Ondrej Holzman In recent years, Apple has often and liked to remind us that it still cares about its computers and their users, even though three-quarters of its turnover revolves around iPhones and the world as a whole is moving more towards mobile devices. But in the last year, the voices died down and Apple practically resented Macy. The iMac remains an honorable exception.
Monday's keynote was already the third in a row that Apple did not present a single new computer. Now and last fall, it focused exclusively on its mobile products and introduced new iPhones and iPads. In the summer at WWDC, he traditionally showed what he was planning in his operating systems, but it happened more than once that he also showed new hardware at the developer event.
The last time Apple introduced a new computer was in October 2015. Back then, it quietly updated the 27-inch iMac with a 5K display and also added a 21,5-inch iMac with a 4K display to the lineup. However, he had been imploringly silent for practically the entire six months before, and it had not been any different since the aforementioned October.
The latest changes came last May (15-inch Retina MacBook Pro), April (12-inch Retina MacBook) and March (13-inch Retina MacBook Pro and MacBook Air). It will soon be true for most laptops that Apple has not updated them for a whole year.
Almost a year of silence is not exactly usual for MacBooks. Apple has traditionally only introduced minor changes (better processors, trackpads, etc.) much more regularly, and now it's not clear why it stopped. There have been rumors of new Skylake processors for some time now, which could represent a fairly significant step forward. But apparently Intel still doesn't have all the variants that Apple needs ready.
Apple could still choose and update, for example, only certain models, which it has done in the past, but apparently chose a wait-and-see tactic. All MacBooks – Pro, Air and last year's twelve-inch novelty – are waiting for new energy in the circuits.
The fact that the Californian company is delaying the new series upsets many users. Although computers weren't much expected at Monday's keynote, after the end, many users complained that they didn't get the long-awaited MacBook again. But in the end, all the waiting could be good for something.
The current offer of Apple notebooks is too fragmented. Currently, you can find the following laptops in the Apple menu:
- 12-inch Retina MacBook
- 11-inch MacBook Air
- 13-inch MacBook Air
- 13-inch MacBook Pro
- 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro
- 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro
Looking at this list, it's clear that some products in the offer are practically nothing to look at anymore (yes, we're looking at you, 13-inch MacBook Pro with CD drive) and others are already starting to so-called climb into the cabbage. And if they don't do it completely now, then the new models should erase many differences.
The MacBook Air is undoubtedly the most overserved. For example, the absence of a Retina display is glaring with it, and Apple didn't even have to make many big changes to it if it wanted to introduce a new model. After all, the MacBook Pro has already been significantly surpassed. With its Retina display, the once great pride of Apple now lies in a several-year-old chassis and is also crying out more than loudly for a revival.
But this is quite possibly where the core of the poodle lies. Apple has decided that it will no longer make only small and mostly cosmetic changes. A year ago, with the 12-inch MacBook, he showed years later that he can still be a pioneer in computers, and it is expected that many larger colleagues will take his smallest laptop.
The deployment of new Skylake processors around which computers will be built is practically a certainty. However, considering the really long development (and wait), it should not be far from the last thing Apple is up to.
Predictions vary, but the result could be that the MacBook Air and Pro will merge into one machine, probably a much more mobile MacBook Pro that will retain its high performance, and the 12-inch MacBook will get a few inches larger variant that would covered the needs of current Air owners.
In the summer, when we will hopefully see the new MacBooks, the offer could look like this:
- 12-inch Retina MacBook
- 14-inch Retina MacBook
- 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro
- 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro
Such a clearly structured offer is of course the most ideal scenario. Apple certainly does not cut it all day by day, just to make it more clear. That is no longer the case. Of course, it will let the older machines expire, so new MacBooks will be mixed with older Airs and the like, but the important thing would be that after a long wait, Apple would actually introduce something that would be worth waiting for.
He would push his idea of a modern laptop a little further in the form of a 12-inch (and possibly even larger) Retina MacBook, and he would breathe new life into the Retina MacBook Pro, which has been rather vibrant lately.
That's exactly what I'm waiting for. The new keyboard on the macbook is great. I hope to redesign the entire line of macbooks in the form of a new macbook. He would rather unify the design. It just wouldn't make much sense for me to have a 14 inch macbook and a 13 inch pro. Personally, I would see variants for more like 14 and 16 inches with the dimensions of the current bars.
