Patrik Siwek You probably still remember the time when you were clear about the choice of an Apple laptop within a few seconds. Either you needed a cheaper option that would be enough for surfing the Internet, e-mails and some basic things (at that time in iLife and iWorks), for which the iBook was more than enough, or you simply needed performance and so you reached for a PowerBook. Later, the situation did not change much, and you had a choice of either a thin, light and less powerful MacBook Air or a heavy, but really powerful MacBook Pro. However, the situation slowly began to get complicated when Apple added a third machine in the form of a 12″ MacBook, and a complete stew occurred when the new MacBook Pros received an improvement in the form of a Touchbar.
Until then, you could only choose based on performance, and logically, a less powerful machine also had a smaller and lighter body. Today, however, Apple no longer only offers differences in performance, but now we also have to choose features, and these are currently quite essential. Hand on heart, most users still use a MacBook for surfing the Internet, working with emails and some basic editing of documents or photos, which all the models offered by Apple can handle. If you are a graphic designer, professional photographer or other professions that demand the highest possible performance from their portable machine, your choice is clear and the MacBook Pro is here for you.
However, if you're not looking for performance and the MacBook Air is all you need, you'll be disappointed by the lack of a Retina display in 2017, especially considering that Apple updated the MacBook Air this year, albeit minimally. This means that they will not remove it from the offer at least in the coming months and it is still the current machine for this year. Indeed, a Retina display is what you'd expect from Apple as standard these days, but if you go with the Air, you won't get it. You will also miss Touch ID and TouchBar. It can be argued here that this is the privilege of only the most powerful machine in the offer, but why can't I have this great function when a classic MacBook Air or a 12″ MacBook is enough for me in terms of performance. After all, I don't want to pay extra money and at the same time drag, compared to an Air or a 12″ MacBook, with a heavy and large machine if I don't use its performance.
Another option is to reach for a 12″ MacBook. However, I won't get TouchBar with it either, moreover, even if only the basic performance is enough for me, in the case of this machine, the performance is really at the limit of what can still be used for at least minor editing of photos, for example. In addition, the price of forty thousand crowns is already at the limit at which you expect some performance. Although the MacBook offers a Retina display, a great design and an extremely thin and light body, there is also a big but in the form of the absence of a TouchBar, and the performance is really a sad story. The last option is the MacBook Pro, which offers everything that today's MacBooks from Apple have and lacks nothing at all. However, there is an obstacle in the form of a high price, and it is also larger and heavier compared to other models.
Apple is suddenly forcing us to think differently when buying a new MacBook than before, and it seems to me that the simple choice has disappeared from the philosophy. What is your opinion on the current offer of portable computers from Apple and do you think that the situation will return to a simple choice in the future, when the Air will disappear from the offer and we will only choose between the 12″ MacBook and the MacBook Pro? In that case, however, in my opinion, it would be fair from Apple for the 12″ variant to get Touch ID and TouchBar as well.
My opinion is that, like the editors, I am getting lost in the current (unclear) offer. I fully understand the position of the MacBook Pro with TB, but what is the entry-level? MacBook Pro without TB? MB Air? MB? At the Keynote, they said that MB Pro without TB is a "replacement" for MB Air - so why is it still being sold? Among other things replacement 2x more expensive? And for whom MacBook? That offer is not clearly defined, what is basic. model, higher model and top model…
The entry model should, at least in my opinion, be a 12″ MacBook. The hardware matches it, unfortunately the price is overshot by at least 10k. The presence of the Air model is a mystery to me. Such hardware has nothing to do in the offer of a company like Apple. In 2017, offering what is technically at least 5 years past its zenith? And ask for over 30 thousand for it? The solution is so easy though.. make the 12″ MacBook cheaper, remove the Air and replace it with a non-TB version of the MacBook Pro (at least 5k off) and leave the rest as is. Two product lines are more than enough, especially when each model offers a relatively wide possibility of individualization.
Exactly, when I bought an Air three years ago, there wasn't much to think about - the cheaper and lighter MacBook Air or the powerful and more expensive Pro. Now just navigating the Pro line can be quite a challenge. The same with iPads and iPhones. I understand that Apple's management is accountable to shareholders and aims for the best possible business results, but it is probably not the most sustainable operating model for the future. In addition to the fact that Apple profiles itself as a technological innovator that sets trends (which I can't deny - iPod, iPhone, iPad...), some solutions such as the use of a TN panel in the MacBook Air or 5400 rpm hard drives in the iMac in 2017 , I don't understand at all.
