kind of wild there was no mention in the article of the new macbook, which IMO is an objectively better overall machine than either the air or the pro.
Seems perfectly reasonable, they just updated it two months ago.
Where the hell are the new MacBooks?
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#22The real question is where the hell are the new Mac Pro towers? There are people outside of Mom and Dad that require something more than a laptop integrated into a monitor.
You mean that little trash can looking thing? The Cheesegrater is dead. Long live the Mac Pro. I sympathize. I dreamed of owning a Mac Pro tower but, alas, it will never be.
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#23This article, in my opinion, didn't raise above the level of a petty rant. For a more nuanced look at Apple's Mac pipeline (which also predicted that WWDC wouldn't have hardware announcements), there's this from MacRumors: http://www.macrumors.com/2016/06/08/new-macbook-air-pro-june...
Honestly, when was the last time WWDC had HW announcements? Those almost always come in spring/fall now.
2013
Re: Where the hell are the new MacBooks?
#24If you buy a laptop based only on raw specs, you are in a different market than the vast majority of laptop users.
Most people want their laptop to be reasonably fast, get solid battery life, and have a nice display and ergonomics. Also important is power saving technology (sleep, hibernate, etc.) and storage size/speed.
Most commodity laptops that are competing in the raw specs wars have major deficiencies in one or more of the above areas.
If you are a Windows user, you have taken on the task of dealing with a broken, polluted driver ecosystem and lots of malware, as well as an OS that shows you ads on the desktop.
If you are a Linux user you take on the task of making sure your bleeding edge hardware works with linux. This is no small task and in many cases it's over a year after release that linux support for new technology becomes anything approaching reliable.
A Macbook, on the other hand, just works, and works extremely well. It is a reliable work horse that does its job without complaining. The hardware and ergonomics fade into the background and you just focus on your work.
I suppose if you are a gamer there is a case to be made for running Windows on bleeding edge hardware, but such gamers are a very small percentage of laptop users.
Re: Where the hell are the new MacBooks?
#25kind of wild there was no mention in the article of the new macbook, which IMO is an objectively better overall machine than either the air or the pro.
Objectively better in what respect? It's thinner and lighter, yes, but it's also slower, has extremely limited connectivity to external devices (only one USB-C port and no Thunderbolt), and has a nontraditional low-travel keyboard design that would be most politely described as "polarizing".
Better for some use cases, yes-- it's a great machine if you need something small and light for travel and don't need to do particularly intensive computing on the road. But it (intentionally) makes enough compromises that you can't make a blanket statement that it's "objectively better" for everyone.
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#26kind of wild there was no mention in the article of the new macbook, which IMO is an objectively better overall machine than either the air or the pro.
To meet the "objectively better overall" bar, they're going to need a LOT more horsepower. I love the form factor but they're almost unusable for any kind of real work, and after an entire year they got a tiny speed bump that just takes some of the edge off the performance problems.
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#27If you look at just how painful the Skylake launch was on Windows and Linux, I figure they're waiting on hardware/drivers that actually work as intended.
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#28I just wonder if we're seeing Apple try to slowly move away from being a "devices" company and identify itself in terms of "general computing", so including software and services.
So yeah, everyone has this super-strong connotation of "Apple = awesome devices", and they still wait in anticipation for new, beautiful hardware. But it sure seems like Apple is trying to drive a different identity.
I'll truly believe this is happening when iMessage hits Android, which I didn't hear any mention of, despite the rumors.
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#29If you buy a laptop based only on raw specs, you are in a different market than the vast majority of laptop users. Most people want their laptop to be reasonably fast, get solid battery life, and have a nice display and ergonomics. Also important is power saving technology (sleep, hibernate, etc.) and storage size/speed. Most commodity laptops that are competing in the raw specs wars have major deficiencies in one or…
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Re: Where the hell are the new MacBooks?
#30If you buy a laptop based only on raw specs, you are in a different market than the vast majority of laptop users. Most people want their laptop to be reasonably fast, get solid battery life, and have a nice display and ergonomics. Also important is power saving technology (sleep, hibernate, etc.) and storage size/speed. Most commodity laptops that are competing in the raw specs wars have major deficiencies in one or…
> If you buy a laptop based only on raw specs, you are in a different market than the vast majority of laptop users.
This argument works reasonably well for the "MacBook" side of the equation, but it doesn't fare so finely on the "Pro" side.