Apple to Introduce New Macs at October 27 Event

jonneymendoza said:
Not me and I've been in the game for over 10 years working all over the place. The macbook keyboard is good for pro use.
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The butterfly keyboard has been getting completely slated by the development community, I'm not sure who you mean by 'pro work' but I would assume this encapsulates them. Anyway, hopefully their revisioned version is better than their first version because I don't think I've seen one positive comment on it.

e.g. second highest post this week on HN for 'keyboard'
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12827911
 
Personally my main gripe is I'm being charged extra for a feature (touchbar) that I will seldom use. My usage is 40% at my office desk where I have monitors, stand for my laptop and a external keyboard + mouse. 40% at home were I mainly use it at my home desk which is mostly identically too my office setup, and 20% traveling/moving around at home. I won't build any sort of habits on the 20%, which is either very casual use or demoing to clients.

I wouldn't mind so much but I now I have a much larger cost for a tiny gain the few times I'm not at a desk. On top of losing niceties that I believe made Apple better then the rest its annoying. Build and design is not a huge macbook feature anymore, a lot of the market has for the most part caught up. The Dell XPS line looks awesome, the Razer blade is honestly what my dream macbook would look like barring the green accents, the Surfacebook looks great. These extra nice bits that other OEMs don't do is what put apple ahead of the pack, I rarely used the cloth they include but opening the box and the laptop had its own branded laptop really blew me away the first time. These guys really care about their product, at some levels it feels like thats going away to me in favour of profits and margins.

However at the end of the day I really hate windows, Linux is missing too many apps and proper HiDPI support for me to take that seriously, so I'm stuck with macs. Hopefully prices drop a bit next gen. I think its really clear now that the Mac is slowly dying out, Apple cares less and less about the pros (Mac pro clearly shows that, its a POS and costs 3k), Tim cook really believes in the iPad. Be interesting to see how it all pans out.
 
Going to miss all of these ports. Strangely the headphone jack/optical port is the one I use least.

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1 port I sometimes miss is Ethernet. But wifi is at such a good speed at home now (the only place I do large file transfers) I can't say it's a problem.

However IF I setup a home office and buy a dock for mine, it'll be one with an ethernet port. Purely because of preferential reasons. Not because I miss it.
 
matt100 said:
I'm on about the fact that the over £100 keyboard for the surface pro sounds and feels like typing on cardboard, to suggest it's in any way a match for any decent laptop keyboard, especially a macbook pro is laughable. I'm only suggesting I've discovered what most reviews of the thing have said.

And yes you can attach a keyboard, you can attach SD card readers, USB hubs and god knows what else to a macbook and that doesn't appear to be minor?

My impression of the surface pro 4 in real world use is that it's a noisy tablet with a keyboard, not a laptop.

Very fast, beautiful screen etc etc.. but honestly, if you're in that market just get a surface book.
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I can hook any keyboard with a USB, which is the entire market, or USB dongle for wireless. I dont have to have an adaptor with me at all times., I can also connect any phone I want to it, with out an adaptor. Depends on what Surface touch cover keyboard you got, the super thin one or the larger one, both of which would be the same as what the iPad has now, a travel keyboard.
 
Crikey, first it was the iPhone 7, now the MBP.
Very underwhelmed and disappointed with Apple recently, maybe they are missing the SJ factor?

Looks like I'll be with my 2015 MBP and iP6 for another year...
 
Raymond Lin said:
Going to miss all of these ports. Strangely the headphone jack/optical port is the one I use least.

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You have been spoiled :D.

Even if I had an ethernet port I'd never use it. I'd sooner just stick in a usb3 or thunderbold ssd and transfer large files that way. As for wifi, it's not even worth talking about. Transferring a 200gb file (final cut projects) even over AC is far too slow.

As a photographer though Raymond you'll really miss the SD slot, unless you've got some kind Lexar thunderbolt reader you carry around.
 
englishpremier said:
You have been spoiled :D.

Even if I had an ethernet port I'd never use it. I'd sooner just stick in a usb3 or thunderbold ssd and transfer large files that way. As for wifi, it's not even worth talking about. Transferring a 200gb file (final cut projects) even over AC is far too slow.

As a photographer though Raymond you'll really miss the SD slot, unless you've got some kind Lexar thunderbolt reader you carry around.
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I will miss the SD card slot as my DSLR have them and it makes editing on the move possible. Now I need to carry more stuff. Going to have to get one of those thunderbolt SD reader now don't I?

I will miss MagSafe, badly. I consider myself less clumsy than most but even then I have tripped the power cord on more than 5 occasions and every time nothing happened. I also like the right angle MagSafe and sometimes I have it the opposite way depending on the work space.

I use the NIC port sometimes, not often but still useful.
 
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v0n said:
And boy is it one ugly motherlover of a thunderbolt 3 USB-C SD card reader at just £44.95

http://www.apple.com/uk/shop/product/HKR62ZM/A/sandisk-extreme-pro-sd-uhs-ii-card-usb-c-reader

One thing prominently missing from the store... no USB-C to firewire adapter... not in any combination, not even as a usb-c to thunderbolt 2 to firewire
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Firewire has been redundant for yeeaars. So that's not surprising to me.

That adapter though...lol. Ah well, a £5 one off Amazon will do then :)
 
I'm starting to wonder if I should cancel my order. I have an iMac that I will do 90% of video editing on, so I don't really need a powerhouse on the move.

All I really need is something to browse the web and watch videos, something the MacBook 12" can adequately do on its own I'd imagine.
 
LiE said:
iMac + iPad sounds perfect for you.
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I had an iPad before. I really didn't get on with it and I don't get along with my Surface Pro 4 now. I think I just don't like tablets.

Something with terminal tool and a keyboard is what I'd really be after, hence thinking MacBook over another tablet.
 
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