Posted on 12/23/2016 5:31:57 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
Apple’s new MacBook Pro isn’t having an easy time in the market. It’s been panned for its reliance on dongles, criticized for using older Intel chips, and a significant number of users have reported decidedly substandard battery life when using the system. Apple has responded to these complaints by cutting dongle prices and removing the “Time Remaining” indicator on the laptop’s battery, neither of which constitutes an actual solution. Now, Consumer Reports has refused to recommend the MacBook Pro for the first time ever. The reason? Battery life.
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I still wake up after dreaming of setting it on fire on the side of Central Expressway in Dallas. I'm smiling.
I have my complaints about Apple’s hardware and design choices, but this specific battery thing sounds like software optimization issue. That can probably be corrected.
I do wish they would stop all efforts to thin their products any more. Enough already. Everything is skinny enough! Let’s leave some room for battery and ports that people need ;)
You are so full of BS, why do you come to Apple threads if you don't use them? Always causing trouble. Get off this thread.
Apple spends millions on R&D unlike other companies that copy their tech. For instance Microsoft always copying Apple with similar products years later. Apple introduces iPod, Microsoft comes out with Zune years later (which fails). Apple comes out with iPhone when all other smart phones look like clunky typewriters, all other manufactures copy Apple and now all smart phones look like iPhones. Samsung in particular copies every aspect of Apple. Apple comes out with iPad, Microsoft copies years later with Surface. Apple has almost always been ahead of other companies. Period.
Yep! I have a 2009 and my spouse a 2010 and they just keep working.
Same here, replaced my wife’s 2006 MB with a new one because she wants the new features of the new OS. Old MB still strong after 10 years, although I upgraded it with an SSD several years ago. Recommend upgrade to SSD for any computer with a spin mechanical HD, makes a big difference.
Mid-2009 is the cut off point at which the newest OS will not work. That’s what mine is and it runs like a tank as well. But looks like an upgrade to a newer model will be in the offing for me. I may opt for a MacBook Air this time around.
“... I just thought I’d post it and watch all the Apple Fans....”
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A classic definition of a troll -— at least you are honest about it. Psychologically, you’re EXACTLY like the two queers who were trolling/harassing Ivana Trump and her family. Just as Ivana & her family had the class to refrain from engaging the two harassing queers so most of the Freepers who are Apple fans refrain from going to Android/Microsoft/Google threads and troll/retaliate there.
You and your ilk are indeed strange birds when it comes to Apple products & users of Apple products.
A dongle is a hardware peripheral with the only intent being to allow operation of software on said machine. Its goal is to prevent software piracy. i.e. the software won’t run if it can’t find the hardware dongle on the port somewhere.
In this case i belive they are talking.is for physical layer 1 interface....
You want to plug in an rj45 cable for ethernet.
But there is no port
So you need an rj45 ethernet dongle to usb or some other proprietary physical interface the pc has
Got my first iMac in 2011.
Still working today...
Does it still have the magnetic chinese rice-cooker plug that was on all models of chinese rice cookers long before apple pretended they invented it?
For best experience, you should get a new one every year, otherwise suffer with Apple's planned obsolescence.
Wife’s Mac mini is 2009 also which leaves us both needing new ones. She mentioned I could replace my 2006 MBP first, so I sorta have a green light, just waiting on changes economically which I believe are on the horizon. It’s been a long 8 years
This is NOT an accident. One way to get more reliable chips is to PAY for extended Burn-In, which is expensive but screens infant mortality in ICs. There is a reason why most laptops fail in 2-3 years; but Macs tend to last well beyond this time. Apple is not a cheap commodity product, they seem to do a very good job screening their chips, because these machines last.
I have the 2012 Mini. Our machines were made back when the user could upgrade components. For example I upgraded my 2 GB RAM to 16 GB and that made a difference. But the biggest bang for the buck was adding the Solid State hard drive.
Ditto - have a 2006 MacBook which remains my primary home computer. runs fine. Backup my iphone at work via itunes
You are exactly right. Thanks for pointing it out!
“I’m waiting for my 2009 MacBook Pro to die, or at least refuse to update to the latest OS. So far no luck. I can’t even get a key to fall off. This thing is a tank. “
Yeah, we’re a Mac household too. We have an old Dell PC that we got before Parallels because Nolo Press refuses to put some of it’s legal packages in the Mac environment. The damned thing is like a British car. If we really needed it, we’d have to buy another one just to be sure one of them would answer the call. Every time we use it we wonder if it’s really going to start up.
Go away loser, stop telling other freepers what to do
you are the one that needs to get lost
go make yourself useful someplace else
Delusional as usual
always have to lie right?
Too bad you can’t face reality
Just like the liberals who have to lie about Trump on a daily basis
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