If you are lost in the menu of the Mac series, then it is your stupidity. Entry is a 12″ Macbook for office users and for travel. For everything else, there's the MBP13 and MBP15.
TB is a useless feature for me, I would easily choose MBP13/15 without TB with full Intel and four ports if possible.
Apple's offer seems clear enough to me, in short, I would stick to only two criteria when purchasing a new Macbook, regardless of which model it is.
at least 16 GB of RAM
min 500GB SSD
Fortunately, the 12″ Macbook can finally be configured with 16GB of RAM, so it starts to make sense to me, for the lowest model I would always choose the fastest CPU at the same time.
The same applies to the MBP13/15 series, configure models with 16GB RAM and min. 500GB. Choose a faster CPU only if you use it.
For those looking for a replacement for the MBA, the basic 12″ Macbook with 8GB RAM and the MBP13 without TB with 8GB RAM are for that, given that the SSD is onboard, I would skip the first 128GB model. It's smarter to buy the sale MBP13 2015 256GB which costs about the same as the base MBP13 with onboard 128GB.
In terms of size, dimensions and weight, the MBA was actually fully comparable to the first line of the MBP13 retina 2013. The MBP was only slightly heavier, the dimensions were almost the same, and the endurance was sufficient for both.
For the MBP13/15, it might make sense to pay extra for the middle variant of Intel, because the surcharges tend to be low, around 3000
It's not my stupidity, it's your stupidity. MB should be entry level, but why is there MB Air? Considering the price, the MB is not the entry level model. And the difference between MB MBP without TB? The price is about the same... Those products do not have a clear position...
Why probably..because they have the biggest profit on the MBA in the cost:sale price ratio
An MBA is a cash cow.
Which genius wrote that? The performance of the 12″ MacBook is absolutely sufficient. What a sad story? Have you ever had an Apple iron in your hand? Crazy. Ugh, shame on the apple guy. The last article I didn't even read.
12" MacBook not enough? What for? If you are a person who renders videos and runs more than one virtual machine, then you are right, but I dare say that roughly 80% of standard users have enough...
The problem with the 12″ MacBook is not its performance.. it is adequate for who the product is intended for. The problem is the price and how that price fits into Apple's overall portfolio. Currently, Apple is a bit overcrowded in the segment around 40 thousand, across model lines. And this is both confusing for customers and illogical in terms of diversifying the offer.
Unsuitable products for video editing are only the lowest variant Mac Mini 1.4/1.6, MBA and 12″ Macbook. Everything else is enough even for amateurs who make a living from video, for example YTbers like TeriBlitzen/Veronica Leroy/STEPANKA and thousands of other YTbers edit videos on basic MBP13 2014/5.
Vladislav Janeček also edits on the go on a 12″ Macbook Core M, in this case it is necessary to put the Macbook on the charger and export overnight.
More. https://youtu.be/knMM9dRwIH4?t=7m10s (marginal effect of GPU performance on export time) therefore MBP13 is more than enough for video editing and photo editing from GoPro/camera/DSLR in FullHD (even slowmo).
Teri Blitzen has an iMac
A 12″ Macbook with Core M is an entry level that is enough for a home office, I would like to see you run virtual Xubuntu in it like I do on an MBP13″ (albeit dual core).
For video editing in OS X, the optimal choice is the MBP 15 for FullHD videos or the iMac 5K if you want to edit up to 4K. MBP/iMac actually does not depend on GPU performance at all when editing video, almost everything is rendered by Intel in FCXP, in the top Mac Pro (2013 ) for $9000 you can help yourself a little, but it won't be appreciated by an "intelligent" for whom Core M is sufficient for everything (web, email, YT and hand movements under the table).
The cheapest 15 MBP2015 with 2.2GHz Intel and 250GB SSD is about four to six times faster for video editing than a desktop i7 6700K 4.5GHz, 32GB RAM, GTX980Ti and "ultra-fast" 2TB SSD with Windows10.
https://youtu.be/-P5UWEKSUXo?t=3m45s
(compare the speed of SSD in Mac and SSD, which most Windows users use) :-)
If I understood it correctly, when I was deciding between a Macbook 12" and an MBA last year, the 12" Macbook should be as powerful as the MBA 2011, and a virtual machine with Windows 10 ran just fine on it. I admit, it was definitely not for games, but perfectly fine for office work. Unlike my MBA 2011, you can put 8GB of Ram into it, I ran it on 4GB.
