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  • Apple's Mac refresh includes universal drop in SSD upgrade prices

    lorin schultzlorin schultz
    Soli said:
    Pylons said:
    No changes to low tiers! Most importantly, it still costs the insulting figure of $200 to upgrade from 128 GB to 256 GB! That's $1600/TB!
    High-end SSDs cost $170-300/TB (for drives that are even faster than Apple's).
    Right? And it's under 3lb? Do you know much I can get back from recycling 3lb of aluminium cans? Apple is literally raping us.
    You’re not honestly suggesting there’s ANY kind of justification for the price Apple charges for storage, are you? It’s ludicrous.
    muthuk_vanalingam

  • Apple updates 13-inch MacBook Pro, adding Touch Bar to entire range

    lorin schultzlorin schultz
    randominternetperson said:
    ziadjk said:
    I personally have yet to meet anyone who likes the touchbar..
    Have you met anyone who likes function keys?
    Yes, users of Avid Pro Tools. Common functions make extensive use of the function keys.
    doozydozen

  • Apple updates 13-inch MacBook Pro, adding Touch Bar to entire range

    lorin schultzlorin schultz
    frantisek said:
    avon b7 said:
    Also only 8GB RAM standard. 240€ to bump it to 16GB. That is supremely disappointing.


    That is reason I buy second hand only. Price is set by demand then.
    The problem is that high Configure-To-Order prices affect the availability of upgraded units on the second-hand market. I’ve been shopping for a used MacBook Air and am finding very few with 256 Gb storage, presumably because very few people were willing to pay the high cost of upgrading when they bought those machines new.
    JWSC

  • Apple's Mac refresh includes universal drop in SSD upgrade prices

    lorin schultzlorin schultz
    This is the best Apple news I’ve read in a long time! By far my biggest and most persistent gripe about Apple is its pricing of Configure-To-Order options. Apple’s prices for RAM and storage upgrades have been a serious obstacle to buying in my world. A reduction here is both welcome and appropriate.
    entropyssandordysamorialarz2112doozydozenmuthuk_vanalingamwatto_cobra

  • Apple may switch butterfly keyboard for scissor version in MacBook Air

    lorin schultzlorin schultz
    AppleExposed said:
    avon b7 said:
    avon b7 said:
    avon b7 said:
    lkrupp said:
    wozwoz said:
    This article makes no sense. If the scissor keyboard is better, then Apple would adopt it on the MacBook Pro first - not as a minor change to only the Macbook Air. The article goes on to say that the scissor keyboard is much cheaper to produce, and since the MacBook Air is the cheapest notebook that Apple makes, if Apple is in fact intending such change ... that the change is entirely about saving some production costs on a low-cost machine, leaving the more expensive Butterfly design for the Pro models. 

    I quite like the new Butterfly design - it takes a little getting used to, my error rate is a little higher until I adapt from my desktop keyboard, but after a bit, it can be very fast and nice to use.
    Tech blog forums exist in their own little universes. What is declared useless and unusable by tech blog forums is often quite popular in the real world. For example, tech blog forums declared that a round face on a smartwatch was the ONLY proper design. Android watches had round faces so they were declared superior to the Watch. Only that didn’t happen in the real world did it. The Watch now completely dominates the smartwatch market. In tech blog forums all it takes is a single criticism to declare the entire design faulty, the “pile on” and “me too” paradigm.
    Don't round faces dominate the smartwatch segment?

    I thought Apple's rectangular offering had less than a third of the market. The biggest problem seems to be that people haven't come round to non-round faces just yet. So much so that there were even rumours here the other day about Apple Watch sales falling well below internal expectations.
    What’s your source for this? 

    Certainly not Apple.

    Why on earth would I turn to Apple for the answer? 

    Of course not! 

    What is strange is that I provided a link to where the information probably came from so you know it wasn't Apple.


    Because Apple is the only one who has the answer.


    Here is the original question again:

    "Don't round faces dominate the smartwatch segment?"

    To which Rogifan asked for a source.

    I gave one.

    The off topic point basically ended there, but...

    You chime in with the source certainly wasn't Apple.

    I asked why the source would be Apple.

    You reply with 'because Apple is the only one who has the answer'.

    I'm going to leave things as they are because there is no point taking things further and It is not butterfly keyboard related.





    "So much so that there were even rumours here the other day about Apple Watch sales falling well below internal expectations."

    Only Apple knows sales numbers. Other companies hide sales numbers. Sometimes Apple will reveal numbers during earnings calls. Apple numbers are official. 
    I didn’t understand the point you we’re making, but now I see that’s because you’re answering a question Avon didn’t ask and not answering the one he did. With due respect, I found your argument really difficult to follow. 
    gatorguychemengin1