bwik

They should establish a special Apple China, to keep pace with the country's lower standards and mandatory criminal conduct.  

They should then make clear to the rest of world that Apple China in no way reflects Apple Inc's values or practices.

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. 

I appreciate your conversation.  My style is not your style.  It sounds like my style is far less expensive and more efficient.  I bought my MBP in 2010 for $1100.  Today it has 8GB/1TB, 2.4 ghz core 2 duo.  Still my main Apple machine.  I also have a 16GB iMac from 2009.  Yes, it's not a gamer king rig.  I am also not a Final Cut movie editor.  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.

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.

I would pay money for Apple to stay out of my music collection.  Just show me my music.  I bought you.  You should do what I say.

Take a look at Apples new Duet(™) extended video advertisement.

Multicolored, yet lonely looking models people between the ages of 22 and 26 are shown doing a very narrow range of artistic activities with their computers all over the world.  The high income, twentysomething, stylish ghettoization of Apple use cases was disturbing to see.  No one appeared to have a family.  There WAS a visibly wrinkly but incredbly stylish older man was shown halfway through the ad, apparently still to comprehend basic tasks.  But this was clearly a (recent) modification to the Apple Look we have all known for the past 15 or so years.

i think Apple has work to do.  Unattractive, unpretentious people and low income people do use Apple products.  People without a college education:  not everyone is a high income, fashionable cultural artisan in a major city.

Age is a basic EEOC sanity check vis a vis illegal extremes in corporate culture.  I applaud them for looking into it.