A CD Rom drive? ;)
Touch Bar *looks* great, but just can't help but think it's gimmicky, albeit it could well be useful as more and more developers put it in to play. As for other things, yes, an ice dispenser would be nice. But, it's just the confusing position regarding ports eg. headphone jack on iPhone required "courage" to remove such a "dinosaur" of "historic technology" and yet there it sits on their pro device, with DJ software demoed in the keynote? I get that a phone isn't a laptop - but then they should get your rhetoric in line. Why has their new Pro device with highly increased price for base model, got "dinosaur" tech on it? *Lack* of "courage"?!? Removing the SD card slot isn't the same as removing the CD/DVD drive IMHO, given the transfer of dozens of hi res DSLR holiday snaps is not 'snappy' over any other medium and will require a dongle, no? It's not so much the MBP per se, but the lack of updates to any other lines for such a long time and the inconsistency of it all. Just no longer feels like they're making machines people need at the pro level. And yes, I feel that something so expensive with no user replaceable parts all feels rather disposable to me - rather like buying a Porsche 911 without access to the engine. It's a beautiful machine, but for the price I'd expect to be allowed to replace the spark plugs myself once the warranty runs out ;) AP On Thursday, October 27, 2016 at 10:36:39 PM UTC+1, Stephen McW wrote: > > I thought the Touch Bar looks brilliant - a software aware contextual > touchscreen seems amazingly handy to me and looked it in the Keynote. The > rest was just the usual & expected smaller, lighter, thinner & faster. > > I think we get can a bit blasé expecting amazing things all the time. If > you were underwhelmed, what features were you hoping for on the MBP? Just > curious ... > > Stephen > > You meet your destiny on the road you take to avoid it. ~ Carl Jung > > On 27 Oct 2016, at 21:48, mac98aop <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > > Just wondering if anyone else has seen the latest news from Apple and > feels rather underwhelmed? > > It just seems really strange that the MacBook Pro has been so poorly > updated? The Touch Bar thing seems like nothing more than a gimmick, and > for 'pro' users, lifting hands to the top of the keyboard to use navigation > tools just seems annoying (I'm happy to be proved wrong with a proper test). > > But the iMac? Mac mini (for entry level users and server setup) the Mac > Pro? > > The lineup seems odd with snazzy MacBook (seems gimmicky) MacBook Air now > only 13" and seeming very dated, and these new MBPro's which seem anything > but Pro, save for the price. > > Is it just me? Has Apple Inc (ie, no longer Apple Computer Inc) become a > phone and tablet company? It's desktop lineup is lack lustre I feel... > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] <javascript:>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
