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Whoever cancelled their order, why?

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vddobrev

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Serious question: why place an order for a new MacBook Pro and then cancel it? Was there missing information about it? Why create threads about it? You just changed your mind?

Can we not all do a little more thinking before pressing the buy button, and be responsible?

There is an unnecessary increase of the buy/return cycle because of people not thinking.

Think about the planet - gas spent for your delivery and return! Cost incurred by Apple because of your return.

Just go to a store, test the display model and buy if you like it.

All of you, have a thought about this. Be a bit more responsible about all resources spent for delivering you an order.
 
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vddobrev said:
Serious question: why place an order for a new MacBook Pro and then cancel it? Was there missing information about it? Why create threads about it? You just changed your minnd?

Can we not all do a little more thinking before pressing the buy button, and be responsible?

There is an unnecessary increase of the buy/return cycle because of people not thinking.

Think about the planet - gas spent for your delivery and return! Cost incurred by Apple because of your return.

Just go to a store, test the display model and buy if you like it.

All of you, have a thought about this. Be a bit more responsible about all resources spent for delivering you an order.
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What surprises me are all the YouTube comparison reviews. There are probably hundreds of them. People buy variations of a product to compare. Often, they don't appear to be demo units sent to them. I don't want to speculate, but it looks like abuse. Here, I suspect it's just marginal.
 
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You do realize that the store only carry standard config, right? So people who want to test BTO actually have no option really (if the techtubers didn’t test what they use)
 
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Here is a perfect example of the consumerism and how pointless it is. Luke does some good stuff, but I don’t know why he’s going through this level of desperation. MBKHD is probably gonna get the specced 14 and 16 and review those and that’s it. Why buy 5?

 
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vddobrev said:
Serious question: why place an order for a new MacBook Pro and then cancel it? Was there missing information about it? Why create threads about it? You just changed your minnd?

Can we not all do a little more thinking before pressing the buy button, and be responsible?

There is an unnecessary increase of the buy/return cycle because of people not thinking.

Think about the planet - gas spent for your delivery and return! Cost incurred by Apple because of your return.

Just go to a store, test the display model and buy if you like it.

All of you, have a thought about this. Be a bit more responsible about all resources spent for delivering you an order.
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#1. 14” Thermal throttled unable to achieve Turbo Boost mode. As the 16”
#2. No HDMI 2.1 so I can’t output 4K 120hz to my LG OLED
#3. WiFI 6e not included
#4. Unknown issues I can easily wait for a full Review
#5. 20% Off EDU discount just gonna wait and pay my brother to use his .EDU discount
#6. A Notch but no FaceID you guys realize the iPad Pro has FaceID but No Notch.
#7. a 3nm M2 or the 3nm M2 Max will be far superior
 
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Mr. Dee said:
Here is a perfect example of the consumerism and how pointless it is. Luke does some good stuff, but I don’t know why he’s going through this level of desperation. MBKHD is probably gonna get the specced 14 and 16 and review those and that’s it. Why buy 5?

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All about making that Youtube money. Can't be anything aside from that.
 
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Mr. Dee said:
Here is a perfect example of the consumerism and how pointless it is. Luke does some good stuff, but I don’t know why he’s going through this level of desperation. MBKHD is probably gonna get the specced 14 and 16 and review those and that’s it. Why buy 5?

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I stopped watching Luke, dont feel like he makes good quality videos and IMO seems to be posting just to post (income) and tries too hard. Quantity over quality.

But to be on topic, I Plan to return my 16". The misleading marketing about the brightness made me think it was a monumental upgrade from my 2018 15". "1000 sustained" was definitely intended to confuse buyers into thinking it was typical. But oh well, since its PFS, ill try it out.
 
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TheRealAlex said:
#1. 14” Thermal throttled unable to achieve Turbo Boost mode. As the 16”
#2. No HDMI 2.1 so I can’t output 4K 120hz to my LG OLED
#3. WiFI 6e not included
#4. Unknown issues I can easily wait for a full Review
#5. 20% Off EDU discount just gonna wait and pay my brother to use his .EDU discount
#6. A Notch but no FaceID you guys realize the iPad Pro has FaceID but No Notch.
#7. a 3nm M2 or the 3nm M2 Max will be far superior
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Your last few reasons don’t make any sense. Apple isn’t offering 20% with education pricing unless I missed something. The iPad Pro has significantly larger bezels than the new MBP. Why buy any tech if you’re already concerned about future performance.
 
