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I hope this fixed the issue. Was having it happen every other day. 5k imac

Apple is so insanely obsessed with thinness that they are designing themselves into corner with regards to battery life - and hurting their brand on the way.

I know 2 people now opting for iPad Pro's over the Macbook Pro's.  These are people that Apple directly targeted as a demographic for the Macbook. I was actually quite surprised.
Both didn't care about the processing power, thinness, or screen color gamut at all. They wanted battery life and accessibility. Both scoffed at the new Macbooks as providing neither - so settled for a change in how they work - than buy something insanely expensive that misses the mark completely on their needs.
One is buying 2 of them to leave in different locations so he doesn't need to worry about transporting them - says it's still half the price.

Top complaint about iphones as well is battery life.

If Apple came out with a Macbook that had 24 hour life, usb, sd slot... but was a few mm thicker... I bet they would slay it in sales.
They have compromised everything for thin. They went too far. Their phones are bending ffs. Software gimicks compromising brightness now. It's a gong-show.

Question is, are they going to pull it back?

Average Warcraft player: ~3 hours / day.
So you're looking at about $100 a month.

About the same price to finance a high-end Alienware machine.

So this is the 'Money Mart / Payday Loan' model to suck money out of those with bad credit?

I don't understand this business model at all.

My ISP provides a top notch modem that does everything I need and more - and has been the most reliable modem i've ever had.
Most hifi streamers are using top notch DAC's with built in Tidal, Spotify, have Airplay, iPod, USB, PCM, 3.5, RCA, Coax, and can play all formats from any source.
Synology has the best and easiest NAS systems out there that blow away anything Apple could even dream of.

It's understandable that Apple get out of this market.

techprod1gy said:

To all of the blow hards that are bent out of shape because you can't upgrade the SSD give me a break. The only reason you want it removable is so you don't have to pay Apple's price for higher amounts of storage. For 99.9% of users this is a non-issue.

99.9% of consumers don't care about cost?