The Obligatory iPhone 7/Apple Watch "Series 2" Thread

zenbook doesn't have an oled bar that lets you pay for apple products with your fingerprint

You can also buy artisanal t-shirts off Etsy, ya numpty.

so bespoke

  On 10/27/2016 at 10:02 PM, juiceciuj said:

so bespoke

such fit

the fad of smart watches is over. lol to the people that bought one

  On 10/27/2016 at 8:15 PM, fumi said:

That magic toolbar seems totally counter-intuitive - something I'd never imagine from Apple. Wouldn't it be better to place it right above the touch pad? As it is, you've got to reach over all the keys.

The magic toolbar is interesting - I wonder what music software companies are going to conjure up with it.

The thunderbolt ports are also USB-C.

Still, these machines are fucking pricey!

  On 10/27/2016 at 10:44 PM, Nebraska said:

the fad of smart watches is over. lol to the people that bought one

Over before it started tbqh.

I wonder if the price of the standard MacBook will come down at all next year. The MBP  is absurdly expensive, the iPad Pro is dog shit and the MBA is on life support. 

yeh if you're at all concerned with price, this shit is just shit rn.

used to be in 2011/12 you could get a really solid little MacBook Air for 999$. The '12 Air probably still smokes that little MacBook they're peddling.

also I'm still loling at maximum 16GB RAM in the big mother MB Pro.

Yeah wtf no 32gb of RAM in 2016? I'm glad at least it has 4 ports on it but dammit more RAM!

Of course that might be reserved for the minor 2017 upgrayedd

  On 10/27/2016 at 11:35 PM, Rubin Farr said:

Yeah wtf no 32gb of RAM in 2016? I'm glad at least it has 4 ports on it but dammit more RAM!

 

Of course that might be reserved for the minor 2017 upgrayedd

No 32GB at the price they're asking is just wrong.

You always used to know where you were with the MacBook line. They always gave you a new product but the price stayed the same. The new prices are ridiculous - especially here in the UK. You can't blame everything on Brexit, it's Apple greed too.

yay GO TIIIIM

people bitching about the touch bar but what really pisses me off is the damn usb-c ports. how many fucking dongles / adaptors / hubs do i gotta buy now? they're gonna look so good dangling off my super sleek minimalist laptop. you even gotta buy a special cable just to plug an iphone / ipad into this thing! flol.

that and moving the headphone jack to the right when it has been on the left since forever. why? they are just fucking with us now. jonny ives laughing his ass off in his super secret design lab, moving ports around for no reason.

I'm slowly convincing myself that this new direction with the prices, ports and general mehness of these machines is a subtle ploy for Apple to get more people to buy iPad Pro instead. Most people will just look at these machines, the staggering prices in Europe (especially UK), the dongles and all that other shit and just think "Fuck it. I'll get an iPad Pro. Snap on a keyboard."

Peeps found a use for the magic bar.

  On 10/28/2016 at 1:57 AM, phling said:

 

yay GO TIIIIM

Some super dank meme potential in that pic/quote combo.

Belkin making an all in one USB C hub

i'm definitely an apple person and have iphone, imac and a macbook air. not currently in the market for a new laptop or desktop but if i was this new microsoft surface looks really nice - only problem is (and it's an insurmountable one for me) is that you have to use fucking windows. i hate fucking windows. i've also got a lenovo works laptop running windows 8 and i punch it on a regular basis coz it's so shit.

Having the headphone jack on the opposite side from the video out made plugging the things into a projector pain in the ass sometimes.

  On 10/28/2016 at 11:47 AM, BCM said:

i've also got a lenovo works laptop running windows 8 and i punch it on a regular basis coz it's so shit.

  On 10/28/2016 at 11:55 AM, mcbpete said:

 

  On 10/28/2016 at 11:47 AM, BCM said:

i've also got a lenovo works laptop running windows 8 and i punch it on a regular basis coz it's so shit.

Windows 10 (with anniversary patches/tweaks) is 468,329 times better than a locked down Windows 8 work-machine

I agree it's better in my experience so far, but does it balloon up your storage space with those damn .sys files like 8 does? That's what caused me to upgrayedd.

Sys files ? Dunno - I regularly have CCleaner running to keep everything in check: http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner

There's no escape key on it?! wtf

Just looked at it and though ... no way, they can't ditch an actually useful key can they ?!! Turns out there *can* be an esc put in to the touchbar bit:

you can remap all modifier keys with 10.12.1 tho, e.g. map caps-lock to escape. Which I'll do even tho I have an escape key.

still. Slept on it, and definitely not interested in buying dese new expensive laptops. This piece sums it up nicely:

https://medium.com/charged-tech/apple-just-told-the-world-it-has-no-idea-who-the-mac-is-for-722a2438389b#.92zyyroi9

The new MacBook Pro, in the same segment (mid-high end, i7,15'') of the one I bought 4 years ago, costs exactly 1000€ more than what I had payed for.

This and no new Mac Pro, iMac or Mac Mini, so basically no new desktop upgrades for that real "Pro" part of users anymore… Great job !

I'm never upset about new products but this time, knowing that I'll have to upgrade soon my late 2011 MBP that I use for everything (work, music, etc.), and knowing that other options are Windows, old hardware overpriced Apple computers or new overly-overpriced MBP I'm hoping my machine will live at least another year or two.