New 13-inch MacBook Pro

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Post by gshakir » Mon, May 04, 2020, 12:37 PM UTC

Re: New 13-inch MacBook Pro

#2

Post by missosoup » Mon, May 04, 2020, 12:42 PM UTC

Is it just me or is Apple starting to fall woefully behind non-mac hardware competitors in both price and perf?

I used to look forward to these announcements, now it's just 'we upgraded to a +1 generation config (still 1-2 generations behind what others are doing), that'll be 2000 bucks thanks'. Advertising 4 cores and 2018 Iris graphics as if it's some kind of achievement, when competitors have full dGpu solutions and 6 cores in same sized chassis at the same price bracket. They're taking a bit of a piss at this point.

Re: New 13-inch MacBook Pro

#3

Post by bluedino » Mon, May 04, 2020, 12:45 PM UTC

Just a spec bump and addition of the Magic Keyboard. Sure, 10th gen CPU and up to 4TB/32GB, but no 6-core CPU, no 14" screen. A lot of people are going to be disappointed.

Re: New 13-inch MacBook Pro

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Post by New_Horizon » Mon, May 04, 2020, 12:45 PM UTC

missosoup wrote: post #2

Is it just me or is Apple starting to fall woefully behind non-mac hardware competitors in both price and perf? I used to look forward to these announcements, now it's just 'we upgraded to a +1 generation config (still 1-2 generations behind what others are doing), that'll be 2000 bucks thanks'. Advertising 4 cores and 2018 Iris graphics as if it's some kind of achievement, when competitors have full dGpu solutions a…

It's not like pulling stuff like this is new for Apple but I think Jobs being dead has caused it to happen a LOT more.

Re: New 13-inch MacBook Pro

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Post by explorigin » Mon, May 04, 2020, 12:45 PM UTC

missosoup wrote: post #2

Is it just me or is Apple starting to fall woefully behind non-mac hardware competitors in both price and perf? I used to look forward to these announcements, now it's just 'we upgraded to a +1 generation config (still 1-2 generations behind what others are doing), that'll be 2000 bucks thanks'. Advertising 4 cores and 2018 Iris graphics as if it's some kind of achievement, when competitors have full dGpu solutions a…

Perhaps, but show me build quality on the same level in the PC world. Even though I find Apple lagging behind it's previous standards in build quality, it's still better that most in the PC world.

(I'm still on a mid 2015 MBP and completely content to stay with it.)

Re: New 13-inch MacBook Pro

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Post by tsar9x » Mon, May 04, 2020, 12:45 PM UTC

missosoup wrote: post #2

Is it just me or is Apple starting to fall woefully behind non-mac hardware competitors in both price and perf? I used to look forward to these announcements, now it's just 'we upgraded to a +1 generation config (still 1-2 generations behind what others are doing), that'll be 2000 bucks thanks'. Advertising 4 cores and 2018 Iris graphics as if it's some kind of achievement, when competitors have full dGpu solutions a…

Well, competitors are still behind Apple. They offer worse touchpad, worse screens (it's either 16:9 or weird resolution), no macOS, worse speakers, worse microphone, worse battery.

Re: New 13-inch MacBook Pro

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Post by nivertech » Mon, May 04, 2020, 12:45 PM UTC

4 cores? Pro? 2020? lol

EDIT:

maybe 4 cores are enough for development using non-compiled languages, and if you don't use Chrome and Electron apps, and not running several VMs and docker containers.

Some programming languages like Julia and Erlang/Elixir will happily use all the cores available on your laptop to speed up calculations, run builds, tests and other development tasks.

Re: New 13-inch MacBook Pro

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Post by shawndellysse » Mon, May 04, 2020, 12:45 PM UTC

So glad they finally got rid of the butterfly keyboard! That said, I cannot wait until they retire the Touch Bar.

Re: New 13-inch MacBook Pro

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Post by ashtonkem » Mon, May 04, 2020, 12:45 PM UTC

missosoup wrote: post #2

Is it just me or is Apple starting to fall woefully behind non-mac hardware competitors in both price and perf? I used to look forward to these announcements, now it's just 'we upgraded to a +1 generation config (still 1-2 generations behind what others are doing), that'll be 2000 bucks thanks'. Advertising 4 cores and 2018 Iris graphics as if it's some kind of achievement, when competitors have full dGpu solutions a…

Apple has never been particularly great on the price/performance ratio of their laptops. You buy their laptops for the fully integrated package, not for the specs.

Re: New 13-inch MacBook Pro

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Post by lmilcin » Mon, May 04, 2020, 12:46 PM UTC

I just looked to check. Still no physical Fn keys, still shallow butterfly keyboard. That's a pass.

Hopefully Apple comes to its senses some day and creates a computer that is designed for actual work, where a single beard follicle is not going to make it unusable midday.