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jm6032 said:

macxpress said:

SpamSandwich said:

This is Pro?

I didn't know Pro meant removable storage? I wonder how many times someone has actually changed their storage later on?

Yes, for us it most certainly does. 5 Macs here. All but the 2015 iMac have had at least one HD upgrade. All have had memory upgrades. I'm not talking about HD failures, I'm talking about the need to add more capacity.

same here.

30 Macs in the office, all of them have been upgraded from HDD to SSD for both speed & space.
Even the circa 2006 20" iMacs have been upgraded to SSD, and are quite capable.

paxman said:

torusoft said:

Apple has opaquely, and with a heavy dose of market-speak, pivoted away from professional workflows.  The MacBook Pro is 'Pro' in name only.  The company is abandoning professionals so it can chase money.  Some have argued that Apple has no idea who the MacBook Pro is for.  I argue they know exactly who it is for: general purpose users with cash to burn.  Apple is abandoning the people who have driven and defined what a Mac is for decades.  The marketing and sales people are in control and they're letting Jonny Ive pursue his fetish obsession with thinness at the expense of performance: https://torusoft.com/blog/preemptive-multi-talking-E22

I think your definition of 'pro' is likely too narrow. 

its the definition of an Apple pro user from the 80s 90s and 00s.
Apple is now a consumer-driven corporation.

Rayz2016 said:

blastdoor said:

Well, there's a lot of pent-up demand because they haven't updated for so long. 

Let's see how the sales look after 6 months. 

But if this thing is as bad as people have been saying it is, then no one would buy it. They'll wait for the next one, or move to Windows as folk here have said they would. I mean if you cannot POSSIBLY work in anything less than 32GB of RAM then the machine is useless to you. 

I suspect the real reason is that Apple knows more about its customers than we do. 

yes. Apple's customers are now consumers.


through the 90s and early 00s, i think us professional Apple users were used to being catered to, 68k to PPC to Intel all happened for great reasons & we knew it benefited us.
Now the same group of professionals has been completed overshadowed by the mass market that Apple has come to signify.

dacloo said:

I think it's a great machine, but I'm disappointed the SD card has been axed, which is so useful to have integrated in a professional notebook. All these fucking dongles.

when i picked up a non-retina display 13" macbook pro from the Apple store two weeks ago, they asked if i needed them to set it up, i said no thank you - i need to swap the 2.5" HDD for a 2 TB SSD first.

they said "why would you do that? just use an external drive?"



I can already get a 4 TB 2.5" SSD for the same 13"
why oh why did it take this long for Apple to have a BTO for internal 2 TB, and why oh why are they limiting it to the 15"?!?!


Photographers and videographers need storage, and external expansion is fine in the office, but on the road (ie portable) i want it internal.

bdkennedy said:

$25. No thanks.

i paid $25 for the app, and will gladly pay $25 more when the alpha-DVR-solution is finally released.

$50 would put it as the same price as SageTV when i originally bought it to cut the cable cord back in 2006.
$50 for a decade of use, and no cable bill.

If Channels can duplicate this, and the quality of product stays where it is at, it is a very reasonable price.

...i have been all ATSC HD broadcasts, using a 40 year old antenna that was already mounted on the roof of my row home, for the past ten years. a one time investment of less than 1/2 a monthly cable bill is, frankly, dirt cheap.