Apple to Introduce New Macs at October 27 Event
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I gotta say, I'm feeling pretty smug about my own personal switch from Mac to PC this year.
After toying with the idea of a Dell XPS 13 instead of the the new MBP I've eventually ordered the MBP 13" touchbar i7 3.3/16GB/512GB with applecare.
The way I justified it to myself was, they don't get updated very often and it will remain current for a year or 2 and the resale value with the 3 year applecare should be reasonable. Still though the price is nothing short of a rip off.
The way I justified it to myself was, they don't get updated very often and it will remain current for a year or 2 and the resale value with the 3 year applecare should be reasonable. Still though the price is nothing short of a rip off.
Yeah its windows that put me off, I've had macs at home for 7 years now and love the interconnectivity of all the apple devices.
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I just installed Windows on my rMBP, mainly because a few developers at work still use it and I just wanted too see if I could get a few things work better, however at the same time I can see if I can get along with it at all. First 30mins and its not promising, still think W10 is a confusing experience.
With all those upgrades you might as well have gone for the 15" for the huge performance boost
Apparently the difference between the 2.9 i5 and the i7 3.3 is about 5% :s
I wasn't aware of that, have you got a link for the benchmarks?
I'm not paying £243.60 for a 5% speed difference
With all those upgrades you might as well have gone for the 15" for the huge performance boost
Apparently the difference between the 2.9 i5 and the i7 3.3 is about 5% :s
Thanks for the heads up, have now changed it to 15" 2.6 i7/16GB/512GB/4GB graphics.
I did want the 13" for portability but the 15" isn't much bigger.
Well you might want to double check on the benchmarks (I'm on my phone) - but I recall looking it up and that being the case. The 15" processor is much better because it's quad core, plus the 15" has a dedicated GPU.
It's sooo expensive though.
I thought the processor upgrade was more than that? In either case it might shave time if you are doing mega file conversions or something but otherwise meh.
It's sooo expensive though.
I thought the processor upgrade was more than that? In either case it might shave time if you are doing mega file conversions or something but otherwise meh.
Did you install it in a VM or Bootcamp?
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I used bootcamp, setup was very simple only real issue was it defaulted to booting into windows which was possibly caused by my OSX portion being encrypted. I think the whole install took 30mins and everything works fine, for windows you can buy a system builder key from ebay for £8, its the same windows minus support from MSFT which I've never used before.
Typically the cause, its a tiny % gain for a large £ price. Unless you max out all cores often enough its not worth it. Also agree once you get 16GB ram and a faster CPU in the 13" the 15" looks like a steal with 2x the cores for similar price.
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Hopefully I get to play with some in the Apple Store next week when i visit.
I've visited multiple stores in UK and Denmark over the past couple of weeks and 13" bottom end models are on display everywhere. I've yet to spot 15" touchbar versions, but on the other hand I've been mostly interested in the Apple Watch section of the store and only shorty stopped by at the Macbook tables.
Anyway, 13" let's you check the huge touchpad + test the new keyboard. Those I find the most important to test in person.
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I chickened out on getting a new MBP, I actually started to rethink my workflow. At the office we have a just got a Mac Mini, so that will do for the desk. Do I still need a laptop in that case?
Sure I do work on the road, and will want to do stuff from home... but decided in the end of get an iPad Pro.
I will wait a few more cycles to check back in with the MBP, but lets see how my tablet lifestyle goes. I could very well see laptops sort of become redundant for the vast majority in the nearish future..
Sure I do work on the road, and will want to do stuff from home... but decided in the end of get an iPad Pro.
I will wait a few more cycles to check back in with the MBP, but lets see how my tablet lifestyle goes. I could very well see laptops sort of become redundant for the vast majority in the nearish future..
Just think, if they'd done the same shrinking magic they used on the 13" and 15" and added a new 17" that was similar in weight and profile size to the old 15" they could have helped save a little bit of face in light of all the awful decisions that seemed to result in the latest models.
There would even be enough room to add a damned magsafe connector in addition to all the USB-C ports.
There would even be enough room to add a damned magsafe connector in addition to all the USB-C ports.
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I think thats a great idea. Problem is all the laptops are now thin and light and in order to keep it thin and light things get chopped off that some users need. However it also seems like Apple just doesn't care about that market, The Mac Pro is an expensive **** now still starting at £3000 for out dated hardware, The pro laptops are moving more and more towards a less demanding market, iMac really is the only thing with somewhat powerful hardware and good port selection.
Also interesting they Apple is out of the display market, leaving you with this LG display that really I think looks ugly. Like its cheap black plastic, has a horrible forehead and also only has type-c ports which I find weird. It would have been cool if it was closer too the iMac were it doubles as a dock. However no official monitor too me signals that they might just give up on the Mac Pro.
Well, yeah - I really can't understand it - so imagine there you are trying to furnish your new media studio and you walk into Apple store, they want you to pay £2999 for each of your "new" workstations with a four year old E5-1620 CPU from £800 HP tower inside and then ask you to buy keyboard and mouse for your £2999 workstation separately and just when you finally pick up your jaw from the floor they point blank refuse to provide monitors for them, because all they have now is "oozb-see" fugly LGs. Like - their answer is to "go to Dell website" or "try that purple PC warehouse round the corner".
WTF is going on in that product dept of theirs? No company in the long history of now defunct proprietary hardware dinosaurs was so cheeky, rude and unprepared for their new rip off season as Apple is at the moment.
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Yeah its beyond greedy. Just selling dead hardware that cost more then brand new hardware from other vendors. Just a middle finger to anyone that needs that power. At work we might drop OSX for are content creators. They tried iMacs and it was not fast enough, the trash can is old hardware with high failure rate due to it not being able to actually cool well enough. Only reason they stick it out is because they like using OSX and final cut, but that might change if nothing is released in the next 6-12 months.