In the YT test, the PC is held back by only one SSD disk. Mac copes with this more easily, since the 2015 model series, Apple and Samsung have not effectively competed on the PC platform (except for the enterprise segment), because most people make a basic mistake with PCs, install SSD+HDD, export to HDD... the minimum is for PC two SSD disks, because those SSDs that are bought by people who argue that on the PC platform "have twice as much performance for half" usually save on the most important components apart from the CPU. I'd rather keep silent about the noise of such a setup, how many people will pay extra for a noctua and a fanless source?
Few people will put a 2xPCIe SSD in their home PC for 2 x 7 thousand, which is a reasonable basis for video editing.
As a result, the iMac 5K 512GB + 32GB RAM kit comes out much cheaper than any comparable Windows desktop.
SSD installed in MBP15 2015 and Mac Pro have 4 lines, MBP13, MBA,... only two. Whoever edits on an iMac/Mac Pro connects an external Thunderbolt SSD array, the limitation of the TB2 bus is just at the limit of what the bin in higher configurations is able to handle computationally.
There are cheap Intels from Taiwan on eBay, he once offered to exchange NSPARKL (can be easily changed at home for free) for bins, just buy a refubrished hexacore bin $3000 with D500 and install a preowned decacore, there are plenty of compatible CPUs according to the experience of foreign colleagues.
Today, I would prefer a used 5K iMac i7 4.2Ghz 2015, only a temperature sensor must be added when replacing the HDD with an SSD - $11 and two sets of stickers for gluing the front glass must be ordered.
The downside of the Mac Pro bin is its incompatibility with 5K panels. Again, 2x4K IPS Dell costs a few bucks, you have to choose the right cable, otherwise 4K@60Hz won't work.
If I intended to build a PC for video editing, it would still be a tonymacx golden build, it would cost me the price of an iMac 5K or a bazaar bin. Fortunately, I don't have to have much experience with Windows 10. :-) From the beginning, the design of such a PC would turn out to be a modified tonymacx or, on the contrary, a simple budgetoriented Brutus Q20, 16GB RAM, SSD, i5 + UBUNTU and OS X skin for the price of a new Mac Mini.
Available skins for TučNaka are from nooblab and a few other developers are nice, make a usable workspace out of a terrible UI. I built one such box at the cottage, UBUNTU is a much more usable system than W10 after a few modifications.
Xenial Xerus can cope better with external 4K@60Hz panels than W10, where work in hi-dpi is still punishable. MS won't fix it in five years, I bet a kilo. :)
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The rest of the text is a rummage through the model lines:
The MBA 2011 1.7 Core i5 (I5-2557M) is at the level of the MacBook 2015 1.1 Core M (M-5Y31) in the processor part, in reality this basic Macbook was a big drag for me and didn't make sense, neither did the CTO 1.3 Core M (M-5Y71 ), which was not officially available in the Czech Republic, was not convincing to me, I consider the middle model 2016 1.2 Core m5 (M5-6Y54) to be usable for browsing the web, pages. On those first 2015 models, I constantly observed microlags during FullHD playback, a normal person would miss it, but not me. It certainly makes sense to go for this year's Core i7 (I7-7Y75) with 16GB of RAM, the first futureproof 12” model, precisely thanks to the RAM, because in two years 8GB will be the biggest d33pthroat. The next meaningful update of the 12" series will be in two years.
For video editing, MBA will be better than Core M. Core M suffers a lot from CPU Throttling. For any activity, a sale MBP Early-2015 13” 256GB, with the possibility of swapping the SSD for a 480GB/1TB OWC over time, always makes more sense than buying a dig like an MBA.
Who started talking about video editing? What are you talking about? I am responding to the fact that the 12″ is built for something and the performance is sufficient for it.
I have a 12″ (2016, base model) as a backup computer and it runs Adobe CS6 and CC, Office, net daily. Compared to MB Pro (2012, SSD, 8 GB RAM), the difference is small, e.g. export of a 500-page book to pdf or import takes longer, but the work itself is quite ok, and we are talking about professional use.
I agree and I am very sad about it. I'll have to hang on to my Air for a while before I can find an adequate replacement to do everything I want as I have no choice now
I see it simply the same, so I still miss the 11″ macbook air, which was a real MB entry, Touch ID will be important when apple finally introduces apple pay here, but I don’t know when we will see that
I love the 11″ MBA and even though it is (was) the cheapest, I never took it as an entry level (of course, it has a naked display and the 11″ version has a slower SSD, but we'll try to sort that out). I love how small it is yet fully powerful. Perfect for carrying/traveling and when the display isn't enough for me, I plug it into a bigger monitor on my desk.
