Apple to Introduce New Macs at October 27 Event

Crazy pricing. So much anticipation and now so much staying with the current rMBP. Price is way above the normal Apple premium.
 
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To be fair, it's not just the UK being stiffed this time. If you take the US price, convert it then add 20% VAT there isn't much difference.

The prices are just crazy across the board, a shame as I like using OSX but MBPs are now outrageous prices and my trashcan Mac Pro seems to have been forgotten completely.
 
Ive just been over to the mac rumour forums, a lot of angry European and even Australian consumers, seems everyone has had massive price hikes, One aussie said that the price has gone up $1500 Australian over last years base model, but I guess we can blame that on Brexit as well.
 
Nothing about the new release makes me want to change my 2015 rMBP, even if the price had stayed the same.

Coupled with the long wait for this announcement; the disappointing iPhone 7 release; the issues I've had with iOS10 and MacOS; and the price hikes - I'm really not enamoured with Apple at the moment.
 
Just seen this quote from Schiller:

Affordability is "absolutely something we care about," Schiller says. "But we don't design for price, we design for the experience and the quality people expect from Mac. Sometimes that means we end up at the higher end of the range, but not on purpose, just because that's what it costs.
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There's the evidence of just how far up their own backsides Apple have their heads right now.

The only way for Apple now is down. There's been no real innovation since Jobs departed and Cook et all don't have a clue what to do next other than continually polishing what they have in the hope people keep buying it. Where's the next iMac, the next iPod, the next iPhone, the next iPad, the next truly innovative product that creates its own market. No the watch doesn't count!
 
Vertigo1 said:
The only way for Apple now is down.
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Wow, butthurt much? :p

If you really think this then you're a bit misguided. You say no real innovation? What about the Mac Pro redesign?

A company like apple will be bouncing ideas around for new products on a weekly, if not daily basis. They will have prototypes for different kinds of products everywhere.

However, they're also brilliant at marketing and knowing what their customers want. Which is why the current format works well for them.

I'm disappointed by the price hike as much as anyone but premium products....cost a premium, shocker! Plus Brexit hasn't helped in the slightest.
 
Phate said:
Wow, butthurt much? :p
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Makes no difference to me at all. I've never owned a Mac and never will, they don't interest me or fit my needs. I was just commenting on Apple's general lack of direction.

If you really think this then you're a bit misguided. You say no real innovation? What about the Mac Pro redesign?

A company like apple will be bouncing ideas around for new products on a weekly, if not daily basis. They will have prototypes for different kinds of products everywhere.
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Who gives a toss about redesigns? That's my point, all they know how to do is redesign what they already have. There are no genuinely new products. Even the watch was late to an existing market. The last product Apple produced which was genuinely new and created a new market was the iPad over six years ago. Until that point they had a record of introducing something genuinely new and innovative roughly every three years - iMac, iPod, iPhone, iPad. Now it's been over twice that with nothing.

It's not just me - plenty of industry observers are starting to think that Apple have lost their way and that Jobs was the source of pretty much all their innovation.
 
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Me neither - gutted because I probs my would have bought in at £1,400 with touch bar.

I can afford it without having to be careful of cash at £1,750 but I'm not so rich that I can just overlook that it's £350 more than I think it's worth. That's probably a month's net salary for a lot of people - jeez.
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1400 with touch bar was my top end limit too
 
I was really looking forward to this. Can't justify the purchase at those prices. First time I've had to look at a windows laptop in 10 years :( This 2010 MBP just won't last much longer...
 
I was so ready to replace my 13" RMBP with one of these. SO READY.

Until they unveiled them.

Let's see:

No Kaby Lake (7th gen CPUs)? Wtf.
No SD slot? Sigh.
No traditional USB? Not even one? Sigh.
No more magsafe? Sigh.
Hilarious prices? Check. £1750 for the base spec 13" with touch bar? I mean come on.

Professional my arse. Professionals actually want useful connectivity and expandability. They don't need to be shown a trendy video of some woman photoshopping herself out of one scene and into another. That DJ "demonstration" was absolutely laughable and cringeworthy.

OH BUT IT'S THINNER.

The brand new Dell XPS 13 with Kaby Lake, twice as much RAM and SSD, as well as having all the sensible ports I'd still require whilst being much cheaper is looking extremely attractive right now.


I am an Apple fan but they're starting to lose the plot. I used to defend them when people stated that their computers are overpriced. Now I'm inclined to agree.
 
They started to lose the plot when they alienated many video professionals with Final Cut Pro X. This is a continuation down that path.
 
I had a look yesterday and for me to replace my 2010 15" MBP with one at the same point in the range (top spec 15" with the better GPU, and 1Tb SSD) would cost an extra £1500, that's some inflation in 6 years.

£3500 with my defence discount compared to £2000 for my current MBP. I'm not usually bothered about paying a premium for high end products, but now I'm not sure I'm going to upgrade to a new MBP next year as planned. For the same cost switching to a Windows laptop seems quite tempting right now given that my MBP has always been something of a secondary machine for the past few years anyway. I will miss MacOS if a I switch, but I'm not sure I can justify the cost just to stay with a Mac.
 
Howard said:
I was so ready to replace my 13" RMBP with one of these. SO READY.

Until they unveiled them.

Let's see:

No Kaby Lake (7th gen CPUs)? Wtf.
No SD slot? Sigh.
No traditional USB? Not even one? Sigh.
No more magsafe? Sigh.
Hilarious prices? Check. £1750 for the base spec 13" with touch bar? I mean come on.

Professional my arse. Professionals actually want useful connectivity and expandability. They don't need to be shown a trendy video of some woman photoshopping herself out of one scene and into another. That DJ "demonstration" was absolutely laughable and cringeworthy.

OH BUT IT'S THINNER.

The brand new Dell XPS 13 with Kaby Lake, twice as much RAM and SSD, as well as having all the sensible ports I'd still require whilst being much cheaper is looking extremely attractive right now.


I am an Apple fan but they're starting to lose the plot. I used to defend them when people stated that their computers are overpriced. Now I'm inclined to agree.
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uhh? the dell only has 256 gb and 8gb max ram

http://www.dell.com/uk/p/xps-13-9360-laptop/pd?ref=PD_OC
 
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