Forum Overview :: American McGee's Honda Civic :: Maybe

[quote name="but probably not quite yet!"]Not convinced until I see a large plummet in profitability, and liquidity. Generally there's been regular doom prophecy headlines over the years looking to manipulate confidence. Brand loyalty is above build quality and service anyway, plus I don't see them exactly slouching in those areas. Art & design aren't going to stop getting those four thousand dollar air purifier looking things only to run Adobe suite etc. [quote name="It, like, runs everything from the Store fine! It just, I mean, works!"]Now the MacBook Pro is out, and it's one big "fuck you" to professional users. The amount of RAM is still 16GB, the same as three years ago. This alone would be a deal breaker for anyone using Macs for content creation, like Photoshop or movie editing, etc. (Of course, they already <a href="http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/01/video-pros-apple-needs-to-acknowledge-the-pro-industry-and-fast/">gimped Final Cut Pro</a>, so at least they're being consistent!) The only ports are USB-C, so if you have to give a business presentation on HDMI, DisplayPort, or VGA, then fuck you! If you need a modern GPU to run CAD software, deep learning, or 3D modeling, then fuck you! This thing has an embarrassingly bad AMD GPU. And then there's that keyboard. Nothing says "professional" like a keyboard with no escape key or function keys, and a tiny gimmicky touchscreen at the top. Even those crappy "multimedia" keyboards that have "email" keys on them have more dignity than this.[/quote] Does appear to be a little behind for production. I'd for sure feel bad paying the surplus for that laptop. [quote name="Cuppertino atrophied hands don't see a problem"]And to put the shit cherry on top, they made the key travel even smaller than the existing Mac keyboards, which almost doesn't seem possible. If you wanted to feel like you were typing on a iPad, this is the laptop for you.[/quote]This is accurate. Would Apple not say something similar? <i>Unified experience across our device family. Thinnest, and smallest yet for a Pro</i>. I don't know, maybe we should ask Gruber as he huffs his own farts? I imagine he'll also explain away the specs stagnation too. [quote]An Apple monitor should be a no-brainer. [...] do compatibility testing on it[/quote] I expect some insane story out of infinity loop where they were trying to create a monitor with a single port, 1ft cable and proprietary signal (requiring sign in with Apple ID). A massive amoled encased in clear stone bezel. Unfortunately it would require an entire new factory city. There simply aren't enough export free zones left in China. [/quote]