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- Sep 23, 2011
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- Motherboard
- HP Probook 450 G4 (C/UEFI)
- CPU
- i7-7500U
- Graphics
- HD 620
- Mac
- Mobile Phone
Let me write a comment out of fury, given the "PRO" tag they attach to the computer and the hefty price tag.
On real life, I think it's NOT a PRO computer. It should be named "Mac Expensive" or "Mac Poser" rather than Pro. The last Macbook Pro, imho, was Late 2007 Santa Rosa, where you had lots of ports (2 USBs, 1 Firewire 400, 1 Firewire 800, DVI, PCI Express), detachable battery, Matte or Glossy screen, upgradeable memory & Hard Disk, as well as Mac Novelties such as the MagSafe connector (that REALLY had a purpose), together with a decent build quality. All that coated with the less ever bloated OS: Snow Leopard, which was barely 1Gb in size and of a non-intrusive nature.
Fast forward to 2018 and meet this €7000 toy and we find the following
- SOLDERED, NON-UPGRADABLE MEMORY (really??)
- SOLDERED SSD (... !!! ...)
- Only Thunderbolt ports. (But you can purchase tons of dongles in the Apple Store)
- No specialist ports like FireWire. Ask Siri to throw your €30,000 pro video cameras and rack sound systems down the toilet.
- Non-detachable battery.
- No Magsafe
- The worst keyboard ever
- Only Glossy screen (so photos of your dog or happy family look cool, but unfortunately Photoshop calibration will be a ruin)
- Bloated operating system a-la-microsoft: Siri, iCloud, iTunes, App Store ...
Their selling points appear to be the following:
- New T2 chip so you can say "Hey Siri!"
- LCD stripe on the keyboard to display iTunes controls and a couple other supported programs. But you can play DOOM on it
- It syncs nicely with your Apple Watch, they say.
- Super super slim. We'll see how well it cools, but in general, Apple is focusing on making things slimmer and slimmer without a real purpose. I would trade an additional kilogram for the possibility of changing the SSD, upgrading my memory or, of course, plugging real-world PRO equipment like Video Cameras, sound racks, etc.
So for me it's not really about the money. All computers I own are around for nearly a decade, won't hesitate investing €7000 if it's worth it.
In resume, I think this computer is an insult for many loyal pro users, specially across the photography / video / sound studio industry. It's not maybe a scam of the dimensions of the wastebin-embedded Mac Pro, but close to it.
On real life, I think it's NOT a PRO computer. It should be named "Mac Expensive" or "Mac Poser" rather than Pro. The last Macbook Pro, imho, was Late 2007 Santa Rosa, where you had lots of ports (2 USBs, 1 Firewire 400, 1 Firewire 800, DVI, PCI Express), detachable battery, Matte or Glossy screen, upgradeable memory & Hard Disk, as well as Mac Novelties such as the MagSafe connector (that REALLY had a purpose), together with a decent build quality. All that coated with the less ever bloated OS: Snow Leopard, which was barely 1Gb in size and of a non-intrusive nature.
Fast forward to 2018 and meet this €7000 toy and we find the following
- SOLDERED, NON-UPGRADABLE MEMORY (really??)
- SOLDERED SSD (... !!! ...)
- Only Thunderbolt ports. (But you can purchase tons of dongles in the Apple Store)
- No specialist ports like FireWire. Ask Siri to throw your €30,000 pro video cameras and rack sound systems down the toilet.
- Non-detachable battery.
- No Magsafe
- The worst keyboard ever
- Only Glossy screen (so photos of your dog or happy family look cool, but unfortunately Photoshop calibration will be a ruin)
- Bloated operating system a-la-microsoft: Siri, iCloud, iTunes, App Store ...
Their selling points appear to be the following:
- New T2 chip so you can say "Hey Siri!"
- LCD stripe on the keyboard to display iTunes controls and a couple other supported programs. But you can play DOOM on it
- It syncs nicely with your Apple Watch, they say.
- Super super slim. We'll see how well it cools, but in general, Apple is focusing on making things slimmer and slimmer without a real purpose. I would trade an additional kilogram for the possibility of changing the SSD, upgrading my memory or, of course, plugging real-world PRO equipment like Video Cameras, sound racks, etc.
So for me it's not really about the money. All computers I own are around for nearly a decade, won't hesitate investing €7000 if it's worth it.
In resume, I think this computer is an insult for many loyal pro users, specially across the photography / video / sound studio industry. It's not maybe a scam of the dimensions of the wastebin-embedded Mac Pro, but close to it.
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