My friend found a receipt for the macbook air he ordered in 2012.
https://twitter.com/OrkAA/status/791772715564826624
Isn't this just a tad sad? :)
MacBook Pro
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#822Boy, I'm a little relieved to have a fully loaded 13" rMBP with 1TB SSD, doesn't look like the new 13" with touchbar can let you go higher than 256 GB storage. If one standard was going to be picked, maybe 512 would have been better for a $3000 computer. The new Base model rMBP may be the next one for me for that reason for now. Keep finding it worth to always wait until the 2nd generation of a Mac laptop before divi…
The new 13 inch rMBP can definitely have up to a 1TB SSD. See this order page: http://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro?product=MLL42L...
Your link has the new rMBP sans touchpad which can be upgraded.
It seems the entry level rMBP with touchpad can't upgrade it's SSD.
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#823This event was by far the most disappointing Mac event in the history. A lot of the time was wasted in: - Mildly funny jokes and comparison with 90's technology. - 90% of the talk was about the touch bar. - Awful demos of Photoshop & some cringy DJ. I was hoping we would see: - A new MacBook with all day battery life and touch bar, even thinner design. Ok, I understand that they are trying to consolidate their produc…
> Microsoft really hit it out of the park yesterday. Did we watch the same event? Microsoft introduced a $3,000 desktop PC in an era when nobody uses desktops anymore. It introduced a minor update to the Surface Book that starts at $2,300 with dual-core CPU, only 8GB of RAM, and last-gen graphics hardware. For the same price as the new Surface Book i7, I can get an MBP 15" with bigger screen, twice the RAM, and a qua…
Everyone has already chewed you apart for this but
> nobody uses desktops anymore
That's just not true. Maybe you only use computers for social media and youtube but other people need things that can actually run resource intense programs.
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#824Spectacular. What people don't understand is that the reason Apple stays so far ahead of the rest of the industry year after year is their ability to integrate software and hardware, which as Jony Ive says in the video, is unique to Apple. Bravo.
Not anymore. The Surface Pro is a great counter example.
I maybe should have been less subtle above, but this was me trolling.
On a side note, I cannot believe in 2016 Jony Ive actually mentioned integrating software and hardware in a product video. This is a shockingly disappointing product launch, if only for how lost in the wheat they are.
I'm starting to wonder if there's a very real possibility that Apple's marketing is so good that they've come to believe it themselves.
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#825As a heavy Vim user, this might be my last Apple development machine. I can always remap Caps Lock to Esc, but years of muscle memory > a flashy feature I have little use for. There's nothing I'd pay extra for in this new machine: touchbar is a meh, biometric authentication has been around since ~2005, the hardware specs are finally catching up with what everyone else has been shipping for a couple years, the new key…
Linux is not bad. But nobody is making decent Linux hardware, and the instant you slap Linux onto a Windows machine, battery life plummets. My days buying Windows machines and struggling to get Linux on them are over. I'd rather buy a Mac and get a Unix I can use without having to install it. Is anyone actually selling a decent preinstalled Linux laptop? If I really wanted to use Linux I would rather buy a Windows la…
Unless you're doing something that absolutely needs to use the Linux kernel, I've found the new Linux Subsystem on Windows really good for Unix-like tooling. It even runs Tensorflow!
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#826Disappointing, almost boring event. Almost, because it made me laugh when I heard someone saying "incredible" again and app called "TV" :)
The presentation at times looked like it was ready made for comedians to spoof. Tim Cook's delivery is like something out of Office Space. And that TV section. Statements of the sort "Look! What we've just watched has been added to the recently watched list.", "This is going to change the way we watch TV."
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#827I'm no longer the target audience of Apple. I still own an iPhone, but their notebook line doesn't appeal to me at all. I'm still using my aluminum macbook from '08 and my next one will probably be a chromebook running Fedora.
Lots of 2008 Unibody Macbook owners coming out today. My sentiments exactly.
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#828Why is everyone so disappointed? This is still by far the best laptop out there - let's go through the painpoints: - no 32gb RAM. Name one laptop (a laptop, not a battleship) that has 32gb. Dell and Lenovo have a couple monstrosities with trackpads from the 90s with that amount of RAM. - no ESC key. C'mon, obviously the toolbar has it when running macvim or iTerm (or some other terminal) with vim. - no Intel somethin…
> still the best keyboard and trackpad BY FAR in the market
I beg to differ. Last time I was at a BestBuy, I find every single Macbook there featuring a keyboard floppier than the type cover on my Surface Pro 4, let alone pre-chiclet ThinkPads which I have been using for 9 years until I switched to SP4.
Full disclosure: I work for M$ now.
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#829Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Microsoft really hit it out of the park yesterday. Did we watch the same event? Microsoft introduced a $3,000 desktop PC in an era when nobody uses desktops anymore. It introduced a minor update to the Surface Book that starts at $2,300 with dual-core CPU, only 8GB of RAM, and last-gen graphics hardware. For the same price as the new Surface Book i7, I can get an MBP 15" with bigger screen, twice the RAM, and a qua…
I'll take my desktops for doing real work. I don't know any laptop that can drive four and five screen setups and an area about 4' x 3' of display area. The laptop is fine for fooling around, or "working" from home on the couch, but I'd lose my mind trying to do anything that small a screen, that few pixels, and a cramped, irregular keyboard with no travel. Plus trackpads. Fuck trackpads.
The 15inch Macbook pro supports 4x 4k monitors (upto 4096x2304), at the same time as the built in display, FWIW.
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#830Apple removed a physical Esc key - clearly a productivity superstar, but they DIDN'T remove that IBM-wannabe boat anchor Fn key?! The touch bar is all dynamic and touch-screeny, why the heck would you even need a PHYSICAL Fn key?? Just make Ctrl nice and fat like it used to be and dump Fn!
I'd have less of a problem with Fn if Apple put it to the right of Ctrl like Dell does/did. But noooooo, they had to copy those usability whizkids at IBM.