I think that when Apple cancels the MBA, they will reduce the price of the MB to the current price of the MBA. For now, I want to earn on the expensive MB, so they left the MBA on offer as a cheaper alternative.
But otherwise, it's sad that if someone asks me for advice on which MacBook to buy, I can't advise them, because I'll end up with a MacBook Pro with 16GB RAM for 2000 euros, and few people will buy that :-(
After reading the unnecessary summer cucumber article, I only have the impression of wasted time. A top model is probably something different for everyone. If I want maximum mobility, the MacBook is the top model for me. When I want performance it's the 15″ Pro, when something in between it's the 13″ Pro. They are all quite expensive, precisely processed laptops and they are all top quality, you can choose according to your preferences.
And that something has and something doesn't have a Touch Bar, it can be seen that Apple itself considers it a test feature and is not convinced of its usefulness, which is really debatable. The only thing I would criticize Apple for is that they don't stand behind their decisions (and I don't trust them myself anyway) and thus transfer these doubts to me as a customer.
With the "entry" model, it is as always difficult for Apple, because there is nothing cheap in the offer. It could be Air, but it does not belong to the current model range, it is mainly a technological runway, which is sold because even Apple is just a company like any other that chases profits, and Air is apparently a cash cow that always gives too much milk to eat to defeat.
There is definitely no Apple touchbar for the test feature. It is a question of load, price and business strategy. It was the same with the retina display.
So far it doesn't look like that, its usability is quite contradictory and the vast majority of functions will be replaced by keyboard shortcuts.
I've had it for a week, it looks really good, the workmanship is perfect, it will have an effect, but the benefit is worth considering. It is one of those "must have" functions that people use only marginally. Not everyone is excited about him because you can't control blindly. So I would be careful with the conclusions... although I doubt that apple would plan to remove it again over time, but it is also up to consideration whether it will be extended to other models. Especially if they want to make it an add-on.
Retina display was a different case, production costs had to fall, machine performance had to increase (so as not to drain the battery unnecessarily), moreover, the panels themselves also underwent development and the quality went up. We'll see how it goes, if the touch bar expands, I think it will be something like the home button on iPhones - a typical control element that will be everywhere, but without any wow effect or special use.
Nicely written thoughts. I'm in a similar situation and for now I'm still dusting off my old Macbook Pros and hoping they last a while longer.
Their well-thought-out simplicity and connectedness have really disappeared from Apple's philosophy. It remained more of a brand for the chosen ones with a lot of underdeveloped products.
I personally switched from Windows to MacOS via a MacBookPro seven years ago. After half a year, I found out that I don't need Parallels Desktop (it was just a phobia of not being able to use Win apps). Then I found that Air is enough for me. It was followed by a MacBook at a discount after the arrival of a new model, which is ideal for me. The current offer is quite confusing only Air without retina. BTW daughter still uses 7 year old MacBookPro with 4,5 hour battery life. I definitely think that the entry model is the MacBook 12″, the penultimate model in the discount.
Sorry, but the person who wrote the article is right.
I am currently dealing with the situation – iPhone SE (just calling) Macbook Air 2013 (youtube, movies, spotify, internet surfing, sometimes some spreadsheets, writing email) replacement? Macbook 12 for 39K or Macbook Pro without TB for 45K (the price difference between 12 and PRO is minimal) I would be crazy to take the MB 12 when for about 6K I have a 300% difference in performance. Such nonsense that a computer is enough, it's not enough, when I buy a computer, I want it to last 3-4 years. I also hesitated over the option of having an iPhone and consuming an iPad, but what I'm getting at is that I won't write a long text on the iPad... I just don't know what to do next, I just want to consume, occasionally edit a photo and pay 45K for what I do on a PC, I won't say, if I was a graphic artist, photographer, he made a living from it .. If the MB 12 cost 30K, I'd take it immediately .. but what now?
Buy a sale MBP 2015 for 38k with 256GB (see price comparison). Or apply a discount at iStyle to an ISIC card (anyone). MF839CZ/A is in EW for 35K-
I spent about a month choosing a MacBook at the beginning of the year... https://jindrich.saur.cz/jaky-macbook-vybrat/
Does your Mac appear on the network as Saurer Apfel?
