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That's a pain in the buns
Pretty cool idea. Not sure how I feel about a magnet being so close to my phone though
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OCBucksFan
I won a math debate
Mac;2240824; said:
Complete rundown:
iPad Mini, effectively the ipad 2 guts inside a 7.8" form factor. I have a third generation ipad and I use the samsung note as my regular device, I am sure a lot of people have use for this, but I don't.
New iPad, faster chip but more than anything it uses Apples new adapter. 7 Months in between ipad releases is a bit silly, I'll let this one slide.
New iMac, apparently really thin screen but lacks the retina display.
Macbook Pro 13" Retina display, they gimped it with an intel chipset, still dual core, and there's no way to upgrade from the 8 gigs of memory.
And the mac mini of course, a lot of people were waiting on a refresh of this, so I guess today is your day.
Overall, I was pretty meh with all of the items. I was hopeful that the MBP would have a quad core 16 gig option, but nope, not only that they moved away from the Nvidia controller that the 15" has, so the 13 has the 2nd highest resolution display in a notebook is driven by the second worst adapter on the market. good job there.
Seems like a lot of products are getting pushed out just to get pushed out, there was no need for the new version of the ipad except to try to tempt people to rush and grab a new ipad for the holidays or the hardcore apple geeks that require the new products.
I have not been really impressed with a lot of recent releases, but I am not a huge apple guy, I liked my iphone 4, I like my Galaxy Note 2 a lot better, I love my Macbook air, but I won't rush to buy the new one as soon as it comes out.
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scott91575
Resident hater
OCBucksFan;2241161; said:
I guess I am a little confused by your terminology is some areas. You say NVidia controller. Do you mean GPU? I will assume this since that is pretty much the only NVidia thing you will find in Macs. Same thing with saying Intel chipset. I have no idea how an Intel chipset is gimping anything. Are you continuing on the GPU issue and talking about the integrated GPU on the Intel chipset? The 15" has pretty much the same chipset, but has a discrete NVidia GPU on some offerings.
I am not a big Mac fan either, but I fully understand their hardware choices. In the end, people aren't buying Macs for much of their hardware anyway. If they are it's because they are misinformed. People buy Macs for their form factor, packaging, software, and customer service (and of course the perceived coolness factor). They do incorporate things here and there that no one else does (like the high resolution display or thunderbolt), but it's not like it is their tech anyway or even that useful. At the time they released thunderbolt (an Intel tech BTW), there were no devices. Now there are some devices, but you can find thunderbolt elsewhere. The high resolution is cool and all for some things, but there are very few things that actually use it. I guess it makes the desktop look cool for the most part, yet the majority of things cannot utilize that high of a resolution and the ones that can't won't be able to run with their GPU offerings. Although I do give them credit for pushing resolution at a time many other laptop makers where cheapening out on resolution. That was one thing that ticked my off in the laptop market for years, and with Apple's focus on resolution you are seeing more makers offering 1080p panels in the mid level market (which was close to impossible to find a couple years ago even though 1080p panels were not that expensive even then). 768 on a 15" screen just blows, but just a year or two ago pretty much every PC laptop maker only offered that unless you went top of the line. Heck, 4 years ago tons of 15" laptops were at least 900p, and then the makers backpedalled to 768 (or 720p) thinking consumers didn't care. So I thank Apple for making resolution a big deal again even though I don't think retina is really needed, especially for what they charge for it.
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Mac;2241190; said:
iPad 2 is still very relevant. Use mine every day and feel no need to upgrade to a newer model.
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scott91575;2241165; said:
I agree with the bolded statement to an extent. After a owning a series of various other machines though, my next clamshell computer is going to be a Mac - and it'll be for hardware reasons. Granted, you'll always be able to get more for your money buying a Windows machine when it comes to processing power. That's not the hardware I'm talking about though. I don't need processing power to dick around on the internet and rip CDs to my HDD. I'll buy a Mac because the things that always fail or suck on my current and past machines are pretty much worry-free on a Mac - hinge, power supply, battery, trackpad, fan and heat sink, optical disc tray, etc.
I'm jealous of my wife's MacBook Pro. She bought it seven years ago and the only problems that she has had with it have been because she beats the shit out of the thing. I take care of my computers, and I still find myself replacing them after 3-4 years because they fall apart. Just because I can replace my machine three times over for the amount she paid for one MacBook doesn't mean I want to keep doing that. I mean, I already have replaced my computer that many times since she bought hers, so who's coming out ahead?
The main thing that stops me from taking the plunge is the software. I'm a Windows person. It's what I know, and I'm not sure I want to learn a Mac or adapt my workflow to a different way of doing things.
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