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Software keeps getting more nimble. Storage is moving to the cloud. There's really nothing super surprising about this move. No one had heard of thunderbolt a y
by dr_ 14y ago
Software keeps getting more nimble. Storage is moving to the cloud. There's really nothing super surprising about this move. No one had heard of thunderbolt a year ago and now all of the sudden it's a necessity?
The large majority of consumers will probably be impressed by the next gen Mac. That is the direction the entire line will be heading in and Apple clearly wants to make the differentiation clear, instead of marginally different and making people indifferent between the NGMBP and MBP.
These are not just creative decisions, they're marketing decisions, and so far Schiller hasn't done much wrong.
- reitzensteinm 14y agoIt's notable because creative professionals were once a very important market for Macs, and yet now Apple isn't even pretending to care about them. And creative professionals always could use more power. Even a current top of the line PC isn't enough. Updating a Mac Pro from Westmere to Sandy Bridge E is absolutely trivial compared to creating the next MacBook Air. You can even do it at home with a Hackintosh - they are almost entirely commodity PCs in the same old boxes they've been in for years. And yet it hasn't been done.
- dr_ 14y agoWouldn't creative professionals, at least those working in design and video, be pleased with the Retina display? Where else are they going to find a display of this caliber to work with?
- abruzzi 14y agoYes, but it's on a 15" screen. I haven't had a 15" screen on my desktop since 1994. Resolution is important, but for many tasks, so is size. The new MBP has a 2880x1800 screen, the old Apple 20" display had a 2560x1600 screen. So, while the MBP has a few more pixels, it's not that many more pixels. Having seen neither, I can's speak to quality issues on the two screens.