It is me, or is Haswell taking a very long time to become available everywhere? The Haswell Mac Air came out 3 months ago, (June 10th), but you still can't get it in a MBP or a Thinkpad, and can only now get it in an iMac.
Apple Updates iMac
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Depends on what feature you are looking for. For laptop users, the displays still require you to use a dongle for Magsafe2. I consider this unacceptable. If you are waiting for a Retina screen, you're screwed. IMO this soft launch indicates no Retina iMac is forthcoming in the near future.
I've got a late 2011 (non-retina) MBP, so old style magsafe connector suits me. There's been a lot of hints at a 4k screen to match the new Mac Pro. Not looking for any features in particular, I've just got a bad habbit of buying something just before it gets updated :s
I would have guffawed at the hint of a 4K screen being cost prohibitive in the past, but the Retina Macbook is proof that Apple still has aspirations of setting the tone when it comes to displays.
You might be right to make your decision after the official launch of the Mac Pro. You could be on to something.
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#63It is me, or is Haswell taking a very long time to become available everywhere? The Haswell Mac Air came out 3 months ago, (June 10th), but you still can't get it in a MBP or a Thinkpad, and can only now get it in an iMac.
Uptake on next gen processors is unbelievably slow. You can find them if you look hard enough, but manufacturers seem to have more backstock than they can clear out.
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The Chromebook Pixel has better hardware features than the MacBook line. (The touchscreen and LTE are both fantastic options.) But, pricewise, it's not far off from Apple's either.
It has a really poor harddrive (32GB) - I realize it's not meant to be used offline, but the world is not yet fully online. Also, what system is it running? For me, one of the main advantages of owning a mac is the OS - nice, slick, fast, *NIX (hence good for developers), without all the configuration hassle of Linux.
Interesting how you call OS X UNIX, as opposed to Linux.
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#65It is me, or is Haswell taking a very long time to become available everywhere? The Haswell Mac Air came out 3 months ago, (June 10th), but you still can't get it in a MBP or a Thinkpad, and can only now get it in an iMac.
The yields from the fab are probably still pretty low despite the 22nm process being carried over.
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The Chromebook Pixel has better hardware features than the MacBook line. (The touchscreen and LTE are both fantastic options.) But, pricewise, it's not far off from Apple's either.
It has a really poor harddrive (32GB) - I realize it's not meant to be used offline, but the world is not yet fully online. Also, what system is it running? For me, one of the main advantages of owning a mac is the OS - nice, slick, fast, *NIX (hence good for developers), without all the configuration hassle of Linux.
Many developers (most? I suppose there are more developers on Linux than OSX) would find that "configuration hassle" a feature.
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It has a really poor harddrive (32GB) - I realize it's not meant to be used offline, but the world is not yet fully online. Also, what system is it running? For me, one of the main advantages of owning a mac is the OS - nice, slick, fast, *NIX (hence good for developers), without all the configuration hassle of Linux.
Interesting how you call OS X UNIX, as opposed to Linux.
OSX is unix
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#68I'm mostly disappointed in how poor the Win32-based hardware vendors are at following Apple's lead. Apple is narrowing the cost gap in their hardware, and their quality is still leaps and bounds ahead of the competitors. If I want to buy a solid all-in-one device with a minimally usable on-board videocard so I could fire up the occasional game (not a hardcore gaming rig but keeping lighter fare an option) then the co…
This is false and misleading. ThinkPads, while the new ones aren't too much to my taste, are better-constructed, more fully-featured, and more understated than MacBooks.
On the AIO side, there are plenty of desktops from Dell and Lenovo that compete quite well.
I'm really sick of how every tiniest bit of Apple news is upvoted to the front page. When did a thousand fanboys join HN? I thought this forum was supposed to be about hacking, not hipster products made in Chinese sweatshops.
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#69It might be wiser to wait until Mavericks is shipped.
To save $20?
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I never understood why they would make a bulky machine hard to upgarde. I have a 1.1 mac pro tower. So easy to open/add memory and hard drives. Even my polycarb (white) macbook was easy to update the hard drive. Harddrives will fail... It shouldn't be hard to replace them.
This will sound pedantic, but... It isn't hard to replace them. You pull out your iPhone, use the Apple Store App to schedule an appointment, drop off your iMac at the store, go have lunch at Sbarro and then pick it up and go home. If you are buying an iMac, you are buying a sealed solution. If you are the kind of user who wants to replace HDD or upgrade components, the iMac is not the computer you should buy. Bad bu…
He said Apple would continue to sell trucks and cars, but he expects the cars to cannibalize the truck market.
There's no use in a truck with a bed cover that's locked into place and unremovable. There's equally no use in a truck that's not built body-on-frame, and the Mac, one of my favorite computing platforms, is moving away from it.