Apple increases the price of the base model Macbook Pro by $300 - Polidicks

[QUOTE=thelurker1234;51270406]What the fuck is with the megaherz myth you people keep spouting. Even on the cheapest model, with 2 ghz. You guys realize it boosts up to 3.1 under load right? On a laptop that's not a bad clock. And there's also the fact that you can't deem how fast something is just by GHz.[/QUOTE] i'd love to see it maintain that 3.1ghz clock without ruining its components. macs have terrible ventilation and apple sees no problem with subjecting their shitty components to temperatures that will significantly lower the lifespan. just means the laptop breaks sooner and they can get another 3000 dollars from someone buying a brand new one

[QUOTE=AJ10017;51270426]i'd love to see it maintain that 3.1ghz clock without ruining its components. macs have terrible ventilation and apple sees no problem with subjecting their shitty components to temperatures that will significantly lower the lifespan.[/QUOTE] Does it? A quick google search doesn't really make it out to be a huge problem. There's some news articles from years ago if it starts to become too high it should just downclock itself anyways

[QUOTE=thelurker1234;51270437]Does it? A quick google search doesn't really make it out to be a huge problem if it starts to become too high it should just downclock itself anyways[/QUOTE] You should check out Louis Rossman on youtube. he makes videos exclusively of him doing logic board repair on macbooks. Gives you a pretty good insight to some of the terrible engineering that goes into a macbook

[QUOTE=AJ10017;51270454]You should check out Louis Rossman on youtube. he makes videos exclusively of him doing logic board repair on macbooks. Gives you a pretty good insight to some of the terrible engineering that goes into a macbook[/QUOTE] Hah. I'm doing that and I'm being reminded why every time I've come close to buying apple technology since my old iphone 3g I've always been just repulsed by something. I'll stick to hackintoshing to maintain my knowledge of the ecosystem I suppose

[QUOTE=SIRIUS;51270297]3.) That's a bonus, OSX is trash[/QUOTE] That's an opinion my friend. Personally I love OS X because it's a UNIX with actual support from commercial software devs.

[QUOTE=da space core;51270018]1800 dollars for an i5, 8 gigs of ram, and a 256 ssd. Right. Now i remember why I dont buy apple computers.[/QUOTE] I still don't know how people can defend Apple for pulling this stuff. Sometimes I ask why people like their stuff, and all they can say is because it looks nice or because its good, despite having much cheaper options from competitors that handle the same.

[QUOTE=cNova;51270211]Still BGA cpus ?[/QUOTE] Why would apple use anything else? You're not supposed to be upgrading the cpu yourself.

[QUOTE=elitehakor;51270094]This isn't even the same thing Usb type a is 20 years old and has a massively better successor. It needs to go[/QUOTE] I may be ignorant, but how is type-c massively better in any way except for size? Last time I checked it meets all the same standards as A in speed, power, and connectivity? So we want to drop hardware support for two decades of legacy products so that we don't need to use micro USB?

[QUOTE=CakeMaster7;51272333]I may be ignorant, but how is type-c massively better in any way except for size? Last time I checked it meets all the same standards as A in speed, power, and connectivity? So we want to drop hardware support for two decades of legacy products so that we don't need to use micro USB?[/QUOTE] Well with the macbook specifically it also uses TB3 over those ports which anything in USB A can't even dream of touching.

[QUOTE=codenamecueball;51270286]it looks tacky, won't be as well built and, for me, the kicker, it doesn't run os x?[/QUOTE] Favorite part of my friends macbook pro was going to the apple store for the 6th time to replace the charger since it overheated and them going "this never happens" every time

[QUOTE=CakeMaster7;51272333]I may be ignorant, but how is type-c massively better in any way except for size? Last time I checked it meets all the same standards as A in speed, power, and connectivity? So we want to drop hardware support for two decades of legacy products so that we don't need to use micro USB?[/QUOTE] it can charge laptops, it can run 5k displays, it can power the display, it's reversible, both ends of the cable are the same. it's the future of computers. you can now do absolutely EVERYTHING with one type of cable.