racerhomie3

Another major thing that prevents USB C adoption worldwide. It’s higher cost ,than type A. I personally prefer lightning & type a . Most Macs & WinTels in the wild are still type A. Only rich people have problems with type A & lightning. Carrying 1 extra type A cable isn’t much of an issue.

Latko said:

racerhomie3 said:

Latko said:

racerhomie3 said:

Latko said:

“Please make your own laptops or desktops or go to another brand.”
Most that invested every penny in Apple that Cook et al. can ever touch, know better than the current Board what they want in a laptop based on the state of the art.
And don’t need arrogant and spurious  instructions that are just as nonsensical as shortsighted. You don’t even have the faintest idea how many at some point will want to upgrade their measly or malfunctioning 128Gb SSD

Apple is not making commodity priced things. There are plenty of external storage options & 3rd party companies that you can get commodity priced computers from. 

Derailing someone who expects premium functionality from an over-premium priced laptop to a commodity brand is just hilarious. You don’t have a clue what you’re talking about. Contrary to what Tim Dongle and yourself seem to think, the whole concept of mobility is NOT carrying around bags with dongles, external disks, accessoiries and crap

Yeah carrying 100s of gigs of non system data on an internal drive isn’t smart either. If you want total mobility with the base storage you have iCloud storage, Google drive & other solutions as well.External hdds are the cheapest & expandable .

That’s exactly the Cookette lightweight interpretation of usage patterns of customers he otherwise qualifies as Pro’s (when it comes to pricing)
Why not derail to iPad Pro (or fully network-operated netbooks) when MacBook Pro upgradeability doesn’t work (...the typical Cupertino way to deal with crtiticism)

All criticisms shouldn’t be addressed. You become dell by doing that. Apple has reasons behind their choices. You can not like them. That’s fine too. But don’t expect Apple to make choices for the 1% elitist geeks.

Latko said:

“Please make your own laptops or desktops or go to another brand.”
Most that invested every penny in Apple that Cook et al. can ever touch, know better than the current Board what they want in a laptop based on the state of the art.
And don’t need arrogant and spurious  instructions that are just as nonsensical as shortsighted. You don’t even have the faintest idea how many at some point will want to upgrade their measly or malfunctioning 128Gb SSD

Apple is not making commodity priced things. There are plenty of external storage options & 3rd party companies that you can get commodity priced computers from. 

The elitists over in Macrumors & other tech sites are hilarious. They never stop to amuse me. Only 1-3% of Mac owners in the mid 2000s ever touched the machines' insides. The data was collected by Appleinsider. Majority of people want machines to be more integrated, as this allows for machines to be less error prone & more robust.This goes for MacBooks as well. MacBook batteries last 3-4 times longer than 2009, their motherboards have gotten more efficient, and native SSD storage is much faster. I get it some elitist geeks want to touch the insides, and move things around, but that wont happen with Apple. Please make your own laptops or desktops or go to another brand.

This is good news. After using the iPhone X & XR I can agree that LCD is best for price & longevity. The differences are negligible in quality & can mostly be seen in hdr content(which is rare as 4K).