davidmalcolm

Who isn't using bluetooth headphones these days? And also Samsung your phones explode when people use fast chargers, go figure that Apple didn't want to kill their batteries faster! Also the iPhone X's camera is fantastic, and normal people don't know who DxO Mark is, and I don't think you're going to get anything more than a subjectively better picture out of the S9 ... which is still running slower than an iPhone 7.

I'm looking forward to my new 13 inch. But I'd really love for them to focus on having the fastest computer possible in the pro lines rather than the thinnest. I"m a pretty fat person, yet I manage to be professional. I'd gladly take a laptop that's as thick as the 2011 MacBooks if it'll be faster. Bonus if they give me back expandable RAM and a removable SSD!

Bwhahaha! My two Thunderbolt Monitors shall relish their new companion! That said I'm still pissed off that Apple didn't release a magsafe and thunderbolt 2 to thunderbolt 3 adapter!

I hope for the next one they get rid of the mandatory touch bar. I just want FN keys since I touch type. There's no point in putting. a screen where I'm not looking. (Also I don't want to pay for the price of an Apple Watch for something I'm not gonna use) I'd be much happier if they put FaceID on the Mac, though I'd be fine with just having touch ID by itself. Also if you want to experiment with allowing direct input to a screen on a Mac, let's nuke the touch ID and instead let's let the display flip all the way back (like the windows 2 in 1s and let me draw on the screen with the Apple Pencil! You get rid of all the complaints about how macOS isn't designed for fingers by not allowing fingers. And you allow professionals to get work done with a stylus!

So I had three grand Canadian saved in a savings account plus another thousand in my checking to cover any must have upgrades I was ready to pull the trigger on a new MacBook Pro, I was even entertaining the idea of a 15 inch Pro because by the time you factor in upping the RAM and processor and SSD you're actually pretty well at the entry level point for the 15 inch anyway. I was all set as soon as they introduced the new Macs with coffee lake processors, the ones with more cores than I have now, the ones that would be able to run all the apps I use like butter, the ones that would be the first major improvement from Intel since the Sandybridge chips, one of which is in my MacBook Pro! And ... nothing. NOTHING! I took two grand of that savings and threw it on my student loans as my own personal middle finger to Apple (Which isn't to say I can't just put it on my line of credit if they announce it next week). The problem for me is that my Mac won't run Mojave, and I get that the GPU in it can't do the fancy Metal stuff that they're probably integrating into the window server or whatever. But I have to ask what's the hold up with the new MacBook Pros? When Apple first switched to Intel they were getting early access to chips. Now Intel releases something and Apple will get around to it in six months? If something is out and available and an improvement, I want Apple to be using it because if I get a new Mac I'm not paying a reduced rate if I'm using old tech. If my laptop gets stolen or something, I don't want to know that I'm paying the price that it'll be when the chip that's already out is finally included but that Apple is waiting until they feel like it to release a new computer. Now I get that they probably make even more on the sale of any computers when the hardware inside is a bit out dated. But come on, the Mac isn't even a big business compared to the iPhone. If it'll help them release new stuff in time I'd be fine with them essentially just using Intel reference hardware in a unibody case with a nice display so long as it runs macOS. I don't CARE if it's the thinnest laptop on the planet, to be honest I'd rather it wasn't. The new keyboards don't feel as nice as the old ones. I'd gladly pay for a Mac that looks exactly like my 2011 MacBook Pro if it came with a high res screen and current gen processor (heck I'd be over the moon if the SSD and RAM were upgradable!) I just want a computer that is using current gen tech. I don't mind paying stupid amounts, (Correction the Canadian dollar sucks and Apple's been upping the price of the MacBook Pro to insane levels, but I'll pay it!) so long as when I buy I'm buying the best that Apple can give me, not the best that they're lazily getting around to. If you need to hire more hardware engineers, do it! They say they don't have enough key people around, fine, hire in some new people. Let them know that they don't get to make new prototypes or try out crazy design ideas. Their whole job is to figure out what is necessary to keep a computer that looks exactly like the one before it running with whatever the new hardware is inside. Put these teams in charge of the Mac mini, put them in charge of the MacBook Pro. Heck come out with a new product, call it MacBook Not Our Flagship and just put out whatever new stuff is available EVEN if the computer has to be more than an inch thick! Just let me use a powerful computer that runs macOS that can't be beaten by a Hackintosh built at the same time!