nolamacguy

avon b7 said:

nolamacguy said:

bwik said:

This whole thing is unbelievably pedantic on Apple's part.  Virtually none of the press release is even true.  "We realize.." No, you don't.

"legacy connectors" - No, professional, necessary connectors.

"a transition" - No, Apple, you will make the transition, not others.

It is astounding that a "computer" cannot interface with USB or with a disc anymore.  I am getting old!  These are not real computers.  They should cost $300 maximum.

I have superior equipment that is older (much of it Apple).  With things like replaceable hard drives, replaceable batteries and upgradeable RAM.  I am amazed that new equipment you buy today is inferior to what I have.  My MBP has Firewire, several USB ports, optical out (which I use)... etc.  And 1TB storage.  And it was cheap!  Rawr I am old, time for my nap.

nonsense. apple skates to where the puck is going, and all the other fatasses go to where it was and complain about having to skate at all. 

i guarantee this new MBP will smoke your old crap in every meaningful performance test any day of the week. your big ass removable batteries, hard drives and ram do me absolutely NO good for completing my work. i max my machines out from Day 1 and start generating value. when they get too slow i replace them. (usually by reselling!). that's it. i've never upgraded a notebook hard drive, that's absurd. if the battery fails i drop it off with service.

these are tools, not hobby machines for tinkerers. get a raspberry pi for that. 

You seem to have more money than sense. If you max out one of these machines the vast majority of pro users would have to re-mortgage their house. How many pro users do you think can apply your tactics? And what's the point of maxing out SSD - at Apple's prices- at time of purchase if you're not going to fill it immediately? I say immediately because Apple is shipping MacBook Pros with 128GB of non upgradeable SSD. They seem to think you can get by on that just fine. Why not wait a couple of years and upgrade to better, bigger, cheaper SSD? Whoops! You can't.

Why should you have to send in your mac just to change a battery? All MBPs spend 100% of their time sat on their backsides. Nobody ever looks there. Use some small screws and let me take the bottom plate off. Make the battery user replaceable! get rid of the glue! Apple has gone too far on thinness.

"your big ass removable batteries, hard drives and ram do me absolutely NO good for completing my work"

That sentence means nothing. Are you saying that having everything sealed in DOES do you good for completing your work? Surely both scenarios are exactly the same. They would have the same benefit on your work. That said, having user upgradeable RAM, SSD and batteries does offer some advantages.

bwik said:

nolamacguy said:

bwik

nonsense. apple skates to where the puck is going, and all the other fatasses go to where it was and complain about having to skate at all. 

i guarantee this new MBP will smoke your old crap in every meaningful performance test any day of the week. your big ass removable batteries, hard drives and ram do me absolutely NO good for completing my work. i max my machines out from Day 1 and start generating value. when they get too slow i replace them. (usually by reselling!). that's it. i've never upgraded a notebook hard drive, that's absurd. if the battery fails i drop it off with service.

these are tools, not hobby machines for tinkerers. get a raspberry pi for that. 

It's not much, but here is my point for you.  A 2GB RAM / 250GB machine would suck even more.  And with today's Apple, an under-specced brick is what you will soon have., unless you want to get raped by buying a heavily-specced machine from Apple.  I understand they want $3k per computer but for me, that is excessive.  With non replaceable battery no less.  Hahahaha.

My work machines are extremely unglamorous too, because I use them for work, not to glorify my boyhood.

bwik said:

This whole thing is unbelievably pedantic on Apple's part.  Virtually none of the press release is even true.  "We realize.." No, you don't.

"legacy connectors" - No, professional, necessary connectors.

"a transition" - No, Apple, you will make the transition, not others.

It is astounding that a "computer" cannot interface with USB or with a disc anymore.  I am getting old!  These are not real computers.  They should cost $300 maximum.

I have superior equipment that is older (much of it Apple).  With things like replaceable hard drives, replaceable batteries and upgradeable RAM.  I am amazed that new equipment you buy today is inferior to what I have.  My MBP has Firewire, several USB ports, optical out (which I use)... etc.  And 1TB storage.  And it was cheap!  Rawr I am old, time for my nap.

GeorgeBMac said:

Jobs thought customer first.   Cook needs to start doing the same.   Anybody can build hardware with off the shelf components.   It takes an exceptional organization to meet the needs of its customers.