Apple engineer talking about the new Macbook

[Dari]

Going from i5 to i7 will literally make no difference in any of those. The only thing you really need, especially for matlab, is a boatload of ram. Again though, if you've got some hardcore montecarlos or something, doing it on a laptop is idiotic in the first place.

A laptop may be "idiotic" but not everyone wants to run code on a work computer, especially if it's something you're doing on the side. However, I only pointed that out because you went from a laptop to a cloud computing platform like AWS. These dinky laptops from Apple may not do the job but there are others out there that give you ample amounts of ram, coupled with PCIE ssds and a gpu that can run with workstations.

 

[Rakehellion]

my main gripe with the new macbook isn't the lack of usb ports. i almost never use more than one at a time anyway, but what does bother me is the price. considering for the same price you can get a new force touch macbook pro it seems like a very poor deal.


who even needs a laptop to be that thin? they take all that engineering talent, and focus on a mostly irrelevant aspect of a computer; its thickness.

"They're charging $200,000 for that fire truck? As if I'll ever need to shoot water all over the place. That's so useless."

Don't buy it. It wasn't made for you.

 

[Rakehellion]

These and the Hitler videos are great since most Americans are so dumb they can't speak more than 1 language.

I only need to speak American, boy. This ain't Russia.

 

[Rakehellion]

For what? I can't think of a use case where you'd need some crazy cpu on a laptop - exactly what kind of numbers are you crunching on a laptop ( anything like that is properly done with a cluster solution - AWS, hadoop etc).

My main machine is a MacBook Pro so I need the extra power now, not after it's done uploading to the server. I also have a few powerful desktops but it's a lot less convenient moving them from one room to the next.

I like the idea of this MacBook as a pocket-sized second machine for doing work away from home, but not as a main.

 

[adairusmc]

I only need to speak American, boy. This ain't Russia.

Exactly, with our military power we should not have to learn the languages of a bunch of scrub countries, they should be speaking American.

Might makes right.

 

[cbrunny]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un62tW5pQ18

 

[Blackjack200]

I only need to speak American, boy. This ain't Russia.

Honestly. Europeans are multilingual so the next time they get conquered they can beg for mercy in the native tongue of their occupiers.

Reminds me, I'm planning a vacation in Paris in the Spring. Better brush up on my German.

 

[cbrunny]

I only need to speak American, boy. This ain't Russia.

wtf is American?

 

[Schfifty Five]

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.

Someone's mad they didn't buy into apple stock many years ago.

 

[norseamd]

wtf is American?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kAa7F71KqQ

 

[Childs]

I watched the first 20 secs or so and thought what ever happened to the Hitler versions of these videos. Then I see in the side bar a Hitler video complaining that no one used Hitler for the new Macbook. lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp1G5jfQHpA