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I have been trying to figure out how will Apple survive this crisis and someone's comment mentioning thinness makes me actually get the whole purpose of this MB

I have been trying to figure out how will Apple survive this crisis and someone's comment mentioning thinness makes me actually get the whole purpose of this MBP release. This MBP has two immense features: 1) the introduction of a touch interface; and 2) enough thinness to make the MBP mainstream instead of a high-end pro device. (They could not pack computing power AND make the MBP thinner). The next version will be a simple hardware update (cpu, gpu, memory, etc.) but this laptop will now be the defining trend of things to come. More touch, more slim, more mainstream. The rest of the industry (e.g. professionals) will have to rely on the extension port (usb-c) for everything else. So stop whining that Apple is abandoning its core customers. Because it is abandoning them. And the future that MBP is taking on is for an entirely different set of customers. (Deja Vu anyone?)

nyolfen 10y ago
>This MBP has two immense features: 1) the introduction of a touch interface; and 2) enough thinness to make the MBP mainstream instead of a high-end pro device. is there anyone on earth who actually cares about a few mm of thinness? this angle has always boggled my mind, i've never in my life thought 'boy, this laptop sure is great, but i wish it were thinner'
- bdon 10y ago
  It's an appealing upgrade product to current Air owners (myself included) that want to keep roughly the same form factor without getting the slower MacBook, so yes, I do care about the slightly smaller dimensions.
- joeguilmette 10y ago
  I do? I'm a professional user and I used a MBA for years bc I travel a lot. I had a VM, Sketch, Illustrator, and lots of other power hungry tools running. Last year I switched to a MacBook bc I couldn't handle the shitty MBA screen. It worked, but I'm excited I can now afford, in terms of bad space, a more powerful laptop (with Touch ID, a larger screen, retina, more RAM, faster processor, bigger HD, bigger trackpad, better keyboard, touch bar). I'm very excited for this release.

nyolfen 10y ago

>This MBP has two immense features: 1) the introduction of a touch interface; and 2) enough thinness to make the MBP mainstream instead of a high-end pro device. is there anyone on earth who actually cares about a few mm of thinness? this angle has always boggled my mind, i've never in my life thought 'boy, this laptop sure is great, but i wish it were thinner'

bdon 10y ago
It's an appealing upgrade product to current Air owners (myself included) that want to keep roughly the same form factor without getting the slower MacBook, so yes, I do care about the slightly smaller dimensions.
joeguilmette 10y ago
I do? I'm a professional user and I used a MBA for years bc I travel a lot. I had a VM, Sketch, Illustrator, and lots of other power hungry tools running. Last year I switched to a MacBook bc I couldn't handle the shitty MBA screen. It worked, but I'm excited I can now afford, in terms of bad space, a more powerful laptop (with Touch ID, a larger screen, retina, more RAM, faster processor, bigger HD, bigger trackpad, better keyboard, touch bar). I'm very excited for this release.