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rogifan_new said:

John Gruber posted a link to a <a href="http://mjtsai.com/blog/2016/10/27/new-macbook-pros-and-the-state-of-the-mac/">blog</a> by Michael Tsai (not exactly sure who that is). Gruber says he can't remember an Apple event that had such negative reaction from the Mac community. I can understand being upset about the state of the Mac Pro but I don't get the venom directed towards the MacBook Pro. It's a better machine in pretty much every way. This whole temper tantrum over 32GB RAM. I could maybe understand it if it was something Apple previously had but now took away. But that's not the case. There were absolutely no rumors that these new MacBook Pro's would even offer that option. And people are losing their minds yet they haven't spent one minute with these machines nor have there been any reviews.

Frankly I think it's ridiculous and seems a bit like herd mentality sort of like when Marco Arment posted that article about Apple's software using a clickbait headline and then everyone in the tech community was freaking out over Apple's software. Now Phil Schiller responds to why there isn't a 32GB option for the MBP and everyone in the tech world loses their mind. Ridiculous.

That's a very long list of disgruntled and unhappy potential customers and it shows that Apple is not in touch with what it's current user base wants. If you look at the comments there are a litany of issues there, not just about the amount of RAM. Everything from the reality that these units have gone up in price for the same spec, to the failure to update the rest of the Mac line up with modern chips, to the fact that to use ANY peripheral you now need a bag of expensive dongles. It's obvious that there is a lot of pent up frustration at how Apple is managing the Mac product line and not listening to their customers. My own take on it is that Apple is so enamored with it's iOS devices and the dictats of Johnny Ive that no one is standing up and saying what needs to be said. Pretty sad but also pretty true when you look at the reality. Yes, please make a thin, light laptop but why not make a bigger unit that includes backwards compatibility but allows the use of more RAM, bigger battery, etc so that the end users can decide which one they want to use and what is more important for them. If Apple is convinced that the MB Pro is so good what is the harm in creating some differentiation?