Apple engineer talking about the new Macbook

[SAWYER]

https://youtu.be/KHZ8ek-6ccc

Pretty insightful

 

[Rakehellion]

Is this a meme now?

 

[purbeast0]

perfectly fitting: http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2424112

 

[CraKaJaX]

TL;DW

 

[phucheneh]

When I hear 'Apple engineer' I picture a child slamming some Fisher Price blocks together.

They literally have no job. 'Hey, that thing that already exists? Keep making it. Good work.'

Apple is a software company.

 

[SAWYER]

Apple is not just a software company, hardware is their cash cow

 

[phucheneh]

Apple is not just a software company, hardware is their cash cow

What I meant was simply that someone doing hardware 'engineering' for them must be the most boring person on Earth.

'What if we make it look exactly like all the competition, with all the same internal components...but it's white?!'

'BRILLIANT!'

 

[Anubis]

whats the real translation of that vid?

 

[dave_the_nerd]

What I meant was simply that someone doing hardware 'engineering' for them must be the most boring person on Earth.

'What if we make it look exactly like all the competition, with all the same internal components...but it's white?!'

'BRILLIANT!'

Build a laptop that has no fan and doesn't overheat. Without violating any patents.

We'll wait.

 

[smackababy]

What I meant was simply that someone doing hardware 'engineering' for them must be the most boring person on Earth.

'What if we make it look exactly like all the competition, with all the same internal components...but it's white?!'

'BRILLIANT!'

Just like the iPhone! Oh wait...

Just like every other laptop ever! It has a screen and a keyboard? A trackpad? Omg! It's the same.

I bet it looks like a GTR too! /ATG joke

 

[Schfifty Five]

What I meant was simply that someone doing hardware 'engineering' for them must be the most boring person on Earth.

'What if we make it look exactly like all the competition, with all the same internal components...but it's white?!'

'BRILLIANT!'

So I guess you could say that for any tech company then huh?

 

[Vdubchaos]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmbwR9J6-Yw

 

[Oyeve]

Build a laptop that has no fan and doesn't overheat. Without violating any patents.

We'll wait.

Samsung did. Before apple too.

 

[DesiPower]

Build a laptop that has no fan and doesn't overheat. Without violating any patents.

We'll wait.

They are not the only company to make passive cooling laptops nor were they the first one. Apple gets around doing so by under powering the CPU, their OS is very light so it's OK. In addition, if you do something on those laptops that is CPU intensive then it does get VERY hot, so hot that its difficult to keep your hand under it.

 

[DesiPower]

Just like the iPhone! Oh wait...

Just like every other laptop ever! It has a screen and a keyboard? A trackpad? Omg! It's the same.

I bet it looks like a GTR too! /ATG joke

This thread is about macbook, not iPhail, keep up

 

[DesiPower]

So I guess you could say that for any tech company then huh?

Their hardware on the macbooks never have the latest processors and chipsets and so on... other companies do.

 

[Vdubchaos]

Apple is the pioneer of marketing.

And we all know marketing = BS

Essentially they are great at convincing people of things that are far from reality or that they need or want their product.

I say more power to them, I'm quite the opposite of their intended audience and don't see myself ever owning anything apple.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Samsung did. Before apple too.

They are not the only company to make passive cooling laptops nor were they the first one. Apple gets around doing so by under powering the CPU, their OS is very light so it's OK. In addition, if you do something on those laptops that is CPU intensive then it does get VERY hot, so hot that its difficult to keep your hand under it.

I didn't say they were first - I'm saying it's not easy to do. Those engineers - working for Apple, Samsung, or [Insert Company Here] are some pretty smart people, even if their job might only seem like it's, "oh, gee, let's make it white!"

 

[Drako]

What I meant was simply that someone doing hardware 'engineering' for them must be the most boring person on Earth.

'What if we make it look exactly like all the competition, with all the same internal components...but it's white?!'

'BRILLIANT!'

That would be a product marketing guy, not a hardware engineer.

 

[Rakehellion]

Anti-Apple circlejerk threads? On my AnandTech?

