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I'm struggling to see why this is even news?

• easytiger 12y ago
  Going meta it is a furtherance of Apple's innovation approach; namely that the marketplace hasn't changed since they last released a similar product so don't change anything. If people are willing to buy the same thing then drip feed them advances. Not a bad thing and indeed business genius in a way. Just that they have the luxury of not having to blow your mind to get your attention. It also means they can save obvious innovations from competing products until such times as the market demands them (see also an iphone without a tiny pathetic screen) More it shows competition in the laptop space is awful. I certainly don't see anything I want. In short I want a macbook like hardware with a matt screen with macbook pro specs but not as old a graphics card and better heat dissipation. I've had the retina since launch 2 years ago and I'm pretty fed up with having my legs scalded when i run up a VM. Native linux would be nice to.
  • S4M 12y ago
    Whoever downvoted the parent comment, care to explain why?
• mergy 12y ago
  I agree. Perhaps, it is news because it shows how incremental Apple's strategy is? This is nothing. It is basically just a "hey, we can't get the older stuff from the supplier anymore, so we are bumping it up to the new stuff" kind of update.
• benihana 12y ago
  I'm guessing because every time I go to a conference, 90 out of 100 computers there are Macbook Pros. I imagine a lot of people on HN use these computers daily. It's nice to know Apple iterated on their hardware.
• mqsiuser 12y ago
  TL;DR: Not a lot of change (just the usual upgrades) It is news on HN: Coincidentially I also own one (MBPR 13" with Ubuntu & MacOS) It can be a developer's struggel: MBPR (13, 15) or is the Air also cutting it?