Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

I'll hold off, gonna stick a SSD into my old one to keep it going. Its not urgent just more of a want.

The timing suggests they got it out the door in time for the holidays/term etc as Intel is literally about to drop new chips in the MBP's tier. Would expect Kaby Lake models with up to 32GB ram in spring.

If you need one now, get one. It's still a great computer but feels kind of rushed.

Do this anyway. Sticking an SSD in even a 7 year old laptop will still make it feel fast by current standards 90% of the time.

That was my worry that I buy one and then they bring out the next gen with the big processor thats brand new and going by the prices now its a proper investment.

My current one is 6 years old 16gb ram and is just slow now. I'll fire in a ssd and hold off till they sort the new ones out.

Thanks

I'm going to try and hold off too. Battery increase, new hips and more ram. Gen 2 will actually be a beast

Hopefully they can get 32GB ram in em, that would make video editing a dream on it as well as grading footage!

32GB is a given. Batteries will be refined and prices might come down.
Your old one will actually be fine with a modern SSD. I'm still rocking a 2011 pre-retina 15" with an 850 pro, 16GB ram and it's faster than my two year old iMac at work.

Amen!

Is the processor worthy of the upgrade? Update on the insurance situation in case anyone is interested: They won't pay for my MBP in full as I forgot to name it in my policy, so £1500 is what they will pay... so don't think I am keen on paying an extra £1000 in buying a like-for-like... mine was the top specs beast... so it'll be about £2400 even with edu discount, never really needed the specs, but it was kinda free from Apple, so I kinds lost what I gained for free, no biggie... back to square one thinking about a 13in instead...

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i have been asked to deliver a presentation and been told that the projector takes a USB cable.

i am not aware that usb can output video. (i know usb c can but would need an hdmi or vga adapter). i am assuming the projector is not usb c. has anyone got any experience of such things?

http://uk.pcmag.com/projector-reviews/65529/guide/the-best-portable-projectors-of-2016

"Most pico and palmtop projectors can run files from a USB thumb drive and/or SD card"

not sure it's meant to be plugged into laptop through usb

that is my understanding.

i am concerned about turning up and being unable to deliver a presentation for a whole day

In that situation I would ask for pictures, or a model number!

My new 15" Touchbar MBP arrived. It is pretty but I've not really tested it yet.
Disappointing that Chrome has no support at all for touch bar yet, a guess they are doing it on purpose, to prove a point or something.

It's possible that it could be displaylink, video over USB 3. I have a portable monitor that uses this. Works without drivers on Win 10 but don't know about Apple.

Really tempted to buy a 15" refurbished and maxed out 2015 MBP for £1700...

So was reading a fellow pro's moaning of the top spec 15" the other day on my fb, so fuckin glad I never got one right now. Says its that bad that he's using his older one as its fuckin useless and is crashing constantly on CC adobe products which is ideal when you've gotta finish stuff.

There's a lot of people knocking the latest MacBooks, and that crashing sounds like a real issue (although no one I know with one has mentioned it), and the last second change in battery tech was a shame, but folks need to remember that these are the most powerful MacBook pros apples ever made as well as the most portable. I'm not saying anything they are perfect but I wonder if they'd have received so much flack if they were announced by Steve Jobs.

I doubt it would be any different. The "outrage" around antenna-gate was way louder.

In fairness though there are a far higher number of phone sales to fancy pants laptops and the phones that were sold simply didn't work as intended - a fatal design flaw rather than an inconvenient attempt from apple to steer a market.

I was in a meeting yesterday with a big agency and a bunch of wankers talking about 'decks'. Every single person there had a surface / surface book / surface something. Except me with my 2015 13" mbp :(

finally broke down and ordered myself an ipad pro mini w/ data plan for work in lieu of a company mobile.

I just started a new contract leading a team of 4 developers so hoping to move all my organisational stuff over to the ipad so i'm not fighting through 30 apps while I'm doing my own coding on my mbp.

I think though I am most excited about giving the astropad app a try for using the ipad as a tablet display for the mbp for getting into doing more design stuff. I suck at it but never really stuck with it either as drawing with a mouse using my non-dominant hand (write with left, use mouse with right) always felt weird (but not as weird as using a mouse with my left).

Make sense, I was checking up the Surface and they look not only really good, but seemed to be, how do I put it? on trend I guess.

Apple looking a little behind not having a touchscreen laptop, or made a massive change in the iPad.

Update us how you get on with this. Have been thinking about the larger iPad pro and tossing up between it with keyboard and a surface of some kind.

My mum won a ipad air 2 32bg at work at the xmas raffle, (as it's brand new and sealed) should I upgrade to the 128bg or even the pro 9.7?

Air 2 is nice. The pros are meant more as laptop replacements (for some things).