night9hawk

avon b7 said:

rogifan_new said:

Again people vote with your wallets. Bitching on an internet message board does no good.

Oh but it does! Do you think Phil Schiller came out twice in quick succession to 'defend' these machines on a whim?

Nope. It is a direct result of the very vocal backlash these machines have provoked.

If people vote with their wallets too, Apple might even eat some humble pie and react to ease some of the unnecessary issues it has brought on itself and many of its users.

I think for me, after having used one of the new systems with the physical function keys, is that I have a rather profound sense of disappointment with the direction Apple is going with their new products. I think the majority of people look at the computer as a tool and not so much as a toy. Yet so many of the changes Apple has made lately in both hardware and software seem to fall into the "toy" category. The interface standards which use to set them apart from other software manufacturers, for example, have been completely thrown out the window. Hardware-wise I found the new MacBook Pro to be almost as hard to type on as the new MacBooks were last year plus the changes like the "instant on" feature when you open the lid of the computer is not always desirable and a somewhat radical change to the way their computers. It's not a desirable change from a support perspective either.

In the case of the SSD I've done a lot of them over the past couple of years for both myself and my customers and I've been able to keep older Apple equipment in service and save people quite a bit of money in the process. On the pro side of Apple's decision is the fact that their SSDs are faster than the off-the-shelf ones you can buy right now. And I suppose that people will handle the "fixed" amount of storage the same way they handle it on their iPhones and iPads. In my case I have a 16 GB iPhone 6 that I don't really have any problems with in terms of space because I purge the Messages log after a month and I dump the photos from it onto my iMac. Works fine for me. On the downside the fixed storage makes it all the more important to have backups of the internal drive because if something happens to the logic board in the computer then your data is gone, gone, gone. Sensible people do back up their data but a lot of people don't have any backups or they don't back up very often. 

fastasleep said:

speakingmywords said:

JessiReturns said:

bobolicious said:

...as I cling to my trusty 17" mbp... Oh how a 'portable desktop' cool running quad core retina option with 16GB+ of ram would be welcome...

I don't understand this.  I prefer the smaller screen, in fact, I'd be happy with a 13" -- if it had the GPU and preferably 32GB of RAM.  I use my laptop in two places mainly- home and work, and I have external displays there much, much larger than 17".  Hell a 4k display in the 40" range can be had for $500. 

The only time I really use the laptop screen is when traveling.  

So I don't even need it to be retina. 

We don't all have 20 year old eyes anymore. Wait till you're fifty and squinting and you want a bigger screen too.

Are you suggesting that UI elements and text are smaller on the 13" than the 15"? That may be the case only because the 13" has very slightly higher pixel density than the 15"  (227 vs 220ppi), but it's not like the 13's default point size is proportionally smaller because it's a smaller screen than the 15".

As I use my 57 year old eyes to read this on my 2012 13" MacBook Pro I would suggest to you that you get better glasses. You shouldn't generalize that all older people have trouble reading screens or need text blown up to the point the text resembles the top line of an eye chart. 

CuJoYYC said:

Why would anyone want to support a, let's just call them, less than inclusive company? Just sayin'.

Why would I want to do a litmus test of everyone and every company with whom I do business? Oh, I need to judge everyone to show how tolerant and inclusive I am!