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Apple Announces a Mac Event On October 27, Says 'Hello Again'
Apple announced on Wednesday that it will be holding an event on October 27. The tagline of the invite is, "hello again." This suggests that the rumors are true and that the company will indeed announce a fleet of new Mac products. The original Mac was introduced with the word "hello" in 1984. People have waited for years now for Apple to refresh its Macbooks -- some of the products in Mac line haven't received an update in 1000 days. Many expert even said earlier that Apple should stop selling the old MacBooks. The new MacBooks are expected to ship with Intel Skylake processor and a contextual keyboard. Not long ago, the company was also exploring the idea of a MacBook without a 3.5mm audio jack.
.. news at 11!
I have no idea what they will really release, but I'm pretty sure many Slashdot posters (who would never buy Apple hardware anyway) will hate whatever they change, and I'll have to explain to them all what Apple is thinking... sigh.
Thus is the internet.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
mac os now locked down to IOS levels and app store only.
It's soooooo cute how people believe Apple is actually going to release new Macs!
My feelings/fear is that they'll just give up on the desktop versions and go strictly laptops.
Hello,
and,
Goodbye.
They're thinking about dropping the headphone jack. Maybe the new MacBook will be waterproof.
Combined with the new campus, Apple is now teletubbyland, with computers only a noo noo would use.
I believe the subtitle will be, "If you like your ports you can keep your ports." Then they'll lie to you and take away the standard USB ports.
I have got myself a Dell XPS 13 Dev Ed after my MacBook Pro dGPU crapped out. Sick and tired of fighting mountains of new bugs that come with every new mac OS and dealing with bags of dongles.
These machines are marketed to, and used by, "pro" users, and built-in audio on ANY computer is not used by anyone serious about audio work.
Perhaps you are unaware but there are some professionals who are not serious about audio work and who still use the audio for things like video conferencing and who would like to have some privacy or avoid disturbing others while doing so. A headphone is rather essential for that and no a wireless thing which has to be kept charged and only lasts for a few hours is NOT a suitable replacement. Having to miss a meeting because you forgot to keep yet another device charged is anything but professional.
Last I heard USB-C was a standard USB port.
Perhaps you are unaware
of USB headphones for video conferencing?
... and still, FUCK YOU.
The company is still every bit as self absorbed as it was before.
Your thoughts don't count.
I hate laptops. I have a monitor, keyboard mouse everywhere I need to work so I tote my mac-mini around. It has always been under powered and unexpandible however the form factor and durability of this machine is nice and wins out for doing actual work. Doubles as a means to stream/play movies. When it wears out no worries, I can get peripherals anywhere. Hope they continue to support it...
NAWBO (https://www.nawbo.org/) is the reason Apple's products are becoming dysfunctional, "Rube Goldberg-esque" junk. Seriously, NAWBO is by-and-large the absolute biggest bunch of brain-dead bitches there is; their mental processes (if they have any) are completely illogical and back-asswards, typical of human females. For example, have a look at the following links:
http://lfb.org/how-government-wrecked-the-gas-can/
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/6/1342736/-Has-anyone-purchased-a-new-gas-can-lately
http://www.toolsofthetrade.net/trucks-equipment/gas-cans-that-actually-work_o
NAWBO was behind that gas can debacle (NAWBO assimilated the EPA a long time ago), and that's not even the tip of the iceberg of the problems (including product usability problems) that they've created. NAWBO is behind most of the unbelievably stupid shit that the US government has shat onto the general public. NAWBO is Satan itself.
... I would actually be expecting something pretty amazing right now.
The "Pro. Go. Whoa." tagline of the introduction of the original (Bondi Blue) iMac was something that was actually pretty astonishing and well worth the -- rather low-key, in retrospect -- hype going into it. The iMac itself was advertised displaying the infamous 1984 "hello" image on its front:
http://lowendmac.com/wp-content/uploads/hello-again-imac.jpg via
http://lowendmac.com/1998/1998-good-bye-newton-hello-os-8-1-wallstreet-and-imac/
Since we don't have Jobs around any more, I'm not really sure what to expect. New form factors, perhaps, but it's weird to think of Apple caring much about its Mac line nowadays.
Whatever it is, it better be good.
Hire a Linux system administrator, systems engineer,
Cant we move -forward-? reminds me of "Captain Queeg: Ahh, but the strawberries that's... that's where I had them. They laughed at me and made jokes but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt and with... geometric logic... that a duplicate key to the wardroom icebox DID exist, and I'd have produced that key if they hadn't of pulled the Caine out of action. I, I, I know now they were only trying to protect some fellow officers... "
Do you remember the good old times of college, when on an old dumb VT100 terminals everything you got was a simple "hello, world!" printed on green phosphors ?
Now Apple Inc. is proud to introduce iVT100, the new way to access your mainframe. "Hello again, world!"
I hope the announce the death of that annoying default calendar reminder sound.
with Adele.
Well, we won't have all the things we have now in the future. I remember when audio cassettes gave way to hard drives, when 5"1/4 floppies gave way to 3.5" ones and then later to cd's cd-r's and then dvds and blue ray.
Serial ports gave way to USB which is giving way to thunderbolt and maybe the lighting adapter. It wasn't even five years ago that borrowing someone's charger meant you had to have the same manufacturer of cell phone. Nobody complained about the standardization of micro USB when it happened and it drove the market.
Apple is a business. They make what the majority of their customers will buy, and they charge what they can get for it. Are there a lot of pro users out there? Sure. But how many of them are there compared to teenybopper kids who have to have a new iPhone every 10 months and who don't respect their equipment because phone carriers have spent the last decade telling them with a contract their phones cost a nickel?
That's why things are the way they are. Millennials not taking care of the stuff they own because they never had to work for it, bending and breaking their cases and screens and driving a repair industry. As long as that's where the money is, why wouldn't Apple take it?
Now, as for macs and MacBooks, Apple makes it easy to submit feedback for what you want, how many submit it? Probably very few compared to the people who complain the day before a press release.