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Report: Apple To Unveil New Macs At An October 27th Event In Cupertino (recode.net)
According to Recode's sources, Apple's updated Macs will be unveiled at an event in Cupertino on October 27th. Recode reports: The move had been long expected, given that the company released MacOS Sierra last month but had yet to introduce any new computer models sporting the software. It also comes just in time for Apple to have the new products on sale for the full holiday season. Apple has gone a long time without making significant changes to any of its Mac models, with most experts encouraging customers to hold off all but essential new purchases until the lineup was updated. Tops among the rumors have been reports that Apple will introduce a new MacBook Pro sporting a row of customizable touchscreen keys. The Mac event is expected to take place at or near Apple's Cupertino campus rather than in San Francisco, where the company held many recent events, including the iPhone 7 announcement.
With PCI slots room for multiple video cards and several hard drive bays. You know, a proper workstation.
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When?????
Yeah, because nothing says "consistent" UI like a bank of completely customizable keys.
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On one hand, I'll miss it.
On the other hand, Apple can't make a cable to save its life and I'd much rather swap out a male-male USB-C cable when it inevitably begins fraying instead of having to buy a whole new power supply.
About Fucking Time. Typed from my new Dell XPS 15.
I've tried using MacBooks, but they always had issues for me, so I go with (not necessarily new) Thinkpads for the road, but I mostly use my desktops anyway, and that's where I have a Mac Pro and a Mac Mini, which are pretty solid machines. Granted, the Mac Pro was too expensive, if my job did not pay for it I had calculated that I would have built it for less than half the price, but if you're not on a budget it is a good machine.
So, whenever there was new hardware introduced, specifically Mac Pro and Mac Mini I followed it, and if there was a good feature / speed increased introduced I would perhaps go for it (happened once with the Pro, twice with the Mini). But in 2013, it happened. They took their only "classic" workstation with multiple drive bays (I have 2 ssds and 3 hds right now), dual CPUs, PCI slots etc and "transformed" it into a cool looking yet useless to me cylinder.
Then with the Mac Mini, first they took away the option of getting any graphics other than Intel, then in 2014 they soldered the RAM and took away the option for a quad core!!!
So I dread the new announcements, perhaps a new Mac Mini single core. Or with an iPhone cpu... And a Mac Pro that is a cool black sphere... but you can't open it at all for stuff like adding RAM etc.
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Hopefully its not the same old mac with a row of e-ink enabled function keys. There hasn't been anything "pro" about the macbook pro line in just about forever.
I don't know why people continue to buy their stuff.
I buy it because I need a Unix-based OS which just works. As a grad student and postdoc I used Linux for everything but as a faculty member I no longer have time to poke around getting it to work properly on the desktop plus I need access to commercial programs for various things (again partly as a result of not having the time to make OpenSource packages do what I need).
That being said the recent trend with Apple is just getting ridiculous. They are selling a MacPro that is 3 years old; their support for GPUs both in software and hardware is bad (and I nee this for some video editing) and they seem to be more interested in some bizarre design ideal than in making a machine that makes the user's like easier.
I'm going to wait for this event to see what they come up with but if the new laptops have replaced every port with a USB-C ports "because it looks cool", except for a lightning port instead of a headphone jack then I'm going to seriously consider dumping Apple and switching to some combination of Windows and Linux on a Dell. I'm not going to buy and then carry around 42 dongles to make everything work no matter how much I like their OS.
*Finally* I will be able to customize my keyboard with an "any" key.
Let Dell or HP take over for the mac pro & servers.
That way they can keep the pro workstation scene but don't have to be tied down be thin and looks in a market where it's not a big deal and shops are willing to pay 2K-3K+ for high end tools.
Or they can let adobe make CS for linux (also the windows ver is not that bad) and let apple die in that market.
Forgive my ignorance, but what has apple got to do with Adobe not releasing a Linux version of CS, Isn't that Adobes decision?
While I would like a new MacBook Pro, it seems certain that the new ones will continue the trend of only offering SSDs which are hard to replace. My current Pro has 3TB of storage, I'll be lucky to overspend to get 1 TB out of the new one...
Mine is a 2011, and was due for replacement a year ago. I converted from Linux to Mac in '07, and am about ready to convert back. The hardest part will be replacing the iTunes files that are in m4a format. They may be DRM-free, but that doesn't mean players other than ipods can actually play them. Figure I can just buy the CD's I need, or download from Amazon MP3.
Not the most expensive mistake I've made.
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Adobe not releasing a Linux version of CS, more or less one of the final death nails for apple.
Except that whether a Linux version exists for CS or not is irrelevant for Apple, since their OS is not Linux
So nice for it to finally occur to them that their desktop lineup sales are in freefall because of their inability to refresh their products. I've been waiting to offer Macs to employees who want to use them, but there's no way I'm going to pay premium prices for ancient technology.
You wanna sell old hardware? Fine. Then price them accordingly FFS.
The term you're looking for is 'death knell'