Why it seems logical to me and I already wrote it here two months ago.
12 Macbook
14 Macbook
13 MacBook Pro
15 MacBook Pro
To choose performance - MacBook Pro, lower price and passive cooling - MacBook and at the same time you have a choice of size for each.
I'm waiting for the 14″ MacBook ;)
And I especially want Touch ID ;)
Yes, the choice of sizes also seems logical to me, but it does not seem only logical to me that Apple would offer a 13-inch pro and a 14-inch macbook. It would also be much more difficult for them to make two 14-inch laptops from a logistical point of view. Especially if we consider that they should all be a design similar to the macbook. And with a 16-inch model, Apple would nicely cover the space after the 17-inch model.
I think 17″ is dead today.
I take it that it is difficult for them to make the same diagonal for both rows - they would have to change 13 and 15 a lot - so 12 and 13 would come after the new 15 - that is unlikely. So it's more likely that 12 will remain, if something bigger is added, 13 would be too small for the difference, so 14 - 15, I think that Apple would sell out a lot here ;)
And PRO – they are captured here, the diagonal will probably remain 13 is already mobile enough and you can still see something there and 15 is a classic. Rather, it just reduces the dimensions.
And it would be more logical from Apple's point of view - you want something bigger - buy a PRO board.
If only they would put Touch ID there - it would really modernize MacBooks and make it more pleasant to use.
17" are dead and therefore the majority of users who use laptops for work have at least one 24" external monitor :-) I have, for example, 2 :-)
And if you had a 17" MacBook, wouldn't you use 2×24"? That's exactly it - 17 is a big cow to carry - and 15 is just for the car. And at home in the office, etc., I stick it on an external monitor if I need it.
Well, if I had a 17" laptop at work with a flat screen and a wide resolution, I would at least use one less. In practice, it is the case that on a laptop without ext. I practically don't work on the display because it's really not possible :-) Kor when I have a 27″ iMac at home.
For me, the 12-13″ ntb with retina trend is completely out of line. It certainly has its customers, otherwise it wouldn't sell. But I only need an iPad to surf the net :-)
One more point. Macbooks look quite inconspicuous, but such desktop Macs seem even more outdated in this respect. A Mac mini with inferior components, a 5400-rpm drive and a half-decade-old design. iMacs with a 5-year-old design and insanely thick bezels, a 3-year-old updated mac pro and an overpriced and outdated thunderbolt display at the moment... in the case of imacs and mac minis, it seems to me that the engineers at apple are quite recalcitrant... Components and a slow disk in a mac I already mentioned the mini, but I consider the choice of storage for imacs to be a really big stumbling block. If we want ssd with hdd, we have very limited capacity for both ssd (via pci express) and normal hdd and the impossibility of configuring exactly how much I want where. Therefore, I am doomed to either pay outrageous money for pure flesh memory or pay for a slow fusion drive with a minimum size ssd module. Otherwise, I also don't understand the absence of a graphics card in the 4K imac. Another point is the more or less sloppy accessories. I don't blame the charging of the magic mouse so much as the absence of force touch, the absence of keyboard backlighting, the old keyboard with a num block...
Peter, I completely agree with what you wrote. For about a year and a half, I've been running around and waiting to see what happens with the current iMac 2011 late. Somehow Apple didn't convince me to upgrade with the way it installs components in both the iMac and the Mini. It used to be defensible, I bought the first mini for approx. 12000, - I changed the RAM, put a fast disk and that's it. It seems to me that Apple's policy for desktops is somewhat unfortunate, but perhaps something more fundamental will happen after the example of the iPhone 5 SE (same packaging, super guts).
It's the outrageous additional fees for storage that discourage me from buying, I'm hesitating whether to have the HDD replaced by an SSD in the iMac and hold out for a few more Fridays.
I also expected a backlight from the new keyboard, I write well on the current one, but it would sting in the evening if it was backlit.
Well, we'll see what they come up with.
By the way, game titles are available on apple, but there is no game machine, integrated mobile graphics, mobile version of the cpu...
