Macbook Pro (2016) Disappointment Pushes Some Apple Loyalis

lol @ "hurt and disgusted by lack of SD slot" what fucking babies. like a tiny SD reader/usb hub is a big deal.

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"In other words, the System76 machine with much better specs is less expensive than Apple's."Business as usual, nothing to see here. What REALLY would have been cool (and would have made Apple stand out) is if they made the screen an OLED. It would instantly humiliate all those PCs with TN panels, on the store shelves and even in advertisements. If Apple is going to charge so much, they should provide the super-fancy hardware to justify it.

I'm with you. I don't think I'll own another new shiny Apple computer. I have high hopes they push tech/performance on the next iPad Pro, but this lackluster MacBook has me worried they aren't concerned with the professional market anymore.

The only reason I have my current 13" rMBP is that it was the best hidpi laptop that was supported under Linux at the time. I will not be getting another one.

If you were with them through all that time and some of their terrible laptops and desktops, what makes you want to change now? After Kaby Lake is introduced, RAM will increase to probably 32-64GB with LPDDR4, Apple will drop the price if sales aren't good enough (like they did with MBA and iPhone), and USB Type-C will become industry standard fairly soon.I'm not saying the MBPs are perfect, they're far from it. But this isn't the first time Apple has bungled a new product. What would be more suprising if they didn't fix it by the next year's refresh with new CPUs.

I've used an Apple laptop since the PowerBook G4 and I'm on my fifth iPhone since the original I got at launch. I'm buying a Surface Book this week and I'm hoping MS puts out a sweet Surface phone next year. If not, I'll probably go with a Pixel for my next phone. I feel like Apple doesn't give a fuck about content creators anymore and MS is being brilliant by embracing us. I'll miss OS X, but I can always fire up a Linux VM on my Surface Book if I need to do something with a *nix system.

>Apple is no longer interested in what used to be their core users, it's sad.They have simply found a new core user base. One that doesn't care about specs, battery life, etc. They care about the badge on the lid and that it turns on.

"Might" haha this tells me you are in denial phase and will soon transition to acceptance phase and soon (over next couple years) will buy another Mac

Same here. Went to Hackintosh a few years ago due to lackluster pro desktops, and now laptops are out of the question.

What would you get if you switched? Personally I've got an ASUS laptop that I'm planning to replace with an older Thinkpad (T4xx). Just want something durable.

Same situation, but absolutely hyped for my incoming maxed out 15" MBP. To each their own!

Over enginnered crap that insists that you use every program, and that constantly tries to force you to use it exactly the way apple engineers want you to.

And what used to be that core users want besides a low spec overpriced laptop?

Their core audience always has been hipsters and it never changed. It is you who grew out of it, not Apple

> but I am not a huge unity fan.You're in luck. You can change the desktop environment trivially.

There are some other desktops.The Big Ones: KDE, GNOME 3, Unity.GNOME 3 and Unity are similar to each other.I'm using Mate (continuation of GNOME 2). It's been well maintained.

Get elementary OS if you like Mac. It has an interface akin to it.

Unity sucks balls, i use KDE when I Linux on my lappy..

You can run ubuntu on a macbook if you want.

I still don't care how my computer looks. I know geeks lost this argument in the late nineties but I just don't care.

Holy shit you weren't joking.That looks like the "gaming" laptop I used to get back almost a decade ago. In fact, I'm pretty sure that's the same shell, minus some of hte company logos.

This is just me being picky, but, they system76 logo is ugly as hell too. The styling, size, all of it to me just looks very bad.

I have a Schenker, which uses the same body and it looks much much better in real life (I really like the angled looks). Looks really bad in pictures.

Look into Librem. Same idea, but they actually look like something from 2016

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No, but in my office most of the design team is going to switch to Surface Studios when their iMacs are up for refresh.

of course not, but all those data scientists & app back end devs would be wondering why on earth they are paying more for less.

I just find Photoshop so much easier to use now that I know it.

Crossover/wine runs photoshop on linux. For other things like 3D, drawing and vectors there are great linux tools for that (blender, krita, inkscape)