Apple Event 2016-10-27 -- New Macs finally

[quikah]

The base 13-inch MBP is in stores right now... I've used it twice
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ah, I was looking for the touch bar, don't understand why they don't have these in store yet.

 

[Tyranicus]

ah, I was looking for the touch bar, don't understand why they don't have these in store yet.

The touch bar model isn't out yet.

 

[quikah]

The touch bar model isn't out yet.

You can order it today. Put a demo model out to try. Not that hard. So what, I need to wait a month to try one of these things?

 

[Eug]

Hopefully that 12" Kaby Lake MacBook Retina really does come out in 6 months. I need it.

I'm on a business trip and have some video files with me to pass the time. For 1080p HEVC h.265 my MacBook Pro P8400 is completely unusable. My iPhone 7 Plus works but will throttle after about 20 mins with CPU based software payback. Phone gets noticeably warm and playback stutters when it is that warm. It works fine after it cools down but obviously that is a big pain to watch a video that way, pausing for a cool down break every so often.

I wonder how well the 12" MacBook would play these in software. Would it throttle too? And if so, would that throttling be enough to make the video stutter? Hardware playback would be perfect though.

 

[Kazukian]

LOL, I think social media has made life much more complicated for manufacturers.

Apple has done this kind of thing forever, but the drama seems to increase every year.

 

[Anubis]

I think a lot of that depends on what you mean by serious professional. Are we just talking about programmers here? Graphics artists? IT admins? I couldn't use a Mac for my job if I wanted to. I don't think I know anybody even remotely close to my field that could. Well, I suppose I could just run Windows on it, but in general a Mac still would be an odd fit at best. I bought a Mac for home mainly because I wanted to see what it was all about and I like trying new things. I have never done any work on it however.

Every industry has their tools I suppose. For the type of engineering work I do, it is a Windows world or nothing.

same for me, his comment may be true for some segment of the world but everyone i know is on a windows based platform at their job save the 1 person i know who makes IOS apps. all the visual people i know went back to PC when the Pro Trashcan came out and they Fed up final cut

 

[Chaotic42]

I think a lot of that depends on what you mean by serious professional. Are we just talking about programmers here? Graphics artists? IT admins? I couldn't use a Mac for my job if I wanted to. I don't think I know anybody even remotely close to my field that could. Well, I suppose I could just run Windows on it, but in general a Mac still would be an odd fit at best. I bought a Mac for home mainly because I wanted to see what it was all about and I like trying new things. I have never done any work on it however.

Every industry has their tools I suppose. For the type of engineering work I do, it is a Windows world or nothing.

Yep. I worked in an office where folks could choose a Mac or Windows system. The vast majority were tied to Windows because of the software and/or hardware required. Basically the admin had a Mac and all of the engineers used Windows. Many of the scientists used Linux.

I'm in the same boat now, there's no way I could use anything besides Windows. If folks really demanded Mac support, software developers would provide it, but Apple seems almost hostile towards their professional userbase. I don't think there's any good reason for these companies to port things like ArcGIS to the Mac, and that's a shame.