New Macbook pro announced with new dimensions

[DrMacintosh]

Just now, Vitamanic said:

Do you not have any retort to the other points i made?

There is no retort to the comments you made. My initial comments speak for themselves regardless of any rebuttal. 

 

1 minute ago, Vitamanic said:

In what way?

I asked you to find a cheaper laptop than a 16" MacBook Pro with a similar package. That means a laptop with comparable specifications, display, battery life, speakers, and track-pad/keyboard. You did not do that. 

[Zodiark1593]

17 hours ago, mr moose said:

But we have been told ad nauseum that expansion hubs are not a problem and make life easier. 

 

Seriously with everything that has happened in the last several years with apple products I don't know how any rational person can promote  their products.  About the only thing going for them is the perceived security/privacy stance they have. 

Well, those massively powerful CPU cores that keep pace with my Haswell desktop are extremely appealing as well. In decoding AV1, A12X is pretty well tied with Haswell, and that's with the latter using AVX2.

 

The marketing and executives may have a screw or three loose, a fair number of their engineers (particularly the SoC engineers) knows full well what they're doing.

 

In case anyone gets the idea to shoot this down due to "no one needs that power in their pocket", I'd like to reply with " I'm a hardware nerd, this kind of stuff is neat to me."

[Drak3]

29 minutes ago, DrMacintosh said:

Syncing is wireless and iCloud and AirDrop handles all file sharing.

Yeah, neither of these things are overly reliable.

[Roswell]

1 minute ago, DrMacintosh said:

There is no retort to the comments you made. My initial comments speak for themselves regardless of any rebuttal. 

 

I asked you to find a cheaper laptop than a 16" MacBook Pro with a similar package. That means a laptop with comparable specifications, display, battery life, speakers, and track-pad/keyboard. You did not do that. 

Yeah I'm pretty sure I have comparable specs aside from the display, which... I could have opted for a 4K panel but chose FHD with HDR instead. Absolutely positive the keyboard is of higher quality as I've used both. The travel distance is insanely better.

 

Either way, when you're resorting to talking about touchpads and speakers to justify 4x the cost, you're really pulling at straws.

[mr moose]

5 minutes ago, Zodiark1593 said:

Well, those massively powerful CPU cores that keep pace with my Haswell desktop are extremely appealing as well. In decoding AV1, A12X is pretty well tied with Haswell, and that's with the latter using AVX2.

 

The marketing and executives may have a screw or three loose, a fair number of their engineers (particularly the SoC engineers) knows full well what they're doing.

 

In case anyone gets the idea to shoot this down due to "no one needs that power in their pocket", I'd like to reply with " I'm a hardware nerd, this kind of stuff is neat to me."

I'm not too sure how that relates to what I said.    My comments are regarding the macbooks throttling because of power thermal design, butterfly switches and apples atrocious track record on consumer support (acknowledging problems, making parts available let alone making repairs possible, willingness to repair etc.)

[DrMacintosh]

Just now, Vitamanic said:

Yeah I'm pretty sure I have comparable specs aside from the display

So are you suggesting that a Core i9 and the Radeon Pro 5500M to what you selected? I think not. 

[Zodiark1593]

1 minute ago, mr moose said:

I'm not too sure how that relates to what I said.    My comments are regarding the macbooks throttling because of power thermal design, butterfly switches and apples atrocious track record on consumer support (acknowledging problems, making parts available let alone making repairs possible, willingness to repair etc.)

Figured you were referring to Apple products in general, not necessarily just Macs.

[mr moose]

1 minute ago, Zodiark1593 said:

Figured you were referring to Apple products in general, not necessarily just Macs.

I was.  I am not saying the individual parts are no good,  just the overall design and asking price and failure to support the consumer post sale.

[Roswell]

5 minutes ago, DrMacintosh said:

So are you suggesting that a Core i9 and the Radeon Pro 5500M to what you selected? I think not. 

When did I ever bring up an i9?! You're moving goalposts. YOU replied to ME speaking about my recent purchase and how speccing out a similar Mac was way more expensive.

 

That said, the 16 inch i7 model with 1TB of storage is 2,600. So... No, I didn't feel that MacOS was worth a nearly $2,000 premium. I just virtualize it with hardware acceleration now if need be, which to be honest, is getting pretty rare with my workflow now.

[DrMacintosh]

5 minutes ago, Vitamanic said:

When did I ever bring up an i9?! You're moving goalposts. YOU replied to ME speaking about my recent purchase and how speccing out a similar Mac was way more expensive.

I specifically stated a high end 16" MacBook Pro

 

48 minutes ago, DrMacintosh said:

I would like you to take a look at the cost of a high end 16" MBP and try to get a similar package for less cash.

You have not done that!

[leadeater]

I think as a news topic this has run it's course, locked.