Apple’s new MacBook Pro laptops are not designed for professional use

Many of us have been talking our way around this issue for the past week without directly confronting it, so I feel like now’s as good a time to address it as any: Apple’s new MacBook Pro laptops are not designed for professional use. - Vlad Savov, The Verge

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Yea, I've been saying this for years, now. The rMBP could passably be used as a mobile workstation, but the lack of expandability hurt it.

Is it just me or is this new touch bar a really really ugly and unfunctional feature?
It kind of destroys the clean aesthetics of the mbp completely, and i cant imagine how its going to be used interestingly.
Maybe i should go try it out at the store

tim cuck has single handedly alienated the business macbook users

he should be congratulated for being so completely and utterly incompetent

>Apple’s 2016 MacBook Pros carry on the Pro moniker dishonestly. At least we should all hope that's the case — because if Apple actually believes that these new laptops are suitable and sufficient for intensive professional needs, then the company's long and happy relationship with creatives may be heading toward a calamitous breakup.

Wew!

Vlad really went in

he's more interested in selling watch bands today anyways. I wonder if Apple will make any computers 5 years into the future

by the way, the moment Apple went retard with token diversity (including women everywere in their keynotes, and blacks flooding their ads) I thought things would get bad for them and now everybody's losing their minds about Apple. Why do multi-billion companies keep falling for the meme?

They won't

Kill yourself.

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Comment section is golden theverge.com/2016/11/7/13548052/the-macbook-pro-lie

But the new laptop is for pros. Professional Facebookers

>lack of expandability?
Like what though? Bluetooth mouse and your good.
Maybe retards will move from usb sticks and what have you to NASes.
I don't think i have used the usb slot on my laptop since i installed the OS.

No you moron it's very important, maybe even the greatest innovation to personal computers since the keyboard. How else is a user supposed to use something like a finger to point at and launch programs?

if pro doesnt stand for professional
is what sense is the macbook pro?

Promotional, as in they are meant to promote the Apple brand.

Doesn't seem too useful for my use. For any program I regularly use, I'm better off using shortcuts. I also suppose there is a lack of tactile feedback.

Prosumer

He's given Macfags the shaft in favor of iFags, and thus far it's resulted in Apple swimming in oceans of cash that it doesn't know what to do with. They flushed untold billions down the drain on the car project, but it was just a blip on their SOAs.

Apple's products are all shit now but Cook is a monster at making profits. Pro users can fuck off and use Precisions for all he cares, because they don't make up any kind of significant market for him to squeeze for profit.

Prolapse.

>I don't use peripherals
> therefore, nobody needs peripherals

>1500$ facebook machine

You can't replace RAM, can't replace storage except with Apple storage, they don't offer discrete graphics on the 13". Taking away the ports just sealed the deal. It's not even remotely Pro.

*cough-cough*

You can't stick any decent video adapter having only 12 pcie lanes. 4 for m2 drive, 4 for thunderbolt, the rest are for wifi and bluetooth.

moving goalposts to spread FUD against apple.

...and interestingly enough, it can use wifi and USBC charging at the same time

4 lanes could easily handle a decent display adapter. The wireless could be handled by the PCH.

APPLE BTFO

I think that it might slow some people down because they might have to look down from the screen to use it.

Proctology. Because the entire fanbase are buttboys.

>early 90's
>hahaha PC nerds, macs are for gaming!
>early 00's
>hahaha PC nerds, go back to your games and viruses, I have werk to do ;^)
>late 00's
>fuck off PCfags PC's aren't made for real work, I'm a professional and all professionals use macs
>mid 10's
>macs aren't for work, they're for elegant browsing and my machine is beautiful with all these dreadlocks of adapter cords hanging off it

>Why do multi-billion companies keep falling for the meme?

Because they get their multi-billion value from their stocks, and the stock prices are affected by how everyone THINKS the company is doing, not how it is really doing.

For that reason, the more memes each company rides, the more valuable they are.

Besides, if they said any word against the diversity crap, they'd be accused of being racist white supremacist cis scum.

>they'd be accused of being racist white supremacist cis scum

I am amazed at how backward the west has become.

what are you talking about?

they literally haven't changed. just have better specs

i do all of my work on my macbook pro

Progressive

$2999.00 instagram and Twitter box

Yea, because you're paying in fake money.

> 1.6k USD dual core facebook machine
I seriously hope nobody is this fucking stupid

That Vlad article has a ton of good links

...

>dreadlocks of adapter cords hanging off it
fucking

>>hahaha PC nerds, macs are for gaming!
When did anyone ever say this?

Macs were for creative types at the time too and had a better game environment

I don't think windows even had a photoshop port yet

the laptops don't really make money; the only support the image of the company

also, corporate users have never been a strength -- especially now with the i7 xeon machines that other business sellers like dell and lenovo offer

they're marketing to the "i feel like im a professional" market -- but that's been the trend for 5 years now

>$2,999.00
>intel iris graphics 550

Vlad does not fuck about.

