The iPhone average price increased with the introduction of the larger smartphones, as did the iPad average with the launch of the iPad Pros. "The increases, while surprising, are completely in line with the changes that Apple has been making across its other product lines. Rhoda Alexander, Director Tablet and Notebook PCs, IHS Markit Technology:Ĭost in line with Apple pricing trends. If that is true, it’s just not good and I’d argue that Apple needs to think about spinning the Macintosh off where it can flourish." It’s almost as though Apple is limiting innovation in MacOS and the Macintosh because they fear cannibalizing the iPad Pro lineup. "I almost wonder if Apple’s problem is an internal struggle on whether to push iPads over Macs. But you can’t give people who buy a $2,500 MacBook Pro the same feature set?" You can get pen support in Microsoft’s cheap little Surface 3. Watching the demo where the DJ is relying on a tiny touch strip was simply painful. My fear is it’ll be neglected for another four years again."Īpple Touch Bar demo painful to watch: "The real disappointment to me is Apple being so stubborn in not adopting touch and pen support in the MacBook Pro. "Now to be fair to Apple, a lot of people will say why not wait another three months or so for the new 7th Gen quad-core Kaby Lake CPUs rather than use a 6th gen Skylake chip? Of course, the same critics (myself included) who say that have been beating up Apple for months for saying 'why haven’t you updated the MacBook Pro in years?' so what can Apple do? Hopefully they actually upgrade the lineup though. ( Note that Lisa Gade at echoed some of these concerns in her review of the base unit.**) Forget about ever upgrading that drive in four years if that’s true."*
I’m also not happy with what looks like soldered down SSDs in the new lineup. why not give users more performance too? Having no configurations with more than 16GB of RAM is also not good for professionals who are some of the folks who really can use 32GB or more in a laptop. Thin doesn’t really get you much when you can’t get the weight down and at 4 lbs. "I’m disappointed Apple is embracing thin over pure performance which I think users of the MacBook Pro 15 want and need.
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