Personally, I use the computer primarily for video editing and photo editing. I currently have a mac mini 2012, which is already reaching its limits and you can tell when editing a video (I'm not even talking about full hd 4k), I have its max variant, i.e. i7, 16 GB of ram and I put a 2 TB hdd 7200 rpm and a 1 TB ssd, which is a combination of disks that suits me perfectly. Personally, I don't have a problem with a smaller supplement, but even so, I have a limit that I would like to reach, approx. 50. I looked for iMacs that have a super display and dedicated graphics cards, but the choice of storage is absolutely desperate, either max 000 ssd and the rest 256tb hdd, which is not enough for me (if I want to cut the entire project on an ssd, where the system and programs will also run) or only 2tb ssd for a whopping extra charge. If Apple doesn't change its policy, I don't know how much it wants to continue. These prices and capacities were acceptable in 1 when they were made but today…
To add to that, I hope that this year he will use the advantages of skylike processors and introduce an innovative lineup of macs with technologies that we have been waiting for a very long time.. Like 5k thunderbolt display, thunderlot 3, usb and many others.
Well, I wouldn't have seen it so exuberantly visionary. Apple is mainly after sales, and at the moment when the Air is still its best-selling laptop, it certainly does not want to make any big changes. Of course, no one really sees a net profit, personally I would guess that the margin on the MacBook 12″ or Pro is higher than on the Air, but whether Apple definitively writes off the MacBook Air depends only on money.
Personally, I think that the 12″ Mac is overpriced, even in the lowest configuration, and sells maybe less than they would like in Cupertino, so they prefer to wait with the shutdown of the Air and some other frantic update and deletion of the menu.
So that in the end the soothsayers here are not surprised if at the next presentation we see Retina Airs 11/13 with a similar performance level and price as the current ones and the new MacBook is slowly forgotten.
Well, the Macbook 12 is to some extent visionary and its price was exorbitant at the beginning, but now it is under 30k, and it can be bought in the US for $999. I think they are planning it as a replacement for Air in the future, but even Apple doesn't know exactly when. Apple has introduced the new USB-C standard here, and now it depends on how quickly it spreads so that it can be used in everyday life. I personally welcome the reduction of connectors and cables, but there is no usable alternative yet - reduction is not a solution and most of the devices I need to connect (USB Flash, external HDD, card reader) cannot be made with USB-C. For the Apple Macbook 12, it is definitely not a key product in terms of sales, but preparation for future macbooks. Remember the first Air, which was incredibly slow and stood much like today on the 12th.
It's certainly an interesting machine. Unfortunately, I'm afraid that even the price of around 30k is difficult to compete with, considering all the disadvantages. Performance aside, there is still the connectivity issue you outlined.
I also think that the new MacBook was originally supposed to replace the current Air, however, I have the impression that the numbers speak so much against it that Apple cannot decide on this step. How else to explain the waiting...?
A lot of people compare it to the arrival of the MacBook Air, but that's not entirely true. The first MacBook Air to eliminate basically only the drive, VGA and other fat ports. But he still kept many important and, above all, already quite widely used connectors, which is not quite the same as applying a completely new standard for which no one really produces anything.
I don't even expect it to be replaced immediately, there will certainly be several more generations of Air. Apple still needs an entry-level model for new users, which is why the MacMini is still being sold, which has been rumored to be buried for 5 years. That's why I don't think that the current 12 is a direct successor to the Air, but rather an effort to try something new that it couldn't put in its core Pro and Air models (USB-C, remove the fan, ultra-thin design, etc.). I consider the Air revolutionary precisely in that it removed the drive, removable battery, used an SSD, etc. and actually introduced a new segment of light, powerful laptops with a long life, which was quite a significant change from the 3kg Acer, Asus with a battery for 2 hours max. And the removal of the drive I would easily compare it to USB-C, because, for example, until then all software was sold on CD and DVD. I remember that there were quite negative reactions to the first Air in the style of what's the point of such an expensive laptop if I can't even play the DVD movie I bought on it. Who uses DVD today? In a few years, connecting everything with a cable will seem absurd. The more urgent question is how much to improve the Air so that it is still affordable and does not interfere with the Pro and 12". That's why I think he still doesn't have a retina.