:-) Never thought of that, but maybe I'll rename it :-)
For Jager and Bercher. Vazeny Mr. FCPX of course supports GPU rendering and export. Even from Maverick, the mac mini model with HD4000 should already support openGL. But I didn't see tests anywhere. Otherwise, you can shoot video in 4K on the Macbook Air just fine. Tried and even an external box for graphics can be connected via TB and colored on Vinci. At the old minimum, almost 10 years ago, I existed on a competing video website, when fullhd video was edited there just fine. It's a matter of preparing it in the correct codec in advance, then the processor doesn't have to be of interest to you at all until the final export, because you work with I frames and there it's only about the size and speed of the disk.
Youtubers etc. could easily use anything because their videos are definitely not demanding on rendering, so even a 13-inch MBP is oversized for them. It would be enough for them to edit on an iPad. As far as 12 MB is concerned, for me it's too much of a machine for what it's supposed to be able to do. And that also unnecessarily increases the price for what it can do and what it is intended for.
We didn't write anywhere that it doesn't support it... :) But it only makes sense with the Mac Pro, and in fact the two GPUs aren't there because of FCXP!!!
The same applies to iMac, MBP... (only 12″ suffers from CPU throttling, you can have the video exported overnight).
Connecting to MBP15 Akitio/Helios… is actually stupid. It makes sense on a PCIE SSD RAID array, but not on an external GPU. Because if the MBP is to serve for a long time, full power use is not good for it. Since Apple stopped offering the quad core Mac Mini server, MBP15s are installed in OS X server rooms in racks with the display lid closed (for cooling purposes - there is a ready-made 3D printing project available for download, you insert a piece of plastic between the lid and the palmrest), these MBP15s go full throttle non-stop. There is a crate of new MBP15s next to it, when one of them goes away, it is thrown away and a new one is added to the rack.
I was making a network for an accommodation facility, I was inspired by a similar MBP15 project published on a foreign website. I put two HP250 i3, SSD in the rack... it's cheaper than stuffing a refurbished server in there and buying for each UPS. I only have the HP plugged in for overvoltage protection. A web server hangs on it, plus a few services on a voucher hot spot controller.
FCXP is fast on Mac for several reasons.
1) It uses multiple CPU clusters - that's why the decacore and twelvecore E5 has great results
2) Mac Pro and MBP15 have SSDs with four PCIE lanes, not just two like most PCs.
3) FCXP internally divides the SSD into multiple virtual disks (in the same sense as when you create a .dmg file), creates a virtual RAID (you as a user only see the system SSD) => super fast export even on the system SSD.
!!! Watch those videos before you start typing :) Raw GPU performance is negligible when exporting and rendering video. You can do a similar test at home/work/office.
Mac Mini, 2012 quad core server Intel 2.3 GHz Core i7 (I7-3615QM), 2.6 GHz Core i7 (I7-3720QM) is about as fast for video editing as a basic quad core Mac Pro 2013 Xeon E5-1620v2 - (never buy ), the recommended minimum is a refurbished hexacore Mac Pro 2013 Xeon E5-1650v2, ideally with D500s that have passed the Apple recall.
YTbers often make a living by creating the s****k, from their point of view the iPad (or Pro) is not very comfortable, the MBP 13 is usable on the go. I wouldn't knock those people down, even though most of them are dumber creatures… just like some of the debaters!
MBP 15, easily refurbished $2200 in the USA or new in the Czech Republic, the 2015 model is still offered NEW at the CZ store, it will serve better than a desktop PC with more powerful Intel on paper. Now I would prefer the newer model with USB-C, because of the 4K@60Hz and 5K@60Hz support. LG UltraFine 4K are a bargain, iMac is also cheap these days. It's cheaper in the US, throw it in the trunk of your car when you're sending a ticket. :)
BTW, if you had a mind and counted (money), it is much cheaper to buy a Xeon hexacore on ebay /or a NEW one for socket 2011-3, for little money you can choose from hexa core to deca core, tune nVidia directly to a hackintosh board, plus fanless source to a plain cage Define.
As a result, it will be cheaper than buying an external dock for the GPU to add to the existing MBP15 and building a resource. Even with a usable SSD, such a set costs little. In addition, there will be no speed limitation given by the TB2 bus limits, although the fact is that most people will never experience such a bottleneck with an external GPU.
