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by blackwater 11/27/2016, 12:18pm PST |
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Maybe it's just the Hacker News filter bubble, but I keep hearing a steady drumbeat of news about Apple exiting one market after another. Supposedly, they just killed their wireless router, the AirPort.. A little while ago they killed their Apple monitors.
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 gimped Final Cut Pro, 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. 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.
But wait. Blackwater, you say, you're not being FAIR. Laptops are for MOBILE WORK. You should use your DESKTOP for things that require a GPU or more than 16 GB of RAM.
Well... the last powerful desktop computer Apple made was released in 2012..
It's just baffling to me that Apple is exiting so many markets at once. There is so little work required for them to keep this stuff running, in most cases. In the case of the Mac Pro, all they have to do is take the old product, and put a faster CPU and more memory in it. That's all they have to do! They couldn't get some junior-level supply chain guy from Dell to go replace part X with part Y so that they could issue a 2016 refresh? An Apple monitor should be a no-brainer. Just get a mid or high-level monitor, do compatibility testing on it, and then slap an Apple logo on it. It's like they don't want to take people's money. |
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Is it time to put Apple Computer on suicide watch? by blackwater 11/27/2016, 12:18pm PST 
Maybe by but probably not quite yet! 11/27/2016, 1:35pm PST
They're in their 90s IBM phase by skip 11/27/2016, 3:15pm PST
Re: Is it time to put Apple Computer on suicide watch? by E. L. Koba 11/28/2016, 4:40pm PST
Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition, select Ubuntu preinstall by Entropy Stew 12/01/2016, 7:46pm PST
Re: Is it time to put Apple Computer on suicide watch? by bisekrankas 01/16/2018, 4:01am PST
Apple just repeating one of DEC's old tricks from the 1970s by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 06/05/2018, 1:53am PDT
I am hoping the good shit comes out next year by Entropy Stew 12/01/2016, 7:47pm PST
2017 was a terrible year for Apple. by blackwater 01/15/2018, 11:15pm PST
wHatS a cOmPUtEr???? NT by Judge Barry 01/16/2018, 10:59am PST
Their CEO is a lunatic by Mysterio Lollerson 01/16/2018, 11:00am PST
"I've only had good years" -- Tim Cook by Mysterio Lollerson 02/21/2018, 9:16am PST
2018 isn't looking much better by skip 01/17/2018, 3:49pm PST
Apple rolls out eGPUs, but sort of in a half-assed way by blackwater 04/15/2018, 9:42am PDT
It's a long way from the motherboard bus to an external GPU. NT by Have they fixed that? 04/15/2018, 2:27pm PDT
Why bother given the limitations, and lack of games by DireTirefire 04/15/2018, 2:53pm PDT
They’ve turned the GPU... into a dongle =( NT by Tim Cook <3 dongles 04/15/2018, 11:36pm PDT
Laptop update by Entropy Stew 09/24/2018, 4:24pm PDT
You can't justify a MBP anymore. They went full retard on the MBP by Motherhead 09/24/2018, 6:47pm PDT
He just the die-hard professional Apple-loving core die on the vine NT by Entropy Stew 09/25/2018, 10:46am PDT
Yep, can't into computer. NT by Motherhead 09/25/2018, 11:51am PDT
Apple deprecates OpenGL and OpenCL by blackwater 06/04/2018, 8:59pm PDT
Suicide watch? Apple has 5 billion in cash in the bank NT by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 06/07/2018, 9:30pm PDT
Apple stops making the iPhone SE by blackwater 09/15/2018, 3:24pm PDT
This also means they no longer make a phone with a headphone jack. NT by Fullofkittens 09/16/2018, 9:24am PDT
I hate Bluetooth, so I gotta ask. by Mysterio Lollerson 09/16/2018, 9:34am PDT
I am told that the experience of using those things is "better than expected." by Fullofkittens 09/16/2018, 10:56am PDT
Chiming in here by Ice Cream Jonsey 09/16/2018, 11:06am PDT
Remember "it just works"? by Just Barely 09/16/2018, 1:41pm PDT
I have a Bluetooth headset, but I don't use it most of the time. by blackwater 09/21/2018, 3:14pm PDT
Re: I hate Bluetooth, so I gotta ask. by CattleHumper 09/19/2018, 1:58pm PDT
This is my experience as well but I was unwilling to be the board apple defender by Motherhead 09/19/2018, 2:12pm PDT
Not having to hold a button down to connect is huge, makes a lot of sense. NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 09/19/2018, 7:33pm PDT
Apple cracks down on indie repair shops. by blackwater 10/05/2018, 12:28pm PDT
Re: Is it time to put Apple Computer on suicide watch? by Ice Cream Jonsey 10/11/2018, 8:18pm PDT
Some simple organisms shit and eat through the same hole. by Tim Cook 10/14/2018, 3:27pm PDT
Mac transhumanist nods furiously while eating shit NT by J Gruber 10/14/2018, 10:39pm PDT
Well, the dumb shits put the Escape key back on their laptops. by I've Only Had Good Years 11/15/2019, 8:28am PST
Never apologize to the neeeeeerds by blackwater 11/15/2019, 9:29pm PST
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