Personally, I like the MacBook 12 very much - I have no problem with one USB-C connector. I haven't connected anything to my laptop in years. Personally, I would also remove the headphone output - let it match the iPhone ;)
The only thing that bothers me is the 12″, it's super portable, but the 13 is already too small for me, so if it were a 14, I'd go for it.
For me, the main plus is the removal of the fan.
Personally, I don't think there will be a new Air - it will end - there will be a bigger MacBook and perhaps a modernized 12. Unfortunately, passive design is not possible for the MacBook Pro, which is a shame, I'm waiting for new CPUs, maybe they will take a millimeter off and who knows.
I would like Touch ID on everyone.
Otherwise, I'd throw out the MacBook Air, iPad Air, iPad Mini 2, iPhone 6/6Plus - Jobs would throw out more ;) That offer is insanely overpaid.
I also really like it, I was waiting for it but the price disappointed me so I went to Air. Otherwise, exactly 12 is not enough, I'm used to 13 and I think it's best if I want something mobile but at the same time you can work on it. As Apple showed with the iPhone 5SE, it wants to offer something cheaper for new users, and it is precisely in the computer segment that it can get the most new customers today (everyone who wanted one has already bought an iPhone and iPad). And a Macbook with only USB-C as an entry device into the Mac world probably won't convince many people.
I'm also bothered by connectivity, you need a SLR camera or an external disk backup. And the wifi is too slow for this - downloading a 32GB card via wifi is a punishment. But maybe Apple can replace the Air with the 12 to force people to buy the Pro :) If I were to choose the 12 or the Pro, I'd prefer the Pro, and when cameras and external USB-C drives become available, then the MacBook 12 is clear.
Also, it seems to me that laptops are already quite outdated. Now I have a dilemma at the moment. I would need a new laptop because my current windows laptop is not enough for graphics. But I don't know if it makes sense to buy a macbook pro 13 now when it's already older and I wouldn't like to buy a macbook in April only to find out that a new version might be released in May...
There is a lot of speculation about a launch in June. Personally, I would wait, but it depends on how you are in a hurry
Well, I'm already waiting for it like a goat scratching :-D I complained about Pro 15 2013 late in the highest configuration and they returned my money because they didn't have time to fix it. So I've been waiting for a new model since January... I hope I'll make it to WWDC because I don't want to wait until autumn...
What happened to you with him? I have the same model so I know :)
First complaint (after 1 year) – The anti-reflective layer is peeling off, the left USB is not working = I got a new motherboard and display. Unfortunately I got an LG instead of a Samsung.
Second complaint (after 1,5 years) – LG display complaint, bad backlight around the edges = I got an LG panel again.
Third complaint (after 2 years) – Again the USB on the left side is going crazy, again a bad LG panel with a bad backlight, a blocky application (which was probably a mistake when switching graphics, but I filed a complaint anyway).
The third complaint was already announced in advance as withdrawal from the contract - 4 defects. They missed the 30-day deadline, so they refunded my money. I sent a laptop for a claim on 15.12. and they did not comment on me until 22.1. when they informed me that they were returning the money.
Quite enough problems for one macbook. Mine still has more than a year under warranty, so I hope it lives up to it, and survives it :). The panel is also LG :(.
I often work through my nose and in black applications like photoshop... and it bothered me terribly on the sides... so that's why I complained about it... and when I complained about it in the summer, I was already angry, so I thought I'd just complain about it one more time and I will get money ... because for a laptop for 70 thousand I would expect the 1st complaint and problem-free operation.
Sure, I understand that. And the complaint was with the Czech service?
I filed a complaint with the Czech service. I did the last one directly at the mironet company, which I think sent it to the Czech service... but the Czech service couldn't make it due to the holidays, so it arrived to mironet late and mironet didn't make it either. I was notified on 22.1. that they are only dealing with complaints from the end of November.
They could also simplify the names of the iPads... Since the iPad Mini and iPad Air share the same guts, they could simplify it and have:
iPad Air 7.9 ″
iPad Air 9.7 ″
iPad Pro 9.7 "
iPad Pro 12.9 "
They are currently beginning to have a rather complicated offer, from the BFU's point of view.
