciting expected upgrades to iGizmos I think they will loop people in to their plans and strategies for the future. It's a good time for that now. I think they need, want and will excite the market with something unexpected.
I wouldn't be surprised if they spent time on looping people in to their market strategy in developing a car. I can't imagine they will "announce" a car but they could discuss where they want to go with it and why. I'm curious to know what kind of car would fit their main brand traits.
Similarly I believe they will loop people in to their stance on privacy and security and why maintaining them is absolutely essential to their business model and why they are convinced the stance will give them a competitive edge in the market long term.
Perhaps they will also loop us in to where they are planning to go with iOS and OS X.
Agreed. Apple nailed this one. There is a huge untapped market for this phone. IMO, 30% of iPhone Market Share within 15m. People who constantly dismiss the market for this phone simply do not understand the target consumer.
Agree! I would like to have a 13" Mac Book Air with Retina. Or why not replace the whole lineup with 12", 14" and 16"...
I'm almost considering the iPad Pro since the screen is bigger with retina but not necessarily a Mac book pro with all that comes with that. But then I will have to move around a detachable keyboard etc.
I'm almost considering the iPad Pro since the screen is bigger with retina but not necessarily a Mac book pro with all that comes with that. But then I will have to move around a detachable keyboard etc.
Can we expect german layout for Apple Smart Keyboards??
How ignorant and arrogant is this company to just offer QWERTY Layout worldwide?
How ignorant and arrogant is this company to just offer QWERTY Layout worldwide?
You want to put a spinning disk back in your mobile computer?
Of corse there is no post 2012 notebook for you!
Also no floppy disk drive.
Agreed. Apple nailed this one. There is a huge untapped market for this phone. IMO, 30% of iPhone Market Share within 15m. People who constantly dismiss the market for this phone simply do not understand the target consumer.
The funny thing about this market is that it's not just about one-handed users.
Having a daughter, I can say that a lot of the desire for smaller devices seems to be from people ( especially teen girls) who like sticking their iPhone in a tiny jeans back pocket .
Someone needs to sell a small curved smartphone that's specially shaped and stress designed for that common purpose. In other words, a design for the real world.
I think an ad campaign about getting rid of VSL (visible smartphone lines)... and cracked screens!... with such a design could be huge
Is your daughter not into handbags/purses?The funny thing about this market is that it's not just about one-handed users.
Having a daughter, I can say that a lot of the desire for smaller devices seems to be from people ( especially teen girls) who like sticking their iPhone in a tiny jeans back pocket .
Someone needs to sell a small curved smartphone that's specially shaped and stress designed for that common purpose. In other words, a design for the real world.
I think an ad campaign about getting rid of VSL (visible smartphone lines)... and cracked screens!... with such a design could be huge
Maybe it's a younger persons thing to put a phone in your jeans pocket, but as a female I've always put my phone in my bag. Bear in mind that I don't get my first phone until I was 16 and this was way before the smartphone era.
I know men have an obsession with putting things in their jeans or shirt pocket but I thought most women put things in their handbags??