First of all, it must be said that since Apple started teasing its customers on the web, it paradoxically stopped being their friend. I have a retina MBP 2013 Late and it's more morally outdated than missing something. I would also buy a successor, but it's not like I can't decide which one to choose - all macbooks paradoxically offer a lower utility value than the current 4-year-old one. Hard drives have always been the biggest drag on laptops, but Apple already introduced fast SSDs in 2013, so even today it's completely fine in terms of performance. And compared to the current model, it also has a magsafe connector, classic USB 3.0 and 2 mini display ports (with thunderbolt, but that's useless) and HDMI. To exchange these benefits for a useful fingerprint reader, a useless touch bar and a bit of extra performance for some 50 without VAT seems like a pretty bad deal (I don't want to go below a 512 GB SSD).
But the touch bar is not useless, in practice it quite lives up to expectations. We have one NB from the new series at home and you can get used to it very quickly, and if you really work on a laptop (that is, not the option "lying at home with a big monitor"), it increases efficiency. For example, when working with photos, using it is much better in fullscreen, which is quite convenient for NB, etc.
Likewise, the transition to USB-C connectors is not in vain today, and in the longer term there is nothing to talk about at all - trivial docking, the ability to connect more or less "anything anywhere" is not out of the question at all.
We'll see. Universality was already promised by USB, then FireWire, then ThunderBolt with Lightning and now USB-C. I could have a small museum from the insanely expensive cables, reducers, and when I imagine the money spent...
So they were basically right about USB - it has become a standard that works and USB-C is fully compatible with it with a reduction for a few crowns...
The new thing is that with the same connector you can also run a full Thunderbolt, including displays, a stronger power supply, etc., so everything that was already in the aforementioned MBP2013 is really being merged into one standard. It is not a completely new interface, rather it is just the "encapsulation" of already known and proven things into a standardized connector.
A couple of colleagues were tempted by the TB, and so far all I hear is "great first impression, I haven't used it since and next time I'd take the version without it". USB-C is an interesting connector, I don't know about that, but if I'm going to present something somewhere and if it's at least a bit modern workplace, they'll have HDMI on the projector. It won't be possible to rely on USB-C for many years to come, and I "don't plan to" bring it with me to negotiations for a reduction just yet :-)
At the moment when there are 4 USB-C ports in the Macbook Pro (one port will be enough for most people, I can still imagine a person who will use 2, but not 4 anymore) and not a single HDMI and not a single USB-A, I think something wrong.
The 13″ Early 2015 has twice as fast an SSD as the 13″ Late 2013. (it always depends on the capacity).
MBP 15″ saw their first acceleration only in 2014, the real jump was only in 2015, when they got a 4-lane SSD like the Mac Pro, probably Apple had a contracted option for a 4-lane SSD for the Mac Pro (2013), which no one buys anymore. (the components are manufactured and delivered JIT, but Samsung will have optional sanctions in the contracts, and not a small one)
Um, so working with RAW with EOS full frame in Lightroom and Photoshop CS is, according to the author, "at least basic photo editing" - please explain what non-basic is...
It's just that I just spent 14 days on the road with the first MB12 model and I really didn't have the slightest feeling that I lacked performance. Yes, I admit - when I composed a panorama from 10 photos with a final resolution of about 120mpix, it took a little longer, but that's not exactly a typical event anymore...
I think the current Apple computer lineup is shit. Air, which is 10 years old, is sold for the same amount of money, and new computers are very expensive, and the slightly cheaper one has little USB and is still more expensive. I think that the classic Air should be cheaper (at least by XNUMX thousand) or get a Retina so that at least it doesn't make a shame nowadays.
And speaking of shame. I've been working on a year-old, little-used iMac 4K without SSD for a while now, and it's a really nice, new, expensive computer, and it's so slow, I don't understand how Apple can afford to sell it??♂️
Hello, here I offer my rather subjective view. It seems to me that Apple allowed itself to be subtly pushed into the sales policy used by other computer manufacturers, namely to offer customers a relatively wide choice. But I would hate for that to happen. Apple has always set its own policy, and that was "we'll give you something that will work, but you won't have much choice. If you can't accept that, Apple is not for you." And that's how I think it should be. But as I wrote a few lines above. It's just my subjective opinion.
I am currently experiencing a dilemma. I have a 11 MacBook Air 2013″. Oh my god, it's already a year old. What if it doesn't? Should I buy a MacBook Pro for almost 40K, or a MacBook 12″ for the same price? Or perhaps the iPad Pro, which has a lot of limitations?????