In my opinion, it will rather turn out that the name Air will be removed completely... it will disappear in both macbooks and ipads
Also an option. But I don't find it very practical for users. You need to be able to distinguish the device somehow... Well, we'll see. Anyway, holding three different names is nonsense.
I wouldn't see a problem with that - the "mainstream" series is simply macbook, ipad, iphone, the "highend" series is macbook pro, ipad pro, iphone pro. This assumption is due to the fact that, according to rumors, the iPhone Pro is also planned to be introduced. and thus the whole wheel would be closed.
iPhone Pro has been around for a long time - presented by MS presented by Nadella ;)
http://youtu.be/4qll2zixdDM
the most ideal cannot be written, the ideal is already the third degree!
You are wrong, the ideal is the 1st degree, the most ideal is the 3rd degree http://prirucka.ujc.cas.cz/?slovo=ideální
So I didn't know that. Thanks a lot for the heads up and I'm sorry.
Well, I'll (again) join in with my rant: My 17" MacBook is almost 6 years old and I'm really afraid of what will happen when it reaches its end of life.
Because there is no substitute for Apple for me. A marketing ploy for dull consumers in the form of pixel density will not replace the display's diagonal for me...
So I'm already starting to look around the bazaars for the latest 17" model... otherwise RIP Apple, welcome hackintosh...
exactly.. 17 inches is SO bad for me.. :( I would immediately buy it...
When I look at the competition's monitors, Apple monitors are outdated. Thick frames, bad response, resolution. Misery.
You can not be serious? Those displays are the best you can have in a laptop - colors, angles, brightness... And the resolution is perfect.
The frames could be thinner, but that's a different matter for the iPhone as well.
Who makes those displays for them? :-) You should look at the Samsung monitors. So that you are not surprised.
There is no point in commenting further.
exactly.. there is no point in commenting on this. I've been working with different computers for 35 years, and Apple screens (even if anyone wants to make them) are always among the best. But it makes no sense to say that to mentally weak haters. Nothing to the topic - although I have a model charged to the maximum, but I would also like to switch to a newer cpu and gpu, but apple nothing and nothing.. in this direction, I also left out AMD gpu because they are simply worse than nVidia GPU (especially the drivers .. so I hope that apple will go back to nvidia and not do experiments on people :). I'm already looking forward.. this year could be the year of buying toys again :)
If I were to dream a little and decide on a powerful laptop, then I would really like Apple to install Quadro or FireGL in the MacBook Pro version - they are laptops for work - the "weaker game graphics" makes no sense to me.
Can I ask for some specific technical data (comparisons) that prove the higher quality of Apple monitors?
In all respect, your subjective opinion is not relevant..
Can I ask you to keep your opinions to Slovak servers? I also don't need to climb and write nonsense on the Slovak ones.
You have no idea what you're talking about?
Here is just one of the tests. There are a lot of them. I see that I'm in Apple's shoes and some objectivity doesn't work here.
https://versus.com/en/samsung-s27b970d-vs-apple-thunderbolt-display
The test that you made available spits out (especially the image!) lip for Apple! :DA is represented by the relatively old thunderbolt display from apple.
There is a hint of the launch of the updated MacBook 12″
I bought a Late 2013 MB Pro with Retina, unfortunately I chose the most social version, and I'm hungry for RAM just when I open mail + a browser where YouTube is running. It has 4GB of ram, which is in the board and CANNOT be cleaned. I'm getting pretty pissed off at a 30k comp.
This is precisely why Apple puts 13GB of RAM in all 8-inch screens. Unfortunately, you were lucky that it wasn't for you yet.
As an Air user, I disagree ;-). The Air is at least a better option compared to the 12-inch Retina MacBook. The only thing that is better is the display, but everything else is worth the old money ;-). Processor (slower than in the iPad), 1 stupid port for everything (including power supply), Smaller display (even if the resolution is better...), slower graphics, last but not least the price!
I currently have an external USB drive on the Air and I almost always have it in the drawer, so only 2 USBs are sometimes not enough for me ;-). I would definitely trade it for a cow letter.
The laptop is designed to be carried around - if you have an Air program at home and it's wired, it's a bad choice of device - you should have chosen an iMac.