>$3K US for a dual core i5

makes no sense at all for business unless it's just something daddy bought you to give you something to do

>Install Linux
wew lad

youtube.com/watch?v=eE9JlONzrVU
Yes
This is Apples target demographic, fisting gets MPB non-fisting gets MBA

>Am an actual journalist
>Uses Photoshop, InDesign daily for work
>2015 and 2016 MacBook pro's are both dual cores

God damn I'm tired of working from my desktop guys.

Why wont Apple make their "Pro" line for pros?

That's what the ipad pro is for.

>and had a better game environment
PC had a better game*

Don't you fucking meme at me kiddo

>The wireless could be handled by the PCH.
There's no PCH, so impossible.

Eh, not surprised. Many knew this was going to happen when Jobs died.

bloggers always used ultra-portable 13" for which it always was impossible to release a professional laptop. (no quad-core)
thus 13" mbp didn't regress much besides having only ports from the future.

It has recently come to my attention that blacks don't know how USB works.

There are so many complaints about the new macbook "not having USB".

Could Apple actually LOSE money because of people's stupidity? What a weird irony.

What a startling development.

I hope so, it's fucking dumb that they got rid of USB type A, Magsafe, and HDMI

They should have just replaced the two DisplayPort / Thunderbolts with USB - C

does any flash drive or computer accessory even use usb c yet?

This

Yes but it's nowhere near becoming a standard so stupid people aren't even aware what it is.

Fuck

apple next gen usb c flash drive with unnecessary added weight and back lit apple logo, the 16GB will be black because it's pro, and it will cost $96.
>think different

So they're made to play games?

Slowly and steady Microsoft claws its way back up.

You misinterpreted me.
I agree those are all bullshit. I just think the lack of usb ports is nbd.
What do you need them for?

I agree in that it is asthetically ugly. The gap from the vent to the top row is way out of proportion. The last gen and unibody were much better

well, there's on 13" w/o Touch Bar.
tho space gray still makes it ugly.

No shit captain obvious.

Its been like this ever since they swapped to Intel to be frank.

I dont even like apple crap, only ever owned a ipod touch and its painfully obvious how bad almost all of their products have been lately

They will fade back into obscurity like they did in the 90s

meanwhile in reality:
Apple has 60% of all profits of combined PC/Mac sales.
Apple has 100% of all smartphone profits.

>In a shrinking market dominated by Chinese phones
Yeah nah they'll lose their grip very soon.

Is this the first time a Macfag biased news outlet just gave no fucks about BTFOing Apple?

Someone wasnt around during the 90's

nope, iVerge trashed no headphone jack on the iPhone, too.
Google is spending its new ad budget wisely.

> if it doesn't have an overclocked 1080ti, it's not professional - t.cuck

Sup Forums is literally Sup Forums now.

I'm not saying outlets didn't exist in the 90s, but the management style and this type of "opinion piece" trend wasn't in full effect until the 10 years.

APPLEFAGS LITERALLY ON SUICIDE WATCH

>implying anyone can be productive on a laptop

>2015 and 2016 MacBook pro's are both dual cores
you're wrong in so many levels, Apple actually makes quad-core macbook pro's since before you were even born.

check: 15 inch macbooks

>something like a finger

What are you implying here, user?

True.

God i wonder how apple will recover from this shit?

Even if they wanted too the 'professional' IT sphere want nothing to do with them and its been this way for the better part of 2010's

>Its been like this ever since they swapped to Intel to be frank.
Nah.

> tfw developing 3D game on Iris graphics
> tfw already making some serious cash with 2D games
> 100% done on a macbook
enjoy being poor forever

>macfag in denial
Lol ive been watching apple slowly eat itself ever since 2010 its hilarious.

They will go the way all bleeding edge companies go and thats straight into the trash when the biggest competitor makes the cheapest most usable knockoff version of their flagship

Cough Android Cough Killed Cough Iphone

Post your games.

I dare you.

It depends what kind of "professional" you are.

I'm a professional user. I need Mathematica, standard Unix tools, a high res screen, and great battery life.

Now, the reason I'm not buying the new one? I don't like the keyboard.

>Vlad Savov

Must be russian for cock loving faggot.

Yeah now you can buy a Honda Civic with your next consumer loan you dumb fuck.

This thing was stupid, it would be better with Windows and the option to install GNU. No one wants to pay MacBook prices for a piece of shit """"""""free"""""""" OS

>Apple fags thought macbooks were used by professionals
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

An i5 dual core for $3,000 is horrible. Just buy a cheap notebook.

3000? Yea, not in real money.

>Duel core i5
>iris graphics

3 0 0 0 $

The worst part is that people will still fucking buy it, even though for that price you could get a fucking top of the line i7 and 1080 in your laptop as well as nearly every other gimmick on the market.

Applefags need to be eradicated

> quad-core i7
> AMD Polaris GPU
> $2299
fify

Actually I'm saving for a Tesla ;^)

still not posting games. Are you afraid?

>Graphics tablets.
>Mice.
>External keyboards.
>External monitors.

#REKT

Well... The other companies that have tried it have since stopped making their computers with it, so I do not think it is useful.

But you have to use a mac to make iApps