 

[Printer Bandit]

jelly much?

 

[HeXen]

Their stuff offers great user experiences where other companies often will just keep tossing product models at a wall to see which one sticks. Acer for example has 20 laptop product lines, each with multiple models for different price tiers offering a mixed bag of quality in components that often have to be tweaked for each upcoming model. Now the consumer has to research which is complete junk but still what they can afford.
Plenty of pricey laptops out there with terrible trackpads that are just tweaked versions of previous laptop models, where Apple typically tries to get just the right feel the first time...you basically know what your getting when you buy from that brand. Most other brands offer a confusing mixed bag of various product model lines that offer a mix of cheap, middle and high end components that never works out that well for a great user experience. Spend $1500 on a laptop that has a cheap run of the mill power brick that doesn't even match the color scheme of the laptop itself....yay.

Even the little things can spoil someone, like the MacBooks' magnetic power connector, I don't have to find a hole in the dark, i just get it close and it sucks it into place...if only women could do that I'd be done sooner
Compared to every other laptop I have ever used, even briefly, this 2013 MBpro I have now has been nothing but a wet dream since I got it. It's consistent throughout.

Like it or hate it, Apple's products have always been a reference that other companies both hardware and software as well as reviewers will use to create and judge their products against. That's why these topics about Apple keep coming up. You know you have a valued product when consumers debate about it constantly.
most people want top specs for cheap but there's always a concession taken somewhere, like get an i7 CPU but a cheap realtek wifi chip from 2006 or how about an audio output jack of only 12mw output instead of Apple's 50-60mw....screw the dumb shit.

Build a laptop that has no fan and doesn't overheat. Without violating any patents.

We'll wait.

Wouldn't that just be an iPad with a keyboard?

 

[Rakehellion]

Their stuff offers great user experiences where other companies often will just keep tossing product models at a wall to see which one sticks. Acer for example has 20 laptop product lines, each with multiple models for different price tiers offering a mixed bag of quality in components that often have to be tweaked for each upcoming model. Now the consumer has to research which is complete junk but still what they can afford.
Plenty of pricey laptops out there with terrible trackpads that are just tweaked versions of previous laptop models, where Apple typically tries to get just the right feel the first time...you basically know what your getting when you buy from that brand. Most other brands offer a confusing mixed bag of various product model lines that offer a mix of cheap, middle and high end components that never works out that well for a great user experience. Spend $1500 on a laptop that has a cheap run of the mill power brick that doesn't even match the color scheme of the laptop itself....yay.

Even the little things can spoil someone, like the MacBooks' magnetic power connector, I don't have to find a hole in the dark, i just get it close and it sucks it into place...if only women could do that I'd be done sooner
Compared to every other laptop I have ever used, even briefly, this 2013 MBpro I have now has been nothing but a wet dream since I got it. It's consistent throughout.

Like it or hate it, Apple's products have always been a reference that other companies both hardware and software as well as reviewers will use to create and judge their products against. That's why these topics about Apple keep coming up. You know you have a valued product when consumers debate about it constantly.
most people want top specs for cheap but there's always a concession taken somewhere, like get an i7 CPU but a cheap realtek wifi chip from 2006 or how about an audio output jack of only 12mw output instead of Apple's 50-60mw....screw the dumb shit.



Wouldn't that just be an iPad with a keyboard?

Anti-Apple nerds say things like "But the CPU is 10% slower!" while completely ignoring the thousands of other components that make up a computer.

 

[SSSnail]

Here is my take on the new MacBook - it is essentially an iPhone with larger casing, attached to a monitor and keyboard, moar battery and one usb port that will need a special adapter to work. Did I get it right?

 

[Blackjack200]

Here is my take on the new MacBook - it is essentially an iPhone with larger casing, attached to a monitor and keyboard, moar battery and one usb port that will need a special adapter to work. Did I get it right?

Aside from the fact that it runs a different OS, has 1 fewer camera, no cellular antenna, no touch screen, no fingerprint scanner, x86 processor, yeah, it's pretty much exactly the same thing.