That's it, it can be transferred easily even with a disk :-). Alternatively, the disk can be disconnected when it is not needed. You just can't do that with an iMac ;-). Right now I'm sitting on the couch :-)))).
Exactly. I no longer have the time or space to work with a computer at just one desk, and I consider it a pastime for an ordinary person. I firmly believe that the time when people had a computer corner at home is long gone. A laptop can easily serve as the main (only) computer in the household, and compared to a classic desktop computer, it can travel around the whole apartment or house, or even on trips (especially people who commute weekly feel this a lot). MBA can easily handle it, but I probably wouldn't want to practice it like this with MBR. The current one seems weak for this in several ways.
In reality, there is no such problem with the connectivity of the MacBook, you simply connect everything external for home work with a single cable (USB-C hubs and peripherals in general are increasing rapidly, even at more pleasant prices than from Apple) and outside the home you have the advantage of minimal weight... Me too after the launch into the market was discouraging, but the shift in peripherals is fast and the problem is diminishing.
The Air actually has a slightly better CPU, but again basically a small RAM and SSD, and after taking into account the extra fees for 8GB RAM and 256GB SSD, it becomes significantly more expensive. At the standard price of the Macbook 12 on apple.cz, it still doesn't look so bad, but the current discounts on the new Macbook at practically all sellers make the MB12 much more attractive compared to the Air.
Of course, as I've gotten used to, with new things from Apple it takes at least a year before something usable from the latest manufacturers is available (And already SW: Touch ID application, or HW: Macbook with USB-C). The original cables from Apple are not only ridiculously expensive, that half of them should already be in the box with the device, but above all it looks totally disgusting ;-). However, you can also buy a USB HUB for Air and it will certainly be cheaper ;-).
I didn't need 8GB of RAM and a 256GB hard drive then. With the way Apple works with RAM, i.e. 4GB = 6GB, I can't breathe at home. I would be afraid of the performance of the processor and especially the graphics card. From what I've looked, not even one of them has the same performance as my Air from 2013 ;-). So, I would rather write for higher performance, because Diablo III doesn't run smoothly even on what I have, just like Starcraft II could be smoother ;-). Anyway, I don't play much on MAC anymore, because there is no time.
PS: In order not to make a mistake, I have about 40GB free on the disk (out of 128GB), but I mostly have all my movies, backups and games on an external disk, and they only need 1GB, so an extra 128GB wouldn't help me much; -).
The 8 GB of RAM seems necessary for my needs, I do not contradict that someone else may have it differently.
With the disc, you need to distinguish between needs at home and on the road. Of course, even the internal 512GB doesn't help me at home and I have to have different external storage, we have the same. But another thing is needed for mobile operation, and there it gradually crystallized for me that 128GB is no longer enough for me and I would have to always carry some external storage without exception, while I can get by with 256GB without any problems. Again – everyone is different, but for me I just came to this…
Unfortunately, here in the Czech Republic, only the most trimmed models are on sale, I don't know why :-(. The difference in price has also increased enormously (10 is needed, which is 1/3 of the price). So we can only hope that HW it raises the minimum to the maximum :-D.
Next time I will definitely need a better display, at least a higher resolution than 1440×900. 8 GB of ram would not be bad, as well as some faster processor. The 256GB disk is good, but somehow I'm afraid that this won't be the case, so I'll probably think twice about it, or wait for some opening of a new store or some event ;-).
Otherwise, I agree that they could do something with those MacBooks. Mainly lower the price a bit ;-). The Air has a better display, that's really a thorn in the side, or throw away 4GB of RAM for 8GB (even if that's enough for me).
well, I don't see, I just bought a basic MB Air 11 model for my wife, 4GB memory and it flies like a kite, it's amazingly fast, completely sufficient for normal work, for 24 thousand (it was on sale),
I myself have the MB Air 13 in full blast and I combine photos on it in photoshop, and it handles it smoothly, it seems to me like an excellently tuned machine, it doesn't have a retina, but hey, it's especially great to work with
what I personally miss in the offer is a mac mini with better graphics, so that it can be connected to an external monitor and a person can thus obtain a powerful apple computer, in this way he has to go either to imacs, where there is a large surcharge for the monitor, or then mac pro, which we are completely elsewhere