Do you really think Apple designs its products in a vacuum?
The 'Pro' line certainly seems designed in world devoid of professionals.
I'm guessing 90% of their market are not hardcode techies but businesspeople and travelers for whom weight IS a serious concern
Very likely. And Apple dedicates no less than two lines of laptops (Macbook Air, Macbook) for users for whom weight is the primary concern. What is the point of the Macbook Pro? It certainly isn't top end. Nor is it lightweight compared to their other offerings. One gets the impression the Macbook Pro (as well as the Mac Pro) are dead computers cycling.
I am writing this on an early 2009 17 inch matte screen Macbook Pro. DIY upgrades to a 512 SSD and 8GB RAM cost about $500 total. With a refurbished battery it still gets 8 hours of charge.
What has Apple accomplished in eight years? A smaller screen that has distracting glare and reflection, removal of the best feature (Magsafe), no escape key, and a modest boost in performance.
Oh yes, its also thinner because that is the most important feature in a professional tool.
Tilde: "Yay more space for us!" Accent Grave: "Now that they evicted that deadbeat ESC, we can build that second story and get a nice view of the speakers." Caps Lock: "Both of you useless characters will do my bidding, or you're next for the 'OLED' graveyard" Tilde: "Says who? You don't manage the keyboard layout." Caps Lock: "Yeah, but I got incriminating photos of Tim Cook. How do you think I managed to stick around so long?
Christina: 'Today we are having our follow up split-screen live stream with Abu Sin in Riyahd. What up Abu!' Abu appears in the split screen. He is in the middle of a public square, his hands are bound to a pole and his shirt is removed. In the background is crowd of onlookers and a large masked man in black unrolling a whip. Abu: 'Whassup Christina Just chillin since our last stream, Yo!' Christina: 'Cool. Do you like Beyonce?' Abu: 'Totally, but my AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.... favorite is Justin Beiber.'
to construct private bunkers as a precaution against events they are elected to prevent. This is only fair, similar to placing the children of elected officials who vote for war on the front lines of those very wars.
Spending days, weeks, or months of one's life driving to and parking at crowded strip malls, scouring brick and mortar shelves, then leaving empty handed becasue the store was sold out of your item or was not available in your size, is not the apex of human experience. That time is now used to go to a concert, teach one's kids how to make a snowman, write letters to friends, volunteer, etc.. Many consider that progress.
If online shopping is too modern and 'anti-human' for you, then so too are fake earnest, impersonal, sterile, retail outlets. Perhaps bartering livestock for your next smartphone would satisfy your preference for haggling face to face.
"Freddie, we named a planet after you. The one that is cheek to cheek with a star." Freddie: "Allright!!" "We also named an element after you. Also known as 'quicksilver'" Freddie: "How fitting!" "We also named a dark dead rock next to a bunch of other dead rocks after you." Freddie: "Oh...you...shouldn't have."
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Do you really think Apple designs its products in a vacuum?
The 'Pro' line certainly seems designed in world devoid of professionals.
I'm guessing 90% of their market are not hardcode techies but businesspeople and travelers for whom weight IS a serious concern
Very likely. And Apple dedicates no less than two lines of laptops (Macbook Air, Macbook) for users for whom weight is the primary concern. What is the point of the Macbook Pro? It certainly isn't top end. Nor is it lightweight compared to their other offerings. One gets the impression the Macbook Pro (as well as the Mac Pro) are dead computers cycling.
I am writing this on an early 2009 17 inch matte screen Macbook Pro. DIY upgrades to a 512 SSD and 8GB RAM cost about $500 total. With a refurbished battery it still gets 8 hours of charge.
What has Apple accomplished in eight years? A smaller screen that has distracting glare and reflection, removal of the best feature (Magsafe), no escape key, and a modest boost in performance.
Oh yes, its also thinner because that is the most important feature in a professional tool.
Because the Macbook Pro specs are inferior to top end models from other manufacturers, we can expect the Apple laptops to be discounted appropriately.
Tilde: "Yay more space for us!"
Accent Grave: "Now that they evicted that deadbeat ESC, we can build that second story and get a nice view of the speakers."
Caps Lock: "Both of you useless characters will do my bidding, or you're next for the 'OLED' graveyard"
Tilde: "Says who? You don't manage the keyboard layout."
Caps Lock: "Yeah, but I got incriminating photos of Tim Cook. How do you think I managed to stick around so long?
On the next episode of "Beard Wars":
Presidenteloco: "Ctrl+Anything is not ergonomic."
RMS: "You're going down!!" CTRL-META-BODYSLAM
We were just returning the cylinders they lost here in War of the Worlds. C.O.D.
and have never had any security proble...Slashdot is decadent. Comrade, why not visit sunny Moscow and rub lucky chest of King Putin?
The Universe Has 20 Times More Galaxies Than We Thought
Just when I finished my bucket list.
But later versions were edited to show the door shout first.
It's worse. At least Big Brother left the proletariat alone. Big Zucker wants access to all.
I'm holding out for the next version. Rumor is it rotates about its diameter and runs longer without recharge.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
What will all the groupies do now?
Christina: 'Today we are having our follow up split-screen live stream with Abu Sin in Riyahd. What up Abu!'
Abu appears in the split screen. He is in the middle of a public square, his hands are bound to a pole and his shirt is removed. In the background is crowd of onlookers and a large masked man in black unrolling a whip.
Abu: 'Whassup Christina Just chillin since our last stream, Yo!'
Christina: 'Cool. Do you like Beyonce?'
Abu: 'Totally, but my AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.... favorite is Justin Beiber.'
to construct private bunkers as a precaution against events they are elected to prevent. This is only fair, similar to placing the children of elected officials who vote for war on the front lines of those very wars.
Or perhaps you use landline internet, the other monopoly?
I'm a PC.
I'm a Mc.
Kill your TV.
Should we include spacemacs?
When the rest of the world becomes mandatory 100% renewable 20 years before that.
Spending days, weeks, or months of one's life driving to and parking at crowded strip malls, scouring brick and mortar shelves, then leaving empty handed becasue the store was sold out of your item or was not available in your size, is not the apex of human experience. That time is now used to go to a concert, teach one's kids how to make a snowman, write letters to friends, volunteer, etc.. Many consider that progress.
If online shopping is too modern and 'anti-human' for you, then so too are fake earnest, impersonal, sterile, retail outlets. Perhaps bartering livestock for your next smartphone would satisfy your preference for haggling face to face.
You said "seed."
I use Amazon to avoid?
"Freddie, we named a planet after you. The one that is cheek to cheek with a star."
Freddie: "Allright!!"
"We also named an element after you. Also known as 'quicksilver'"
Freddie: "How fitting!"
"We also named a dark dead rock next to a bunch of other dead rocks after you."
Freddie: "Oh...you...shouldn't have."
Fifty bucks if you get Bernie elected. Half now, the rest at the inauguration. Remember, we never met.
it was too soon to replace rocket fuel with Tesla batteries.