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I hope that, by the time Sierra is released, this will be extended to the iPhone as well, rather than used as a ploy to sell the Apple Watch. It would be perfectly easy to do the same thing with an iPhone, which most Mac owners have (there are so ma…
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This will depend heavily on third party application support. Apple's own applications had better support it, and I'd be relatively certain that Microsoft won't in any meaningful way, since Office is essentially a straight Windows port. One big quest…
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To me, USB-C is an advantage, but ONLY USB-C is a major disadvantage... Why can't Apple give us USB-C (I know I'd buy USB-C/TB3 peripherals going forward, and I'm a likely customer for a dock or a monitor/dock), but also a legacy USB 3.0 port for ot…
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This is a 13" - I'm hoping the 15" is a bit different in terms of port layout. At least one conventional USB port seems to me to be a requirement for a pro laptop - perhaps most importantly to deal with files on the ubiquitous USB memory sticks...…
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As Microsoft found out with Windows RT, porting code from Intel to ARM is pretty darned complex (even if you have the same OS). They got Windows running on ARM fairly well, but the third-party application makers said "no thanks". A quad-core version…
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I actually hope you're right - that machine with 32 GB of RAM and 2TB of storage would be much more attractive than a fancy new Jony Ive fest that loses ports and cooling in the process. Skylake is only about 20% faster than Haswell (although, as yo…
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If it's thinner and lighter, I start to worry about what ports might get lost, and whether they have to drop the GPU or move down the CPU power scale for heat reasons... I've been hoping for a version with upgrades to RAM and/or SSD capacity, and no…
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As I thought about it a bit more, there's an interesting answer to the port question that Apple could do and make a lot of people happy... On the Mac itself - something like 2 USB, 2 USB-C, HDMI, SD Card Reader, 1 Thunderbolt (larger model) - small…
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I'd be very surprised to see anything so radical as an entirely relabelable keyboard - how many Optimus Maximus ever shipped? Part of that was that they started out ungodly expensive, then got even more so as Lebedev figured out what they actually c…
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Yes, I was thinking of that same keyboard... Optimus Maximus, wasn't it? eInk is the stuff in Kindle displays that doesn't require power except when it changes state. Most versions of it are black and white (or at most grayscale), but it's cheap, lo…
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I don't care WHAT the MBP looks like (within reason)... What I want is a machine that isn't two years old inside... If the same old case housed a top Skylake chip, a modern GPU, a 2 TB SSD option (I wince at the probable price of that option) and 32…
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I like your Mac Pro with daughter boards, but I'd like to see a "bring your own monitor" Mac cheaper than $2999. I admit the xMac is unlikely "it'll never pass muster with Jony Ive" - the most likely solution is a Mini with a decent processor, expan…
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At least some part of the problem is Apple consistently taking every improvement as "thinner and lighter, without losing too much performance", rather than sometimes keeping size and weight similar with a major performance increase. How many people …
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Ethernet is useful in larger institutions... It's surprising how often an innocent-looking Ethernet port at a university (probably true of other large places as well) turns out to be Gigabit, with the bandwidth coming in to back it up. They're prett…
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What I'm really hoping for is MacBook Pros (MacBooks Pro?) - anyway, the object that old-timers occasionally still refer to as a PowerBook! At a bare minimum, some new CPUs and GPUs would be appreciated. I'm in the market for a 15" model (and resign…
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For some people, ads are much more annoying and, in some cases, debilitating, than for others. If you have any condition that makes you easily distractable (ADD, ADHD, etc.),or epilepsy, using the web with Flash and other animated ads may simply not…