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I think it depended on location. I was able to place an order at 2:08am CDT and get an 8:00-8:30am reservation on 9/16 at the Michigan Avenue store for the Jet Black 128GB iPhone 7. I was a bit worried since I want the Verizon model and ordered the AT&T model last year. But I put my Verizon SIM into my AT&T iPhone 6S and the App both defaulted to Verizon and recognized that the phone was purchased through the Upgrade Program and it let me complete the reservation.

Nice! Going high-end on accessories is a smart move now that smartphone sales have peaked.

Sounds good. I like how the trackpad works in the MacBook.

cropr said:

adrayven said:

It's because many anticipate a new mac coming this fall.. Sales always lag at this time of year.. they fell last year this time to zero growth in anticipation of new Macbook.. With everyone expecting a complete redesign on the Macbook Pro.. Not sure how anything but the media to be surprised.

One cannot always wait.  I own a SW company and hired recently 2 new SW engineers.  In the past such people got a MBP, now I've bought them a linux based Dell XPS13 with Skylake processor. Apple lost this opportunity.  I cannot understand that Apple does not manage to launch a Skylake MBP, while other manufacturers made similar configurations available around Christmas.  Apple is neglecting its Mac line, its management is to blame

And the drivers were so buggy that most early Skylake laptops crashed a lot until Intel released updated drivers in April. Also, the 28W Skylake processors that are suitable for the MacBook Pro just came out a few weeks ago, not back around Christmas. It's clear that the MacBook Air is on the way out (hence it didn't get a Skylake update), and likely the 28W chips either weren't available in sufficient quantities for a Q3-16 MacBook Pro launch, or Apple decided to use the delay to make way for a more radical redesign. Also, CPU performance hasn't improved significantly from Haswell to Broadwell to Skylake (the optimizations have been mostly power management and the GPU).

freethinking said:

Just plug into our projector, doh did not bring the adapter.

Wifi is down just plug into our ethernet, doh did not bring the adapter.

Buy a magazine, the sample images for the tutorial are on the DVD, doh!

Go to get files of fire wire drive, doh did not bring the adapter.

upgrade ram ... doh its soldered in.

go on a trip i have a bag full of damn adapter cables and bulky dvd drive.

my old old mac book pro had NONE of these problems, a nicer keyboard and I could swap out a flat battery to keep working away from a power point.

aside from performance my new mac book pro is an inferior more expensive machine.

the only thing keeping me now is the OS.

How many Windows notebooks have DVD drives anymore? Also, look at the ASUS Zenbook 3 and HP Spectre. They are flagship devices that have USB-C ports only. I'd rather carry an adapter when I need than lug around a bunch of ports I don't need 100% of the time.