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The keyboard is the “only” thing that matters for someone that bought a computer about a year ago, so yeah. 64GB of RAM and 8TB of SSD are great, that’s why I
by tolmasky 7y ago
The keyboard is the “only” thing that matters for someone that bought a computer about a year ago, so yeah.
64GB of RAM and 8TB of SSD are great, that’s why I have a desktop computer with those specs for half the price. I love big screens too, which is why I have an actual big monitor on my desktop, not “big considering the form factor it’s in”. Getting those specs on the MacBook Pro puts you into the $6K territory, so I don’t think for most people that’s actually a difference. The absolute upper bound has increased, but what I get for the price I just paid about a year ago isn’t that much different.
Meanwhile, my laptop is for mobility and not where I boil the ocean. Sure, I’ve wanted 32GB on my 13 inch for years, still waiting though.
Look, I get that there exists a market for super high end laptops, but there is arguably a much larger market for, like, mobile laptops that can type correctly. It’s annoying that I have to get pushed into the ultra niche high end laptop market, with specs that I specifically don’t even care that much about (I have no use for a better graphics card, especially an AMD graphics card that ensures I can’t use it for ML), just to get a keyboard that puts one e on the screen when I hit the e key once.
- saagarjha 7y agoNot everyone uses a desktop–I do all of my work out of a laptop, for example. It's not strange to want a powerful one, and comparing it to something completely different is not useful.
- tolmasky 7y agoI agree! That's why my point was that if you compare the new 16 inch to the previous 15 inch, at the same starting price points -- they aren't all that different. The difference does indeed grow quite large as you reach exorbitant price points. The old 15.4 inch at $2699.00 (vs. 16 inch at $2399) was also 512GB, 16GB RAM, and 2.6GHz. This is absolutely a modest perf bump -- however it really sucks if you feel like you have to pay this price again for nearly identical specs to really just get the new keyboard. Yes, if you were really hoping for amazing... laptop speakers, then paying full price again may make a lot of sense. But the reality is that for most people (those not spending $6K), this computer is not that much different from the one that already exists, except for the keyboard actually working. My response was for the comment stating surprise that I "just" saw this as a keyboard fix. I stand by my position that this is absolutely the case at most of the reasonable (common?) price points.
- saagarjha 7y agoThere are probably a lot of people who can and do pay for upgraded machines, and for them 64 GB of RAM or an 8 TB SSD might be reasonable. (OK, I'm not so sure about the 8 TB storage tier…but there are probably a number of people who'd like the higher capacities.)
- johncalvinyoung 7y agoMy company is talking configurations for all next summer's upgrades... top i9 8-core, top 5500/8G GPU, 64GB of RAM, and 1TB of storage. Someone may up their storage, but I'm mostly insanely happy about the GPU and RAM.
- tekknik 7y agoI’m very happy about the 8tb. itunes media has proper bitrates (looking at you google with your “4k”) so having your entire media library with you is a nice benefit as well as having some room to grow. i’m currently sitting on about 2.5tb of media and ~500gb of user data. buying a 4tb would max me out in a few months after buying more movies / shows.
- ericd 7y agoSure, but if you want seriously powerful hardware, you're simply not getting that in a laptop form factor. A desktop workstation can have power budgets upward of 10x what these can use.
- tekknik 7y agoyou bought a machine a year ago, so why not wait until they inevitably release it in the macbook line and buy one of those. this is your ultraportable “trashbook” line you’re looking for.