Apple to Introduce New Macs at October 27 Event

Hope people will start voting with their wallets now. All these tech companies, including Apple making small adjustments to their hardware but charging a yearly increasing premium.
 
The lack of SD card slot bugs me. It's something I used all the time. Fortunately I am not looking to replace my rMBP for a good few years yet. Heck my last MB lasted for 7 years! Maybe by then the format will be replaced or the port will make its way back on there :p

The removal of the of almost all of the rest of the ports really isn't a big deal to me. Apart from mag safe. I've always thought that's a brilliant idea and wished any other laptop I've used has had it. Although the fact you can plug in the power to any port is quite cool...useless, but cool. USB-C/Thunderbolt can carry so much data just buy a hub with your necessary ports which plugs into the laptop and be done with it. Orrr replace devices with USB-C ones.

I agree that this lot is overpriced. But there are several factors mitigating the price which leaves me unsurprised.
 
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So I can't use my Thunderbolt monitor without buying a ~£45 Thunderbolt to USB-C adaptor, and I can't use my monitor to power the laptop as it's magsafe so would need to buy another charger for £69 to save me carting my charger between home and work.

I was about to order a new MBP but I'd be spending near £200 on adaptors alone as I'd need ethernet and possibly lightening cables, that's insane.
 
I was looking to update my rMBP, I have saved the money. I quite like the look of the new ones but I'm not going to buy one. I just can't justify the price increase.

I was expecting a price hike but I was expecting it to be closer to £200 on the top spec, not £700.

I think I'm going to get a QHD Razer Blade instead. The specs are better and it looks really nice.
 
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So I can't use my Thunderbolt monitor without buying a ~£45 Thunderbolt to USB-C adaptor, and I can't use my monitor to power the laptop as it's magsafe so would need to buy another charger for £69 to save me carting my charger between home and work.

I was about to order a new MBP but I'd be spending near £200 on adaptors alone as I'd need ethernet and possibly lightening cables, that's insane.
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And this is how Apple gets ya! Now people are starting to wake up and notice.

They make it all singing and dancing that they remove legacy devices....(SD Card reader isnt legacy is it?!?!) to making the device slimmer etc but really it to force you to buy their proprietary devices. Which offer very little or no improvement over the ports they are replacing.
 
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I was about to order a new MBP but I'd be spending near £200 on adaptors alone as I'd need ethernet and possibly lightening cables, that's insane.
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It does seem apple have shifting their focus to removing existing functionality rather than adding in the name of selling accessories.

Of course some of the brain dead will see this as a bold move which pushes technology on but to most its just insulating.
 
If it wasn't for the adaptor debacle I would have ordered one this morning, now I'm having second thoughts. It's not like USB-C is 12 hours old and there will be some third party adaptors for magsafe coming out soon as it has been out a while and no one has bothered to solve that issue.
 
Ordered a 13" pro, was almost put off by the prices but I now use my MBP as a main machine pretty much, even when at my desk as I just have it in clamshell mode so the extra performance is nice, and the fancy new bar is a new toy that I simply must have :p
 
OK so is there a consensus on alternatives for us who were going to by the new pro but have been put off by the price?

Currently seems to be

Surface Book (Due to be refreshed start of next year, but so what)
Dell XPS13

What else is there in the 1k - 1200 budget?
 
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