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Investment in views
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Its obvious, but not at this level if you are producing relevant content. Most of the videos he's produced so far are just bait videos. The 'you don't need this video he did' was some what relevant, but I slept through most of it.

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All about making that Youtube money. Can't be anything aside from that.
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Its just desperate though and still won't even generate anywhere near the top channels. The reality is, MKBHD and Dieter Bohn suck most of the views on a new product. Most will put in the effort for Zollotech, but I noticed he's starting to make a tonne load of videos for content and views sake. He did so many videos on the iPhone 13 I felt nauseous.

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I stopped watching Luke, dont feel like he makes good quality videos and IMO seems to be posting just to post (income) and tries too hard. Quantity over quality.

But to be on topic, I Plan to return my 16". The misleading marketing about the brightness made me think it was a monumental upgrade from my 2018 15". "1000 sustained" was definitely intended to confuse buyers into thinking it was typical. But oh well, since its PFS, ill try it out.
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Yep, he's become out of control, but part of the problem is his content is too narrow. MKBHD has broad content and you need that to survive. The most informative (some times a bit too much) is Dieter Bohn.
 
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TheRealAlex said:
#1. 14” Thermal throttled unable to achieve Turbo Boost mode. As the 16”
#2. No HDMI 2.1 so I can’t output 4K 120hz to my LG OLED
#3. WiFI 6e not included
#4. Unknown issues I can easily wait for a full Review
#5. 20% Off EDU discount just gonna wait and pay my brother to use his .EDU discount
#6. A Notch but no FaceID you guys realize the iPad Pro has FaceID but No Notch.
#7. a 3nm M2 or the 3nm M2 Max will be far superior
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1. You base this on what?
2. Use DisplayPort to HDMI, your TV should support DSC, DP1.4 with DSC will do 4k144.
3. Who cares? There’s like 2 6E routers out there and performance is barely any better than 6. 160Mhz 6 is already faster than 99% of peoples internet service.
4. Yeah that one makes sense
5. That’s not the edu discount, and you don’t need to prove anything to get it
6. The iPad Pro is much deeper, if you want a MacBook with a screen that deep… Buy a surface book.
7. And the year after that the M3 will be faster, and so on. What are you doing that you need so much power in a laptop and are so worried about this? Why not build a desktop at a fraction of the price that would run circles around it, the M2, etc. Tech ages like milk, not a fine wine.
 
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Mr. Dee said:
Yep, he's become out of control, but part of the problem is his content is too narrow. MKBHD has broad content and you need that to survive. The most informative (some times a bit too much) is Dieter Bohn.
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I remember I liked his restoring old Mac videos, but then it gets boring after a while and just stop watching.
 
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TheRealAlex said:
#6. A Notch but no FaceID you guys realize the iPad Pro has FaceID but No Notch.
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Fair point. However, the iPad is noticeably thicker than the display of the MacBook Pro.

Displays Comparison.jpg
 
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TheRealAlex said:
#1. 14” Thermal throttled unable to achieve Turbo Boost mode. As the 16”
#2. No HDMI 2.1 so I can’t output 4K 120hz to my LG OLED
#3. WiFI 6e not included
#4. Unknown issues I can easily wait for a full Review
#5. 20% Off EDU discount just gonna wait and pay my brother to use his .EDU discount
#6. A Notch but no FaceID you guys realize the iPad Pro has FaceID but No Notch.
#7. a 3nm M2 or the 3nm M2 Max will be far superior
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You can just go to the apple education site and place order to get your discount they don’t verify
 
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TheRealAlex said:
#1. 14” Thermal throttled unable to achieve Turbo Boost mode. As the 16”
#2. No HDMI 2.1 so I can’t output 4K 120hz to my LG OLED
#3. WiFI 6e not included
#4. Unknown issues I can easily wait for a full Review
#5. 20% Off EDU discount just gonna wait and pay my brother to use his .EDU discount
#6. A Notch but no FaceID you guys realize the iPad Pro has FaceID but No Notch.
#7. a 3nm M2 or the 3nm M2 Max will be far superior
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If you wasted money on a OLED TV, and more importantly would try to output to one when you have a Mini-LED display capable of actual HDR (OLED is way too dim) on the Macbook Pro, you have other problems...

spectrum.ieee.org

The Mini-LED Is the Future of Big Displays

The reigning OLED technology will survive only in small displays
spectrum.ieee.org spectrum.ieee.org

And the rest of your points are nonsensical and will be treated as trolling.
 
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